The court was dealing with the plea filed by two lady JAG aspirants stressing on the inequal opportunities for women by reserving 6 out of 9 seats of male candidates in the Judge Advocate General Exam.
In response to a complaint contesting the reservation for male candidates in the newly announced openings for Judge Advocate General (JAG) posts in the Indian Army, the Supreme Court recently sent notice to the Central government. A bench of Justices Hrishikesh Roy and Pankaj Mithal said in a decision released on August 4 that The two notified vacancies are not to be filled in the interim. And the court will again deal with this after 4 weeks.
“The provision/ practice/ criterion of unequal sex-based vacancies vide the above-mentioned notification, not only blatantly violates the non-discrimination guarantee embodied in Article 14 and 15(1) of the Constitution, but it also perpetuates and aggravates the persisting attitude and policy of indirect discrimination, showing that the functioning of the Indian Army is rife with sex-based implicit biases,” the petition argued.
The petitioner’s senior counsel Gopal Sankaranarayanan justified moving forward to the highest court by pointing out that it had already heard arguments about gender imbalance in the armed services.
Long story short; the apex court of the country seeked central government response in this sex discrimination happening in armed forces specially in regard with JAG examination.
This is written by Ms. Meera Benjarge,2nd Year Student of Manikchand Pahade Law College, Aurangabad.
