The Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected the Centre’s plea to defer the first National Defence Academy (NDA) exam for women candidates, and directed that women should be allowed to sit for the upcoming exam on November 14.

A bench headed by Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul said, “This won’t send the right signal to women after having given them the aspiration. Let’s begin from this year.”  “We cannot delay things by a year. We gave hope to the girls. We cannot deny them that hope now,” said the bench