New Delhi, Sept. 22 -- The Delhi High Court is scheduled to hear on Wednesday a Public Interest Litigation alleging that the Territorial Army has continued to provide a disproportionately higher number of officer vacancies to male candidates while restricting women candidates to a single vacancy in each recruitment cycle since 2022.

The petition has been filed by Kush Kalra, a National Youth Award recipient and author, who has challenged the alleged recruitment pattern as discriminatory and violative of Articles 14, 15, 16 and 19(1)(g) of the Constitution.

According to the petition, the Territorial Army provided 12 vacancies for men against one for women in 2022, 18 against one in 2023, 18 against one in 2025 and 11 against one in 2026....