C.W.P. No. 14633 of 2010 [ 1 ] IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA, CHANDIGARH C.W.P. No. 14633 of 2010 Date of Decision: Aug. 3, 2011 Bachittar Singh ........................................ Petitioner Versus State of Punjab and others ................... Respondents Coram: Hon'ble Ms. Justice Ritu Bahri 1.To be referred to the Reporters or not? 2. Whether the judgment should be reported in the Digest? Present: Mr. G.S.Sirphikhi, Advocate for the petitioner. Ms. Kavita Arora, AAG, Punjab. ... RITU BAHRI, J. (Oral) The precise claim of the petitioner is that he should be allowed to join in pursuance to the offer of appointment letter (Annexure P3) issued to him for appointment to the post of Teaching Fellow for a period of 3- 1/2 years on a lumpsum salary of `4550/- regarding JBT/ETT post. Petitioner has applied against the ETT post in C.W.P. No. 14633 of 2010 [ 2 ] pursuance to advertisement dated 2.9.2007. His application was in General Category in Gurdaspur District. As per the application, petitioner was B.A., B.Ed., M.A. (Political Science). He has the required experience and has been teaching in Janta Modern High School, Mehta Chowk, Amritsar. After getting 59.175 marks in the merit he was issued appointment letter dated 17.12.2009 (Annexure P3). As per the written statement, after the verification the Principal of Janta Modern High School, Amritsar, informed that the old record relating to this Teacher is not available in the School and only a photocopy of the Attendance Register for the month of March 2003 is available. On the basis of the statement of the Principal, he was not allowed to join the duty. The Principal of the School as well as the petitioner were granted opportunity to appear before the Director Public Instructions(EE) Punjab Chandigarh and establish the claim of the Experience Certificate. The petitioner chose not to appear before the concerned authorities. After going through the verification of the Experience Certificate (Annexure R1) by the District Education Officer it was certified that Bachittar Singh son of Sh. Lakhwinder Singh has worked in the Janta Modern Senior Secondary School, Mehta Chowk, Amritsar, from 5.5.1998 to 31.3.2003 as Social Studies and Punjabi Teacher. The whole C.W.P. No. 14633 of 2010 [ 3 ] record relating to the Teacher was not found in the School. This fact has duly been endorsed by the Principal of the School. As per this verification report it was certified by the Principal that the petitioner had worked from 5.5.1998 to 31.3.2003. There is no endorsement on Annexure R1 that the Certificate produced by the petitioner was bogus. Counsel for the petitioner has stated that no notice was issued calling the petitioner to appear before the Principal and made his explanation regarding the Experience Certificate. In view of Annexure R1 (verification of the Experience Certificate) and as per the photocopy of the Attendance Register as well as the report given by the Principal that the petitioner has worked from 5.5.1998 to 31.3.2003, the writ petition is allowed and a direction is given to the respondents to allow the petitioner to join in pursuance to the appointment letter (Annexure P3) within a period of two months. 3.8.2011 ( RITU BAHRI ) Rupi JUDGE