CWP No.22116 of 2011 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH. DATE OF DECISION: 29.11.2011 Priti Dhiman and others ...Petitioners VERSUS State of Haryana and others …Respondent CORAM HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE PERMOD KOHLI HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE TEJINDER SINGH DHINDSA PRESENT: Mr.arvind Singh, Advocate for the petitioners Permod Kohli, J. (Oral) The petitioners before us are the candidates for Haryana Civil Services (Judicial Branch) Examination. They appeared for the preliminary examination held on 4.9.2011, in response to advertisement no.3 dated 20.6.2011. Petitioner no.1 belongs to OBC Category whereas petitioners no.2 and 3 belong to General Category. They were declared “Failed” in the preliminary examination. Some writ petitions came to be filed before this Court challenging the correctness of some of the questions and the answers contained in the answer key. In one of the writ petitions, this Court issued directions for constitution of a Committee of Hon'ble Judges to examine the allegations contained in the writ petitions. The Committee of Hon'ble Judges took a decision on 31.10.2011 and ordered deletion of three CWP No.22116 of 2011 2 questions out of 125 i.e. question nos.28, 114 and 116. Resultantly, the merit was re-determined and some of the candidates who were earlier declared “disqualified”, were able to qualify the examination. Some of the dis-satisfied candidates again approached this Court by filing large number of writ petitions still claiming discrepancy in some of the questions and the answers contained in the answer key. Such candidates who were found by this Court having proximity to the marks secured by the last qualified candidate in different categories, were allowed to participate in the main examination. Petitioners before us never chose to approach this Court at the appropriate time. The main examination was held on 24th, 25th and 26th of November, 2011. It is after the holding of the main examination that the present petition has been filed. This petition is liable to be dismissed on account of delay and laches. The petitioners never projected their grievance at the appropriate time and they have not appeared in the main examination. We do not find any valid ground for accepting the prayer of the petitioners, at this belated stage. We also reject the prayer for conducting special examination of the petitioners as they have failed to show any special and particular circumstances for claiming such relief. Dismissed. (PERMOD KOHLI) JUDGE (TEJINDER SINGH DHINDSA) JUDGE 29.11.2011 MFK CWP No.10585 of 2010 3