The Supreme Court pointed to the digital divide in India while using its extraordinary constitutional powers to revive a young man’s dream to join the police force.
Vashist Narayan Kumar, the youth in question, had missed the error in his date of birth made by an internet cafe operator who had helped him fill up his online application form for a police constable job in Bihar.
The State government cancelled his application because the form showed his birth date as December 8, 1997. However, the school certificate said it was December 18, 1997. The missing digit at the beginning of the birth date cost Mr. Kumar his chance to fulfill his ambition and made him run the round of courts for five long years.
