Legal Correspondent
New Delhi, November 26
The SC today reserved its judgment on the Centre’s appeal against the Armed Forces Tribunal’s verdict quashing Army’s promotion policy under the command exit model.
A Bench comprising Justices TS Thakur and Kurian Joseph passed the order at the conclusion of several days of arguments that saw the Centre’s assurance that additional posts of colonels would be created for non-combat officers affected by the policy.
Additional Solicitor General Maninder Singh and advocate R Balasubramanian said 141 additional posts would be offered to non-combat officers. The command exit policy was framed in 2009 on the recommendations of AV Singh committee for reducing the age of colonels in combat units in line with the practice in Pakistan, China and Japan.