JUDGMENT :

Vipin Sanghi, J.

The petitioner has preferred the present writ petition to assail the decision taken by the High Court of Uttrakhand-respondent no.1 as communicated by the communication dated 30.12.2020 rejecting the claim of the petitioner for recommending his name to the State Government for appointment in Uttarakhand Higher Judicial Services-2019, against the vacant post in the General Category. The petitioner seeks a mandamus to the High Court of Uttarakhand to consider his candidature and recommend his name to the State Government for appointment in the Uttarakhand Higher Judicial Services-2019 against the vacant posts in the General Category.

2. On 10.04.2019, the High Court of Uttarakhand issued a notification for filling up six vacant posts of Additional District and Sessions Judges by direct recruitment in the Uttarakhand Higher Judicial Services. Of the six posts, one was an unreserved-general category post. Against the said post, no horizontal reservation for woman was provided. There were three posts reserved for Scheduled Castes and two for the Economically Weaker Sections. One post in each of these categories was reserved horizontally reserved for women candid