Supreme Court · 2021 INSC 623 · Decided 6 October 2021
Union of India and Others v. Methu Meda
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2021 INSC 623 · [2021] 8 S.C.R. 657
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 6238/2021
- Decided
- 6 October 2021
- Bench
- INDIRA BANERJEE, J.K. MAHESHWARI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Leave Granted & Allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC; CrPC
Headnote
Service Law - Appointment - Acquittal from criminal case - Nature of - Effect of - Respondent applied for the post of Constable in Central Industrial Security Force - Provisionally selected - Found not eligible for appointment on account of a criminal case acquitted - Held: If a person is acquitted giving him the benefit of doubt, from the charge of an offence involving moral turpitude or because the witnesses turned hostile, like in the present case, it would not automatically entitle him for the employment, that too in disciplined force
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