Union Of India & Anr vs Satya Prakash & Ors

The Supreme Court addressed the allocation of vacancies for Other Backward Class (OBC) candidates in the Civil Services Examination (CSE) Rules, 1996, emphasizing that the Union of India failed to comply with the provisions of Rule 2 and Rule 16(2) of the Rules. The Court held that candidates not allotted to their preferred services must be assigned to remaining vacancies, thus ensuring that all 174 OBC candidates recommended should have been appointed. The judgment overturned the Union's contention regarding the exhaustion of the OBC quota, affirming the rights of the respondents to be appointed against the reserved vacancies.