Uttar Pradesh Public Services (Reservation for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes) Act, 1994

The State of Uttar Pradesh appealed against a High Court judgment that declared a government clarification on reservation in university recruitment invalid. The clarification treated the University of Allahabad and its colleges as a single unit for applying the Uttar Pradesh Public Services (Reservation for Scheduled C…

The Uttar Pradesh government revised the category‑wise vacancy numbers for the Technical Assistant Group‑C recruitment after discovering that diploma holders had been wrongly counted against the OBC quota. The revised requisition (20‑08‑2014) and the UPPSC Office Memorandum (12‑10‑2014) were used to conduct the written…

The appellant R.S. Garg challenged the promotion of a Scheduled Caste employee (the 3rd respondent) to Deputy Director of Factories (Administration) in Uttar Pradesh. The employee had been appointed on an ad‑hoc basis in violation of the Uttar Pradesh Labour Department (Factories and Boilers Division) Officers Service …

The Supreme Court examined the selection of police constables in Uttar Pradesh where two female candidates—one OBC and one SC—scored higher than the cut‑off for the General Female category but were denied selection. The dispute centered on whether the "second view" (adopted by the Allahabad and Madhya Pradesh High Cour…

The State of Uttar Pradesh sought to fill 367 reserved‑category vacancies through a special recruitment, treating them as backlog vacancies, while eight general‑category candidates challenged this exclusion as illegal. The High Court held the State’s action unjustified and ordered a fresh result as if the vacancies wer…

The petitioners sought a writ of mandamus directing the Uttar Pradesh government to collect quantitative data on Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in its services, arguing that such data is a condition precedent for exercising the reservation in promotion power under Articles 16(4‑A), 16(4‑B) and 335 of the Constit…

The Supreme Court considered appeals against a High Court interim order that preserved the pre‑2007 seniority of engineers in Uttar Pradesh Jal Nigam, despite the insertion of Rule 8‑A in the Uttar Pradesh Government Servants Seniority (3rd Amendment) Rules, 2007 which granted consequential seniority to SC/ST officers …

The Supreme Court examined two questions arising from the selection of principals for aided/affiliated degree and postgraduate colleges in Uttar Pradesh. First, it held that the High Court was correct in quashing the appointment of a Divisional Commissioner as an enquiry officer because a parallel state inquiry would d…