Delhi HC will hear all plea against Agnipath Scheme on August 25
The Hindu
The Supreme Court had made the Delhi High Court the core forum to examine the question of the legality of the Agnipath recruitment scheme to the Armed Forces
The Delhi High Court on July 20 said it will hear all petitions related to the Agnipath Scheme on August 25.
Solicitor General Tushar Mehta informed a bench of Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Subramonium Prasad that the Supreme Court had on July 19 transferred all petitions pending before different judicial fora to be decided by the Delhi High Court.
The bench posted the hearing in the matter for August 25 noting that it was yet to receive all the transferred petitions.
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court had made the Delhi High Court the core forum to examine the question of the legality of the Agnipath recruitment scheme to the Armed Forces noting that multiple litigation on the Agnipath scheme is “neither desirable nor proper”.
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The top court had noted that petitions, either challenging Agnipath or seeking directions to the Centre and the Armed Forces to complete recruitment process started before the scheme, were pending in various High Courts.
Other than in Delhi High Court, petitions on Agnipath are pending in the High Courts of Kerala, Patna, Punjab and Haryana, Uttarakhand and even in the Armed Forces Tribunal at Kochi.