IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civl Writ Petition No.8467 of 2011 Date of Decision : May 12, 2011. Nirmal Chand and another .....Petitioners versus State of Punjab and others .....Respondents CORAM : HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE SURYA KANT. Present : Mr.S.K.Jain, Advocate, for the petitioners. -.- 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 petitioners are aggrieved by the fixation of cut off date in the advertisement dated 26.4.2011 (Annexure P-7) wherein clause (vii) lays down that age of the candidates should be in between 18-37 years upto 1.7.2011. The grievance of the petitioners is that the cut off date 1.7.2011 has been fixed arbitrarily in asmuch as in all the cases the State Government including the Education Department has fixed the cut off date as first January of the year. Having heard learned counsel for the petitioners, I am of the considered view that the fixation of cut off date is essential a policy matter and in case there is any ambiguity in fixation thereof, the appropriate CWP No.8467 of 2011 [2] recourse for the petitioners would be to approach the Competent Authority. The writ petition is accordingly disposed of with liberty to the petitioners to submit a self-explanatory representation for change/modification in the cut off date regarding the upper and minimum age limit. If any such representation is made by the petitioners, the respondents are directed to consider and dispose of the same by passing a speaking order within a period of two weeks of its receipt. Ordered accordingly. Dasti. May 12, 2011 (SURYA KANT) Mohinder JUDGE