JABALPUR, India, Feb. 14 -- Madhya Pradesh High Court issued the following Jan. 12:

1. Appellant impugns order dated 24.06.2025, whereby the writ petition preferred by the appellant seeking a direction to remove the name of the appellant from general category and classify him as Scheduled Caste candidate, has been dismissed.

2. A notification was issued by the Madhya Pradesh Employees Selection Board for the Combined Recruitment Test-2022. An examination to be conducted for selection of Group - 2 (Sub-group-4) Sahayak Samparikshak and Patwari and other posts. As per the rule book issued for the subject examination for the various posts including the subject post of Patwari, 20% seats were reserved for the eligible contractual employee.

3. Appellant applied for the post of Patwari and in the application form, he selected the category of "Schedule Caste" and Class: "Contractual Employee (Samvida Karmi)" and submitted his form through the M.P. Online Limited.

4. In January, 2023, admit card was issued to the appellant and thereafter he participated in the examination. In the result declared on 08.07.2023, he was declared qualified under the Category; "unreserved" and Class: "Contractual employee" and open gender for the post of Code No. 153- Panchayat & Gramin Vikas, Bhopal.

5. Name of the appellant was not included in the list of successful candidates of 'Scheduled Caste/Nil/Open', however was included in the list of category of 'Unreserved/Samvida Karmi/Open'. Appellant was thereafter called for documents verification on 24.02.2024 under the category in which he was shortlisted i.e. 'Unreserved/Samvida Karmi/Open'. At the time of documents verification, it transpired that he did not belong to the Class of 'Contractual Employee' and thus his name was not included in the final select list.

6. As per the Appellant, thereafter, he submitted an application to the Examination Controller of the Madhya Pradesh, Employees Selection Board requesting him to include his name in the list of other posts also but no decision was taken by the concerned Examination Controller upon the aforesaid application of the appellant, thus, appellant filed the subject Writ Petition praying for the following reliefs:

"1. Direct the Respondents to issue an appointment letter to the Petitioner.

2. Direct the Respondents to remove the name of Petitioner from General Category and classify the Petitioner as per his caste, i.e. Scheduled Caste.

3. Any other or further appropriate relief, order, writ or direction as this Hon'ble Court may think appropriate considering the facts and circumstances of the case in the interest of justice."

*Rest of the document can be viewed at: (https://mphc.gov.in/upload/jabalpur/MPHCJB/2025/WA/1849/WA_1849_2025_Order_12-01-2026.pdf)

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