No relief for man who hid over-qualification

By Siva Sekaran | Express News Service | Published: 01st January 2017 01:17 AM |

CHENNAI: Suppressing the fact of possessing more qualification than required, will also render a person jobless.For instance, take the case of P Sudalaimuthu.

The Union Bank of India invited applications for the post of part-time House Keeper. The qualification required was a pass in second standard and fail in eighth standard, whereas Sudalaimuthu was eighth pass.
Suppressing this fact, he applied for the post, stating that he was fifth pass. And he was appointed in August 2008.


Later, the bank called for applications for the post of peon/hamal. Sudalaimuthu applied for the same stating that he had passed eighth standard. The bank noticed the discrepancy and issued a charge-memo. Not satisfied with his explanation, the bank dismissed him from service.

Challenging this, he moved the High Court and a single judge on June 4, 2014 dismissed his writ petition. Hence, the present appeal.

A division bench of Justices Huluvadi G Ramesh and S Vaidyanathan dismissed the writ appeal, too. Be it a bank or an industry or company, each firm has got its own rules and regulations for appointment of candidates. When the company prescribes a specific qualification for appointment to a specific post, the candidate, who applies for the same, must strictly adhere to the conditions.

The appellant herein, knowing fully well that the post of part-time House Keeper, at the most requires only an eighth standard fail, concealed his eighth standard pass qualification and applied for the said post stating that he had passed only fifth standard and also produced his transfer certificate to that effect, the bench pointed out.

Granting any benefit to the appellant would be violative of the doctrine of equality, the bench added and confirmed the order of a single judge and dismissed the appeal.