WRIT - A No. 3952 of 2025 at Allahabad

Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:45069 Court No. - 4 Case :- WRIT - A No. - 3952 of 2025 Petitioner :- Payal Malik Respondent :- State of U.P. and Another Counsel for Petitioner :- Atul Tej Kulshrestha,Vinay Singh Counsel for Respondent :- C.S.C.,Siddharth Singhal Hon'ble Ajit Kumar,J. Heard Sri Atul Tej Kulshrestha, learned counsel for the petitioner and Sri Akhilesh Maurya, learned Advocate holding brief of Sri Siddharth Singhal, learned counsel for the Commission. By means of this petition filed under 226 of the Constitution, petitioner has questioned the selection and final result declared by the respondents in respect of the selection for the post of Gram Vikas Adhikari. It is contended by learned counsel for the petitioner that last female OBC category candidate in horizontal reservation, who has been placed in select list, had scored 199.9930 marks whereas petitioner's candidature has been rejected even though she has also scored 199.993 normalized marks. It is contended that this information given by the Commission itself that showed that the petitioner's normalized marks matched with the last selected candidate. Upon a pointed query being made, Mr. Maurya, learned counsel a