WP(C) 2034/2009 BEFORE HON’BLE MR JUSTICE I A ANSARI Heard Mr. R. Mazumdar, learned counsel for the writ petitioner, and Mr. N. Zaman , learned Central Government counsel, appearing on behalf of the respondents. Pursuant to an advertisement, published by the respondents in the ’Emplo yment News’, calling for applications from intending candidates for recruitment to the post of, amongst others, Head Constable (Ministerial), in the Central Res erve Police Force (in short, ’CRPF’), the petitioner, who claims to have requisi te qualification and eligibility criteria, applied for selection and appointment to the post of Head Constable (Ministerial). Having cleared all the qualifying tests, the petitioner was called for medical examination, which was conducted, on 21.03.2009, by the respondents at the Composite Hospital, Group Center, CRPF, Amerigog, Guwahati. On medical examination, the petitioner’s candidature was r ejected on the basis of the medical report given by the Doctors of the CRPF stat ing to the effect that her X-ray reports were suggestive of pulmonary tuberculos is. As the medical reports did not exclude the possibility of the petitioner not suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis, the petitioner underwent a medical t est, on 18.04.2009, under the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme, w herein her bloodstains, mucopurulent and saliva were examined. The result of th e medical tests, so conducted, however, ruled out the possibility of her sufferi ng from tuberculosis. The petitioner also underwent a medical test in the Depar tment of Tuberculosis and Chest Diseases, Guwahati Medical College Hospital. Ev en this medical test, which was conducted on 26.03.2009, declared the petitioner fit by wholly ruling out the possibility of the petitioner having been sufferin g from pulmonary tuberculosis. The respondents, thereafter, on the request of the petitioner, conducted a re-examination of the petitioner, on 28.04.2009, by a Medical Board. The Med ical Board, having re-examined the petitioner, upheld the earlier op inion that the petitioner’s Chest X-ray reports were suggestive of pulmonary tub erculosis. It is, now, pointed out, on behalf of the petitioner, that when the doct ors, who are involved in the diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis, have ruled out completely the possibility of the petitioner having been suffering from tub erculosis, the mere opinion, given by the Review Medical Board on the basis of X -ray reports but without conducting any other pathological tests, such as, blood test, examination of mucopurulent and saliva, etc., cannot be accepted and ough t not to have been accepted. Apart from the fact that this Court finds considerable force in the abov e submissions, made on behalf of the petitioner, it is also noteworthy that the Review Medical Board, admittedly, did not have any expert or any such person, wh o could have given an expert opinion in the matter. Without having any expert i n the Review Board and without carrying out any pathological test, as indicated above, the mere opinion of the Review Medical Board, that the X-ray reports of t he Chest of the petitioner is suggestive of pulmonary tuberculosis, cannot be sustained and, therefore, the same is hereby set aside and quashed and the matte r is remanded to the respondents for holding a Review Medical Board afresh by in cluding therein expert(s) from the field, in question, and also to arrive at the ir decision, as regards the medical fitness of the petitioner, by conducting req uisite pathological tests. The whole exercise, so directed, shall be completed within a period of six weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this order by the respondent No. 4, namely, Deputy Inspector General of Police, CRPF, Group C enter, Amerigog, Guwahati, and do the needful in accordance with law. The petit ioner may furnish to the respondent No. 4 a certified copy of this order along w ith a copy of the writ petition and annexure thereto. With the above observations and directions, this writ petition stands di sposed of. No order as to costs.