WRIT - A No. 3138 of 2025 at Allahabad

Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:36182 Court No. - 4 Case :- WRIT - A No. - 3138 of 2025 Petitioner :- Waseem Ahmad Respondent :- The State Of U.P. And 6 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Atipriya Gautam,Mohammad Fahad,Rishabh Kesarwani Counsel for Respondent :- C.S.C. Hon'ble Ajit Kumar,J. 1. Heard Sri Vijay Gautam, learned Senior Advocate assisted by Sri Anura Singh, learned counsel for the petitioner and learned Standing Counsel for the State. 2. By means of this petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, the petitioner is seeking writ of mandamus to command the respondent authority to treat the petitioner as candidate belonging to OBC (Male) category under the U.P. Police Radio Cadre Assistant Operator (AO) Recruitment, 2022 which has been held pursuant to the advertisement dated 06.01.2022. 3. It is submitted that the petitioner though had applied for the caste certificate in the State of U.P. but he has been provided caste certificate on a format prescribed for the Central Government services instead of State Government services. However, he contends that there is no dispute as to the caste of the petitioner falling in OBC category that stands recognized bot