News-Supreme Court Judgement on Reservation in IAS and IPS

 SC directs reservation rules for general and reserved candidates cannot be altered

 The Supreme Court has ruled that reservation rules for general and reserved candidates in All India Services like the IAS and the IPS cadre cannot be altered by the Government as it would violate the Constitution. 

A Bench of Justices R V Raveendran and A K Patnaik in their ruling said that the roster system for general, SC, ST and OBC candidates should be strictly adhered to and reservation in excess of the prescribed quota limit is illegal and unconstitutional.

The apex court passed the ruling while dealing with the petition of G Srinivas Rao, an IPS officer and a general candidate, challenging the Center’s decision to allot him the Manipur-Tripura Joint Cadre on October 27, 1999, instead of his home cadre Andhra Pradesh.