Supreme Court of India

State of U.P. and Anr. v. Pawan Kumar Tiwari and Ors.

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Reported as [2005] 1 S.C.R. 21
Bench Lahoti. C J.
Decided 4 January 2005

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Service Law: Reservation-Judicial service in State of UP.-Allocation of seats to reserved and general categories-Rounding off-Held, if part is one-half or more, its value shall be increased to one, if part is less than half its value shall be ignored-If reservation exceeds 50%, it would be unconstitutional­ Doctrine-Rule of rounding off. In the State of Uttar Pradesh, 93 posts of Civil Judge (Junior Division) were to be filled up. According to prescribed percentage of reservation 46.50 posts in the general category were to be filled up. But only 46 candidates in the general category were

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