IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.11111 of 2009 Date of Decision : March 18, 2010. Parminder Kaur .....Petitioner versus State of Punjab and others .....Respondents CORAM : HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE SURYA KANT. Present : Mr.R.K.Arora, Advocate, for the petitioner. Mr.B.S.Chahal, DAG, Punjab. -.- 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? --- Surya Kant, J. (Oral) The petitioner seeks a mandamus to direct the respondents to allow her to join as JBT/ETT Teacher as per the appointment letter dated 30.5.2008 and her merit No.67.795 in the General Category. Notice of motion was issued and pursuant thereto, the respondents have filed their counter-affidavit. It is averred by the respondents that the petitioner has produced false and bogus experience certificate said to be issued by the Principal, L.D. Paramount High School, Naraingarh, Chheharata, Amritsar, for the period from 15.8.2004 to September, 2005. The stand of the respondents appears to be that no marks could be awarded to the petitioner C.W.P.No .11111 of 2009 2 for the fake experience. Learned counsel for the petitioner, on the other hand, asserts that similar types of objections having been raised in several cases, the Department has constituted a Committee under the directions of this Court and the said Committee has given opportunity to all the effected candidates to produce the original certificates/record in support of genuineness of their experience certificates. The petitioner has also produced his original certificate on 4.11.2009. The Committee has summoned and perused the original records from the School on 21.1.2010, however, a final decision is yet to be taken. It is also urged on behalf of the petitioner that even if the marks for `experience' are excluded from the total marks of the petitioner, still her name deserves to be included in the merit list and she is entitled to be appointed. Having heard learned counsel for the parties at some length and keeping in view the factual events noticed above, I deem it appropriate to dispose of this writ petition with a direction to the Committee to submit its report regarding validity of the experience certificate relied upon by the petitioner. Suffice it to observe that if the Committee and the Competent Authority are satisfied with the genuineness of the experience certificate produced by the petitioner, the permissible marks shall be awarded to her and based upon her overall merit, her claim for appointment will have to be considered. However, if the `experience certificate' of the petitioner is held to be bogus, her claim for appointment shall still be considered after excluding the marks for experience and in case she stands in merit list of C.W.P.No .11111 of 2009 3 general category, she shall be given appointment/permitted to join the duties. The needful shall be done within a period of two months from the date of receiving a certified copy of this order. Ordered accordingly. Dasti. March 18, 2010 (SURYA KANT) Mohinder JUDGE