IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.11186 of 2011 Date of decision:28.06.2011 Dr. Amanjot Kaur ...Petitioner Versus State of Punjab and others ....Respondents CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE K. KANNAN ---- Present: Mr. Harpal Singh Sirohi, Advocate, for the petitioner. ---- 1. Whether reporters of local papers may be allowed to see the judgment ? No 2. To be referred to the reporters or not ? No 3. Whether the judgment should be reported in the digest ? No ---- K.Kannan, J. (Oral) 1. The petition is filed for issuance of writ of mandamus directing the respondents to provide reservation to the petitioner under physically handicapped category in the non-surgical “easy” branches of MD/MS courses. 2. The tentative distribution of seats for admission of various post graduate courses including the seats for handicapped categories has been brought through the notification which was issued by the Department of Medical Education and Research, Government of Punjab, on 10.01.2011. The admitted case is that the petitioner was making an application under the reserved quota as handicapped person and that she has offered admission for the course in Obst & Gyane. The petitioner Civil Writ Petition No.11186 of 2011 - 2 - did not, however, accept the seat and voluntarily surrendered the seat which was taken up for the general pool. 3. The petitioner comes for intervention at the time when the counselling is undertaken for the general pool. The petitioner's grievance is that in the manner of distribution of seats for reserved candidates, the reservation is provided only for MD Obst. and Gyane, MD Radio- diagnosis and MS Orthopaedic. The petitioner's grievance is that distribution of seats for handicapped persons is not appropriate. 4. The petition does not contain a challenge to the notification dated 10.01.2011 and having applied for admission for the reserved quota in the manner already prescribed, the petitioner cannot seek enlargement of the plea for consideration for other streams of education not provided for in the notification. Further, it is seen that the petitioner has applied for seat and she has already surrendered the same. She can not resile from such an action. The petitioner's grievance through the writ petition is untenable and the writ petition is liable to be dismissed and is, accordingly, dismissed. (K. KANNAN) JUDGE 28.06.2011 reena