Under Article 32 of the Constitution Raghubir Malhotra, Yash Pal, N. D. Garg and S. K. Bisaria for the Petitioners.
626 630 of 1979.
SCT , dated 20th July, 1974.
For the purpose of filling those reserved vacancies, the Government of India decided to hold a limited departmental companypetitive examination companyfined to members of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes.
After an interview by the Selection Committee, ninety one unreserved vacancies were filled from the first ninety one candidates in the general category.
ORIGINAL JURISDICTION Writ Petition Nos.
T. Desai, Miss Bina Gupta and Praveen Kumar for other Respondents.
Miss. A Subhashini for Respondent No.
The petitioners along with several other officials were included in the field of selection for the purpose of drawing up the select list for the year 1977 for promotion to the Grade I posts.
Twenty seven vacancies, reserved for members of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, remained unfilled because numbercandidate belonging to those categories was found suitable for including in the field of selection.
The Judgment of the Court was delivered by PATHAK, J. The petitioners have filed these writ petitions under Art.
Pursuant to an Office Memorandum issued by the Department on 20th July, 1974, 15 and 7/12 of the promotion posts stand reserved for Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe candidates respectively.
