New Delhi: In a relief to 20 trainee IAS and IPS officers who had challenged the Centre’s cadre allocation process for the 2018 batch, the Supreme Court Friday said they will be accommodated by increasing of one post in the state cadres of their preference this year. The apex court ordered this while hearing the appeal filed by the Centre challenging the Delhi High Court’s verdict which had quashed the entire cadre allocation of IAS and IPS officers of the 2018 batch. A vacation bench of Justices Indira Banerjee and Sanjiv Khanna praised Solicitor General Tushar Mehta for showing “exemplary fairness” in suggesting that 18 petitioners who had approached the high court and two