IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.12965 of 2011 (O&M) Date of decision:16.08.2011 Jatinder Kumar son of Shri Hari Chand, resident of House No.37, Ward No.17, Street Jassi Hospital, near New Bus Stand, Mandi Dabwali, District Sirsa (Haryana) ...Petitioner versus Punjab Public Service Commission, Baradari Garden, Patiala, through its Secretary, and another. ....Respondents CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE K. KANNAN ---- Present: Mr. Manvinder Dalal, Advocate, for the petitioner. Ms. Kavita Arora, Assistant Advocate General, Punjab. ---- 1. Whether reporters of local papers may be allowed to see the judgment ? No. 2. To be referred to the reporters or not ? No. 3. Whether the judgment should be reported in the digest ? No. ---- K.Kannan, J. (Oral) 1. The only point in controversy in this case is that the petitioner, who claimed consideration of his case under SC category was not so favourably considered in view of the fact that apart from the wrong code that he had given, he was treated as a person having SC category assigned from Haryana, while the selection was for a post in Punjab. The petitioner would still contend that even if his SC status could be rejected, he ought to have been considered in general category (GC) where, against the cut off marks of 290.017 for GC, he had secured Civil Writ Petition No.12965 of 2011 (O&M) - 2 - 328.427. The contention is perfectly justified and the petitioner is entitled to be considered for being included in the final merit list under the general category and the direction is issued to the respondents that the petitioner shall be included in the merit list for appropriate consideration. 2. The writ petition is ordered accordingly. (K. KANNAN) JUDGE 16.08.2011 sanjeev