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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA
CIVIL ORIGINAL JURISDICTION
M.A. No.552 OF 2024 IN
WRIT PETITION(C)No.1158 of 2020
LT. COL. RITA TANEJA … PETITIONER
Versus
UNION OF INDIA & ORS. … RESPONDENTS
O R D E R
1. The application for exemption from filing attested
affidavit, original vakalatnama and welfare stamp is allowed.
2. Through the instant Miscellaneous Application, the
applicant/petitioner, in sum and substance, seeks directions to
implement the judgment of this Court, dated 25.03.2021, passed in
lead case Lt. Col. Nitisha & Ors. vs. Union of India & Ors.
3. It may be mentioned that Writ Petition (C) No.1158/2020,
filed by the petitioner, was also a part of the same batch of
matters.
4. After the principles to be followed by the authorities
were laid down by this Court in Secretary, Ministry of Defence vs.
Babita Puniya and others, (2020) 7 SCC 469, the applicant was also
promoted in the rank of Colonel (Select Grade) by the Special
Selection Board No.3 and was given Staff Appointment on the basis
of her current medical status – permanent low medical category.
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This, according to the applicant, renders her ineligible for
promotion to Brigadier Rank. Her case is that she would have been
eligible for promotion to the post of Brigadier if her case for
promotion to Colonel had been considered in 2014, when it was
actually due. At that time, the applicant was in SHAPE-I medical...