{"id":99968,"date":"2021-04-05T17:50:15","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T12:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=99968"},"modified":"2021-04-06T10:58:30","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T05:28:30","slug":"sc-judgment-on-rejection-of-candidate-acquitted-of-serious-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/sc-judgment-on-rejection-of-candidate-acquitted-of-serious-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"SC Judgment on Rejection of Candidate Acquitted of Serious Crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><\/h5>\n\n<h5><strong>What is the News?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>The Supreme Court held that a public employer can reject a candidate if the candidate is unsuitable. Thus, a person acquitted of a serious crime merely on the benefit of the doubt can be rejected.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>What was the case?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>A man cleared the recruitment exam of a constable in the Rajasthan Police Service.<\/li>\n<li>However, he was not appointed to the post. He was acquitted of murder after the witnesses turned hostile in Rajasthan in 2009.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>Supreme Court Observations:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>The Supreme Court observes that acquittal in a criminal case does not automatically qualify a candidate for appointment to the post.<\/li>\n<li>The person should be honorably acquitted of a heinous crime and not on the benefit of the doubt. Only then is a person considered eligible for public employment.<\/li>\n<li>An honorable acquittal is when the accused is acquitted after full consideration of the evidence. Also, if the prosecution miserably fails to prove the charges leveled against the accused.<\/li>\n<li>However, if this parameter is not met, the acquittal is based on the benefit of the doubt.<\/li>\n<li>The present case can hardly fall under the category of an honorable acquittal. The witnesses had turned hostile. Hence, the appointment was rejected.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/epaper.thehindu.com\/Home\/MShareArticle?OrgId=G6F8ES7M5.1&amp;imageview=0\"><strong>The Hindu<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the News? The Supreme Court held that a public employer can reject a candidate if the candidate is unsuitable. Thus, a person acquitted of a serious crime merely on the benefit of the doubt can be rejected. What was the case? A man cleared the recruitment exam of a constable in the Rajasthan&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/sc-judgment-on-rejection-of-candidate-acquitted-of-serious-crime\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SC Judgment on Rejection of Candidate Acquitted of Serious Crime<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1760,9],"tags":[1581],"class_list":["post-99968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-polity-and-nation","category-public","tag-po_9","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}