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2016 Supreme(MP) 1089

A.M.KHANWILKAR, SANJAY YADAV
R. B. Rai – Appellant
Versus
State of Madhya Pradesh – Respondent


Advocates appeared:
For the petitioners:Shri Rajendra Tiwari, R. K. Tripathi, R. N. Singh, Shri Suyash Mohan Guru, Shri Amol Shrivastava, R. D. Singh, Shri Vikas Mishra, D. Pandey, H. Shrivastava, Advocates, Akash Choudhary, Vijay Tripathi, Piyush Jain, Pushpendra Singh Yadav, Ashok Shrivastava, D.K. Tripathi, Pratyush Tripathi, A.P. Singh, K.C. Ghildiyal, Stuti Bhatnagar, Manoj Sharma, U. S. Jaiswal, Shri Atin Vishwakarma, A.K. Shukla, Premlata Lokhande, Vipin Yadav, Vijay Kumar Shukla, Sanjay K. Agrawal, Shri Darshan Soni, Shri Siddhartha K. Sharma, Shri Piyush Bhatnagar, Samdarshi Tiwari, T. S. Ruprah, A. K. Pandey, Brain Da Silva, Shri Ishan Soni, Naman Nagrath, Parag S. Chaturvedi, B.L. Nag, Anoop Nair, Advocates

ORDER

Per Sanjay Yadav, J.

1. Validity, rather, workability of Madhya Pradesh Public Services (Promotion) Rules, 2002 (for short 'Rules of 2002') on the anvil of the law laid down in M. Nagaraj v. Union of India (2006) 8 SCC 212, is being questioned vide present batch of writ petitions.

2. These Rules of 2002, as is evident, are brought in vogue in exercise of the powers conferred by the proviso to Article 309 read with Article 16 and 335 of the Constitution of India, relates to determination of the basis for promotion in public services and posts and also, the reservation in promotion in favour of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes.

3. Shri R.N. Singh, learned Senior Counsel, who led the arguments on behalf of the petitioners, has to submit that, though Articles 16(4A) and 16(4B) of the Constitution of India enables the State to make provisions facilitating reservation in favour of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in promotion but the same being enabling provisions, the State is under the constitutional obligation to fulfil the stipulations contained in clauses (4A) and (4B) of Article 16 and Article 335 of the Constitution and as interpreted vide judicial pronouncement by

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