JUDGMENT

Physical Hearing/Hybrid Hearing]

Mini Pushkarna, J. (Oral)--The present writ petition has been filed with prayer for directions to the respondent authorities to grant admission to the petitioner in Sainik School, since the petitioner has qualified on merits in the All India Sainik School Entrance Examination, 2022. The petitioner has not been granted admission since the petitioner in the application form indicated his domicile as State of Rajasthan, while the documents submitted by the petitioner pertained to his domicile for the State of Uttar Pradesh. On account of the said discrepancy, admission was denied to the petitioner.

2. The facts in brief are that the respondent No.1 Sainik School Society issued public notice for conducting All India Sainik School Entrance Examination for the academic year 2022-2023 through its nodal agency, i.e., National Testing Agency (NTA) for Standard 6th and 9th. Pursuant to the advertisement, the petitioner applied for admission to Class 6th. In the application form as submitted by the petitioner, the petitioner in the column for State of domicile mentioned Rajasthan. Along with the application form, the candidates were required to upload