Akhileshwar Narayan Pandey And 2 ... vs State Of U.P. And 3 Ors
2014 Latest Caselaw 7972 ALL

Citation : 2014 Latest Caselaw 7972 ALL
Judgement Date : 3 November, 2014

Allahabad High Court

Akhileshwar Narayan Pandey And 2 ... vs State Of U.P. And 3 Ors on 3 November, 2014

Bench: Abhinava Upadhya




HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD
 
 

?Court No. - 31
 

 
Case :- WRIT - A No. - 58166 of 2014
 

 
Petitioner :- Akhileshwar Narayan Pandey And 2 Ors
 
Respondent :- State Of U.P. And 3 Ors
 
Counsel for Petitioner :- Nikhilesh Kumar Chaudhary,Awadhesh Kumar
 
Counsel for Respondent :- C.S.C.
 

 
Hon'ble Abhinava Upadhya,J.

By means of this writ petition the petitioners have come up to this Court raising a grievance that for Teachers Eligibility Test held at various places the cut off marks made for reserved category candidates in some categories is equal or even higher than the cut off marks made for the general category candidates. The petitioners no.1 and 2 are from the general category, who are physically handicapped and petitioner no.3 belongs to other backward classes and it is claimed that all the three petitioners have applied for from various places where the cut off marks for physically handicapped and general category is one and the same. Similarly, for the OBC candidates the cut off marks for OBC candidates is also the same as the cut off marks for OBC handicapped, as such no benefit can be derived by the such physically handicapped persons for whom horizontal reservation is made unless of their cut off marks in their category, i.e., handicapped category is lower.

It is submitted that various writ petitions to the same effect have been filed and are pending before this Court and as an interim measure seats have been reserved for the petitioners while calling for the counter affidavit.

Sri Awadhesh Kumar, learned counsel has accepted notice on behalf of the Basic Education Board. Learned Standing Counsel represents respondents no.1,2 and 3. The respondents may file counter affidavit within one month.

Connect this writ petition with Writ Petition No. 45640 of 2014 (Om Prakash Vs. State of U.P. & others) and list after one month.

Till the next date of listing, two posts for petitioner nos. 1 and 2 in general category physically handicapped and one post in physically handicapped OBC category shall be reserved.

Order Date :- 3.11.2014

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