New Delhi: Hearing a case, the Supreme Court has said that the employee cannot be dismissed from service only for hiding information related to criminal cases and giving false information. A bench of Justices Ajay Rastogi and Sanjiv Khanna, while hearing the hearing, observed that regardless of the fact that one has been convicted or not, one should not be dismissed from the job in one stroke merely for suppressing information and giving false information.
According to the report of TOI, the Supreme Court said this during the hearing of the petition of Pawan Kumar, posted as a constable in the Railway Protection Force. Constable Pawan Kumar was appointed as constable in RPF. During this, when he was training, he was removed on the ground that he had not been informed that an FIR was registered against him.
The Supreme Court found that the FIR in the case was registered after Pawan filled out the application. The bench of judges hearing the matter said that we have also taken into account the nature of the allegations made in the criminal case which was a very minor offense.
The Supreme Court, relying on the judgment given in Avtar Singh Vs Union of India in 2014, allowed the petition filed by RPF constable Pawan against the decision of the Delhi High Court. The Delhi High Court had approved the demand for the dismissal of constable Pawan Kumar in this case.
