PAWAN KUMAR vs STATE OF HARYANA AND OTHERS

IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH 216 CWP-19757-2025 Date of decision: May 15, 2026 PAWAN KUMAR ...Petitioner Versus STATE OF HARYANA AND OTHERS ...Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE TRIBHUVAN DAHIYA Present: Mr. Jasbir Mor, Advocate for the petitioner. Mr. Aakash Singla, Additional Advocate General, Haryana. Mr. Kanwal Goyal, Advocate with Ms. Sheena Dahiya, Advocate and Ms. Komal Klana, Advocate for respondent no.3-HPSC. TRIBHUVAN DAHIYA, J. (ORAL) The petition has been filed inter alia seeking a direction to the respondents to consider the petitioner’s candidature for the post of Assistant Professor (History) against advertisement 53/2024 in General Dependents of Ex-Servicemen (DESM) category. 2. Pursuant to the last order dated 27.04.2026, learned counsel for the Commission has produced petitioner’s provisional selection result dated 06.05.2026, which is retained on the case file as Annexure ‘A’. It shows he has scored marks less than the cut-off marks in General category. Accordingly, he cannot be considered for selection. It is also informed by learned counsel that all the posts reserved for General ESM category have been filled up by the candidates belo