GAHC010272732025

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THE GAUHATI HIGH COURT

(HIGH COURT OF ASSAM, NAGALAND, MIZORAM AND ARUNACHAL PRADESH)

Case No. : WP(C)/7192/2025

SACHIN CHAUHAN

SON OF SRI OKIL CHAUHAN, RESIDENT OF VILLAGE-BOGORIGHAT NO. 2,

PO- JENGKHA,P.S- KHERONI, DIST- WEST KARBI ANGLONG, ASSAM..

VERSUS

THE UNION OF INDIA

REPRESENTED BY THE COMMISSIONER SECRETARY TO THE

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA, MINISTRY OF HOME AFFAIRS, NEW DELHI,

INDIA

2:THE DIRECTOR GENERAL

CRPF (RECRUITMENT BRANCH)

EAST BLOCK 7 LEVEL 4 SECTOR 01 R K PURAM NEW DELHI 110066

3:THE SPECIAL DIRECTOR GENERAL OF POLICE

NORTH EAST ZONE CRPF 9TH MILE AMERIGOG GUWAHATI DIST

KAMRUP METRO ASSAM

4:THE DEPUTY DIRECTOR GENERAL OF CRPF

9TH MILE AMERIGOG GUWAHATI

CENTRE-IN CHARGE-CUM

SUPERVISOR/ APPELLATE AUTHORITY

PST/PET BOARD RECRUITMENT OF CT/GD-2025

GROUP CENTRE

CRPF

GUWAHATI DIST-KAMRUP METRO

ASSAM.

5:THE PRESIDING OFFICER

PST/PET BOARD RECRUITMENT OF CT/GD-2025 GROUP CENTRE CRPF GUWAHATI DIST-KAMRUP METRO ASSAM Advocate for the Petitioner : MR. R BORA, MS R MEDHI Advocate for the Respondent : DY.S.G.I., BEFORE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SOUMITRA SAIKIA

ORDER

15.12.2025 Heard Mr. R Bora, learned counsel for the petitioner. Also heard Ms. S Baruah, learned CGC for the respondents.

2. The brief fact of this case is that petitioners applied and participated for recruitment to the post of Constable (GD) in the CAPF SSF, Rifleman (GD) in Assam Rifles and Sepoy in NCB Examination for the year 2025. According to the petitioner, his height was measured and found to be 164.6 cm which is lesser than the minimum height required for Male candidate is 165 CM. Accordingly, by filing this writ petition the petitioner has prayed for a direction to allow him to participate in the subsequent stages of the recruitment process by treating him as qualified with regards to the height by rounding off fraction of centimeter in the light of the Office Memorandum dated 20.05.2015, particularly Clause 2(d).

3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that as per Clause 2(d) of the Office Memorandum dated 20.05.2015, while measuring height, fraction of cm less than 0.5 will be ignored and 0.5 cm & more will be rounded off to the next higher cm. However, the respondents/PST Board, in most illegal and arbitrary manner, have rejected the candidature of the petitioner in contravention of the said Clause 2(d) of the Office Memorandum dated 20.05.2015, despite they being qualified having requisite height of above 164.5 cm, which ought to have been rounded off to 165 cm. Learned counsel for the petitioner further submits that a Coordinate Bench of this Court has already disposed of a case similar in nature being WP(C) No.6436/2025 by order dated 02.12.2025 and prays that the present writ petition can also be disposed of in the same line.

4. Ms. S. Baruah, learned Central Government Counsels for the respondents, submit that the benefit provided in Clause 2(d) of the Office Memorandum dated 20.05.2015 is to be conferred only at the stage of Detailed Medical Examination and not during the Physical Standard Test. They have submitted that a bare reading of Clause 2(d) makes it explicitly clear that the relaxation is confined exclusively to the medical examination stage. It is further submitted that the benefit under Clause 2(d) may be extended only in cases where a candidate is found to be overweight and it is the Medical Board alone that is empowered to accord such benefit. Therefore, according to the learned counsels, since the petitioners’ heights have been measured by the PST Board as 164.5 cm, 164.6 cm, 164.7 cm, and 164.8 cm respectively and the minimum required height is 165 cm, they have been rightly disqualified at the PST stage and consequently denied progression to the Detailed Medical Examination.

5. I have considered the submissions of learned counsel for the parties and also perused the materials available on record along with the judgment passed on 02.12.2025 by the Coordinate Bench of this Court passed in WP(C)

No. 6436/2025 and other similar matter