AMOL RATTAN SINGH, J.

The controversy in these petitions is as to whether the petitioners can be declared eligible for being considered for appointment to the posts of Post Graduate Teachers (Mathematics), in view of the fact that the results of the examinations for the degrees they were to obtain to make them eligible for the said posts, were not declared officially by the University concerned by the cut off date prescribed in the advertisement inviting applications, i.e. 12.10.2015.

The contention of the petitioners is that they had, however, all obtained the result confidentially from the respondent University, i.e. the Maharshi Dayanand University, upon making an application to that effect before the University and as per the said results, they all passed the examinations which made them eligible for being considered as candidates for the posts in question.

2. Mr. R.K. Malik, learned senior counsel appearing for the petitioners in CWP no.27021 of 2016, has referred to certificates issued by the University in respect of all the petitioners in CWP no.27021 of 2016 (Annexure P-13 to P-21), by which the University has certified that the petitioners had passed the B.Ed. exami