India, Oct. 12 -- The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court on Saturday granted interim relief to 15 ex-servicemen, allowing them to appear for the physical efficiency test for recruitment as civil police constable and other equivalent posts in the Uttar Pradesh Police under the 2025 recruitment process.

However, Justice Pankaj Bhatia clarified that appearing in the test would not, by itself, confer any special right on the petitioners to claim eligibility.

The order was passed on a petition filed by Manoj Kumar Pandey and 14 other ex-servicemen, who contended that they had cleared the written examination and completed document verification but were denied permission to appear in the physical efficiency test (PET) on the ground that...