Civil Writ Petition No. 15828 of 2010 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No. 15828 of 2010 Date of decision : 22.12.2011 Lachhman Singh ....Petitioner V/s State of Punjab and others ....Respondents BEFORE : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE RAJAN GUPTA Present: Mr. Binderjit Singh, Advocate for the petitioner. Ms. Monica Chhibber Sharma, DAG, Punjab. RAJAN GUPTA J. (ORAL) The petitioner has prayed for a writ in the nature of certiorari for quashing result, Annexure P-10 whereby certain Constables (Male) were selected for services in Punjab Armed Police. Learned counsel for the petitioner contends that petitioner faired very well in the examination and must have secured very high marks. Despite this, he has been rejected in the selection process. Learned State counsel, however, submits that selection was conducted in the fair and impartial manner. The last candidate selected in the same obtained 84.50 marks while score of the petitioner was 77.40. According to her, petitioner is thus not entitled for recruitment to the post of Constable in Punjab Armed Police. I have heard learned counsel for the parties. It is evident that pursuant to advertisement issued, petitioner appeared for the selection test conducted for the recruitment of 331 posts of Civil Writ Petition No. 15828 of 2010 2 Constables (Male) in the Punjab Armed Police. The petitioner competed in general category. He, however, did not succeed in the final selection. According to result of same which has been annexed as Annexure R-1 to the reply, the petitioner secured lesser marks than the last candidate selected. Under these circumstances, petitioner is not entitled for appointment. As regards plea of the counsel that petitioner was very confident that he had obtained higher marks, same need not be gone into by this court. Dismissed. December 22, 2011 (RAJAN GUPTA) Ajay JUDGE