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The Court noted that DoPT guidelines allowed candidates claiming SC/ST/OBC reservation to be considered based on prima facie proof and to furnish the prescribed caste certificate within a reasonable time thereafter.
“To cancel the candidature of otherwise eligible candidates, on sole grounds of issuance date, deprives the petitioners of their fundamental rights under Articles 14 and 16 of the Constitution of India and actually runs contrary to the object sought to be achieved by providing reservations in public employment”
Kerala High Court: The Division Bench of Alexander Thomas and K. Babu, JJ., held that rejection of the candidature of the respondent