POOJA SACHDEVA Vs. HARYANA VIDHAN SABHA

JUDGEMENT

(1.) This order shall dispose of three petitions bearing No. CWP-14218-2014, CWP-25829-2014 and CWP-16862-2014 having identical issue. However for the sake of convenience, the facts are being extracted from CWP-14218-2014.

(2.) The petitioners are seeking quashing of the result/selection of the private respondents who have been selected to the posts of Clerks on the ground of favoritism and partiality.

(3.) The brief facts of the case are that 12 posts of Clerks were advertised as per the advertisement dated 16.04.2013 (Annexure P-3). The petitioners have given details of their qualification as per the certificates attached alongwith writ petition (Annexure P-1 and Annexure P-2 colly). The certificates of petitioner No. 1, who is M.A and M.Phil are attached as Annexure P-1 collectively and the certificates of petitioner No. 2, who is M.B.A. with 76% marks are attached as Annexure P-2 collectively. Vide letters dated 17.01.2014 (Annexure P-4 colly), the petitioners were called for interview on 05.02.2014 alongwith their documents i.e. original degrees, diplomas and certificates. As many as 2636 candidates appeared for interview as per the information sought under Right to Information Act, 2005 (in short 'RTI'). The final result was declared on 20.05.2014 as per the RTI information given with respect to list of selected candidates (Annexure P-6). Against 12 posts of Clerks, 27 candidates have been selected. 22 persons selected were already working on 89 days basis and most of them were only graduates and undergraduates. Further out of the selected candidates, 17 candidates belonged to Gannuar in District Sonepat which happened to be the Constituency of the Speaker and 5 candidates were from the Beri Constituency in District Jhajjar. Three candidates were from Pehowa Constituency. One was from Kaithal, who was close relative of Sh. Manohar Lal, Personal Assistant to Shri Harmohinder Singh Chattha, former Speaker, now Finance Minister in Government of Haryana, while one candidate was from District Karnal where Shri Kuldeep Sharma, incumbent Speaker resided.