SC to hear pleas challenging Centre's 'Agnipath' recruitment scheme next week

The Supreme Court will hear pleas challenging the Centre's Agnipath recruitment scheme next week, the top court said on Monday. The scheme was introduced for recruitment in the armed forces. A vacation bench of Justices Indira Banerjee and JK Maheshwari said that petitions will be listed next week before an appropriate bench upon



reopening the apex court after summer vacation.

Last month, the government announced the Agnipath scheme, under which youths between the ages of 17-and-a-half and 21 years would be inducted into the armed forces for a four-year tenure, while 25 per cent of them will be subsequently inducted for regular service.