Arun Mishra, J.

1. Petitioner seeks her admission in B. Tech. (Agriculture Engineering Course). Petitioner submits that respondents Nos. 5, 6 and 7 were illegally admitted in the general category female candidate by wrongly applying the horizontal reservation. The respondents Nos. 5, 6 and 7 on their own merits were not to fall in the unreserved/general category candidates in case of vertical reservation.

2. Petitioner submits that Pre Agriculture Test Examination was conducted by Professional Examination Board/respondent No. 4. Petitioner obtained 440.28 marks out of 900. She was called for counselling as she was to be admitted. Call letter dated 3-9-2001 (Annexure P/5) was issued to the petitioner. Petitioner appeared before the Counselling Committee on 17-9-2001. Admission was almost finalized. She was asked to deposit the fee as per challan No. 3412 dated 17-9-2001 issued by Dean, Agriculture Engineering, Jabalpur/respondent No. 3. She was then called back and informed that other female candidates having more marks than her are available on applying the horizontal reservation. In an illegal manner the petitioner was deprived of admission and against horizontal reservation fo