Chape Prajwal Laxmanrao vs Union of India

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2023 Supreme(Del) 3087

SANJEEV SACHDEVA, MANOJ JAIN
Chape Prajwal Laxmanrao – Appellant
Versus
Union of India – Respondent

Advocates appeared:
Mr. R.K. Ojha, Advocates, for the Appellant.
Ms. Uma Prasuna Bachu, Senior Panel Counsel with Mr. Ratan Negi from Coast Guard.
Mr. Hilal Haider, GP, for the Respondent.

JUDGMENT

Sanjeev Sachdeva, J. (Oral)

1. Petitioner seeks a direction to the respondents to allow petitioner to clear Stage II Examination Navik (GD) 01/2023.

2. Respondents had issued an advertisement for the recruitment, inter- alia, to the post of Navik (GD). Petitioner had applied for the said post and appeared in the examination and cleared the stage-I examination. When petitioner was called for Stage II of the examination i.e., document verification, the candidature of the petitioner was rejected on the ground that he had furnished false information and that the information furnished in the application form did not match the documents.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner has been failed in document verification on the ground that the certificate number mentioned in his class X certificate is wrong.

4. Learned counsel submits that the purpose of document verification is to ensure that forged and fabricated documents are not utilized for the purposes of enlisting. He submits that at time of filing of application form, on account of an error the certificate number of class XII mark sheet has been entered in class X mark sheet.

5. He submits that pet

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