The petitioner-respondent herein had applied for the post of Constable in Rajasthan Police Service on special reservation for outstanding sports persons. It is undisputed that the recruitment Rules prescribed 2 % reservation in favour of such candidates, of course, subject to certain conditions. The petitioner was a weightlifter and was competing in 77 Kgs weight category. The recruitment advertisement had earmarked a total of 262 vacancies for outstanding sports-persons. The breakup of such vacancies would show that such vacancies were distributed for different individual sports events such as Judo, Wrestling, Boxing, Archery, Athletics etc. as well as for team sports events such as Hockey, Volleyball, Basketball, Handball etc. For the event of weight lifting, 8 vacancies for men and 7 for women were originally notified. This was later on revised to 5 vacancies for men and 5 for women. The record would suggest that there were only 3 applicants for the weight lifting category (Male). This included one Shri Narendra Singh Rathore, Shri Laksh Meena and Shri Anil Kumar (the petitioner). It is undisputed that Narendra Singh Rathore belonged to a different weight category than the petitioner, whereas, Laksh Meena was competing in the same weight category of 77 kgs for weight lifting. The department thereafter ascertained as to which of the two candidates, i.e., the petitioner or Laksh Meena was more meritorious and finding that Laksh Meena was more meritorious than the petitioner, the petitioner’s name was not
