JUDGMENT

Dinesh Mehta, J. - By way of present writ petition, the petitioner has challenged exclusion of her name from the category of divorcee .

2. The facts apropos the case in hands are that the petitioner vied for the post of Community Health Officer, pursuant to recruitment notification dated 31.08.2020.

3. At the time of submitting her application form on 16.09.2020, the petitioner showed herself to be a divorcee and staked her claim against the seats reserved for divorcee .

4. The basis of claiming herself to be a divorcee was, an agreement said to have been executed between the petitioner and her husband on 08.04.2017.

5. Mr. Solanki, learned counsel for the petitioner submitted that respondents have erred in not considering petitioner as a divorcee inasmuch as the petitioner had produced before the respondents a copy of the agreement dated 08.04.2017, whereby her marriage has been dissolved with mutual consent.

6. It was also submitted by Mr. Solanki that by the time of document verification, petitioner had filed an application for mutual divorce under Section 13-B of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 (for short, the Act of 1955 ) and during the course of verification of documents, sh