Bhubaneswar, Aug. 19 -- The Orissa High Court has ruled that found there is no such requirement to monitor the blood pressure of the candidates aspiring for forest officers' post and to disqualify them from the recruitment test solely on the basis of blood pressure measurement.
The High Court's direction came in the wake of a batch of writ petitions filed by at least nine candidates for the Assistant Conservator of Forests and Forest Ranger post who were disqualified for the physical endurance test after qualifying the written test.
Describing the petitioners' disqualification as arbitrary and illegal, the Single Bench of Justice Aditya Kumar Mohapatra in an order pronounced yesterday stated that "the Court is of the considered view that ...