SAMYUKTA MENON vs UNION OF INDIA & ORS.

IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI W.P.(C) 14740/2025 and CM APPL. 60500/2025 SAMYUKTA MENON .....Petitioner Through: Mr. S S Pandey and Mr. Roshan Kumar, Advs. versus UNION OF INDIA & ORS. .....Respondents Through: Mr. Satya Ranjan Swain, CGSC, Mr. Kautilya Birat, Mr. Ankush Kapoor, Mr. Vishwadeep Chandrakar, Advs. Major Anish Muralidhar, Army CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE C. HARI SHANKAR HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE OM PRAKASH SHUKLA JUDGMENT (ORAL) % 30.10.2025 C. HARI SHANKAR, J. 1. The petitioner Samyukta Menon, is an aspirant for recruitment to the Judge Advocate General1’s Department of the Indian Army through the Short Service Commission2 (JAG-31) Course. She has filed the present writ petition challenging a declaration that the Notification dated 18 January 2023, to the extent it restricts women to three vacancies as against six vacancies for men, is ultra vires Articles 14, 15, 16 and 19 of the Constitution of India, and that she underwent all stages of selection but was not selected on the ground that she did not qualify, on merit, against the number of vacancies in the respective posts for which she had applied, which was reserved for women candidates. 1 “JAG”, hereinafter 2 “