WRIT - A No. 6987 of 2025 at Allahabad

Court No. - 4 Case :- WRIT - A No. - 6987 of 2025 Petitioner :- Ankit Sharma Respondent :- The State Of U.P. And 5 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Gyan Chandra Shukla,Mohammad Fahad Counsel for Respondent :- C.S.C. Hon'ble Ajit Kumar,J. 1. Heard Sri Devesh Mishra, learned Advocate holding brief of Sri Gyan Chandra Shukla, learned counsel for the petitioner and learned Standing Counsel for the State. 2. By means of this petition filed under Article 226 of Constitution of India, the petitioner has prayed for a relief in the nature of writ of mandamus to command the respondents to treat the petitioner under EWS category candidate in U.P. Police Constable Recruitment, 2023. 3. It is contended by learned counsel for the petitioner that even though the petitioner due to mistake could not fill up the category of EWS in the original application form and accordingly, was not issued with an admit card in the said category but at the time of document verification he had pleaded that he belonged to EWS category and accordingly, his document verification was done taking into notice the EWS certificate and even physical standard test was held and consequently the physical efficiency test was al