Mumbai: The Bombay High Court has come to the aid of two 21-year-olds who were disqualified from recruitment in the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) after they fell short of the prescribed height limit by a fraction of a centimetre.

The court directed the authorities to extend the benefit of relaxation available under the 2015 Revised Uniform Guidelines, noting that the disqualification was “illegal and arbitrary.”

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A division bench of Justices Ravindra Ghuge and Ashwin Bhobe was hearing petitions filed by Sushant Sarode from Malegaon and Sahil Patil from Kolhapur, who were barred from proceeding to the Detailed Medical Examination (DME) stage. Both had applied for posts of Constable (General Duty) in CAPF and SSF, Rifleman (GD) in Ass

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