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Today, the Supreme Court of India dismissed the appeals challenging the Delhi High Courtu2019s order upholding the Agnipath Scheme.
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Agnipath Scheme: ‘The scheme is not arbitrary,’ says Supreme Court 10 April, 2023 Today, the Supreme Court of India dismissed the appeals challenging the Delhi High Court’s order upholding the Agnipath Scheme. The rejected petitions seek directions to complete the recruitment processes which were discontinued after the announcement of the Agnipath Scheme in 2022. According to this scheme, only those who are between 17-and-a-half and 23 years of age were eligible to apply for the armed forces for a tenure of four years. While rejecting the petitions, the bench headed by Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud stated that “the scheme is not arbitrary” and candidates selected before the introduction of the Agnipath Scheme were not vested right to appointment. Read full update here