2023 Supreme(Del) 1070
SATISH CHANDRA SHARMA, SUBRAMONIUM PRASAD
Harsh Ajay Singh – Appellant
Versus
Union of India – Respondent
Advocates appeared:
Mr. Prashant Bhushan, Ms. Alice Raj, Ms. Suroor Mander, Advocates, for the Petitioners in W.P.(C) 10023/2022.
Mr. K.N. Jayasankar, Ms. Beena Nair, Advocates, for the Petitioners in W.P.(C) Nos. 13910/2022, 13911/2022, 13913/2022, 15171/2022, 15174/2022.
Mr. Ashish Mohan, Mr. Samarth Chaudhary, Advocates, for the Petitioners in W.P.(C) 10887/2022.
Ms. Chhavi Yadav, Mr. Ajit Kakkar, Advocate Mr. Arunava Mukherjee, Advocate, for the Petitioners in W.P.(C)10422/2022.
Ms. Kumud Lata Das, Mr. Manoj Singh, Mr. Manoj Mahaur, Mr. Harsh Ajay Singh, Advocates, for the Petitioners in W.P.(C) 11011/2022 & W.P.(C) 11014/2022.
Mr. Ankur Chhibber, Mr. H S Tiwari, Mr. Anshuman Mehrotra, Mr. Nikunj Arora, Advocates, for the Petitioners in W.P.(C) 10231/2022 & W.P.(C) 10748/2022.
Mr. Dinesh Kr. Goswami, Senior Advocate with Mr. Rohit Pandey, Mr.Vaibhav Maheshwari, Mr. Varad Dwivedi, Ms. Munisha Anand, Mr.Adhyam Gupta, Ms. Nisha Thakur, Advocates, for the Petitioners in W.P.(C) 11012/2022.
Mr. Manohar Lal Sharma, Ms. Suman, Advocates, for the Petitioners in W.P.(C) 11013/2022.
Mr. D.K. Garg, Mr. Abhishek Garg, Mr. Dhananjay Garg, Mr. Ishaan Tiwari, Advocates, for the Petitioners in W.P.(C) 12034/2022.
Mr. Ram Naresh Yadav, Advocate, for the Petitioners in W.P.(C) 11364/2022.
Mr. Kamal Kapoor, Advocate, for the Petitioners in W.P.(C) 14509/2022.
Mr. Gautam Dhamija, Ms. Dania Nayyar, Mr. Tejaswi Bhanu, Mr. Virendra Rawat, Advocates, for the Petitioners in W.P.(C) 14596/2022.
Mr. Krishnamohan Menon, Ms. Dania Nayyar, Mr. Gautam Dhamija, Mr. Chaitanyashil Priyadarshi, Ms. Tejaswi Bhanu, Ms. Parul Sachdeva, Ms. Saloni Sharma and Mr. Sumit Kulkarni, Mr. Vijay Singh, Mr. Pawan Kumar Nadia, Mr. Suman Saharan, Mr. Anuj Sharma and Mr. Divesh Gupta, Advocates for the Petitioners in W.P.(C) No. 10856/2022.
Wg. Cdr. Pradeep Kumar S Pillai (Retd.) - in person in W.P.(C) 17302/2022.
Mr. B. Aloor and Mr. Sathesh K.R., Advocates, for the Petitioners in W.P.(C) 16695/2022.
Ms. Aishwarya Bhati, Additional Solicitor General and Mr. Chetan Sharma, Additional Solicitor General with Mr. Anurag Ahluwalia, CGSC, Mr. Harish Vaidyanathan, CGSC, Mr. Kirtiman Singh, CGSC, Mr. Amit Gupta, Mr. Srish Kumar Mishra, Mr. Chaitanya Puri, Ms. Sanjana Nangia, Mr. Saurabh Tripathi, Ms. Kunjala Bhardwaj, Mr. Saurabh Tripathi, Mr. Madhav Bajaj, Mr. Waize Ali, Mr. Rishav Dubey, Mr. Danish Faraz Khan, Mr. Sagar Mehlawat, Mr. Manvendra Singh, Mr. Abhijeet Singh, Mr. Aman Sharma, Mr. Rustam Singh Chauhan, Ms. Shivika Mehra, Ms. B.L.N. Shivani, Ms. Vidhi Jain, Ms. Durgeshnadini, Mr. Rahul Sharma, Mr. Prashant Singh, Mr. Alexander Mathai Paikaday, Ms. Aishwary Mishra and Mr. Aditya Singh Chauhan, Mr. Nitinjya Chaudhary, Mr. Sagar Mehlawat and Mr. Aman Sharma, Advocates along with Colonel Gurpreet Kaur Dayal, Major Partho Katyayan, Major Steve Barreto, Lt. Commander Vikrant Singh, Wing Commander Vishal Chopra and Captain Sirdhar Jayasankar., for the Respondents in all the matters.
JUDGMENT
Satish Chandra Sharma, C.J. A batch of twenty-one Writ Petitions being, W.P.(C) Nos. 10023/2022, 10231/2022, 10386/2022, 10422/2022, 10748/2022, 10856/2022, 10887/2022, 11011/2022, 11012/2022, 11013/2022, 11014/2022, 11904/2022, 12034/2022, 13910/2022, 13911/2022, 13912/2022, 13913/2022, 14596/2022, 15171/2022, 15174/2022 and 15319/2022 were heard analogously and were reserved on 15.12.2022. Thereafter, W.P.(C) 17302/2022 came up for hearing on 19.12.2022 and was heard and reserved for judgment. W.P.(C) 16695/2022 was received on transfer from the High Court of Kerala at Ernakulum and came up for hearing on 19.12.2022 on which date there was no appearance on behalf of the Petitioner and the matter was adjourned to 17.02.2023. On 17.02.2023 the matter was heard and reserved for judgment.
2. While some Writ Petitions challenge the constitutional validity of the Agnipath Scheme (hereinafter referred to as 'the Impugned Scheme'), in others, the grievance of the Petitioners is that they went through the recruitment process for the Armed Forces that was prevalent prior to the Impugned Scheme. It is stated that they have been shortlisted but have not been appointed because of the
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