VASHIST NARAYAN KUMAR Vs. STATE OF BIHAR

JUDGEMENT

(1.) Leave granted.

(2.) Vashist Narayan Kumar (the appellant) hails from a small village named Dheodha in Bihar. He belongs to the downtrodden segment of the society. He aspired to become a Police Constable and had applied for the said post under the reserved category. Having possessed the eligibility criteria of being an intermediate (10+2 pass), he also cleared the written examination and the Physical Eligibility Test.

(3.) The appellant submitted his educational certificates/mark sheet as well as his caste certificate for document verification. On 11/6/2018, the final results reflected him as having failed. The only reason was that, while in the application form uploaded online, his date of birth was shown as 8/12/1997, in the school mark sheet, his date of birth was reflected as 18/12/1997.