WRIT - A No. 1009 of 2025 at Allahabad

Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:32620 Court No. - 6 Case :- WRIT - A No. - 1009 of 2025 Petitioner :- Praveen Kashyap Respondent :- State Of U.P. And 3 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Abou Sofian Usmani Counsel for Respondent :- C.S.C. Hon'ble Neeraj Tiwari,J. 1. Heard learned counsel for petitioner and Sri Manish Goyal, learned Additional Advocate General assisted by Sri P.K. Srivastava, learned Additional Chief Standing Counsel for State. 2. Brief facts of the case is that pursuant to the advertisement dated 23.06.2023 issued by U.P. Police Recruitment and Promotion Board, Lucknow for the post of Constable, petitioner has appeared in written examination. Being declared successful in written examination, he has been permitted to appear in physical standard test, in which his height was found 167.8 centimeter whereas minimum required height for male candidate is 168 centimeter. 3. It is a case of petitioner that height of petitioner was not properly measured and considering this fact, this Court vide order dated 04.02.2025 had directed for re-measurement of height of petitioner by a Medical Board. 4. On 05.03.2025, learned Additional Chief Standing Counsel has produced sealed cove