criminal antecedent Archives

‘Employer may pass order cancelling candidature on suppression of pending criminal case’; Allahabad HC upholds termination of candidate appointed to Class-IV post in District Judgeship

“A candidate seeking an appointment in the District Court judgeship should be of impeccable character and high integrity, and his antecedents should be clean and if a person whose integrity is doubtful or his antecedents are not clean is appointed, that can damage the institution.”

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Imposing higher punishment on an illiterate senior citizen, merely because psychotropic substance was recovered from her residence, wrong; SC reduces sentence

Supreme Court: In an appeal directed against the judgment and order upholding conviction of the appellant for the offence under Section 20(b)(ii)(C)

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Not ‘honourably’ acquitted in a case? Employer can’t be compelled to give appointment: SC. [“Honourable acquittal” defined]

Supreme Court: In a case where a man, after being acquitted in a kidnapping case, had applied for the post of Constable

Case Briefs Supreme Court

“The question is of trust”. No matter how trivial the case, suppression of fact of conviction can lead to termination from service: Supreme Court

When a candidate suppresses material information and/or gives false information, the choice/option whether to continue or not to continue such an employee always must be given to the employer.

Case Briefs High Courts

Ker HC | Bail granted due to incorrect evidences and no criminal antecedent of the petitioner

Kerala High Court: B. Sudheendra Kumar, J. allowed a bail application seeking relief of anticipatory bail for crimes of criminal conspiracy. In

Case Briefs High Courts

Ori HC | Substantive evidence of witnesses recorded in court cannot by itself be the basis of bail petition

Orissa High Court: The Bench of Dr A.K. Mishra, J., dismissed an application filed under Section 439 CrPC for a successive bail