Ram Swaroop Moond v. State of Haryana and Ors.
Case brief
What is this about?
CWP No.8913 of 2004 (O&M), High Court of Punjab & Haryana, decided 21.05.2025; Ram Sawroop Moond and another v. State of Haryana and others; Deputy Director Agriculture direct recruitment; counting of experience before M.Sc. Agriculture qualification; Rule Appendix-B to Rule 7, Administrative Cadre (12 to 22); writ dismissed as otiose/academic; petitioners superannuated; no relief granted; bench: Sanjeev Prakash Sharma, J. (author) and Meenakshi I. Mehta, J.
What did the court decide?
Since the post was of direct recruitment and the petitioners have attained superannuation, the issue raised in the writ petition has become purely academic by afflux of time; no relief can be granted to the petitioners and the writ petition, having become otiose, is dismissed. The validity of Rule Appendix-B to Rule 7 was not adjudicated on merits. ¶19