Lucknow, Nov. 6 -- The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court has directed the Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission (UPPSC) to accept the application of a visually challenged candidate who was excluded from the ongoing recruitment process for the post of assistant prosecution officer (APO). A division bench, comprising justice Shekhar B. Saraf and justice Prashant Kumar, passed the order on October 28 while hearing a petition filed by Mohd Haidar Khan. Khan had challenged the state's policy of restricting eligibility for APO vacancies, thereby excluding blind persons. He argued that the exclusion violated the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016, which requires public authorities to provide equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation to persons with disabilities....