Mohan Lal v. State of Haryana and Others
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Court: High Court of Punjab and Haryana at Chandigarh | Case: CWP-9826-2022, Mohan Lal v. State of Haryana & Ors. | Decided: 08.05.2025 | Judge: Vinod S. Bhardwaj, J. (Oral) | Subject: HSSC Junior Draftsman recruitment, Advertisement No. 11 of 2015 — horizontal (PHC-OH) vs vertical (BC-'B') reservation; retention of a higher-merit candidate in his substantive vertical category after his horizontal-category appointment was set aside; interpretation of the 'only one online application form for a particular category' clause; waiting-list claim | Keywords: horizontal reservation, vertical reservation, floating category, PHC-OH, BCB, waiver of vertical consideration, waiting list, Haryana Staff Selection Commission, representation dismissed | Outcome: writ petition dismissed | Cases: Ankush Kumar v. State of Haryana (CWP-27795-2018, relied on); Anil Kumar Gupta v. State of U.P. (1995(4) SCT 403, referred within extract); Ajit Singh v. State of Haryana (CWP-18738-2009 DB, referred within extract).