(1 ) SPECIAL leave granted in all the special leave petitions. Heard counsel for the parties in all the appeals.

( 2 ) OUR experience shows that disputes of this nature arise mainly on account of either the ignorance of the authorities who issue instructions in the matter of reservation from time to time, or on account of a deliberate distortion of the law of reservation and of the implementation of the rules and instructions relating to it. The present cases are a good example of the same.

( 3 ) WE are concerned here with the Scheduled Caste and Backward Class candidates and their appointment to the reserved posts which were at the relevant time designated as Head Assistants, and are presently redesignated as Deputy superintendents, in the various Departments of the State government.

( 4 ) IN supersession of the earlier instructions on the subject, the State government, on 9/2/1979 introduced reservations both in the direct recruitment and in the promotions in the State Employment in Class III and Class IV services. For that purpose, not only it laid down the percentage of reservations for different classes, but also introduced a roster of 100 points. The reservations in favour of