A candidate with muscular dystrophy, Kartik Kansal, has been denied service despite clearing the civil services exams four times. There are discrepancies in the eligibility criteria for different services. In 2021, when he was ranked 271, even without a disability quota he ought to have got the IAS, since that year those ranked 272 and 273 got IAS. However, in 2021, muscular dystrophy was not included in the list of conditions in functional classification eligible for IAS.

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