JUDGMENT :

AJAY MOHAN GOEL, J.

1. By way of this petition, the petitioner has prayed for the following reliefs:

“(i) That a writ of certioreri may kindly be issued quashing the appointment of respondents No. 5 and 6.

(ii) That a writ of Mandamus may kindly be issued to the respondents to appoint the petitioner to the post of Language Teacher in District Mandi, H.P.”

2. The grievance, with which the present petition was filed by the petitioner, was that respondent/Department in terms of advertisement dated 24.12.2013 (Annexure P9), invited applications to fill up the posts of Language Teachers in various schools in District Mandi, H.P. and in terms thereof, the recruitment was to be made on batch-wise basis and counseling for this purpose was fixed for 06.01.2014, at 10.00 a.m. in the office of Deputy Director, Education, Mandi, District Mandi, H.P. According to the petitioner, the advertisement was not in knowledge of the petitioner and she came to know about the same only on 10.02.2014 and thereafter, she made representations to respondent No. 3 to consider her also for interview for the post of Language Teacher in view of the fact that the results for interview dated 06.01.2014 had no