CWP No.7800 of 2010 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA, CHANDIGARH CWP No.7800 of 2010 Date of decision April 30 , 2010 Karam Singh ....... Petitioner Versus Haryana Public Service Commission and another ........ Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE K. KANNAN Present:- Mr. Rajiv Saini, Advocate for the petitioner. **** K. Kannan, J (oral). 1. The petitioner's challenge to the action of the respondent in rejecting candidature of the petitioner is that he did not fulfill the essential qualification and withdrawal of the call letter on account of the fact that he did not have first division in M.Sc was inconsistent with the qualifications already issued in the advertisement. The essential qualification in the advertisement as per the petitioner reads as follows: i. Post Graduate in agriculture preferably in Agronomy with Ist Division. ii. Knowledge of Hindi/Sanskrit upto Matric. 2. The counsel wants to contend that if only a candidate was a Post Graduate in Agronomy he should have first division and Post Graduate in Agriculture may not even have Ist Division to be counted as eligible. In my view, the reading of essential qualification is wrongly made by the petitioner. The expression, “ preference in agronomy” is to substitute the requirement for Post Graduate in Agriculture and the requirement of first division shall be both for Post Graduate in Agronomy and in Agriculture. It will be wrong to assume that the requirement of first CWP No.7800 of 2010 2 division is only for Post Graduate in Agronomy. The petitioner admittedly did not have first division and therefore the rejection of the qualification was justified. 3. The writ petition under the circumstances is dismissed. (K. KANNAN) JUDGE April 30, 2010 archana