MUHAMMAD ADEEL vs PROVINCE OF PUNJAB through Inspector General of Police Punjab, Lahore Recruitment as a const

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MUHAMMAD ADEEL VS PROVINCE OF PUNJAB through Inspector General of Police Punjab, Lahore Recruitment as a constable in police department---Non-disclosure of FIR and arrest in recruitment affidavit---Effect---Refusal of appointment---Duty of full disclosure of material antecedents in recruitment affidavit---Scope---The petitioner applied for recruitment as a constable---He was qualified on merit but during character verification it was discovered that he had not disclosed an earlier registered FIR against him in pursuance of which he was arrested but later got discharged---The legal issue before the High Court was as to "whether a candidate who had been exonerated in apreviously registered FIR was still legally required to disclose that FIR in the application and affidavit, and whether non-disclosure of such antecedents justified refusal of appointment?"---Held: The affidavit was an instrument through which information could have been accurately and completely disclosed and explained---The non-disclosure of the same amounted to concealment rendering the candidate/petitioner unfit for recruitment---It was unequivocally established that the petitioner deliberately and willfully concealed the fact viz his FIR and arrest in the sworn affidavit---He could have conveniently disclosed the fact of registration of FIR and subsequent discharge by the magistrate---If he had disclosed this information accurately in his affidavit, he could have been considered for appointment against the applied post---However, the fact of registration of FIR was discovered by the police department upon scrutiny of antecedents which led the functionaries of the department to decline his appointment---Real issue was not regarding innocence or honorable exoneration of the petitioner or that if he did or did not hold criminal record, rather, it was regarding deliberate and willful concealment of material information solicited by the police department as prerequisite for taking part in the recruitment process---Such concealment was viewed as aconscious act on the part of the petitioner with the intention to effectively escape scrutiny regarding suitability to appointment---Act of refusal of the respondents to issue appointment letter to the petitioner was in consonance with the terms of recruitment---Constitutional petition was dismissed, in circumstances.

MUHAMMAD ADEEL vs PROVINCE OF PUNJAB through Inspector General of Police Punjab, Lahore Recruitment as a constable in police department — 2026 PLC(CS) 238 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE

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