P. Srividya vs Government Of Andhra Pradesh And Ors. on 28 September, 2007
13. The amended Rules make it clear that the reservation granted
under sports quota, would be a horizontal reservation under which, the seats
available under sports quota would have to be distributed among all the social
communities.This amendment was challenged before the erstwhile High court
of Andhra Pradesh in P. Srividya vs. State of Andhra Pradesh2.A division
of the erstwhile High Court of Andhra Pradesh, after considering the challenge
to this amendment, in terms of the grounds raised by the learned counsel for
the petitioner herein, had upheld the amendment. The division bench,
following the judgment of the Hon'ble Supreme Court, in "Indira Sawhney vs.
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Union of India1992 Supp (3) SCC 217, had also held that there was a
necessity to treat the special reservations, mentioned above, as horizontal
reservations.