JUDGMENT :

Mr. Sudesh Bansal, J. - In instant writ petition, candidature of petitioner for appointment on the post of Gramin Dak Sevak (GDS) as A.B.P.M has been rejected by the Superintendent of Post Office, Nagaur on 22.11.2022, at the time of documents verification, due to not tallying the name of Board of Secondary Education with the name of the Board filled by petitioner in his online application form. In the application form, petitioner had filled the name of Board of Secondary Education in State of Rajasthan as "National Institute of Open Schooling", whereas petitioner produced certificate of Secondary Examination-2019 at the time of documents verification from the Bihar Board of Open Schooling & Examination, Patna. The petitioner has prayed for allowing to rectify the error and consequently to set aside the letter dated 22.11.2022, rejecting his candidature and prayed to consider his candidature on merits.

2. The relevant facts in brief as reveal from the record are that the Government of India in the Department of Post, in order to engagement of 38,296 posts of GDS as BPM/ABPM/Dak Sevak initiated the process of recruitment through India Post GDS Online Engagement-Cycle IV vide notification (Ann.1). Online applications form were invited for which start date was 02.05.2022 and end date was 05.06.2022. The requisite educational qualification is Secondary School Examination pass certificate of 10th standard having passed in Mathematics, local language and English conducted by any recognized Board of School Education by the Government of India/State Governments/Union Territories in India. The selection criteria and communications of selection was indicated in the advertisement that selection will be made as per system generated merit list based on merit position of candidates and the preference of posts submitted. Provisionally selected candidate, while attending documents verification, has to come along with original documents. It was clearly indicated in Sub Clause (xiii) of Clause 21, that in case a candidate uploads wrong documents/information and unnecessary documents, candidature will be rejected. Petitioner submitted his online application form for Rajasthan Circle, Division Nagaur, but in respect of details about the name of State, Board and year of passing 10th Class, petitioner indicated the name of State as "Rajasthan" and name of Board as "National Institute of Open Schooling", whereas as a matter of fact, petitioner has passed secondary examination of 2019 from the State of Bihar, from Bihar Board of Open Schooling & Examination, Patna (Ann.2). According to marks obtained by petitioner in 10th Class, his name was shortlisted for verification of documents and scheduled date for documents verification of petitioner was fixed for 22.11.2022 before the Superintendent of Post Office, Nagaur. Petitioner states that at this stage, he came to know about the error committed by him, in mentioning the wrong name of Board of Secondary Examination, at the time of filling online application form, therefore, he got prepared an affidavit on 21.11.2022 stating on oath that the indication of the wrong name of Board is an accidental and inadvertent error on his part, which may be allowed to rectify. Petitioner appeared for documents verification on the scheduled date 22.11.2022 along with affidavit and original marks-sheet of Secondary Examination-2019, but since the name of Board configured in the software, not tallied with the name of Board of his mark-sheet of Secondary Education, therefore, due to such reason, the candidature of petitioner has been rejected.

3. Learned counsel for petitioner has argued that petitioner has uploaded photocopy of his mark-sheet of secondary examination-2019 from Bihar Board of Open Schooling & Examination, Patna with the submission of online application form and mistake in mentioning the name of Board in online application form is merely accidental and inadvertent for which petitioner sworn his aff