CHIRAG vs STATE OF HARYANA AND OTHERS

113 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CWP-3955-2026 (O&M) Date of decision: 20.05.2026 Chirag ....Petitioner Versus State of Haryana and others ....Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE HARPREET SINGH BRAR Present: Mr. G.S. Gopera, Advocate for the petitioner. Mr. Piyush Khanna, Addl. A.G., Haryana for respondents No.1 to 4 and 8. Mr. Vikrant Pamboo, Advocate for respondents No.5 to 7. HARPREET SINGH BRAR J. (Oral) 1. The instant writ petition has been filed under Articles 226/227 of the Constitution of India, claiming the following reliefs:- (i) issue an appropriate writ, order or direction, particularly in the nature of Certiorari, for quashing the impugned letter dated 20.01.2026 (Annexure P-28), issued by respondent No.8, whereby the claim of the petitioner for issuance of sports gradation certificate has been rejected by wrongly applying the Sports Policy dated 12.01.2015 instead of the applicable Sports Policy dated 25.05.2018 and amended Sports Policy dated 15.11.2018 (Annexures P-6 and P-7), respectively; (ii) issue a writ in the nature of Mandamus directing respondents No.3 and 8 to issue the sports gradation certificate to the petitioner in terms of t