Civil Writ Petition No. 13474 of 2010 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No. 13474 of 2010 Date of decision : 21.11.2011 Adhar Kumar ....Petitioner V/s State of Punjab and others ....Respondents BEFORE : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE RAJAN GUPTA Present: Mr. Randeep Singh, Advocate for Mr. Vinod S. Bhardwaj, Advocate for the petitioner. Mr. B.S. Chahal, DAG Punjab. RAJAN GUPTA J. (ORAL) The petitioner seeks a direction from this court to grant him appointment as Homeopathic Medical Officer in the Scheduled Caste category. Learned State counsel at the outset submits that no post in the category in which the petitioner is seeking appointment was advertised as would be clear from advertisement, Annexure P-1. He has refereed to reply by way of affidavit of Vinod Kumar Bhalla, Additional Secretary Health cum Commissioner AYUSH/Director Homoeopathy, Punjab. According to him, petitioner was not called for counseling as he was not covered under the reserved category. Only post in Scheduled Caste (Ex-Servicemen) and Scheduled Caste (Sports person) were advertised against which the petitioner has no right to claim appointment. Civil Writ Petition No. 13474 of 2010 2 Learned counsel for the petitioner is not in a position to controvert the stand taken by the State before this court. It appears that petitioner has no right to claim appointment as petitioner belongs to Scheduled Caste category and not to Scheduled Caste (Ex-Servicemen) or Scheduled Caste (Sports person) The petitioner has, thus, not been able to make out a case for consideration for appointment in the reserved category. No interference is called for in the writ jurisdiction of this court. Dismissed. November 21, 2011 (RAJAN GUPTA) Ajay JUDGE