10. Here again, two features of the manner in which the petitioner’s result in his qualifying Class XII examination are recorded in the Eligibility Certificate become apparent. The first is that the Eligibility Certificate records the petitioner as having passed in Physics, though he obtained only 40 marks and had actually failed in the subject. The second is that, though the petitioner had jumbled up his marks, vis-avis the subject in which they were obtained, in his application for grant of Eligibility Certificate, there is no such mix-up in the marks as recorded in the Eligibility Certificate. Mr. Viraj Kadam, learned Counsel for the petitioner, contended that this was a “blessing in disguise” – to use the exact expression employed by him – as it indicated that, though the petitioner had mixed up his marks in his application for grant of the Eligibility Certificate, the fact that the said mix-up was not reflected in the marks as assigned to the various subjects on the body of the Eligibility Certificate indicated that the MCI had proceeded, not on the basis of the marks obtained by the petitioner against various subjects in Class XII as entered by him on his application, but by the actual Class XII AISSCE certificate issued by the CBSE.
