PRANAV KUMAR Vs. COMMISSIONER OF POLICE

JUDGEMENT

(1.) RESPONDING to an advertisement to fill up 117 vacancies to the post of Head Constable (Ministerial), petitioner submitted an application and with respect to information vide Sl.No.15 of the application form, which required the petitioner to inform if he had ever been arrested or an FIR had been registered against him or he had been tried for an offence in a court of law or convicted by any court, he filled up ,,N.A. Undisputably, the petitioner was an accused in FIR No.523/1999 under Section 307/34 IPC P.S. Moti Nagar in which he had been acquitted on 21.8.2001.

(2.) IT be noted that the application form was filled up by the petitioner on 9.10.2006 while applying for the post of Head Constable (Ministerial).

(3.) WE find that in one attestation form pertaining to information sought vide Sl.No.13(a), (b) and (c) the petitioner has written ,,No. In the second attestation form which we incidentally find is in a handwriting different than the first, pertaining to Sl.No.13(a) and 13(c), ,,No has been written and pertaining to 13(b) it is written that the petitioner was an accused for having committed an offence as afore-noted in para 1.