SC transfers PILs pending earlier than it, different excessive courts in opposition to Agnipath to Delhi HC
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NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday transferred PILs pending earlier than it difficult the Centre’s Agnipath scheme for recruitment within the armed forces to the Delhi High Court.
A bench of Justices D Y Chandrachud, Surya Kant and A S Bopanna additionally requested the High Courts of Kerala, Punjab and Haryana, Patna and Uttarakhand to switch the PILs pending earlier than them in opposition to the scheme to the Delhi High Court or preserve it pending until a call from the Delhi High Court, if the petitioners earlier than it so want.
The bench stated petitioners earlier than the 4 excessive courts may choose to intervene within the proceedings earlier than the Delhi High Court.
The prime court docket stated it’s transferring the pleas as it could be applicable if it has good thing about the Delhi High Court’s thought-about view on them.
It requested the Delhi High Court to think about all of the transferred PILs together with the pleas that are already pending earlier than it expeditiously on this difficulty.
The Agnipath scheme, introduced on June 14, gives for the recruitment of youth between the age of 17-and-a-half and 21 years for less than 4 years with a provision to retain 25 per cent of them for 15 extra years.
Protests had erupted in a number of states in opposition to the scheme.
Later, the federal government prolonged the higher age restrict to 23 years for recruitment this yr.
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday transferred PILs pending earlier than it difficult the Centre’s Agnipath scheme for recruitment within the armed forces to the Delhi High Court.
A bench of Justices D Y Chandrachud, Surya Kant and A S Bopanna additionally requested the High Courts of Kerala, Punjab and Haryana, Patna and Uttarakhand to switch the PILs pending earlier than them in opposition to the scheme to the Delhi High Court or preserve it pending until a call from the Delhi High Court, if the petitioners earlier than it so want.
The bench stated petitioners earlier than the 4 excessive courts may choose to intervene within the proceedings earlier than the Delhi High Court.
The prime court docket stated it’s transferring the pleas as it could be applicable if it has good thing about the Delhi High Court’s thought-about view on them.
It requested the Delhi High Court to think about all of the transferred PILs together with the pleas that are already pending earlier than it expeditiously on this difficulty.
The Agnipath scheme, introduced on June 14, gives for the recruitment of youth between the age of 17-and-a-half and 21 years for less than 4 years with a provision to retain 25 per cent of them for 15 extra years.
Protests had erupted in a number of states in opposition to the scheme.
Later, the federal government prolonged the higher age restrict to 23 years for recruitment this yr.
