High Court Seeks Centre's Reply On Plea Against Army Promotion Policy
NDTV
The officers holding the rank of Major General from the Intelligence Corps are specifically held to be ineligible for promotion to the rank of Lieutenant General for Non-General Cadre Staff Stream vacancies (NGCSS), the policy says.
The Delhi High Court on Tuesday asked the Centre and others to file a reply on the plea challenging the Army's promotion policy formulated in 2017. The policy says that officers holding the rank of Major General from the Intelligence Corps are specifically held to be ineligible for promotion to the rank of Lieutenant General for Non-General Cadre Staff Stream vacancies (NGCSS).
A division bench of Justice Manmohan and Justice Navin Chawla asked the Centre, Chief of Army Staff and Military Secretary to file their reply on the petition.
The petition was filed by Major General SS Khara through advocates Neela Gokhale, Kushal Choudhary. The petitioner, a Major General, holds the designation of Additional Directorate General (ADG) of Military Intelligence (B) in the Indian Army.
