Supreme Court of India

Secy. Deptt. of Home A.P. and Ors. v. B. Chinnam Naidu

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Reported as [2005] 1 S.C.R. 1147

Bench Arijit Pasa Yat and S.H. Kapadia JJ.

Decided 9 February 2005

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What the Court ordered

In view of the aforesaid, we find no merit in this appeal which is accordingly dismissed with no order as to costs.

Judgment, page 7

From the headnote

Service Law: Recruitment-Attestation Form-Suppression of material information- c Disqualification-Column 12 of Attestation Form requiring for information about conviction by a court of law or detention under any Central/State prevemive detention laws-Candidate not mentioning about his arrest and pendency of a criminal case against him-Appointment refused-Held, conviction by a court or detention under any Central/State preventive detention laws is different from arrest in any case or pendency of a case-Jn view of ' specific language of Column 12 candidate cannot be found guilty of any

Where later benches applied it

2023 State of West Bengal & Ors. v. Mitul Kumar Jana relied on
2022 State of Rajasthan & Ors. v. Chetan Jeff relied on
2014 Joginder Singh v. Union Territory of Chandigarh & Ors. relied on
2021 Rajya Vidyut Prasaran Nigam Limited and Another v. Anil Kanwariya referred to
2020 The State of Madhya Pradesh & Anr. v. U.P. State Bridge Corporation Ltd.& Anr. referred to
2013 Devendra Kumar v. State of Uttaranchal & Ors. referred to
2012 Jainendra Singh v. State of U.P. Tr. Prinl. Sec. Home & Ors. referred to

Of those, 3 relied on · 4 referred to

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