{"id":52889,"date":"2018-08-10T18:21:39","date_gmt":"2018-08-10T12:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/?p=52889"},"modified":"2018-08-10T18:22:25","modified_gmt":"2018-08-10T12:52:25","slug":"delhi-hc-gives-centre-4-weeks-to-explain-why-married-female-candidates-cannot-get-jag-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/constitutional-law-news\/courts-news\/delhi-hc-gives-centre-4-weeks-to-explain-why-married-female-candidates-cannot-get-jag-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi HC gives Centre 4 weeks to explain why married female candidates cannot get JAG service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Delhi High Court on Friday (August 10) directed Centre to file a counter affidavit within four weeks on a PIL challenging the prohibition of married female candidates into the Judge Advocate General (JAG) service of<a href=\"http:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/topic\/indian-army\"> the Indian Army<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The PIL has originally sought a declaration that such prohibition was unconstitutional and after that a consequential prayer for issuance of a writ of mandamus was also sought.<\/p>\n<p>On the earlier hearings, the Centre had told the court that married men were also barred from being recruited in the army for JAG post.<\/p>\n<p>The court had wondered how the ability of an officer gets affected after getting married for this post.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong><em>\u2014India Legal Bureau \u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Delhi High Court on Friday (August 10) directed Centre to file a counter affidavit within four weeks on a PIL challenging the prohibition of married female candidates into the Judge Advocate General (JAG) service of the Indian Army. The PIL has originally sought a declaration that such prohibition was unconstitutional and after that a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50123,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[246],"tags":[950,1377,3154,36032],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/IL\/uploads\/2018\/06\/DElhi-High-Court.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52889"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}