By the Court.—The petitioner, who had responded to the advertisement issued on 3 August 2015 (First Advertisement) inviting applications from married/unmarried male or unmarried female candidates for grant of Short Service Commission in the Indian Army for Judge Advocate General Department (JAG), has filed this petition for quashing the subsequent advertisement dated 18 January 2016 (Second Advertisement) for the reason that the vacancies available against female candidates in the second advertisement were required to be filled-up by the first advertisement itself.

2. The first advertisement stipulated that the total number of vacancies were 14 out of which 10 were for male candidates and 4 were for female. The method of selection was indicated in Clause 6 of the advertisement, which is as follows :

“Method of Selection:

(a) Initial shortlisting of applications will be done by Recruiting Directorate, Integrated HQ of MoD (Army) and the decision of DG Recruiting will be final. Details of the shortlisted online applications will be put on Join Indian Army website. In this