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The Orissa High Court has overturned the disqualification of 11 aspirants for the posts of assistant conservator of forests and forest ranger under the Odisha Forest Service cadre. The candidates had been barred from the recruitment process after being declared unfit solely on the basis of blood pressure readings recorded during the physical test, as reported by The New Indian Express.
Delivering the judgment on Monday in response to three writ petitions filed by the affected candidates, Justice A.K. Mohapatra stated that neither the 2013 Odisha Forest Service Rules nor the recruitment advertisement allowed exclusion based solely...