As per case facts, a batch of writ appeals challenged a Single Bench judgment regarding an employment notice for Security Guards. Petitioners, after qualifying, found their names excluded. They challenged ... the recruitment, alleging that the 24.5% reservation for Ex-Servicemen was wrongly applied vertically instead of horizontally, causing total reservation to exceed 50%, which is legally impermissible. Appellants argued the reservation was advertised and petitioners participated without objection, not securing cut-off marks. The Single Bench found that Ex-Servicemen were adjusted in the general category without merit, using lower cut-off marks, confirming vertical application. The question arose whether Ex-Servicemen reservation should be vertical or horizontal, and if the Single Bench's directions for petitioners' reconsideration and regularization of existing Ex-Servicemen via supernumerary posts were legally sound. Finally, the High Court found no infirmity in the Single Bench's decision, affirming that Ex-Servicemen reservation must be horizontal, not vertical. The Court upheld directions to reconsider petitioners' candidatures without displacing appointed Ex-Servicemen, who are to be regularized by creating supernumerary posts. The writ appeals were dismissed.