The written examination was held on 4th, 5th and 6th August 2000 and the two candidates participated in the said examination as general category candidates.
They made representations dated 29.8.2000 and 13.9.2000 respectively to the Commission to accept their caste certificates and extend them the benefit of reservation as candidates belonging to other backward classes.
Civil Misc.
They were number selected.
They obtained caste certificates dated 2.8.2000 and 24.8.2000.
2632 of 2006 belongs to the caste kalal.
v. State of U.P. Anr.
28193/2000 decided on 7.5.2001 and directed them to be treated as OBC candidates.
Amrita Singh Ors.
V. Raveendran J. The appellant Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission, Commission for short issued an advertisement dated 4.3.2000 inviting applications for filling 147 posts of Civil Judge Jr. Division under the U.P. Nyayik Sewa Niyamavali 1951.
The provisions relating to essential qualifications in the said advertisement companytained the following numbere Candidate must possess all qualifications prescribed in the advertisement by last date for acceptance of Application form.
As they had applied for the post as general category candidates, their applications were companysidered as general category candidates.
The same was number accepted.
Writ Petition No.
The said judgments are challenged in these appeals by special leave.
In the meanwhile, by numberification dated 7.7.2000, the state government added the castes of kalal, kalwar and kalar, in the list of other backward classes by amending the First Schedule to the U.P. Public Services Reservation for Schedule Castes, Schedule Tribes and Other Backward Classes Act 1994 Act for short .
The first respondent in C.A. No.2627 of 2006 belongs to caste kalar and the first respondent in C.A. No.
Feeling aggrieved, they filed writ petitions before the High Court of Allahabad companytending that they ought to have been treated as OBC candidates and if they had been so treated then they would have been selected as they were more meritorious than the last selected candidate in the OBC category.
