Colonel Sophia Qureshi Praised by Supreme Court: Colonel Sophia Qureshi and Wing Commander Vyomika Singh, who reached the official information of Operation Sindoor, are being discussed from house to house. People are collecting information about the effective career of these women military officers so far. In such a situation, it will be interesting to know that the Supreme Court has also appreciated Colonel Sophia Qureshi in one of its decisions.
Sophia’s name came in this decision
Colonel Sophia, who gave details of the Pahalgam attack through a press conference, was mentioned by the Supreme Court in a historic judgment on 17 February 2020. In this decision, the court cleared the way for women military officers to give leadership posts on the basis of permanent commission and merit. The immediate impact of this decision was 1653 women officials.
What did the court say?
In this decision of the then Supreme Court judges Justice DY Chandrachud and Ajay Rastogi, the achievements of many women officers were discussed while advocating more opportunities for women in the army. Referring to the women who increase the honor of the army, the judges first discussed Colonel Sophia.
It was written in the judgment that Sophia led the Indian Army in 2006 in the peace campaign of United Nations in the African country of Congo. There he played a big role in monitoring the ceasefire and providing humanitarian aid to the people. He led the Indian contingent in the multinational military exercise ‘Force 18’ in 2016.
Indian Army carried out operation vermilion
Let us tell you that the Indian armed forces took strict retaliation after two weeks after the Pahalgam terror attack and carried out missile attacks on nine terrorist bases in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (POK) in late night between Tuesday (May 6-7), in which many terrorists have been killed.
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