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New Delhi: The Supreme Court has said that it is high time the regulations governing service conditions and retirement age of coast guard officers were revisited as the government cannot remain bound by frameworks conceived in the British era.
A bench of Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi asked the Centre to consider setting up an expert committee to reassess the criteria for defining "highly skilled" coast guard officers.
The court was hearing the Centre’s appeal against the Delhi High Court's order of last year quashing Rule 20 of the Coast Guard Rules, 1986, which provided that officers of the rank of commandant and below would retire at the age of 57 years, while those above the rank of commanda...
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