India, Oct. 3 -- The Bombay High Court on Wednesday set aside the disqualification of two 21-year-old applicants from recruitment to the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) for being a few millimeters shorter than the required height of 165 mm.

The two aspirants, Sushant Bhausaheb Sarode from Nashik and Sahil Sanjay Patil from Kolhapur, earlier this year, cleared the computer-based test (CBT) and the physical efficiency test (PET) for recruitment to the post of constable and rifleman in the CAPFs and Assam Rifles. In August this year, when Sarode and Patil appeared for physical standards test (PST) at the recruitment centre in Talegaon, Pune, they were rejected after their heights were measured as 164.7 cm and 164.6 cm respectively, agai...