MANJU RANI Vs. STATE OF HARYANA

JUDGEMENT

(1.) PETITIONER has approached this Court impugning the order of rejection of her candidature dated 16.11.2012 (Annexure P -7), where a ground has been taken that the experience certificate has not been countersigned by the Director, Secondary Education, Haryana. On 25.02.2014 when the case was taken up, following order was passed: -

(2.) COUNSEL for the petitioner has produced the original experience certificate of the petitioner as a Guest Teacher, which is duly countersigned by the Deputy Director, Co -ordination for Director, Secondary Education, Haryana on 30.07.2012. The said certificate has been handed over to the counsel for the State, who, on instructions from Mr.Har Gopal Goel, Assistant Director Co -ordination, states that the signatures of the Deputy Director, Co -ordination are that of the said official. The endorsement number as mentioned, i.e., 591/30 -7 is also mentioned correctly therein. The experience certificate is, thus, not disputed.

(3.) ON considering the submissions made by the counsel for the parties and on perusal of the original record, I am of the considered view that the petitioner had the duly countersigned experience certificate which is dated 30.07.2012 and accordingly had no reason as to why not to produce the same before the interview board at the time when the interview was held. In any case, the very purpose for getting the experience certificate duly countersigned by the competent authority was to determine the genuineness of the experience which the Guest Teacher had attained, which would entitle the said candidate to exemption from passing the HTET. Since the petitioner possessed the requisite experience certificate duly countersigned by the competent authority and that too prior to the cut off date, the rejection of the candidature of the petitioner cannot be said to be in accordance with law.