JUDGMENT

RANGANATH MISRA, J.:—Petitioner who offered himself as a candidate for one of the posts of Stenographer in Hindi in the establishment of District Judge at Gaziabad in the State of Uttar Pradesh, has come with this petition under Article 32 alleging the violation of his fundamental rights enshrined in Articles 14 and 16 of the Constitution. He has pleaded that he is a member of the scheduled castes and the State Government by a general order in March 1965 had directed that "in services sub-ordinate to U. P. Government for recruitment through competition" 18% of the posts should be reserved for members of the scheduled castes. He further alleged that when six vacancies in the post of Stenographer in Hindi were advertised to be filled up and he offered himself as a candidate, he was examined in shorthand test on April 17, 1982, and was shown in the third place in the list of successful candidates published on April 24, 1982 and was called to an interview on May 1, 1982. According to him, in the final list of successful candidates his position was shown as No. 7 and, therefore, he was not selected. He complains that he was downgraded from the third place without justification,