Civil Writ Petition No. 7999 of 2009 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH -- Civil Writ Petition No. 7999 of 2009 Date of decision: 25.05.2009 Neeraj Bala ........Petitioner Versus Central Administrative Tribunal and others .......Respondent(s) Coram: Hon'ble Mr. Justice Ashutosh Mohunta Hon'ble Ms Justice Nirmaljit Kaur Present: Mr. Arvind Kashyap, Advocate for the petitioner -.- Ashutosh Mohunta , J. (Oral) The petitioner filed Original Application No. 756-PB of 2003. The aforesaid Original Application was dismissed for non-prosecution on 23.02.2006 (Annexure P-11), as his counsel was not appearing before the Tribunal. Thereafter, the petitioner filed an application for restoration of the aforesaid O.A., which has also been dismissed vide the impugned order dated 06.03.2009 (Annexure P-14) on the ground that the application was filed at a highly belated stage and also on merits. The claim of the petitioner in the aforesaid Original Application is that he be considered for appointment to the post of Stenographer in the Department of Income Tax. A perusal of the impugned order shows that the name of the petitioner stood at serial No. 14, but when the posts were to be filled up, there were only seven vacancies available. Civil Writ Petition No. 7999 of 2009 2 Hence, apart from the delay in filing the application for restoration of the O.A., the claim of the petitioner has rightly been dismissed even on merits, as the petitioner was not eligible to be appointed against the seven available posts of Stenographers. No merit. Dismissed. [Ashutosh Mohunta] Judge [Nirmaljit Kaur] Judge May 25, 2009 mohan