Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, July 16: In a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by a social activist Ashok Sharma challenging the Rule 17 of Reservations Rules framed under Reservation Act of the State, Division Bench of High Court comprising Chief Justice M M Kumar and Justice Tashi Rabstan issued notice to Chief Secretary and others.
While issuing the notice, Division Bench observed, “Advocate Kuldeep Singh Parihar appearing for the PIL has argued that Rule 17 of Reservation Rules of 2005 suffers from the voice of arbitrariness as it tends to give much more reservation to the candidates of reserved category that their entitlement”.
“According to the counsel for the PIL once a candidate belonging to reserved category is selected against open merit seat than he is to be considered for allotment of discipline/stream/college allocable to him on the basis of his merit and preference”, the DB said, adding “the rules further provide that the resultant discipline/stream/college in the open merit category shall be allotted to reserved category candidate who is selected upon the reserved category candidate getting selected in the open merit category”.
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