An order was passed last week on two pleas against the non-selection of candidates in the central defence forces merely due to a "minuscule difference in height of 3 and 4 millimetres". (Credits: Pexels) Observing it to be a “classic case” where even officers in the services of the nation displayed audacity to disobey orders of the court, the Bombay High Court issued a contempt notice against the Director of the Staff Selection Commission (SSC) for wilful disobedience of its order. The court also expressed displeasure over the growing “tendency to disobey orders”, leading to hundreds of contempt pleas filed every year against state and central officials. A bench of Justices Ravindra V Ghuge and Hiten S Venegavkar last week passed an order on two pleas against the non-selection of candidates in the central defence forces merely due to a “minuscule difference in height of 3 and 4 millimetres”.…