CHANDIGARH ADMINISTRATION Vs. MANPREETSINGH

JUDGEMENT

(1.) In the Union Territory of Chandigarh, 5% of the seats are reserved in favour of sons/daughters/spouses of Military / Para-Military personnel Orders in this behalf are issued by the Administration in its memo dated 19th May, 1982 which were later modified in memo dated 6-9-1990. In accordance with the said orders, Punjab Engineering College (a College run by the Chandigarh Administration and affiliated to Punjab University) reserved 15 seats in favour of sons/daughters spouses of Military/ParaMilitary personnel. The College published a prospectus for the session 1991-92. It contains inter alia the rule governing the admission of students to the said college. So far as the reservation in favour of children and spouses of Military/ Para-Military Personnel is concerned, the rule (printed at pages 23 and 24 of the Prospectus) reads as follows:

(2.) Sons/daughters/spouses of defence personnel and paramilitary personnel like CRPF/ BSF etc. who die while in service and were wholly dependent on them;

(3.) Sons/daughters/spouses of defence personnel and paramilitary personnel like CRPF/BSF incapacitated while in service and were wholly dependent on them;