PRASHANT KUMAR vs UNION OF INDIA THROUGH SECRETARY & ORS.

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$~50 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI Date of decision: 12.03.2025 + W.P.(C) 3203/2025 PRASHANT KUMAR .....Petitioner Through: Ms.Aditi Gupta, Adv. (DHCLSC) versus UNION OF INDIA THROUGH SECRETARY & ORS. .....Respondents Through: Ms.Manisha Agrawal Narain, CGSC with Mr.Aakash Meena, Mr.Sandeep Singh Somaria, Mr.Nipun Jain, Advs. for R-1 & R-2 SI/CISF Devendra, SI/CISF Prahlad and SI/CISF Amit CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE NAVIN CHAWLA HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE HARISH VAIDYANATHAN SHANKAR NAVIN CHAWLA, J. (ORAL) CM APPL. 14938/2025 1. Allowed, subject to all just exceptions. W.P.(C) 3203/2025 & CM APPL. 14937/2025 2. On the oral prayer made by the learned counsel for the respondents, the Border Security Force, through its Director General, is made a party-respondent to the present petition. 3. Let an amended Memo of Parties be filed by the petitioner during the course of the day. 4. This petition has been filed by the petitioner, challenging the Signature Not Verified Digitally Signed W.P.(C) 3203/2025 Page 1 of 4 By:RENUKA NEGI Signing Date:12.03.2025 20:39:33 result of his Physical Standard Test (PST) dated 24.10.2024, basis which the petitioner has been declared ‘Unfit’ for appointment to the post of Sub-Inspector in Delhi Police and Central Armed Police Forces Examination-2024 on the ground of his height being 169.5 cms, that is, below the required 170 cms mark. 5. The learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the said Impugned Report is liable to be quashed, inasmuch as, the petitioner in the earlier rounds of selection for the same post, that is, in 2020, was declared qualified in the PST by a Report dated 18.08.2021; in the selection process for the year 2022 for the said post, his height was measured as 170 cms and he was again declared as qualified in the