PRABHJOT KAUR
Vs.
STATE OF PUNJAB AND OTHERS
( Before : Sudhanshu Dhulia and K. Vinod Chandran, JJ. )
Civil Appeal No(s)……of 2025 [@ Special Leave Petition (Civil) No. 17747 of 2023]
Decided on : 09-04-2025
Punjab Civil Services (Reservation of Posts for Women) Rules, 2020 — Reservation for Women — Horizontal Reservation — Implementation via advertisement — Where an advertisement was issued subsequent to the notification of the 2020 Rules providing 33% horizontal reservation for women, and specified certain posts (like DSP ‘SC Sports’) as reserved for women (‘SC Sports (Women)’), this reservation specification within the advertisement, implementing the mandate of the 2020 Rules, is valid for that recruitment process, unless the advertisement itself is successfully challenged or withdrawn.
