210 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Date of decision: 22.08.2025 Shubham Kumar and another ....Petitioners Versus The State of Haryana and others ...Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE HARPREET SINGH BRAR Present: Mr. Jagbir Malik, Advocate for the petitioners.

Mr. Piyush Khanna, Addl.A.G., Haryana.

Mr. Balvinder Sangwan, Advocate and Mr. Krishna Maurya, Advocate for respondent No.2.

Mr. Sandeep Chhabra, Advocate for respondent No.4-HSIIDC.

HARPREET SINGH BRAR, J. (ORAL)

1. The present writ petition has been preferred under Article 226 of the Constitution of India seeking issuance of writ in the nature of certiorari for setting aside of the result dated 18.02.2025 (Annexure P-15/A) published by the Haryana Public Service Commission (HPSC) for the post of Manager (Utility) in Haryana State Industrial and Infrastructure Development Corporation (HSIIDC) as well as impugned order dated 27.02.2025 (Annexure P-16) to the extent of withdrawal of the recommendation of the petitioners for the said post.

FACTUAL BACKGROUND

2. Briefly, the facts are that the HPSC published an Advertisement bearing No.1 of 2018 for various posts in various departments, including 07 posts for