Jammu, July 22: High Court of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh has directed the Union Government to appoint four Scheduled Caste candidates from Jammu and Kashmir who were denied recruitment as Constables in the Border Security Force (BSF) despite securing higher merit than selected candidates.
Justice Rajnesh Oswal, while allowing the writ petition filed , held that the petitioners had been wrongly excluded because the authorities treated the physical standard relaxations available to all residents of Jammu and Kashmir as if they were relaxations granted on account of their Scheduled Caste status.
The court ruled that this interpretation violated Articles 14 and 16 of the Constitution.
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