IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH C.M. No. 8670 of 2011 in CWP No. 656 of 2011 Date of decision : 27.07.2011 Navtej Singh ......Petitioner versus State of Punjab and others ...Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE RITU BAHRI Present: Mr. Arjun Pratap Atma Ram, Advocate for the applicant-petitioner Ms. Kavita Arora, A.A.G Punjab **** RITU BAHRI, J. (Oral) C.M. No. 8670 of 2011 C.M. is allowed and Secretary to Government of Punjab, Department of Education is hereby impleaded as respondent No. 4. CWP No. 656 of 2011 Petitioner is seeking direction to the respondent-department to revise the merit list (Annexure P-5) and in consequence thereof show the petitioner at his proper place i.e at rank No. 130 in the merit list. The precise grievance of the petitioner is that pursuant to the advertisement issued by the Subordinate Services Selection Board, Punjab in December, 2006 for filling up 500 posts of different categories, the petitioner being eligible applied against the post of Arts and Crafts teacher against the general category for one the 130 posts reserved for male candidates. As per his educational qualification, the total marks obtained by him came to be 140.963. CWP No. 656 of 2011 -2- Subsequently, the State of Punjab declared the result of the aforementioned selection process in the month of January, 2010 (Annexure P-5). Learned counsel for the petitioner has argued that as per Annexure P-5, the person who was shown at rank No. 90 being Amarbir Singh has been shown again at Rank No. 92 as well. He has further contended that the last candidate being at Sr. No. 130 in the above mentioned merit list Ramandeep Sharma has total marks of 141.01 and the petitioner herein has total marks of 140.963. So, in case the error of repetition of name of Amarbir Singh (shown at Sr. No. 90 as well at Sr. No. 92) is rectified the petitioner would have a good chance of selection and appointment to the post of Arts and Crafts teacher at Rank No. 130. Learned counsel for the petitioner has then referred to representation dated 01.05.2010 to submit that the name of Amarbir Singh has been shown twice in the merit list and further requested to rectify the merit list and appoint the next in line candidate from the waiting list being the petitioner herein. In view of the above factual position, this writ petition is disposed of by giving a direction to the newly added respondent No.4 i.e Secretary to Government of Punjab, Department of Education to treat this petition as representation and pass speaking orders within a period of three weeks from the date of receipt of certified copy of this order July 27, 2011 (RITU BAHRI) G.Arora JUDGE