IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Date of Decision: February 09, 2026 Ashwani Kumar .....Petitioner VERSUS State of Haryana and others ..Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE HARPREET SINGH BRAR Present : Mr. Sanchit Punia, Advocate for the petitioner.

Mr. Piyush Khanna, Addl. AG, Haryana.

Mr. Vikrant Pamboo, Advocate for respondents No.2 and 3.

HARPREET SINGH BRAR, J. (Oral)

1. The present writ petition has been filed under Article 226/227 of the Constitution of India for issuance of an appropriate writ or order in the nature of certiorari for quashing the impugned letter dated 02.01.2026 (Annexure P-5) whereby the tentative ranking list of Engineering Subordinate for promotion to the post of Assistant Engineer/Electrical under 12.5% quota has been prepared in complete violation of judgment dated 09.08.2018 passed by this Court in LPA-1515-2015, titled as Sukhdev Singh and others Versus Haryana Power Generation Corporation Limited and others (Annexure P-3) and for quashing the impugned action of respondents whereby despite availability of 12 posts and eligible engineering subordinate including petitioner for promotion to the post of Assistant Engineer/Electrical