Candidate Not Responsible For State's Mistake In Issuing Experience Certificate, Cannot Be Denied Appointment: Rajasthan High Court

Rajasthan High Court observed that the State could not take advantage of its own wrong of issuing an incorrect experience certificate to the petitioner and then making her run from pillar to post, and rejecting her candidature for the post of Auxiliary Nurse & Midwives based on such mistake. The petitioner being eligible applied but did not find her name in the merit list since she was not awarded the bonus marks based on the experience certificate submitted by her on the ground that as per the dates mentioned in the certificate she did not have required experience of one year. It was the case of the petitioner that while issuing the certificate, the competent authority had correctly mentioned that she had worked for 385 days, however, owing to typographical error, wrong dates were mentioned in the certificate that made the total duration of work little less than one year. Rejecting the submission of the State, the Court highlighted that the mistake of mentioning wrong date was committed by the Chief Medical and Health Officer, Udaipur, while issuing the experience certificate, for which the petitioner could not be made responsible.