Mukul Biswas vs State Of West Bengal & Ors on 13 August, 2010
In Mukul Biswas (supra) the court had considered several
decisions of the Hon'ble Supreme Court and held that equality
of opportunity is one of the professed goals enshrined in the
preamble of the constitution and it is high time that the State
addresses the problem in the light of the decisions of the
Supreme Court referred to in this judgment. The question that
was answered in favour of the petitioner herein was whether an
applicant for a post be worse off for acquitting herself credibility
in a recruitment examination and thereby stand deprived of a
choice posting which she otherwise would have been entitled to
had she not been treated at par with general candidates. The
Hon'ble court answered the question in favour of the petitioner
and had been pleased to allow the petitioner to exercise an
option to choose a place of posting from the vacancies reserved
for scheduled caste candidates.