IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.5378 of 2011 Date of Decision: August 24, 2011 Sanjay Kumar ...Petitioner Versus The State of Haryana & others ...Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE RANJIT SINGH 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? Present: Mr.Satish Garg, Advocate, for Mr.Minderjeet Yadav, Advocate, for the petitioner. ***** RANJIT SINGH, J. The petitioner applied for appointment to the post of Lecturer in English in the reserved category of Ex-servicemen. The respondents had conducted a screening test. The petitioner secured 43 marks and accordingly he was not eligible for being called for interview. The grievance of the petitioner is that out of 16 seats reserved for ESM category, 6 seats have been reserved for female in ESM category. Counsel further submits that no ESM female candidate was available and the seat has been allotted to the dependents. Submission is that ESM would have a preferential right over the dependents for appointment. Once the separate reservation is made, which is as per the policy, the posts which remained unfilled for ESM female category, could rightly be offered to dependents (female). The petitioner otherwise had not qualified in the screening test and cannot be permitted to compete for the post, which was reserved for ESM female category. I do not see any merit in the writ petition and the same is accordingly dismissed. August 24, 2011 ( RANJIT SINGH ) ramesh JUDGE