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iv) Any other appropriate order or direction as this Hon‟ble Court may deem fit and proper keeping in view the facts and circumstances of the present case and in the interest of justice.

v) Cost of the application may also be awarded in favour of the applicant."

2. Brief facts of the case as stated by the applicant are that in the year 2014, an advertisement No.SSC/NWR-03/2014 was published vide which applications from eligible candidates were invited for recruitment to the various posts including the post of Investigator Grade-II in Labour Bureau Chandigarh. Total number of vacancies were specified as 40 (with bifurcation as UR: 24, SC:4, ST:02 and OBC:10). 2.1 Applicant having Bachelor‟s Degree with Economics subject and B.Sc. Degree with Computer Science as Core subject. He applied for the post of Investigator Grade-II as a general category candidate and appeared in the written examination under Roll No.7440502911, which was held on 23.7.2016. As per result, the applicant obtained 88.75 marks and was called for document verification on 6/7.10.2016. During the selection process/document verification, he also submitted certificate of Diploma in Computer Application from ISO 9001:2008 certified Institute.

b) Candidates having any Degree or Higher Degree in Applied Fields of Computer/IT (including B.Tech with Computer Science/B.Sc. (Computer Science) BCA/MCA fulfill EQ-II.
c) Candidates who have studies computer/IT in their degree but computer/IT is not the core area, need an additional Certificate/Diploma in Computer Operation or Software.

2.3 According to the applicant, he is eligible as he has done B.Sc. Degree with subjects of Economics, Quantitative Techniques, Computer Science as Core subjects. He further alleged that he has also done Diploma in Computer Applications, which is done from ISO 9001:2008 Certified Institute. Even the University certifies that he has passed B.Sc. Degree (3 yeas duration) with Computer Science as one of the elective/core subject and he fulfills the eligibility criteria of Computer Literacy required in Govt. jobs. 2.4 However in the final Select List issued/published for General Category candidates dated 10.3.2017, the name of the applicant does not figure and the candidates lower in merit have been shown to be selected for the aforesaid post, but against the name of the applicant shown as rejected as he does not fulfill EQ-II.

4. Heard learned counsel for the parties and perused the pleading available on record.

5. Counsel for the applicant submitted that rejection of the candidature of the applicant by the respondents on the ground that he did not fulfill the EQ-II is not sustainable in the eyes of law, illegal, unjust and arbitrary as he having Bachelor‟s Degree with Economics subject and B.Sc. Degree with Computer Science as Core subject and also the fact that he also obtained Diploma in Computer Application from C- NIT an ISO 9001:2008 certified Institute.