The Delhi High Court in the case Bineet Singh Bisht v. Union Of India And Ors observed and has stated that there is no room for an individual who endeavours to seek employment in disciplined forces by concealing material fact about his or her criminal antecedents.
The Division bench comprising of Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva and Justice Manoj Jain in the case observed and has stated that there has to be strict obedience towards disclosure about criminal antecedents by anyone seeking employment in disciplined forces.
In the present case, the court was hearing the plea moved by a sub-Inspector, GD who joined Indo Tibetan Border Police, ITBP in 2014 challenging the authorities’ order passed in 2016 wherein it terminated his services with immediate effect.
It being the case of authorities that he claimed that he was as never involved in any criminal case when he was asked to submit verification documents.
The bench in the case observed that there was deliberate suppression of material fact with respect to a criminal case which was pending at the time when the forms were filled up by petitioner and thus, the authorities were justified in terminating him. The court stated that the petitioner cannot plead ignorance about such previous case in which he was arrested and even remained behind the bars. Thus, it has been assumed that the query contained in 12(a) of Verification Roll Form in English version was complex as several questions had been interwoven, fact remains that same form also contained the same query in Hindi which conveyed everything very appropriately.
Further, the court stated that the questions had been bifurcated which removed possibility of any uncertainty or ambiguity.
Adding to it, the court stated that this court may add that there has to be strict obedience towards such type of disclosure by anyone seeking employment in disciplined forces and, invariably, there is no room for the one who endeavours to seek employment by concealing material fact about his criminal antecedents. Accordingly, the court dismissed the plea.