‘Why can’t IAF pilots ask for retirement?’

New Delhi: The Supreme Court has issued a notice to the Centre asking it to explain why an Indian Air Force pilot should not be permitted to take premature retirement on full reimbursement of the money spent by the government on his training.
The notice was issued by a bench of Justice B N Srikrishna and Justice Tarun Chatterjee on a petition by Sqn Ldr Shakul Tyagi challenging the January 14 order of the Delhi High Court declining his plea for premature retirement.
The HC had held that the IAF pilot, on whose training the state spent crores of rupees, could not seek premature retirement on the ground that the job was affecting his marital life.
A decorated officer of Kargil War, Tyagi has challenged the HC verdict on the ground that the present policy of premature retirement has, due to its selective application, resulted into discrimination and hence was violative of Article 14 (right to equality) of the Constitution.
23/04/06 PTI/Mumbai Mirror

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