IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.2635 of 2008 Date of Decision: 25.2.2008 Harish Kumar Petitioner Versus State of Haryana and another Respondents CORAM:- HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE JASBIR SINGH HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE JASWANT SINGH Present: Shri K.K.Gupta, Advocate for the petitioner Jasbir Singh, J. (Oral) Petitioner is a candidate for the post in Haryana Superior Judicial Service. By filing this writ petition, he has laid challenge to the provisions of Rule 11(c) of the Haryana Superior Judicial Service Rules, 2007. The above said rule reads thus:- “11(c) must have attained the age of thirty five years and have not attained the age of forty years on the 1st day of the year in which the applications for recruitment are invited.” It is grievance of the petitioner that cut off date has arbitrarily been fixed and it is also not in consonance with the procedure adopted to fill up similar posts in the State of Punjab and other services in both the States. Be that as it may, in view of ratio of judgments of Hon’ble Supreme Court in Dr.Ami Lal Bhat v. State of Rajasthan and others, AIR 1997 Supreme Court 2964, Union of India and another v. Sudhir Kumar Jaiswal, AIR 1994 Supreme Court 2750 and also Division Bench judgment of this Court in Parveen Kumar Aggarwal and others v. Punjab and Haryana High Civil Writ Petition No.2635 of 2008 Court, Chandigarh and others (CWP No.15690 of 2007), decided on 8.2.2008, no case is made out for interference. The petitioner has failed to show any arbitrariness in fixing the cut off date. Dismissed. (Jasbir Singh) Judge February 25, 2008 (Jaswant Singh) gk Judge 2