JUDGMENT :

RAJIV SAHAI ENDLAW, J.

CM No.16512/2021 (for exemption)

1. Allowed, subject to just exceptions and as per extant Rules.

2. The application is disposed of.

W.P.(C) No.5353/2021

3. The petitioner was a candidate for admission to 150th (DE) Course of the Indian Military Academy, Dehradun, pursuant to the Combined Defence Services Examination-I, 2020, of which notification was issued on 30th October, 2019.

4. It is the case of the petitioner, (i) that his name figured in the list of 50 candidates selected/qualified for admission to the 100 seats; (ii) however in the examination by the Special Medical Board (SMB) at Allahabad, conducted on 16th October, 2020, the petitioner was declared "unfit", for the reason of suffering from (a) Acute Rhinosinusitis, (b) Flat Feet and (c) Hallux Valgus (Left); (iii) that the petitioner applied for and was granted examination by the Appeal Medical Board (AMB) at Delhi on 26th November, 2020;

(iv) however the AMB also declared the petitioner "unfit" for the reason of "hallux valgus with 1st metatarsophalangeal clinical angle more than 20and callosity and bunion (l) foot and hallux interphalangeus";

(v) that the petitioner sought review examination by