Maj. Amod Kumar vs Union Of India

The Supreme Court ruled that personnel of the Army Service Corps (ASC) cannot be posted to operational areas based on the precedent set in Union of India & Anr. v. Lt. Col. P.K. Choudhary & Ors. (2016) 4 SCC 236, which classified ASC as a 'non-operational' unit. The Court emphasized that the classification for promotional avenues should also apply to deployment and postings, thereby holding that the posting orders issued to the petitioners were invalid. Consequently, the Court quashed the posting orders and directed the respondents to reconsider the postings in light of the established classification.