CWP No.24115 of 2011 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CWP No.24115 of 2011 Date of Decision: December 22, 2011 Charanjit Singh .......Petitioner Versus Market Committee, Zira and others .......Respondents CORAM:- HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE TEJINDER SINGH DHINDSA Present: Mr.Karanjit Singh, Advocate for the petitioner. <><><> TEJINDER SINGH DHINDSA, J. The petitioner has impugned in the present writ petition the resolution dated 18.11.2011 whereby the recommendations of the Recruitment Committee, Market Committee, Zira have been accepted and by virtue of which, respondent No.3 has been selected for the post of Peon. 2. Learned counsel appearing for the petitioner states that the petitioner was more qualified in terms of possessing the qualification of 10+2 and was in fact pursuing the graduate degree. Accordingly, he has raised a plea that the private respondent, who is only Matric pass, was less meritorious and could not have stolen a march over him . That apart, the only contention raised is that respondent No.3 i.e. the selected candidate, belongs to the same village as the Chairman of the Recruitment Committee. 3. It is beyond dispute that the post of Peon amongst others was duly advertised. The requisite qualification prescribed for the post of Peon as would be discernible from Annexure P6 was to have qualified middle CWP No.24115 of 2011 2 standard examination with Punjabi and Elective subject. It is the petitioner whose pleading in the writ petition is that as many as 70 applications were received for the post of Peon in response to the advertisement. Thereafter, a Recruitment Committee was duly constituted and in pursuance to the proceedings of such Committee, which had conducted an interview of the candidates, that the private respondent was selected to the post of Peon. 4. It is not the case of the petitioner that respondent No.3 was not eligible for the post of Peon. There is no averment in the petition to the effect that the Recruitment Committee was not duly constituted. Apart from the bald averment that the selected candidate belongs to the same village as the Chairman of the Recruitment Committee, no substantial ground has been raised in the petition which would call for interference by this Court in the exercise of its extra-ordinary jurisdiction under Article 226 of the Constitution of India to set aside the selection of respondent No.3 to the post of Peon. 5. There is no merit in the petition and the same is, accordingly, dismissed. ( TEJINDER SINGH DHINDSA ) JUDGE December 22, 2011 SRM Note: Whether referred to the Reporter? Yes/No