112-A IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Date of Decision: 29th January 2026 SUNIL MALIK .…...Petitioner(s)

V/s STATE OF HARYANA AND OTHERS …....Respondent(s)

CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE ASHWANI KUMAR MISHRA HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE ROHIT KAPOOR Present Mr. Pankaj Middha, Addl. A.G., Haryana, for the applicant-respondents.

Mr. Aditya Yadav, Advocate, and Mr. Atul Bhardwaj, Advocate, for the non-applicant/petitioner.

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ASHWANI KUMAR MISHRA, J. (Oral)

CM-73-CWP-2026 Application is allowed and the applicants-respondents are exempted from filing certified/true typed copies of the documents mentioned in the application.

CM-74-CWP-2026 Application is allowed as prayed for.

CM-75-CWP-2026

1. This application is filed by the State of Haryana seeking modification of the order dated 01.09.2025 passed by this Court in CWP-25677-2025 contending that the facts of the present case are not covered by the adjudication in CWP-16904-2021 titled as Neeraj Vs. State of Haryana and Another inasmuch as the challenge to the advertisement herein has been made after six years and there is no proper explanation for the latches occasioned in filing of the Writ Petition. It is also stated that though