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Supreme Court declares entitlement of Persons with Disabitities to reservation in Promotion to Persons with Disabilities in Jobs of Group A & B also
The bench of Hon\'ble justices Mr. Chelameswar and Mr. Abhay Manohar Sapre in a historic judgement in Civil appeal no.-5389, judgement dated 30/06/2016 held thus.
In light of the preceding analysis, we declare the impugned memoranda as illegal and inconsistent with the 1995 Act. We further direct the Government to extend three percent reservation to PWD in all IDENTIFIED POSTS in Group A and Group B,irrespective of the mode of filling up of such posts. This writ petition is accordingly allowed.