P&H: Rejects Candidate’s Plea To Sit Agricultural Development Officer Subject Test

punjab-haryana
⚖️ Order Date: 14 Oct 2026
Headnotes

Recruitment — Screening Test — Candidate seeking provisional permission to appear in Subject Knowledge Test — As per revised result, petitioner did not fall within merit of the BC-B (Non-Creamy layer of Haryana) Category and had not qualified Screening Test — Petitioner therefore not qualified...


Facts of the Case

P&H: Rejects Candidate’s Plea To Sit Agricultural Development Officer Subject Test

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has dismissed a candidate’s plea to participate provisionally in the Subject Knowledge Test for Agricultural Development Officer posts in Haryana. Justice Nidhi Gupta held that the candidate had not qualified the Screening Test under the revised result and was therefore not eligible to take the next test.

The petitioner had applied for the post under the BC-B (Non-Creamy layer of Haryana) category. Her roll number appeared in the original Screening Test result, but the Haryana Public Service Commission later issued a revised result on October 5, 2026, withdrawing the earlier result.

She asked the...

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