ORDER :

(Ananda Sen, J.)

1. Defect No.2 pointed out by the Office regarding payment of authentication fee of Rs.15/-shall be removed in course of the day.

2. By filing this Letters Patent Appeal, the petitioner in W.P.(S) No.3500 of 2018, has assailed the order passed by learned Single Judge on 18.02.2021, whereby her writ petition, seeking to quash the notice dated 27.06.2018 by which the candidature of the petitioner was treated under the general category candidate, was dismissed.

3. Counsel for the appellant-petitioner submits that the petitioner belongs to BC I category (Backward Class I), but due to inadvertence in the application form for the Jharkhand Police Sub Inspector Competitive Examination 2017, she has wrongly filled her category to be that of BC II. The said error was a bonafide error, which would be evident from the fact that the Caste Certificate number, which she had mentioned in the application form, tallies with the actual caste certificate of the petitioner, which reflects that the petitioner is actually a BC I candidate. It is the case of the petitioner that she was declared a successful candidate, but when the documents were verified, her candidature was consid