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2022 Supreme(P&H) 1578

ANIL KSHETARPAL
Rashpal Singh – Appellant
Versus
State of Punjab – Respondent


Advocates appeared:
Mr. Rahul Vijay Singh Chugh, Advocate, Mr. Sandeep Kumar, Advocate, for the Appellant; Mr. Vikas Mohan Gupta, Additional Advocate General, Punjab, for the Respondent.

JUDGMENT

Anil Kshetarpal, J. (Oral) - This order shall dispose of Civil Writ Petition No.1058 of 2022 and Civil Writ Petition No.534 of 2022. The petitioner prays for issuance of a writ in the nature of mandamus to direct the official respondents to remeasure the petitioner's physical height and, thereafter, allow him to participate in the interview and offer him a letter of appointment. The petitioner applied for the post of Male Constable in the District Police Cadre & Armed Police Cadre, pursuant to the recruitment notice dated 31.05.2016. The present writ petition has been filed on 17.01.2022.

2. The learned counsel representing the petitioner contends that the various writ petitions were filed in the High Court and vide an interim order dated 25.04.2018, the Court passed an order. The operative part of the order is extracted as under:-

    'Vide order dated 23.03.2018, this Court directed the State for carrying out re-measurement on all the aggrieved petitioners. In pursuance of the order, a schedule was put on the official website and remeasurement upon 36 number of candidates indicated in the chart supplied during the course of hearing, which is taken on record as Mark 'A', were ca

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