‘Employee submitting forged documents…unfit to be employed,’ says Court

The court observed while upholding the dismissal of a woman from service.

The Delhi High Court was dealing with the plea of a woman who was given a compassionate appointment in the Bihar Bhawan here in the Group IV category after the death of her husband.

In 2009, the woman was given a show cause notice on the allegation of creating a nuisance under the influence of alcohol and causing disturbance to others in Bihar Bhawan.

The woman was suspended and during the probe, it came to the fore that she submitted fake certificates and was terminated from the service.

The documents submitted by the woman in support of her educational qualification as class 8 were a forged document, news agency PTI reported.

The high court, while hearing the woman’s petition, said the petitioner has not been able to prove that the certificate of passing class 8 was a genuine document.

The court in its order said, “Employees who are guilty of submitting forged documents to their employer, have to be dealt with rigorously”. It added that if an employee submits forged and fabricated documents, then such a person is certainly unfit to be employed. “No sympathy or compassion can be shown to such an employee,” it added. Thus, when the charge against the petitioner stands proved, the punishment of dismissal from service imposed by the respondent cannot be faulted with,” and added the petition was without any merits.

The high court said the woman’s submission that passing class 8 was not a pre-requisite for compassionate appointment in Group-IV job at the material time, does not hold any water.

The counsel said the woman has suppressed material facts and documents from this court and has wrongly contended that she came to know about the disciplinary proceedings only subsequently. It was submitted that the charges against the petitioner were proven and therefore, she was rightly dismissed from service.