{"id":255323,"date":"2021-10-08T11:00:24","date_gmt":"2021-10-08T05:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?p=255323"},"modified":"2021-10-15T11:04:21","modified_gmt":"2021-10-15T05:34:21","slug":"not-honourably-acquitted-in-a-case-employer-cant-be-compelled-to-give-appointment-sc-honourable-acquittal-defined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2021\/10\/08\/not-honourably-acquitted-in-a-case-employer-cant-be-compelled-to-give-appointment-sc-honourable-acquittal-defined\/","title":{"rendered":"Not &#8216;honourably&#8217; acquitted in a case? Employer can&#8217;t be compelled to give appointment: SC. [&#8220;Honourable acquittal&#8221; defined]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Supreme Court:<\/strong> In a case where a man, after being acquitted in a kidnapping case, had applied for the post of Constable in Central Industrial Security Force, the bench of Indira Banerjee and JK Maheshwari, JJ has held that the employer cannot be compelled to give appointment to such a candidate when the acquittal has been made on the basis of benefit of doubt.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIf a person is acquitted giving him the benefit of doubt, from the charge of an offence involving moral turpitude or because the witnesses turned hostile, it would not automatically entitle him for the employment, that too in disciplined force. The employer is having a right to consider his candidature in terms of the circulars issued by the Screening Committee. The mere disclosure of the offences alleged and the result of the trial is not sufficient. In the said situation, the employer cannot be compelled to give appointment to the candidate.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Brief facts<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>The respondent was found involved in an offence of kidnapping for demand of ransom.<\/li>\n<li>The Sessions Court acquitted him for the said charge because the complainant, who was abducted, turned hostile in the Court.<\/li>\n<li>The respondent applied for the post of Constable in CISF and got selected through the Staff Selection Commission.<\/li>\n<li>An offer of appointment for provisional selection to the post of Constable\/GD was issued and the respondent was required to furnish the documents including attestation forms, certificate of character, character and antecedent certificate from local Station House Officer.<\/li>\n<li>The respondent, while submitting the attestation form, specified the registration of the criminal case and acquittal from the charges in a trial by the competent court.<\/li>\n<li>He was, however, not allowed to join training.<\/li>\n<li>The Standing Screening Committee passed an order that respondent was not eligible for appointment.<\/li>\n<li>The Madhya Pradesh High Court directed that the respondent be allowed to commence training with effect from 21.10.2013 and that he would be entitled for all consequential benefits including seniority, notional fixation of salary etc. but back wages were denied.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Analysis <\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Court took the opportunity to explain the term \u2018honourable acquittal\u2019 and said that<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">if the acquittal is directed by the court on consideration of facts and material evidence on record with the finding of false implication or the finding that the guilt had not been proved, accepting the explanation of accused as just, it be treated as honourable acquittal.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201c\u2026 if prosecution could not prove the guilt for other reasons and not \u2018honourably\u2019 acquitted by the Court, it be treated other than \u2018honourable\u2019, and\u00a0 proceedings may follow.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Th Court explained that the standard of proof required for holding a person guilty by a criminal court and enquiry conducted by way of disciplinary proceeding is entirely different. In a criminal case, the onus of establishing guilt of the accused is on the prosecution, until proved beyond reasonable doubt. \u00a0\u00a0In case, the prosecution failed to take steps to examine crucial witnesses or the witnesses turned hostile, such acquittal would fall within the purview of giving benefit of doubt and the accused cannot be treated as honourably acquitted by the criminal court. While, in a case of departmental proceedings, the guilt may be proved on the basis of preponderance and probabilities, Hence<strong><em>, acquittal giving benefit of doubt would not automatically lead to reinstatement of candidate unless the rules provide so<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Applying these principles to the case at hand, the Court held that the respondent who wishes to join the police force must be a person of utmost rectitude and have impeccable character and integrity. A person having a criminal antecedents would not be fit in this category.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The employer is having right to consider the nature of acquittal or decide until he is completely exonerated because even a possibility of his taking to the life of crimes poses a threat to the discipline of the police force.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[Union of India v. Methu Meda, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink\/3Jr6w974\"><b>2021 SCC OnLine SC 880<\/b><\/a>, decided on 06.10.2021]<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>*Judgment by: Justice JK Maheshwari<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supreme Court: In a case where a man, after being acquitted in a kidnapping case, had applied for the post of Constable <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121,"featured_media":251173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[4561,6111,34520,47433,3105,5941,5363],"class_list":["post-255323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-casebriefs","category-supremecourt","tag-acquittal","tag-appointment","tag-criminal-antecedent","tag-honourable-acquittal","tag-police_force","tag-service-law","tag-supreme-court"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.4 (Yoast SEO v26.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Not &#039;honourably&#039; acquitted in a case? 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