JUDGMENT :

Vipin Sanghi, J.

The petitioner has preferred the present writ petition to declare the denial of benefit of reservation available to Uttarakhand General (Women) for appointment to the post of Assistant Professor, Hindi - to which category the petitioner belongs, in respect of the selection process held in the year 2016 by the respondent no.1-Uttarakhand Sanskrit Vishwa Vidyalyala to be arbitrary and illegal. The petitioner further seeks a writ of certiorari calling for the records to quash the appointment of respondent no.3-Umesh Kumar Shukla, who has been appointed as Assistant Professor (Hindi) in the aforesaid selection process undertaken in the year 2016. She also seeks a direction that respondent no.2 should appoint the petitioner to the post of Assistant Professor (Hindi) from the due date when other persons were selected in the selection process held in the year 2016 by giving her the benefit of reservation available to Uttarakhand Women (General).

2. The relevant facts may be stated. The respondent-University issued the advertisement on 22.04.2015, inviting applications to fill up several posts, including one post of Assistant Professor in Hindi.

3. The said post was