JUDGMENT :

Hima Kohli, J.

1. This appeal is directed against the judgment dated 14.10.2019, passed by the learned Single Judge in W.P.No.15675 of 2019, preferred by the appellants/petitioners.

2. The parties are hereinafter referred to, as they were arrayed before the learned Single Judge.

3. The relief sought for in the writ petition is as under:

“… the High Court may be pleased to issue a Writ, Order or Direction more particularly one in the nature of Writ of Mandamus declaring the action of the Respondents in not selection the Petitioners on the basis of their relative merit in the Recruitment to the Post Code No.12 – Stipendary Cadet Trainee Reserve Sub-Inspector of Police (AR) (Men and Women) notified vide Recruitment Notification Rc.No.89/Rect/Admn-I/2018 dated 31.05.2018 by application of non-transparent, alleged normalized marks referred to in the Rule 18 (C) (iv) of the Recruitment Notification resulting in practicing gender discrimination as violative of Article 14 read with 15(1) of the Constitution of India as illegal and without jurisdiction and consequently set aside the “Normalised Marks” merit list of and direct the Respondents to re-evaluate and publish the merit list o