IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH

112+296 CWP-24608-2023 (O&M)

Date of Decision:01.04.2025 Kamaljeet Singh and others …Petitioners Versus State of Haryana and others …Respondents With

Sr. No.	Case No.	Petitioner(s)	Respondent(s)
2.	CWP-25538-2023	Deepak Bamber	State of Haryana and others
3.	CWP-25597-2023	All India Enquity Forum and others	State of Haryana and others
4.	CWP-28813-2023	Shamsher Singh and others	State of Haryana and others
5.	CWP-28252-2023	Narender Singh and others	State of Haryana and others
6.	CWP-2751-2024 (O&M)	Vijay Singh and another	State of Haryana and another
7.	CWP-1745-2024	Bhajan Singh and others	State of Haryana and others
8.	CWP-1890-2024	Azad Singh and others	State of Haryana and another
9.	CWP-11762-2024 (O&M)	Vandana Arya and another	State of Haryana and others

CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE JAGMOHAN BANSAL Present: - Mr. Sunil K. Nehra, Advocate, Mr. Rahil Mahajan, Advocate, Mr. Robin Lohan, Advocate, Mr. Viren Nehra, Advocate, Mr. Arjun Dosanj, Advocate, Ms. Meghna Nehra, Advocate for the petitioner (in CWP-24608-2023 & CWP-25538-2023)

Mr. Virender Gill, Advocate for Mr. Jasbir Mor, Advocate for the petitioner (in CWP-1745-2024)

Mr. Dinesh Kumar Advocate and Mr. Dharamjit, Advocate for the petitioner (in CWP-28813-2023)

Mr. Satender Kumar, Advocate and Mr. Vinay Malik, Advocate for the petitioner (in CWP-11762-2024)

Mr. Saurabh Bhatia, Advocate, Mr. Manjot S. Khokhar, Advocate and Ms. Kuljinder S. Billing, Advocate for the petitioner(s)

(in CWP-25597-2023 & CWP-2751-2024)

Mr. Manoj Sharma, Advocate for the petitioner (in CWP-28252-2023)

Mr. Vishal Aggarwal, Advocate and Mr. Kritin Jain, Advocate for the petitioner (in CWP-1890-2024)

Ms. Shruti Jain Goyal, Senior Deputy Advocate General, Haryana Dr. K.S. Chauhan, Senior Advocate with Mr. C.R. Narwal, Advocate, Mr. Sunil Kumar, Advocate, Mr. Ajit Kumar Ekka, Advocate, Mr. Abhishek Chauhan, Advocate, Mr. Mukesh Kumar Verma, Advocate, and Mr. Dharampal Saini, Advocate for respondent Nos.4 & 5 (in CWP-24608-2023 and for applicant(s) in CM-20015-CWP-

2023)

Mr. Nikhil Sharma, Advocate for Mr. Rajvir Singh Sihag, Advocate for respondent No.2 (in CWP-2751-2024)

Mr. A.S. Virk, Advocate for respondents No.4 and 5 in CWP-28252-2023 Mr. Deepam Raghav, Advocate for applicant in CM-12746-CWP-2024 in CWP-24608-2023 Mr. Abhishek K. Premi, Advocate for applicants (in CM-10398-CWP-2024 in CWP-24608-2023).

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JAGMOHAN BANSAL, J. (Oral)

1. By this common order, the above-noted petitions are hereby adjudicated as issues involved and prayers sought in all the petitions are common. For the sake of convenience and with the consent of parties, the facts are borrowed from CWP No.24608 of 2023.

2. The petitioners through instant petition under Articles 226/227 of the Constitution of India are seeking setting aside of instruction dated

07.10.2023 (Annexure P-2).

By aforesaid instructions, the State Government has made provision for reservation in Group ‘A’ & ‘B’ posts for Scheduled Castes. For the ready reference, the impugned instructions are reproduced hereinbelow:

“No.22/56/2023-5HR-III HARYANA GOVERNMENT HUMAN RESOURCES DEPARTMENT (HUMAN RESOURCES-III BRANCH)

Dated Chandigarh, the 7th October, 2023 To

1. All the Administrative Secretaries to Government Haryana

2. All Heads of Departments in the State of Haryana.

3. All the Managing Directors of Boards/Corporations in the State of Haryana.

4. All the Divisional Commissioners in the State of Haryana. 5. All the District & Session Judges in the State of Haryana.

6. All the Deputy Commissioners in the State of Haryana.

7. The Registrars of all the Universities in the State of Haryana.

Subject Matter of backwardness and inadequacy of representation of Scheduled Castes in Promotion in Group A & B posts in State Government Services.

Sir/Madam, I am directed to invite your attention to the subject cited above and to say that keeping in view the principles laid dow

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