GORAKHNATH PRADHAN Vs. UNION OF INDIA

JUDGEMENT

(1.) -Heard learned counsel for the parties and perused the record.

(2.) THE petitioner has filed this petition against his termination from service vide impugned order dated 28.10.1996, passed by the Commandant, First Battalion Indo Tibetan Border Police Force (respondent No. 2) and for a direction to the respondents to allow him to participate in Commando training.

(3.) THE petitioner alleges to have submitted his reply dated 12.10.1996 to the aforesaid show-cause notice. However, vide impugned order dated 28.10.1996 respondent No. 2 terminated the services of the petitioner on the basis of report of the District Magistrate, Ghazipur, that two criminal cases were pending against the petitioner at the time of his recruitment which the petitioner concealed while filling column Nos. 12 (Ka) and (Kha) of the Character and Antecedents Verification Roll (Form No. I.T.B.P.-25) relating to verification of character and antecedents after his recruitment.