Supreme Court of India

Union Territory, Chandigarh Administration and Ors. v. Pradeep Kumar and Another

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Reported as [2018] 1 S.C.R. 112

Bench R. Banuma Thi and Uday Umesh Lalit JJ.

Decided 8 January 2018

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10 Supreme Court benches have cited this judgment.

What the Court ordered

In the result, the impugned judgment is set aside and the appeals are allowed.

Judgment, page 14

From the headnote

Service law: Appointment – Disciplined for ce – Post of constable – Whether the candidatur e of r espondents who had disclosed their involvement in the criminal cases and also their acquittal could be cancelled by the Scr eening Committee on the gr ound that they ar e not suitable for the post – Held: Acquittal in a criminal case does not automatically entitle candidate for appointment – It is open to the employer to consider the antecedents and examine whether he is suitable for appointment to the post – While deciding whether a person involved in a criminal case acquitted or dischar ged

Authorities it was built on

2016 Avtar Singh v. Union of India & Ors. cited by 23
2013 Commissioner of Police, New Delhi & Anr. v. Mehar Singh cited by 10

Where later benches applied it

2026 The State of Madhya Pradesh & Ors. v. Rajkumar Yadav relied on
2024 P. Manikandan v. Central Bureau of Investigation and Ors. relied on
2021 Union of India and Others v. Methu Meda relied on
2021 Commissioner of Police v. Raj Kumar relied on
2020 Anil Bhardwaj v. The Hon’ble High Court of Madhya Pradesh & Ors. relied on
2019 The State of Madhya Pradesh & Ors. v. Bunty relied on
2023 Imtiyaz Ahmad Malla v. The State of Jammu and Kashmir and Others referred to
2022 Satish Chandra Yadav v. Union of India & Ors referred to
2021 The State of Rajasthan & Ors. v. Love Kush Meena referred to
2018 State of Madhya Pradesh and Others v. Abhijit Singh Pawar referred to

Of those, 6 relied on · 4 referred to

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