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SC – Medical Board Error of Squint Eye Cannot Defeat Merit for appointment of Constable

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Appellant appeared before the medical board on 22.04.2025 and she is said to have been orally informed by the examining authority that she was unfit due to alleged defect in the eyes (squint eye). After her rejection in the medical examination conducted on 22.04.2025 a re-examination was conducted by the Division Medical Board on 25.04.2025 as per Rule 15(6)(d) of the UP Police Constable and Head Constable Service Rules, 2015 as amended in 2017, which Page 2 of 7 SLP (Civil) No.14082 of 2026 again declared her medically unfit on account of squint. However, no rejection order or endorsement was furnished to the Appellant. Hence, Appellant is said to have independently approached two qualified medical institutions including Dr. Parvej Khan, Professor and Dean of the Eye Department, G.S.V.M Medical College and Associated Hospital, Kanpur and Dr. Rizwan Ahmad M.S. Consultant Eye Surgeon, UHM District Hospital, Kanpur Nagar, who found her colour perception/variation were normal including vision and thereby casting a serious doubt on the correctness and fairness of the initial medical assessment made by the medical board constituted by the respondent authority. Based on these two reports, Appellant submitted a representation on 16.05.2025 seeking for a fresh medical examination before an independent institution or competent authority including the Chief Medical Officer, Lucknow. Same having been rejected, she approached the jurisdictional High Court for a direction to re-conduct the medical examination which came to be dismissed by the impugned order on the ground of selection process having been concluded.

Judgment dated 2.11.2026 of the Supreme Court in Civil Appeal No.14041 of 2026 of Akanksha Devi  Vs.   State of U.P. and others

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