SUKHJIT KAUR Vs. STATE OF PUNJAB AND OTHERS

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THIS order shall dispose of Civil Writ Petitions No. 9859, of 2009, 5786, and 13132 of 2011, as common questions of law and facts are involved in these cases. For brevity the facts are being extracted from Civil Writ Petition No. 9859 of 2009.

(2.) THE petitioner seeks a mandamus to direct the respondents to appoint her as J.B.T. Teacher against a post reserved for Backward Class category. The relief has been sought on the premise that the candidates lower in merit from the Backward class category have been given appointment to such posts.

(3.) WITH a view to appreciate the plea taken by the respondents for not extending the benefit of reservation to the petitioner, it would be apposite to reproduce General Condition No. 6 of the advertisement dated 05.09.2007 (Annexure P -9) which reads as follow: