PANKAJ YADAV Vs. UNION OF INDIA

JUDGEMENT

(1.) The writ petition No. 11503/2018 is taken as a lead petition. Facts are similar in all three petitions hence the facts written in writ petition No.11503/2018 are elaborated here. All the three Petitioners have prayed for quashing and setting aside for list of selected candidates for paramilitary forces which was prepared after the examination conducted in 2017 and has sought a writ of mandamus by way of directions to the Respondents for allotment of Central Industrial Security Force ('CISF'). As per their choices and keeping in view the vacancies are available as per correct interlocution system for calculation and allotment of vacancies. The Union Public Service Commission ('UPSC') had conducted an examination followed by physical/medical test and interview in the year 2017 for the post of Assistant Commandant in Paramilitary Force for which 170 candidates were selected. So quota of Ex-servicemen Reservation was to be done @10% was of 17 vacancies. All the three Petitioners are Ex-servicemen, only six candidates for these 17 posts reserved for Ex-servicemen had qualified and instead of making the Paramilitary Force of their choice available to them, all of them were allotted one Paramilitary Force, hence the present writ petition has been filed by three such candidates. Main grudge of these Petitioners is interlocking rule of horizontal and vertical consideration was not complied with and if the said rule is applied correctly then these three candidates can be inducted in Paramilitary Force of their own choice. As per the Petitioners the said 17 vacancies have to go to the following four Paramilitary Force as under:-

(2.) Instead of appointing the three Petitioners in the force of their choice, they were put together at the end of the list and were given posting as under alongwith other Ex-servicemen Name of Ex- Order of First Second Correct Wrongly servicemen Merit Choice Choice allotment as allotted and Status per haphazardly choice/vacancy Pankaj 165 CISF SSB CISF SSB Yadav Petitioner1 Navin Non 166 CISF BSF CISF BSF petitioner Monu 167 CISF SSB SSB CRPF Petitioner 2 Rishabh 168 CISF SSB SSB CRPF Kumar Sharma Petitioner 3 Tikam 169 CISF SSB SSB CRPF Chand Non petitioner Vivekanand 170 CISF SSB SSB CRPF Prasad Non Petitioner

(3.) The Petitioner protested against the wrong allotment of Paramilitary Forces for 5th October, 2018 to 20th October, 2018 by sending e-mail and letters and feeling aggrieved they have filed the present petitions.