AJIT KUMAR MODAK Vs. UNION OF INDIA

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THE petitioner's candidature is rejected as the petitioner did not submit the 'caste certificate' in the prescribed format. Admittedly the petitioner is allowed to participate in the recruitment process and has emerged successful in all tiers. It is only at the time of verification of the documents, more particularly the 'caste certificate' issued by the competent authority, as the petitioner offered his candidature as Other Backward Classes (OBC) candidate, the authorities have denied the appointment on the above ground.

(2.) THE identical and similar plea was taken in case of Mohd. Mohiuddin vs. Union of India & Another,, (WPCT 508 of 2013), and the Division Bench held that the authority should not have rejected the candidature of the candidate, even after declaring him as qualified candidate in the written examination and physical test solely on the ground that the OBC certificate was not in a proper format. It would be apt to quote the excerpts from the judgment of the Division Bench of this Court rendered in the above noted case, which runs thus:

(3.) THE present case is not the case of such nature. The caste certificate, which is one of the requisite conditions, was produced before the authority, but according to the authority the same is not in prescribed format.