IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No. 6418 of 2010 DATE OF DECISION: September 22, 2011 Prem Parkash & others .....Petitioners VERSUS State of Haryana and others ....Respondents CORAM:- HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE RANJIT SINGH 1. Whether Reporters of local papers may be allowed to see the judgement? 2. To be referred to the Reporters or not? 3. Whether the judgment should be reported in the Digest? PRESENT: Mr. Puneet Bali, Advocate for the petitioners. Mr. Harish Rathee, Sr.DAG, Haryana, for the State. Mr. Maninder Arora, Advocate, for respondent Nos.3 to 5. **** RANJIT SINGH, J. The petitioners seek quashing of whole examination process, whereby selection has been made for the posts of Kanungos from the posts of Patwaris. Grievance is that the selection is vitiated being arbitrary, illegal and unconstitutional and suffers from vice of malafide. Notice of motion was issued. Reply has been filed. During the course of arguments, Mr. Bali restricts his submission only on one point. His grievance is that the question papers of all other subjects except for Haryana Land Records Manual were set up in Hindi, whereas question paper of Haryana Civil Writ Petition No. 6418 of 2010 -2- Records Manual was in English, which was difficult for the candidates to understand, Matriculation being the minimum qualification for appointment of the Kanungo. Counsel further says that the answers were to be attempted in Hindi. Counsel, accordingly, contends that this has led to serious prejudice to the case of the petitioners and would vitiate the entire examination. As per the counsel, the necessary consequence of this is that only 133 candidates out of 1065 candidates could qualify. Since the question papers for every candidates, who had appeared were similar, prima facie, this action would not have led to any arbitrariness or discrimination. The respondents would also point out that the question papers of the said subject (Haryana Land Records Manual) had earlier also been set up in English language and there had never been any complaint in this regard. Thus, no case for interference on this ground in the whole examination is made out. The writ petition is, accordingly, dismissed. However, it will be desirable for the State to see the feasibility of setting up the question papers either in Hindi language or adopt same procedure where question papers are set up in bilingual i.e. Hindi and English, so that this problem, to an extent could be removed in future. September 22, 2011 ( RANJIT SINGH ) monika JUDGE