IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH. CIVIL WRIT PETITION NO. 20694 OF 2006 DATE OF DECISION: February 11, 2008 Parties Name Smt. Dhanpati ..PETITIONER VERSUS State of Haryana and others ...RESPONDENTS CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE JASBIR SINGH HON'BLE MR JUSTICE JASWANT SINGH PRESENT: Mr. Suresh Kumar Redhu, Advocate, for the petitioner. Mr. Harish Rathee, Sr. DAG, Haryana, Mr. M.K.Sood, Advocate, for respondent No. 2. JASBIR SINGH, J. (oral) Order. Petitioner belongs to a scheduled caste. Vide advertisement Annexure P-1, the District Literacy Committee, Jhajjar, invited applications to appoint Chief Project Co-ordinator etc. Petitioner was one of the applicants for those posts. In this writ petition, it is his grouse that no provision has been made for offering the post to the scheduled caste candidates, as per reservation policy of the State of Haryana. Consequent to the notice issued, reply has been filed, wherein it has been stated that the District Literacy Committee, Jhajjar, is a registered Society registered under the Registration of Societies Act, 1986. The above said Society has not been arrayed as a respondent in the writ petition and further it has nowhere been stated that the above said Society CIVIL WRIT PETITION NO. 20694 OF 2006 -2- would fall within the definition of State/its instrumentality, as defined under Article 12 of the Constitution of India so that writ petition can be filed against it. No document has been placed on record to show that the said Society is a State run agency. Faced with the situation above, counsel for the petitioner states that this writ petition be dismissed as withdrawn with liberty to the petitioner to file fresh one after giving better particulars. Liberty granted. Dismissed as withdrawn. ( Jasbir Singh ) Judge ( Jaswant Singh) February 11, 2008. Judge DKC