IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CWP No.7949 of 1989(O&M) Date of Decision: 19.09.2011 Dharam Pal s/o Ram Sukh, resident of Village & P.O. Urapar, Tehsil Nawanshahr, District Jalandhar ... Petitioner Versus The State of Punjab through Deputy Commissioner, exercising the powers of Collector, Jalandhar and others ... Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE K. KANNAN Present: Mr. Rajinder Singh Sihota, Senior Advocate with Mr. Ashish K. Sharma, Advocate, for the petitioner. Mr. Navdeep Sukhna, DAG, Punjab for respondents No.1 to 3. None for respondents No.4 and 5. ***** 1. Whether reporters of local papers may be allowed to see the judgment? NO 2. To be referred to the reporters or not? NO 3. Whether the judgment should be reported in the digest? NO K. KANNAN, J. (Oral) 1. The only point for consideration is whether prescribing a minimum benchmark for interview as 9 out of 30 is valid and whether the selection could be made if at all only by a combined assessment of marks in written test and the oral interview. The prescription of a minimum benchmark in interview was approved by this Court in “Gireesh Kumar v. Government of India, ILR (2008) 1 P&H 586”. Nothing survives for favourable consideration now. 2. The writ petition is dismissed. SEPTEMBER 19, 2011 ( K. KANNAN ) Rajan JUDGE