Supreme Court · 1995 INSC 375 · Decided 12 May 1995
Government of Andhra Pradesh v. P.B. Vijayakumar and ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1995 INSC 375 · [1995] SUPP. 1 S.C.R. 462
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 2533/1989
- Decided
- 12 May 1995
- Bench
- R.M. SAHAI, SUJATA V. MANOHAR (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 15, 16, 14, 16(4)
Headnote
Service Law Andhra Pradesh State and Subordinate Service Rules: Rule 22-A (2 ). Public Services--Recruitment-Posts equally suited to men and women-Provision for preference to women-Extent of at/east 30% of posts in each category of backward classe:r-Scheduled Castes and Scheduled T1ibes quota-Held it was not reservation in the nonnal sense-Concept of D rese1vation explained. Constitution of India, 1950: Articles 15 and 16-lnterpretation of-Article 15(3) should be read hannoniously with Article 16-Power conferred under Article 15(3}-Held E cannot be whittled down by Article 16. A1ticle
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