New Delhi, July 19: The Supreme Court on Tuesday transferred to the Delhi High Court PILs pending before it challenging the Centre’s ‘Agnipath’ scheme for recruitment in the Armed forces, and also requested the high court to ensure their “expeditious disposal”.
During the hearing, one of the petitioners said his plea has a pan-India effect to which a three-judge bench asserted that pan-India does not mean the apex court will have to hear everything.
The SC also asked the High Courts of Kerala, Punjab and Haryana, Patna, and Uttarakhand to transfer the PILs against ‘Agnipath’ scheme to the Delhi High Court or keep it pending till a decision by it if the petitioners before the high courts so desire.
“In this backdrop, we are of the view the three writ petitions which have been instituted before this court should be transferred to the Delhi High Court and renumbered under Article 226 of the Constitution. Ordinarily, we would have disposed off these petitions by granting liberty to the petitioners to move the Delhi High Court afresh but we are desisting from following that course of action, to obviate any further delay in withdrawal of the petitions and filing of fresh petitions.”
“We request the Delhi High Court for expeditious disposal of the writ petitions after hearing the parties,” the bench said. (PTI)
