WPSS No.171 of 2010 Hon’ble Tarun Agarwala, J. Heard Sri Tapan Singh, Advocate holding brief of Sri Lok Pal Singh, Advocate for the petitioner and Sri Subhash Upadhyaya, Brief Holder for the State. An advertisement was issued to fill up the backlog eight seats for the post of Assistant Teacher (Urdu) from Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes candidates. The petitioner applied and claimed horizontal reservation as handicapped candidate. Since the petitioner’s request was not acceded to and no information was given to him pursuant to his application, the petitioner filed the present writ petition seeking a writ of mandamus commanding the respondents to issue an Admit-Card and allow him to appear in the written examination. A counter affidavit has been filed indicating that as per the advertisement, the petitioner is ineligible to appear in the examination in as much as the post was required to be filled up from the candidates belonging to S.C. & S.T. and, that the petitioner is not of that category. The fact that the petitioner is an O.B.C. and is not S.C. & S.T. has not been disputed by the petitioner. Consequently, the petitioner is ineligible to apply for the said post. No relief can be granted to him. The writ petition is dismissed. (Tarun Agarwala, J.) Dated 11.05.2010 LSR