Civil Writ Petition No.309 of 2009 -1- IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.309 of 2009 Decided on : 4-09-2009 Randhir Singh .... Petitioner VERSUS State of Haryana, Chandigarh & others .... Respondents CORAM:- HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SATISH KUMAR MITTAL. Present:- Mr. Sanjiv Gupta, Advocate. for the petitioner. Ms. Kirti Singh, A.A.G., Haryana, for the respondents. SATISH KUMAR MITTAL, J (Oral). The petitioner has applied for the post of Junior Engineer (Civil) in Haryana Police Housing Corporation, which was advertised vide advertisement No.3 of 2008, dated 7.6.2008 (Annexure P-1). It is the case of the petitioner that his application for the said post was rejected vide letter dated 15.12.2008 (Annexure P-11) on the ground that the experience certificate enclosed by him, did not indicate the detail of the monthly salary received by him. The petitioner has challenged the said rejection letter (Annexure P-11) in the instant petition. It is the case of the respondents that the experience certificate dated 15.1.2002 (Annexure P-4) issued by Engineers & Contractors CPWD, enclosed by the petitioner, did not indicate the Civil Writ Petition No.309 of 2009 -2- detail of the monthly salary received by him. It is further the case of the respondents that in the aforesaid advertisement, it was specifically mentioned at Sr. No.(vi) of the note that an application form will be summarily rejected if the experience certificate is without detail of salary per month received (wherever the condition of experience apply). On January 13, 2009, after hearing counsel for the parties, an interim order was passed and the petitioner was permitted to be provisionally interviewed and his result was ordered to be kept in a sealed cover. Today, the result of the petitioner has been produced in a sealed cover before the Court. On the opening of the sealed cover, it has been found that the petitioner has secured total 44.36 marks in academic marks, experience and viva-voice. Learned counsel for the respondents has stated that the last candidate, who has been selected on the aforesaid post, has secured 47.84 marks. In view of the said factual position, counsel for the petitioner states that he does not want to press this petition. Dismissed as not pressed. The original result sheet of the petitioner has been returned to the counsel for the respondents and photocopy of the same has been taken on record. 4th September, 2009. (SATISH KUMAR MITTAL) monika JUDGE