695 dated June 6, 1971, the percentage of reservation for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes was raised to eighteen percent and reservation for the Backward Classes was raised to thirty one percent.
1256 dated June 20, 1977, was reintroduced in the same terms with retrospective effect from June 20, 1977.
3691/1983 which was allowed by a learned single Judge of the High Court by judgment dated December 2, 1983 and the said G.O.Ms.
1028/1984 and writ petition No.
No.1588 dated July 11, 1967, Rule 22 of the General Rules was substituted by the following provision Rule 22, Reservation of appointments Where the Special Rules lay down that the principle of reservation of appointments shall apply to any service, class or category, selection for appointment thereto shall, with effect on and from the Ist July, 1967, be made on the following basis The unit of selection for appointment for the purpose of this rule shall be hundred of which sixteen shall be reserved for the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled tribes and twenty five shall be reserved for the Backward Classes and the remaining fifty nine shall be filled on the basis of merit.
At the same time O.Ms.
1028/84 and writ petition No.
3353/84 and other companynected writ petitions were dismissed by the Division Bench of the High Court on September 20, 1988 stating that they have become infructuous and that writ petition No.
The amended Rule 6 was number published in the Tamil Nadu Government Gazette.
660 dated April 19, 1988.
c By G.O.Ms.
6691/83 which had been allowed by the learned single Judge on the ground of number publication of the modification had also become infructuous.
The State of Tamil Nadu filed an appeal Writ Appeal No.
dated June 20, 1977 was quashed on the ground that the same was snot published in the Tamil Nadu Government Gazette.
3353/1984 and other companynected writ petitions were pending before the high Court, the Government of Tamil Nadu issued a fresh order, G.O.Ms.
The claims of members of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes and the Backward Classes shall also be companysidered for the fifty nine appointments which shall be filled up on the basis of merit and where a candidate belonging to a Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribe or a Backward class is selected on the basis of merit, the number of posts reserved for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes or for Backward classes, as the case may be, shall number in any way be affected.
By G.O.Ms No.
660 dated April 19, 1988.
Thereafter they were promoted as Assistants in the said Service.
1131/1990 and other petitions before the Tamil Nadu Administrative tribunal hereinafter referred to as the Tribunal wherein they challenged the validity of G.O.Ms.
1028/1984 against the said judgment of the learned single Judge.
1256 dated June 20, 1977 was published in the Tamil Nadu Government Gazette dated January 30, 1984.
660 dated April 19, 1988, Rule 6 of the Special Rules, as substituted by G.O.Ms.
Reservation of appointments Subject to the provisions of Rule 5 d , rule of reservation of appointments General rule 22 shall apply to appointments to the category of Deputy Tahsildars in each district.
They were recruited against posts falling in the open companypetition O C category.
c By G.O.Ms.
1256 dated June 20,1977, Rule 6 of the Special Rules was amended and substituted by the following provision Rule 6, Reservation of appointments Subject to the provisions of Rule 5 d , rule of reservation of appointments General rule 22 shall apply to appointments to the category of Deputy Tahsildars in each district at the time of selection for inclusion in the list.
The appointment to the post of Deputy Tahsildar in the Tamil Nadu Revenue Subordinate Service is governed by the Special Rules for the Tamil Nadu Revenue Subordinate Service hereinafter referred to as the Special Rules .
By the said G.O.Ms.
It was, however, observed that the petitioners who had filed the writ petitions were at liberty to question G.O.Ms.
10107/1995 J U D G M E N T C. AGRAWAL, J. Leave granted in S.L.P. Civil No.
General Rule 22 of the Tamil Nadu State and Subordinate Services Rules hereinafter referred to as the General Rules prior to its amendment in 1967 provided as under Rule 22, Reservation of appointments Where the Special Rules lay down that the principle of reservation of appointments shall apply to any service, lass or category, appointments thereto shall be made on the following basis The unit of appointments for the purpose of this rule shall be hundred of which sixteen shall be reserved for the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled tribes and twenty five shall be reserved for the Backward Classes and the remaining fifty nine shall be filled on the basis of merit.
The respondents were originally appointed as Junior Assistants in the Revenue Department in the Tamil Nadu Ministerial Service.
WITH Civil Appeal No.
1097/1995 Civil Appeal No.
660 dated April 19, 1988, which was published in the Tamil nadu Government Gazette April 20, 1988.
The validity of the said amended rule was challenged before the Madras High Court in a writ petition writ petition No.
Thereupon, the respondents filed D.A.No.
The claims of members of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes and the Backward Classes shall also be companysidered for the fifty nine appointments which shall be filled up on the basis of merit and where a candidate belonging a Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribe or a Backward class is selected on the basis of merit, the number of posts reserved for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes or for Backward classes, as the case may be, shall number in any way be affected.
While Writ Appeal No.
The validity of the said publication in the Gazette dated January 30, 1984 was challenged before the High Court in writ petition No.
Prior to its amendment in 1977, the said Rule provided as under Rule 6.
In view of the numberification dated April 19, 1988, writ appeal No.
10107 of 1995.
In the matter of reservation, provision is made in Rule 6 of the Special Rules.
