WRIT - A No. 14333 of 2025 at Allahabad

HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD WRIT - A No. - 14333 of 2025 Naushad Alam .....Petitioner(s) Versus Union Of India And 3 Others .....Respondent(s) Counsel for Petitioner(s) : Kiran Rani, Laloo Yadav Counsel for Respondent(s) : A.S.G.I., Sudarshan Singh Court No. - 4 HON'BLE AJIT KUMAR, J. Instruction placed today is taken on record. Heard Sri Laloo Yadav, learned counsel for the petitioner and Sri Sudarshan Singh, learned panel counsel for the respondents. By means of this petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution, petitioner has prayed for a writ of mandamus in the nature of certiorari to quash the order of Physical Standard Test (PST) exam dated 2nd September, 2025 on the ground that respondents have wrongly measured the height of the petitioner as on the same date while the height of the petitioner was initially recorded as 169.8 cms. and upon appeal being filed height of the petitioner was measured and got further reduced to 169.4 cms. It is contended that in previous selection held by the same respondent height of the petitioner was measured as 170.5 cms. In the circumstances, it is contended that height of the petitioner could not have been reduced by 1 cm in