NDLI: Rajya Vidyut Prasaran Nigam Limited and Another Vs. Anil Kanwariya

Content Provider	Supreme Court of India
e-ISSN	30484839
Language	English
Access Restriction	NDLI
Subject Keyword	Service Law
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Law Judgement
Jurisdiction	India
Case(s) Referred	Referred Case 0 Referred Case 1 Referred Case 2 Referred Case 3 Referred Case 4 Referred Case 5 Referred Case 6 Referred Case 7
Case Type	Appeal
Court	Supreme Court of India
Disposal Nature	Appeal Allowed
Headnote	Service Law – Termination from services – Non-disclosure/ suppression of material fact and filing a false declaration – Appellants invited applications for the post of Technical Helper – Respondent-employee was appointed for the said post as a probationer trainee for a period of two years – As per the appointment order, the respondent was required to produce a character certification/verification report iss ued by the Superintendent of Police (SP) of the concerned District from where he belonged – SP informed the appellants that the respondent was convicted by the trial Court for the offences u/s 341, 323 IPC, however, given the benefit under the Probation of Offenders Act, 1958 and the respondent-employee was ordered to be released on probation for good conduct – Having found that the respondent deliberately suppressed the fact of conviction and penalty, not only at the time of applying post, but also when he submitted a declaration during documents verification that neither criminal case is pending against him nor he has suffered any conviction by any court of law in any criminal case – Appellant was terminated – Writ Petition – The High Court quashed and set aside the order of the termination and directed reinstatement of the respondent – On appeal, held: At the time when respondent-employee submitted the application for appointment, he did not disclose the fact that he already suffered a conviction by the Competent Court but in fact, a false declaration was filed that neither any criminal case is pending against him nor he has been convicted by any Court of law – It is only after the police verification, the appellants came to know about the conviction of the respondent – Therefore, the appellants were absolutely justified in terminating the services of the respondent – The question is about the credibility and/or trustworthiness of such an employee,the question is of TRUST – The order of reinstatement is wholly untenable and unjustified.
Judge	Hon'ble Mr. Justice M.R. Shah
Neutral Citation	2021 INSC 490
Petitioner	Rajya Vidyut Prasaran Nigam Limited And Another
Respondent	Anil Kanwariya
SCR	[2021] 7 S.C.R. 710
Judgement Date	2021-09-17
Case Number	5743-5744

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