The Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court has issued an interim order directing the Uttar Pradesh Public Services Commission (U.P.P.S.C.) to manually accept the application of a blind candidate for the post of Assistant Prosecution Officer (APO) and allow him to participate in the selection process.

A division bench comprising Justice Shekhar B. Saraf and Justice Prashant Kumar passed the order in a writ petition challenging the exclusion of “blind” persons from the recruitment, which identified the post only for “low vision” candidates. The court observed that the petitioner had established a “prima facie case” and the “balance of convenience” lay in his favour. The petitioner’s participation will be subject to the final outcome of the writ petition.

Background of the Case

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