KANUIRNUKKALA KRISHNAMURTHY Vs. STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH

JUDGEMENT

(1.) The facts leading to this appeal, by special leave, are these:

(2.) The appellant, who was at the time serving as a Civil Assistant Surgeon in the Madras Medical Service on a temporary basis, applied for the permanent appointment to the posts notified by the Public Service Commission. In this application he made the following representations, which have been found to be false, by the Courts below:

(3.) On these facts, the appellant was convicted of the offence under S. 419 I. P. C. for having cheated the Madras Public Service Commission by personating as Kaza Krishnamurthy and misrepresenting that he had the necessary qualifications for the post advertised inasmuch as he held the degree of M. B. B. S., and that this deception of the Service Commission was likely to have caused damage to its reputation.