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Service matter - Minimum Height - Police Selections - Height qualified - but rejected post on the ground that Tallest persons were given chance - Apex court held that In our opinion, once a candidate has the minimum height as required by the relevant Rules, height then becomes an irrelevant consideration and other criteria should be taken into consideration, like intelligence, physical strength, etc. In this case, the selection amongst those who had the minimum height was done by only selecting the tallest candidates for the available vacancies. We are of the opinion that this was wholly arbitrary, and police constables must also have intelligence and other requirements, apart from height. and allowed the appeal with a direction to give post in fresh vacancies = CIVIL APPEAL NO. 8450 of 2014 [ Arising out of Special Leave Petition (C) No.15194 of 2006 ] ABHAY KUMAR SINGH & ORS. ….. APPELLANTS VERSUS STATE OF BIHAR & ORS. ….. RESPONDENTS = 2014 - Sept. Month - http://judis.nic.in/supremecourt/filename=41906