IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.14065 of 2010 Nirmesh Kumar Vs. State of Haryana & others Present: Mr.Amit Parashar, Advocate, for the petitioner. ***** RANJIT SINGH, J. The petitioner applied for the post of Sanitary Inspector. He has done a diploma course of the Sanitary Inspector and has secured 60% marks. While advertising the posts, it was clearly mentioned that the candidates may be short listed for interview by holding a written examination or on the basis of rationale criterion to be adopted by the department. Thereafter, the respondent- department short listed the candidates by providing cut off marks of 70% in the diploma course. The petitioner accordingly was not short listed. The grievance of the petitioner is that the criterion for short listing was changed and the short listing was bound to be done by holding a written examination. It was clearly given out in the advertisement that the short listing of the candidates could be done either by holding a written examination or on the basis of rationale criterion to be adopted. The criterion adopted for short listing the candidates on the basis of marks obtained in the diploma examination would be a rationale criterion and could be so adopted. I do not see any arbitrariness in the mode adopted by the respondents to call for interference in exercise of writ jurisdiction. Dismissed. August 10, 2010 ( RANJIT SINGH ) ramesh JUDGE