A person who was declared unfit for recruitment in Central Armed Police Forces, Nationwide Investigation Company (NIA) and different forces for having a “non secular tattoo” on the dorsum of his proper hand has approached the Delhi Excessive Courtroom difficult the authorities’ choice.
The counsel for the authorities opposed the plea saying that the best arm is the saluting hand and this tattoo was not permissible beneath the related tips of the Ministry of Residence Affairs.
The court docket, which was advised by the petitioner that he was keen to take away the tattoo by a minor laser surgical procedure, famous the detailed medical examination and the assessment medical examination confirmed there have been no different defects present in him.
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It disposed of the petition by giving liberty to the person to look earlier than the brand new medical board constituted by the authorities after elimination of the tattoo.
“Maintaining in view the aforesaid place in addition to within the curiosity of justice, we hereby eliminate the current petition by giving liberty to the petitioner to look earlier than the freshly constituted medical board of the respondents after two weeks from at the moment after having the tattoo within the dorsum of the best hand eliminated,” the court docket mentioned.
“…in case the petitioner is discovered match by the mentioned medical board, the respondents shall additional course of the number of petitioner for the publish in query in accordance with regulation,” a bench of Justices Suresh Kumar Kait and Saurabh Banerjee mentioned in its order.
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The petitioner submitted that he was discovered unfit within the detailed medical examination held on September 28 and thereafter, in assessment medical examination on September 29 for the publish of constable (basic obligation) in Central Armed Police Forces, NIA, SSF and Rifleman GD in Assam Rifles Examination, 2021 on the bottom that he has a spiritual tattoo marks on the dorsum of proper hand which was not permissible.
He sought quashing of the outcomes of the 2 examinations and that he be appointed to the publish.