PRAYAGRAJ, May 14 -- The Allahabad high court has dismissed special appeals that sought reservation to people from economically weaker sections (EWS) in a recruitment drive that was undertaken to fill 69,000 posts of assistant teachers in the state.

These special appeals were filed by one Shivam Pandey and others against the judgment of a single-judge bench of the court which had held that since the recruitment commenced prior to the introduction of the reservation in the EWS category, the petitioners, therefore, were not entitled to any relief.

Refusing to grant relief, a division bench, comprising Justice Ashwani Kumar Mishra and Justice Praveen Kumar Giri, in its judgment dated May 8 dismissed all the special appeals filed in connect...