SUNITA KUMARI vs STATE OF HARYANA AND OTHERS

CWP-26712-2023 -1- IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Serial No.258 CWP-26712-2023 Decided on:12.05.2026 Sunita Kumari . . . Petitioner Versus State of Haryana and others . . . Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE TRIBHUVAN DAHIYA Present: Mr. Sukhraj Singh Brar, Advocate for the petitioner. Ms. Rajni Gupta, Additional Advocate General, Haryana. TRIBHUVAN DAHIYA, J.(ORAL) The petition has been filed inter alia seeking a writ of certiorari quashing the order dated 25.08.2023, whereby the petitioner’s candidature for the post of Electrician Instructor Theory, category 23, against advertisement 12/2019 has been rejected. 2. Learned counsel for the petitioner contended that the ground of rejecting the petitioner’s candidature, that she had wrongly claimed five marks under the socio-economic criteria while applying for the post in question, was not in accordance with law laid down by the Supreme Court in Vashist Narayan Kumar v. The State of Bihar and others, 2024 AIR (Supreme Court) 248. The petitioner, being a married woman, had claimed the marks on the assumption that ‘family’ for her would be her in-laws family and none of that family members was in Government s