- (1.)Whether a candidate belonging to a reserved category can be denied the consideration against the open category, which is mentioned as 'General Category'? Is the moot question to be determined in the present petition.
(2.)The brief facts of the case are that the vacancy announcement for 38 posts of Constables i.e. 24 vacancies of Brass Band (Male) of Shimla District, 11 (09 M + 02 FM) of 1st HPAP Junga of Police Orchestra and 03 left out vacancies of 2nd IRBn, Sakoh of Brass Band (Male) by way of direct recruitment were made vide Government of H.P. letter No. Home (A) B (1)- 4/2009 dated 12.02.2019 read with PHQ Shimla letter No. P-II (3) R&P Rules/Band Staff/2011-6067-73 dated 22.02.2019, DGP/HP, letter No. P-II (3), R&P Rules/Band Staff/2017-7152 dated 06.03.2019 and Standing Order No.1 of 2019.
(3.)The applications were invited from the eligible candidates off-line on prescribed format on or before 30.04.2019 upto 5.00 P.M. in the office of the District Superintendent of Police of the District of which the candidate is a native/resident.
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