07 January,2018 09:30 AM IST | New Delhi | Agencies
Women can now join the Territorial Army (TA) as the Delhi High Court quashed the Centre's advertisements excluding them from being recruited, ruling the ads were ultra vires the fundamental rights provided under the Constitution.
A bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C Hari Shankar said that the restriction on enrolment of women contained in the advertisements was "neither reasonable nor rational and has to be quashed".
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It also declared that "any person" mentioned in section 6 of the Territorial Army Act, 1948 "includes both males as well as females". "Women are eligible for recruitment and appointment to the Territorial Army under section 6 of the Indian Territorial Army Act, 1948," the bench held.
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