Supreme Court of India
Kulwinder Pal Singh and Anr. v. State of Punjab and Ors.
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What the Court ordered
Resultantly, as against 27 posts advertised for general category, 31 general category candidates have joined and are working.
Judgment, page 7
From the headnote
Service Law - Appointment - Claim for - Advertisement for filling 52 posts of Punjab Civil Services (Judicial Branch) - Out of 52 posts 27 were General category and 25 were reserved (including reservation of 10 posts for Scheduled Castes) - After final result of the examination 27 candidates from General category, 10 candidates from Scheduled Castes and 5 from Other Backward Classes were declared successful and consequently joined service - 8 posts were de-reserved in respect of remaining unfilled vacant posts - Against the de-reserved 8 posts, 7 candidates from General Category (candidates
Authorities it was built on
- 2010 Rakhi Ray & Ors. v. The High Court of Delhi & Or$.
- 2006 State of U.P. and Ors. v. Rajkumar Sharma and Ors.
- 1999 Union of Public Service Commission v. Gaurav Dwivedi and Ors.
- 2010 State of Orissa & Anr. v. Rajkishore Nanda & Ors.
- 2001 All India Sc and St Employees Assn. and Anr v. A. Arthur Jeen and Ors.
Where later benches applied it
- 2018 Dinesh Kumar Kashyap & Ors. Etc. v. South East Central Railway & Ors. Etc.
- 2018 Gurmeet Pal Singh v. State of Punjab & Anr.
- 2019 State of Odisha & Another v. Anup Kumar Senapati & Another
- 2019 Commissioner of Municipal Administration & Anr.v. M. C. Sheela Evanjalin & Ors. v. M. C. Sheela Evanjalin & Ors.
- 2019 The Director of Horticulture, Odisha v. Pravat Kumar Dash & Ors.
Of those, 2 relied on · 3 referred to
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