IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH

130 CWP-27673-2025 Decided On: 17.09.2025 HARIKESH ....PETITIONER(s)

Versus STATE OF HARYANA AND OTHERS ....RESPONDENT(s)

CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE TRIBHUVAN DAHIYA Present: Mr. R. S. Dhull, Advocate with Mr. Navnit Sharma, Advocate for the petitioner.

Ms. Tanushree Gupta, Senior Deputy Advocate General, Haryana.

Ms. Harpriya Khaneka, Advocate for respondent no.3/HPSC.

TRIBHUVAN DAHIYA J.(Oral)

The petition has been filed, inter alia, seeking a writ of certiorari quashing condition 2(d) of the advertisement 42 to 67 of 2024, dated 02.08.2024, which prescribes that the number of candidates to be called for interview will be two times of the number of advertised posts, provided they secure atleast thirty-five per cent marks; and quashing of the announcement/schedule dated 05.09.2025, Annexure P-3, has also been sought, whereby the petitioner stands excluded on failing to clear the Subject Knowledge Test with requisite number of marks.

2. Learned counsel for the petitioner contends that he is physically challenged, suffering from forty per cent permanent disability being visually impaired, as established on the basis of his certificate da