Supreme Court of India
Commissioner of Police v. Raj Kumar
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What the Court ordered
For the foregoing reasons, this court hereby sets aside the common impugned judgment and the orders of the CAT, quashing the orders issued by the appellant, declining appointment to the respondent candidates.
Judgment, page 20
From the headnote
Service Law – Recruitment – Public employment – Del hi Police – Post of constable – Standing Order No.398/ 2010 Policy for deciding cases of candidates provisionally sele cted in Delhi Police involved in criminal cases (facing trial or acquitted) – Selection authority / Screening Committee rejected ca ndidature of respondents candidates as they had faced criminal proce edings – CAT allowed the applications of respondents – Writ petitions – Direction of High Court that the respondents be con sidered for appointment – Held: Not justified – Reading of the applicable Standing Order made it clear
Authorities it was built on
- 2016 Avtar Singh v. Union of India & Ors.
- 2012 Kavita Solunke v. State of Maharashtra and Ors.
- 2018 Union Territory, Chandigarh Administration and Ors. v. Pradeep Kumar and Another
- 2013 Commissioner of Police, New Delhi & Anr. v. Mehar Singh
- 2007 M.V. Thimmaiah & Ors. v. Union Public Service Commission & Ors.
- 2018 Union Public Service Commission v. M. Sathiya Priya and Others
- 2014 Joginder Singh v. Union Territory of Chandigarh & Ors.
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