The Bench was settling the law on how far and when an employer should ignore suppression of information or submitting false information in a job verification form. “The modern approach should be to reform a person instead of branding him a criminal all his life,” the court held. Is government service such a heaven that only angels should seek entry into it?” Justice Mishra, who authored the verdict, quoted from the 1983 case law. They are sometimes pushed into the forefront by elderly persons who lead and mislead them. Should all these young men be debarred from public employment?

Source: The Hindu July 25, 2016 19:47 UTC