Supreme Court · 2007 INSC 880 · Decided 30 August 2007
Mahesh Gupta and ORS. v. Yashwant Kumar Ahirwar and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2007 INSC 880 · [2007] 9 S.C.R. 578
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 3984/2007
- Decided
- 30 August 2007
- Bench
- S.B. SINHA, H.S. BEDI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 14, 16, 39
Headnote
Service Law: Reservation-Post of Assistant teacher-8 posts for Scheduled Castes C and 3 for handicapped persons-Appellants, handicapped persons belonging to general category, selected-Respondent belonging to reserved category and. also handicapped, not selected-Respondent challenged selection of form a special class-Hence, further reservation based on caste, D creed or religion could not be made-Appellants were selected against posts vacant under handicapped quota-Hence, their selection was wrongly set aside-Executive action must be fair and reasonable-Constitution of India,
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