New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a plea of Jat applicants, who have cleared various stages of Probationary Officers recruitment exam under the reserved OBC category, that they be considered for the jobs.

The court, which on March 17 had set aside the erstwhile UPA government's notification to include Jats in the central list of OBCs to accord quota benefits to them, said that the issue has already been decided and there was no 'vested' right in favour of Jat applicants. "If none of the persons have been given the letter of appointments then our judgement will apply," a bench of Justices Ranjan Gogoi and R F Nariman said.