CHENNAI: Holding that a person employed in court should have absolute integrity, the Madras high court has confirmed dismissal of a court official for submitting fabricated records to secure promotion.
"Since the petitioner, M Sampath Kumar, is a person employed in the court, absolute integrity and devotion to duty is required. Production of a false or fabricated TNPSC bulletin before the judicial magistrate is a serious offence for which no leniency could be shown," said a division bench of Justice N Paul Vasanthakumar and Justice P R Shivakumar last week.
M Sampath Kumar joined service as a photocopyist at the court of principal district judge in Coimbatore about 14 years ago. As his further promotion depended on a departmental examination, he wrote the account test for subordinate officers on December 30, 2009. He later submitted a photocopy of a TNPSC bulletin bearing his name and registration number to the judicial magistrate-III in Coimbatore. The certificate, however, was not accepted as he failed to furnish the original hall ticket. He was reverted to his original post of 'examiner'. Sampath Kumar later cleared the test in 2013.
Disciplinary proceedings had already been initiated. He claimed he had obtained the earlier 'certificate' from his friends in the secretariat in Chennai. Not convinced, the principal district judge ordered his removal from service.
"Since the petitioner, M Sampath Kumar, is a person employed in the court, absolute integrity and devotion to duty is required. Production of a false or fabricated TNPSC bulletin before the judicial magistrate is a serious offence for which no leniency could be shown," said a division bench of Justice N Paul Vasanthakumar and Justice P R Shivakumar last week.
M Sampath Kumar joined service as a photocopyist at the court of principal district judge in Coimbatore about 14 years ago. As his further promotion depended on a departmental examination, he wrote the account test for subordinate officers on December 30, 2009. He later submitted a photocopy of a TNPSC bulletin bearing his name and registration number to the judicial magistrate-III in Coimbatore. The certificate, however, was not accepted as he failed to furnish the original hall ticket. He was reverted to his original post of 'examiner'. Sampath Kumar later cleared the test in 2013.
Disciplinary proceedings had already been initiated. He claimed he had obtained the earlier 'certificate' from his friends in the secretariat in Chennai. Not convinced, the principal district judge ordered his removal from service.
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