The court had cancelled the selection of special reserved Quota candidates into the general quota, and regarded it as a wrong reservation allotment.
The Court had expressed that, according to the rule ‘Horizontal reservation’ given to special reserved category (women, Ex. Servicemen and Dependent of Defence Personnel) is to be given in the seats allotted for the same category.
By not following the above criterion the government has violated the rule of reservation. Due to this the reservation has increased from 50 to 77 percent, which is unconstitutional.
The court has charged the government a penalty of Rs 2,80,000 by charging 10,000 Rs per petitioner for the wrong practice of the reservation system.
Whats the matter all about?
On 19th of May 2011, in the recruitment of 3698 Sub- Inspectors in Civil Police and 312 Platoon Commanders of PAC, the Special Reserved Category candidates were given appointment in the 50 percent reserved seats of general category.
What is Horizontal Reservation?
The first is about the description of horizontal reservation. For example, if there are 200 vacancies and 15% is the vertical reservation for SC and 30% is the horizontal reservation for women, the proper description of the number of posts reserved for SC, should be: "For SC: 30 posts, of which 9 posts are for women". We find that many a time this is wrongly described thus: "For SC: 21 posts for men and 9 posts for women, in all 30 posts". Obviously, there is, and there can be, no reservation category of 'male' or 'men', according to a blog at law-in-perspective.
