IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.3978 of 2011 Date of Decision : March 07, 2011. Sushma Devi .....Petitioner versus State of Punjab and others .....Respondents CORAM : HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE SURYA KANT. Present : Mr.S.K.Arora, Advocate, for the petitioner. -.- 1. Whether Reporters of Local papers may be allowed to see the judgment? 2. To be referred to the Reporters or not? 3. Whether the judgment should be reported in the Digest? --- Surya Kant, J. (Oral) The petitioner seeks a mandamus for her appointment on the post of ETT Teacher reserved for Scheduled Caste Category (Majhbi/ Balmiki) in District Ferozepur. The petitioner's case is that she was to appear for counselling on 12th March, 2010, however, she unfortunately met with a road accident on 4.3.2010 and remained hospitalized till 14.4.2010 due to which she could not appear for counselling on the date fixed. No sooner the petitioner recovered, she approached the authorities on 15.4.2010 followed by several representations including dated 5.7.2010, 13.9.2010 & 2.11.2010 (Annexures P-6 to P-8) but none of these have been responded to by the authorities. The petitioner's case appears to be that the candidates lower in merit in the afore-referred reserved C.W.P.No .3978 of 2011 2 category have been appointed meanwhile. Having heard learned counsel for the petitioner and considering the nature of relief sought in this writ petition and the factual plea taken by her, I am of the considered view that it is imperative upon respondent No.2 to verify the explanation given by the petitioner for her non-appearance for counselling on 12th March, 2010. Suffice it to observe that if the competent authority is satisfied that the petitioner could not appear for counselling for the reasons beyond her control, there appears to be no tangible logic for not giving one more opportunity to her moreso when it is stated that the purpose of counselling is only to verify the original documents and obtain willingness of the candidates. The writ petition is accordingly disposed of with a direction to respondent No.2 that let a fact finding enquiry be conducted through some senior level Education Officer of the area and if her plea is found correct, to take necessary remedial action in accordance with law, within a period of four months from the date of receiving a certified copy of this order. Dasti. March 07, 2011 (SURYA KANT) Mohinder JUDGE