PREM CHAND YADAV Vs. UNION OF INDIA

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THESE two petitions of the same petitioner raises a short question that is, whether a candidate, who does not disclose correctly the number of attempts that he has taken in a competitive examination, in addition to the cancellation of his candidature for the concerned examination, could be debarred for a further period of 10 years from all the examinations to be conducted and selections to be made by the Public Service Commission.

(2.) THE facts, in brief, are that the petitioner, who belongs to OBC category, was entitled to take 7 attempts in the Civil Services Examinations conducted by the Union Public Service Commission. For his candidature for the Civil Services (Pre) Examination, 2007 the petitioner was required to disclose the number of attempts that he had already taken. The petitioner in his application had disclosed that he had already taken six attempts. Thereafter the petitioner appeared in the Civil Services (Pre.) Examination, 2007, and was successful.

(3.) THE petitioner in response to the query in column 25(a) mentioned 7; and in response to the query in column 25 (b) mentioned '01, "02, '03, "04, "05, "06 and "07, meaning thereby that he appeared in the examinations of the years 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007. Whereas, column 27 was left blank by the petitioner.