IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.2883 of 2010 Date of Decision : February 18, 2010. Parvinder Pal Singh .....Petitioner versus State of Punjab and another .....Respondents CORAM : HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE SURYA KANT. Present : Mr.Avtar Singh Bhatti, 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? --- ORDER Surya Kant, J. (Oral) The petitioner seeks quashing of the order dated 14.5.2009 (Annexure P-9) whereby his claim for award of marks for the “Experience” and “NCC Certificate”, has been turned down. This case has a chequered history. The matter pertains to recruitment of Junior Engineers (Civil) for which applications were invited in the year 1997. The petitioner applied, was considered and as per the result declared, he was placed in the `waiting list'. On the basis of an enquiry conducted by the Lok Pal in which certain irregularities were detected, the matter came up for consideration before this Court. The petitioner also filed a Civil Writ Petition No.19398 C.W.P.No .2883 of 2010 2 of 2002. During the pendency of the afore-stated cases, the State Government re-considered the whole issue and decided to appoint all those candidates who were in the `waiting list' and higher in merit to one of the candidates in general category who had already been appointed. Pursuant thereto, the petitioner also got appointment and he is now serving as Junior Engineer (Civil). He, thereafter, claimed that his placement in the merit list prepared in the year 1997 deserves to be upgraded for the reasons that no marks were awarded to him by the Subordinate Service Selection Board for his “Experience” and “NCC Certificate”. The petitioner's claim has now been turned down by the State Government by passing the impugned speaking order on 14.5.2009 after observing that in the previous writ petition filed by the petitioner, i.e. Civil Writ Petition No.19398 of 2002, the Board had taken a categoric preliminary objection to the effect that the `experience certificate' relied upon by the petitioner was not genuine as the letter sent to the firm, namely, DCPC Constructions and Constructors, Surat, for verification of the said experience certificate was returned by the Postal Authorities with the remarks that the firm had “left”. Similarly, the genuineness of the `NCC Certificate' relied upon was not verified by 11- Punjab Battalion NCC-97 Green Avenue, Amritsar, for want of the original records. The petitioner did not press the claim in his previous writ petition. In any case, in the light of the stand taken by the Board questioning genuineness of the certificates relied upon by the petitioner, no case to interfere with the impugned order dated 14.5.2009 (Annexure P-9) C.W.P.No .2883 of 2010 3 is made out by this Court in exercise of its writ jurisdiction. Dismissed. However, the petitioner shall be at liberty to represent the authorities to seek fixation of his seniority from the date of his joining as Junior Engineer. If any such representation is made by him, the competent authority is directed to decide the same in accordance with law/Rules. Dasti. 18-02-2010 (SURYA KANT) Mohinder JUDGE