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Avtar Singh v. Union of India & Ors.

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Reported as [2016] 7 S.C.R. 445
Bench Ranjan Gogoi, Arun Mishra and Prafulla C. Pant JJ.
Decided 21 July 2016

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What the Court ordered

In view of the aforesaid it was held by this Court that the appointing authority could not have found appellant unsuitable to the post of Constable.

Judgment, page 41

From the headnote

SERVICE LAW.· Appointment - Verification of antecedents - Importance of - Quashing of appointment or dismissal from service on account of supp:-ession of information or submission of false information in the verification as to question of having been criminally prosecuted, arrested or as to pendency of a criminal case - Held: Information given to the employer by a candidate as to conviction, acquittal or arrest, or pendency of a criminal case, whether- before or after entering into service must be true and there should be no suppression or false mention of required information - In case there

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Where later benches applied it

Of those, 16 relied on · 1 distinguished · 6 referred to

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