Review petition filed in Supreme Court on Army recruitment policy

A review petition has been filed by a retired doctor in the Supreme Court, pleading it to reassess its verdict dismissing a Public Interest Litigation (PIL), which had questioned the recruitment policy in the army.

The petitioner has submitted in his plea stating that the Supreme Court had not taken vital view of the response of the army in which it had virtually accepted the fact that the recruitment is done on the basis of caste, religion and region.

He termed that, grouping of people from a particular region in an Army regiment was not only unconstitutional, as it also tantamount to discriminating recruitment, based on caste, region and religion basis.

The Army in its response to the earlier petition on the same had told the Supreme Court that it does not recruit on the basis of caste, region and religion. But, it justified grouping of people coming from a region in a regiment for administrative convenience and operational requirements.