Bhaskar Jyoti Gogoi – Appellant
Versus
Oil and Natural Gas Company Ltd. – Respondent
ORDER :
1. Heard Mr. H. Das, learned counsel for the petitioner and Mr. B.K. Das, learned Standing Counsel for the respondents.
2. The petitioner is an ex-serviceman, who had retired from Indian Navy. The petitioner holds qualification of Petty Officer Electrical and Power Rank. It is projected that the said qualification is equivalent to Electrical Competency Certificate of Industrial Training Institute (ITI for short). An advertisement No. 01/2019 was issued by the respondent authority for filling up 25 (twenty five) posts, out of the same, 5 (five) posts are reserved for Ex-Servicemen, which appeared at S. No. B(19) of the said advertisement. Being qualified, the petitioner has submitted his candidature online and after having satisfied with the qualification, admit card/call letter was issued by the respondents directing the petitioner to appear on 18.06.2019 for Computer Based Test (CBT) by the respondent authority. The respondent authority had sent an email to the petitioner to upload the required documents and in response, the petitioner, on the same day, i.e. 26.11.2019 had uploaded all the documents as sought for and was waiting for document verification and performance of s
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