Supreme Court · 2019 INSC 1302 · Decided 29 November 2019
Union of India and Others v. Ramesh Bishnoi
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2019 INSC 1302 · [2019] 14 S.C.R. 1097
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 9109/2019
- Decided
- 29 November 2019
- Bench
- UDAY UMESH LALIT, VINEET SARAN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 354, 447, 509; Juvenile Justice Act Section 3
Headnote
Service Law: Appointment - Cancellation of - On the ground that criminal case had been lodged against the candidate - Propriety of - Held: The criminal case accusing the delinquent of teasing a girl when he was minor, had resulted in acquittal - However, such offence definition of moral turpitude - The delinquent cannot be deprived of a job on the basis of charges committed as a juvenile also in view of clause (xiv) of s. 3 of Juvenile Act - Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015 - s. 3 (xiv) - Penal Code, 1860
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