Legal Questions

Law of services——Character and antecedents.

                All organizations and especially organizations in the public sector desire that the people who are recruited in service must be allowed to join only when they have verified from the District Magistrate that the employee had been bearing a good and moral character and therefore, they get an attestation form filled up from the employee and send the same to the District Magistrate for verification and the District Magistrate gets the same particulars verified through the police.

                   The police visits all  the places where the employee had been residing during the last five to ten years and they shall find as to whether he had been having a moral and good character.  If he had been arrested and ultimately convicted by a competent Court and the applicant had been in jail, such information shall debar the candidate and he shall not be allowed to join duty and if he is already in service, his services could be terminated.

                    Often all the organizations get an affidavit from the applicant declaring on oath that he had never been convicted by a competent court and only then he is allowed to join and if this affidavit is found wrong and misleading, then such a candidate shall be punished under the law of the land.

                 Even during service and even after his retirement, a pension must keep good character and if he has committed a crime and is punished, even his pension shall be stopped because it is the first condition for grant of pension that the pensioner shall be keeping good character during the period he shall be on pension roll.