India, Dec. 19 -- The Delhi High Court has ordered the reinstatement of a BSF constable who was discharged from service on the grounds of being HIV positive in July 2017.

A bench of justices C Hari Shankar and Om Prakash Shukla was hearing the BSF personnel's plea for reinstatement in service by setting aside the discharge order of April 9, 2019, and the order by which the appeal against it was also quashed.

In an order dated December 16, the court said, "If the medical condition of the petitioner does not allow him to perform the duties of the post of Constable (General Duty) to which he was originally appointed, the respondents (BSF and others) would have to extend reasonable accommodation to the petitioner by offering him an alternat...