AP HC to measure height of petitioners for SI selection

 Vijayawada: The Andhra Pradesh High Court would measure the height of applicants who lined up for the posts of police sub-inspectors.

This process would be undertaken in the premises of the court.

The high court meanwhile warned the petitioners that in case their allegations were found to be false with regard to height, it would impose a fine of 1 lakh on each petitioner.

A division bench of Justices G. Narendra and Nyapathi Vijay heard the petition here on Friday. This related to the recent declaration of several candidates as ineligible on the ground of their height even as they had qualified in the earlier recruitment process.

Petitioner A Durga Prasad along with 23 others filed the petition stating that they were declared eligible in terms of their height in the SI selections vis-a-vis the notification issued in 2018. But in the recent taking of measurements of their chest and height manually based on the court direction, they were declared ineligible, the petitioners noted.

The single judge bench of Ramakrishna Prasad issued an interim order not to declare results pertaining to the written test conducted for selection of SIs held last month until the issue of further orders.

However, the AP government and the AP Police Recruitment Board challenged it in the court.

In the course of the hearing before the two- judge bench, government pleader GVS Kishre Kumar submitted that though they had taken measurements of the petitioners manually as per directions of the court, they failed to become eligible for the test in terms of their height.

Petitioners’ counsel Jada Sravan Kumar asked how the petitioners who qualified in the height issue in 2018 could become ineligible when their measurements were taken recently as per the new notification. After hearing both the parties, the court adjourned the case to Nov. 29.