IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH ****

CWP No.11882 of 2024 Date of Decision:07.02.2025 Satnam Singh .....Pe++oner Vs.

State of Punjab and ors. .....Respondents CORAM:- HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE DEEPAK GUPTA Present:- Mr. Sanjeev Kumar Bawa, Advocate for the pe oner.

Mr. Surya Kumar, AAG, Punjab ***

DEEPAK GUPTA, J.

By way of this pe on filed under Ar cles 226/227 of the Cons tu on of India, pe oner prays for issuance of a writ in the nature of cer orari for quashing the selec on dated 18.09.2015 (Annexure P.12), vide which respondents No.3 to 15 have been selected for the post of Smith duly adver sed by the respondent on contract basis.

2 It is contended that pursuant to the adver sement Annexure P.1, pe oner applied for the post of Smith and was issued iden ty card. He appeared in the wri:en examina on and passed the same. He was put in the selected roll numbers as per Annexure P5. The eligible candidates were then called for the examina on of physical / prac cal test but name of the pe oner did not figure therein as per Annexure P6. As pe oner came to know about the said fact, he approached the respondents but they did not give any sa sfactory reply. Pe oner approached t