C.W.P. No.13431 of 2011 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH. C.W.P. No.13431 of 2011 Date of Decision: 28.07.2011 Deepak son of Sh. Ram Chander ....Petitioner Versus The State of Haryana & others ...Respondents CORAM : Hon'ble Ms. Justice Nirmaljit Kaur Present:- Mr. Ashwani Talwar, Advocate for the petitioner. ***** 1. Whether Reporters of Local Newspapers may be allowed to see the judgment ? 2. To be referred to the Reporters or not ? 3. Whether the judgment should be reported in the Digest ? ** NIRMALJIT KAUR, J. Through the present petition, the petitioner is challenging the selection and appointment of private respondents No.7 to 73 to the post of Assistant Engineer (Electrical) in various electricity utilities (respondents No.3 to 6). All these appointments have been made in respect of Scheduled Caste candidates in pursuance to the selections made by respondent No.2, Haryana Public Service Commission which advertised the posts vide advertisement Annexure P-1. There was a written test for short listing of the candidates but in the case of Scheduled Caste category, since against 67 posts, the total number of applicants were less than three times, all the candidates who applied were called for interview. While challenging the same, learned counsel for the petitioner contended that the petitioner secured very high marks in written test and in as far as personal achievements i.e academic qualification and experience C.W.P. No.13431 of 2011 2 is concerned, his credentials are better than most of the selected candidates. As such, he should have been selected. Heard. The petitioner duly participated in the interview. However, he was not successful. As such, he is restrained from challenging the same on totally vague grounds. Moreover, it is the own case of the petitioner that he attained 39 marks, whereas, the last candidate, who was selected secured 41.33 marks. This is evident from the list placed on record as Annexure P- 4 showing the marks achieved by the candidates. No merit. Dismissed. (NIRMALJIT KAUR) 28.07.2011 JUDGE gurpreet