IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.14529 of 2011 Date of Decision: August 10, 2011 Parduman Kumar ...Petitioner Versus State of Haryana & others ...Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE RANJIT SINGH 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? Present: Mr.Parminder Singh, Advocate, for the petitioner. ***** RANJIT SINGH, J. The petitioner was appointed as Steno on 1.3.1977 and was promoted as Assistant in the year 2002. He was promoted as Excise Inspector on 11.1.2007. As per the condition of service, the petitioner was required to pass a departmental examination. The condition of granting exemption from appearing in the departmental examination has been done away. The petitioner could not qualify in the departmental examination and accordingly has been reverted. Counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner had filed a representation for availing mercy chance to appear in the examination of left over subject on 3.8.2010. That representation is still pending and during that period, he was served a show cause notice on 4.8.2011 and has now been reverted vide order dated 30.6.2011. Counsel says that the petitioner had sought opportunity of personal hearing, which, he could not avail because of being in the hospital. The petitioner accordingly has filed this writ petition. Civil Writ Petition No.14529 of 2011 :2: Once the petitioner has not complied with the condition of service, the reversion order will not suffer from any arbitrariness or illegality. To grant or not grant mercy chance would be a discretion of the respondents. The court will hardly have any jurisdiction to interfere in such like matters. No merit in the writ petition. The same is accordingly dismissed. August 10, 2011 ( RANJIT SINGH ) ramesh JUDGE