JUDGMENT :

HARPREET SINGH BRAR, J. 

1. Since identical questions of law and order are involved in all the aforesaid writ petitions, all are being decided by this common order. For the sake of brevity, the facts are being taken from CWP No.15563-2021.

2. The present petition has been filed under Article 226/227 of the Constitution of India, praying for the issuance of a writ in the nature of certiorari, for quashing the revised result dated 06.01.2020 (Annexure P-6) and recommendation dated 25.06.2020 (Annexure P-8) issued by respondent No.2-Commission to DHBVNL Hisar, whereby the result of the Lower Division Clerks (LDC) has been revised and against the name of the roll numbers of the petitioners, the remark has been given that 'Not having valid Computer Certificate', even when the petitioners possess certificates/degrees relevant to computer knowledge from recognized institutes/colleges as possessed by other selected candidates, which have since been verified even by the respective concerned authorities before appointing petitioners to the post of LDC vide letter dated 20.08.2020 (Annexure P-12). A further prayer has been made for directing the respondents to consider the computer certificates/degrees possessed by the petitioners for the post of LDC.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioners inter alia contends that an advertisement No.3/2016 was issued by the respondent No.2-Commission vide which 964 posts of LDC were advertised. Apart from educational qualification, the petitioners have also undergone computer courses from recognized institutes/colleges much prior to the cut-off date fixed in the advertisement on 04.04.2016. The petitioners, being eligible for the posts of LDC, applied for the same and accordingly roll numbers were issued to them. The petitioners competed for the post of LDC and remained successful in the selection process and the result was declared by the respondent No.2-Commission on 08.06.2019 and thereafter the petitioners were recommended for appointment and appointment letters were issued in the month of June 2019. The respondent- Nigam conducted the verification of credential certificates of the petitioners. Learned counsel for the petitioners further refers to letter dated 20.08.2020 (Annexure P-12) and submits that the Head of the concerned Institution has duly verified that the petitioners have cleared the Computer course to fulfill the eligibility requirement prior to the cut-off date and the duration of these courses is of 1 year. Suddenly, on 06.01.2020 a revised result was published by the respondent No.2-Commission in which the names of the petitioners in all the writ petitions were not included. The exercise was conducted in terms of order passed in CWP-17619-2019 titled as Jasmeet and others v. State of Haryana and others, in which the petitioners were never impleaded as parties. The respondents have revised the result and introduced a new ground to discard the computer certificates of the petitioners. The petitioners, aggrieved by the action of the respondent No.2-Commission, approached this Court and they are continuously working under the interim order passed by this Court on the posts of LDC for the last more than six years.

4. Per contra, learned State counsel as well as learned counsel for respondent No.4 submits that respondent No.2- Commission has not acted with any malice; rather the re- examination of the credentials of each candidate was done in terms of the directions issued by this Court in Jasmeet's case (supra) Petitioners' names were not included in the list of successful candidates as their computer certificates were found either deficient or were obtained after the cut-off date.

5. I have heard learned counsel for the parties and perused the record with their able assistance. It transpires that the petitioners have participated in the selection process in terms of advertisement no.3/2016 (Annexure P-1) under the category posts of LDC in which the essential qualification as set out