Lucknow, Aug. 22 -- The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court on Friday quashed the termination of over two dozen general category junior engineers recruited by the Uttar Pradesh Jal Nigam in 2013, holding that innocent employees cannot be made to suffer for mistakes made by authorities during the recruitment process. Justice Irshad Ali, while deciding separate petitions filed by junior engineer Rakesh Pratap Singh and 25 other junior engineers, said that the employees had been appointed by the competent authority against sanctioned posts through a regular selection process and there was no allegation of fraud, misrepresentation or manipulation against them. The court said that implementation of the reservation policy was mandatory, but the authorities could not adopt a procedure contrary to law and the original selection process in the name of correcting reservation-related irregularities. "There can be no dispute with the proposition that statutory reservation is required to be faithfully implemented. However, the implementation of reservation must itself be in accordance with the statutory scheme," observed the bench ....