India, Sept. 2 -- The Delhi High Court has directed the Centre and the Indian Air Force to appoint a women in one of its 20 unfilled flying branch vacancies, underscoring present times when a distinction could not be made between male and female candidates in the Indian Armed Forces. The court was hearing a women's plea for filling up the 20 unfilled vacancies not earmarked for women candidates and her appointment in one of them.
The petitioner said she was seventh in the merit list of women candidates after the two candidates appointed against the two earmarked vacancies. A bench of Justices C Hari Shankar and Om Prakash Shukla noted of the total of 92 vacancies, 70 were filled by male candidates and two women were appointed in the vacanc...