New Delhi

The Delhi High Court will hear on August 25 all the pleas challenging the Centre's newly-launched Agnipath recruitment scheme.

A division bench presided over by Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Subramonium Prasad on Wednesday clubbed all the matters connected to the scheme which proposes to induct youth into the Armed forces for four years.

Significantly, the Supreme Court on Tuesday transferred all the pleas challenging the scheme to the Delhi High Court, where similar challenges against the scheme are already pending.

Under the new scheme youth between the age of 17 and a half and 21 will be recruited in the armed forces on a contractual basis for a period of four years.

At the end of the four-year period only 25 per cent of the recruits will be absorbed into the forces.

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The scheme launched on June 14 had seen widespread violent protests in parts of the country with protestors demanding its rollback.