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7. On receipt of the notice from the Tribunal, the respondents have entered appearance and have filed their reply affidavit on 18.05.2012 through Sh. Amit Anand, learned counsel for the respondents. Shri Anand submitted that the applicant did not possess the essential qualification even on the last date of submission of application form. He drew our attention to the footnote of Sl. No.12 of the application form to submit that candidates should mention their educational qualification i.e. exam passed, code, faculty/discipline code and specialization/subject code. The applicant in his application form dated 30.04.2007 for the post of Linguist (French) in NTRO [against Code 12(a)] had stated result awaited which implied that he did not possess bachelor degree with diploma at the time of submission of his application. He would draw our attention to the copy of applicants application form to highlight that he misled the respondents showing at Annexure CA-2 that the year of passing was 2007. He passed his examination of BA (Hons.) Part-III on 26.06.2007 much after the last date of submission of application form. Further, he submitted that the applicant passed his DELF B-2 course which was for Independence User on 05.11.2007. At the time he submitted his application form, the applicant was in possession of French in DELF A-2 course which was for Basic User and was not meeting the requirement of the post in the light of essential qualification prescribed in the advertisement. It is stated that DELF A2 is equal to a certificate course but not equivalent to diploma, whereas DELF B2 is equivalent to diploma.