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CAT overrules denial of job to youth by Delhi Govt.

Due to a typing error on part of the transport authority in Haryana

New Delhi: The Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) has ordered the Delhi Government to appoint a youth who was denied a job by it due to a typographical error on part of the transport authority in Haryana which had issued his driving licence.

A bench of the CAT, comprising Justice M. Ramachandran and member Neena Ranjan, directed the Delhi Fire Service (DFS) to issue appointment order with notional seniority to petitioner Dharmender and held that a mistake committed by the office of the Gurgaon Transport Authority (GTA) should not have adversely affected an innocent citizen.

“We are fortified therefore in assuming that the driving licence numbered 1596 of 1998 had been issued by the Faridabad Transport Authority in favour of the applicant alone and there was no fraud played by him and the error in the renewal certificate was due to an omission in the office of the Gurgaon Transport Authority,” the Tribunal observed.

The petitioner had applied for the post of Fire Operator with the DFS on May 24, 1999 submitting that he was fully eligible for the job and possessed the driving licence of heavy vehicles issued by the Faridabad Transport Authority.

DFS had withheld the result of Dharmender after his licence was not verified by the Faridabad Transport Authority which was originally issued by it and later renewed by the Gurgaon Transport Authority.

The license issued in Faridabad was later submitted in Gurgaon for renewal and a fresh one was issued to him, the petitioner said.

The Gurgaon Transport Authority, however, wrongly mentioned the old licence number instead of the new one.

When the DFS sent the licence to Gurgaon for verification, it was verified as correct but when it was sent to Faridabad, the officials there did not verify it as the old licence number mentioned was incorrect.

He later got the error corrected by the Gurgaon Transport Authority and requested for re-verification of the licence which was allegedly refused by the Government. Dharmender then moved an application in the CAT in 2003 which directed the DFS to reconsider his case after taking judicial note of the corrected driving licence number. -- PTI

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