CWP No.11133 of 2010 -1- IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CWP No.11133 of 2010 Date of decision: 01.07.2010 Navdeep Sharma ....Petitioner Versus State of Haryana and others ....Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE VINOD K. SHARMA Present: Ms. Dimple Sangwan, Advocate, for the petitioner. ***** VINOD K. SHARMA, J (ORAL) The petitioner has invoked the writ jurisdiction of this Court to challenge the order Annexure P-2 i.e. the proceedings regarding holding draw for the reserved wards for Zila Parishad, Panchkula for women and SC/Backward Class. The impugned proceedings read as under: - “Under Section 120 of the Haryana Panchayati Raj Act, 1994, read with Rule 5 of Haryana Panchayati Raj Election Rules, 1994, today on 3.5.2010 at 3.00 p.m. the draw of lot for 4 reserved wards for Women was held. As per the Haryana Govt. Notification no. 18.7.2010/IIICI, dated 17.3.2010, all the wards of Zila Parishad have been reconstituted after the creation of Municipal Council in the district. As per percentage of SC on the basis of the 2001 Census, 2 wards are to be reserved for SC in District Panchkula. Ward No.9 and Ward No.3 are reserved for SC as having maximum percentage of SC population. Amongst the above two wards, for one ward to be reserved for SC women, the CWP No.11133 of 2010 -2- draw of lot was held and on the basis of the same, ward no.3 was reserved for SC women. Thus, ward no.9 is reserved for SC (General). Ward No.10 is reserved for backward class having the highest percentage of population. Out of the remaining ward no.1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 for reserving three wards for General category (women) draw of lot was held and on the basis of the same, ward no.5, 7 & 8 are reserved for general category (woman). No ward no.1, 2, 4 & 6 have remained un-reserved.” The learned counsel for the petitioner contends that in the proceedings the wards which were already reserved previously were wrongly reserved again, which was in violation of Section 120 of the Haryana Panchayati Raj Act, 1994. Section 120 of the Haryana Panchayati Raj Act, 1994 does not help the petitioner as this Section does not deal with the reservation of the wards. No merit. Dismissed. (Vinod K. Sharma) Judge July 01, 2010 R.S.