Curative petition filed in SC on Army recruitment policy

“We have examined the grounds urged in support of the prayer for review. We find no error apparent on the face of the record to warrant recall of our order dated 11th February, 2014. The review petition is, accordingly, dismissed,” the bench headed by justice T S Thakur had said while dismissing the review petition.

Yadav had alleged that grouping of people from a particular region in an Army regiment is unconstitutional and amounts to discrimination on caste, region and religion basis.

He questioned the practice in the Army for having regiments named as Sikh, Maratha, Jat, Rajputana and Gorkha to which only persons from the religion, region or caste concerned could be recruited.

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

The apex court had dismissed Yadav's PIL saying, “We do not want to rock the Army's boat.”