CWP No. 16637 of 2008 (1) IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CWP No. 16637 of 2008 Date of Decision: 18.9.2008 Jatin Singh Lamba and others ....Petitioners Versus Punjab School Education Board ....Respondent Coram: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE HEMANT GUPTA HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE KANWALJIT SINGH AHLUWALIA Present: Shri Shailender Sharma, Advocate, for the petitioners. 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? HEMANT GUPTA, J. The petitioners have appeared in the matriculation examinations as the students of the Boards other than the Punjab School Education Board. They have got compartment in one or more subjects. The grievance of the petitioners is that vide Annexure P.1, the Punjab School Education Board has framed a policy that the students of other Boards, who have compartment in one or more subjects, are not to be admitted in +1 (Eleventh Class) of the Punjab School Education Board. The petitioners have challenged the said policy on the ground of its being arbitrary and discriminatory. The petitioners have appeared in the matriculation examinations from the Boards other than the Punjab School Education Board. It is not the case of the petitioners that such Boards are not having +1 (Eleventh Class) or +2 (Twelfth Class). Therefore, it is not open CWP No. 16637 of 2008 (2) to the petitioner to assert that the policy of the Board in not admitting the compartment candidates of the other Boards suffers from any patent illegality or irregularity. The classification in respect of the candidates of other Boards is fair and reasonable based upon intelligible differentia having nexus with the object to be achieved. In view of the said fact, we do not find any patent illegality or material irregularity in the impugned policy of the respondents, which may warrant interference by this Court in exercise of its writ jurisdiction. Hence, the present writ petition is dismissed. (HEMANT GUPTA) JUDGE (KANWALJIT SINGH AHLUWALIA) JUDGE 18-08-2008 ds