JUDGMENT

Navin Chawla, J. - The petition has been heard by way of video-conferencing.

1. This petition has been filed by the petitioner praying for a direction to the respondents to allow him to join at INS Chilka and consider him in further enrolment/recruitment process.

2. The petitioner had applied for the post of Navik (GD) in the Indian Coast Guard (in short, 'ICG') for the 02/2021 batch. The petitioner cleared the Stage - I recruitment process successfully. The petitioner was thereafter called for the Physical Fitness Test, which also he successfully completed. However, on examination of his documents, the Recruitment Board declared him as not qualified and failed him on account of some issue with his Caste Certificate. The petitioner states that thereafter he checked his application status online on the portal and the same showed 'Invalid Credentials'.

3. The petitioner claims that in the month of august 2021, his phone was damaged and he did not have money to get it repaired as he belongs to a humble background. For this reason, he was not able to check his result, which was declared and uploaded by the respondents on the website on 12.08.2021. The petitioner further claims tha