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The High Court had argued that allowing SC/ST/OBC/EWS candidates to occupy General seats would amount to giving them “double benefit" — one through reservation and another through selection in the General category. The Supreme Court rejected this argument and a bench comprising Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice Augustine G. Masih dismissed the Rajasthan High Court’s petition, emphasising that merit must be given due weight.
https://www.news18.com/india/sc-st-obc-candidates-eligible-for-general-seats-in-govt-jobs-if-they-clear-cut-off-rules-sc-ws-kl-9809683.html
Same principle is followed in CLAT for decades. If an SC/ST/OBC scores enough to make it to the merit list, he or she is shifted to the merit list and removed from the reserved list. The reserved list then admits another SC/ST/OBC candidate. So basically an extra SC/ST/OBC candidate makes it and the number of people in the general category decreases by 1.