Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 18: Dismissing two petitions with cost of Rs 20,000, State High Court today held that woman married with a resident of Reserved Backward Area cannot claim the same status because of having not been residing in notified backward area for requisite 15 years.
After hearing both the sides, Justice J P Singh observed, “there does not appear any merit in the petitioners’ claim to reservation. Their marriage with persons having the status of residents of Backward Area would not clothe them with any additional right to reservation, which their husbands possessed. The right of reservation in such cases may be availed by only those, who had been actually residing in the backward areas”.
“Their challenge to the selection of private respondents cannot, therefore, be entertained. Because of the interim order issued on the petitioners second writ petition, the selection of private respondents could not be finalized. Private respondents have, therefore, been put to unnecessary inconvenience and disadvantageous position”, the High Court observed.
With these observations, the High Court dismissed the petitions with costs of Rs 20,000, which the petitioners would deposit with Registrar Judicial within four weeks.
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