A PIL has been moved in Delhi High Court seeking directions to the government to recruit married women law graduates into the Judge Advocate General (JAG) department of the Indian Army like similarly placed men. The petition has contended that "at present, Judge Advocate General Department of Indian Army recruits males (married/unmarried) and females (only unmarried) for serving in the Indian Army. Due to this institutionalised discrimination, married female candidates who are law graduates are being deprived of their right to serve in JAG department of Indian Army. This discrimination on grounds of gender is violative of the fundamental right of equality before the law, right not to be discriminated on the ground of sex, equality of opportunity in matters of public employment, fundamental right to practice any profession and occupation and human rights of the women." Petitioner Kush Kalra, in his plea, has also sought that the eligibility conditions prohibiting the entry of married female candidates in the JAG department be declared unconstitutional.