IN THE HIGH COURT FOR THE STATES OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH. C.W.P. No. 5434 of 2010. [O&M] Date of Decision: 05th December, 2011. Sumit Khattar Petitioner through Mr. Paramjit Jakhar, Advocate Versus State of Haryana & Anr. Respondents through Mr. R.S.Kundu, Addl.AG, Haryana Mr. GPS Bal, Advocate. CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SURYA KANT. 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 issue raised by the petitioner while impugning the result of the State Teachers' Eligibility Test held on 27.07.2008 that his answers have not been correctly evaluated, have been effectively replied by the respondents pointing out that the petitioner has not been awarded full marks for the correct answers but due to negative marking of the questions wrongly attempted by him that his over-all marks have gone down. The afore-stated procedure followed by the respondents is one of the well recognized modes for shortlisting the candidates and no fault can be found with the same. Faced with this situation, learned counsel for the petitioner states that while grace marks have not been awarded to him, other similarly placed candidates have been extended this benefit, due to which those candidates have been declared 'pass', and the petitioner has been declared 'fail'. Having heard learned counsel for the parties, I am of the considered view that though grace marks can not be claimed as a matter of right through a writ court, the petitioner will be well within his right to approach the Competent Authority to award him grace marks, if permissible under the Rules and/or on the basis of parity claimed by the petitioner. This writ petition is disposed of with liberty to the petitioner to move an appropriate application before the Competent Authority and if any such application is moved, the same shall be considered sympathetically and disposed of within one month, in accordance with law. Disposed of. Dasti. December 05, 2011. ( SURYA KANT ) dinesh JUDGE