BADAR DURREZ AHMED, J.

1. By way of this writ petition, the order dated 16.10.2012 passed by the Central Administrative Tribunal, is under challenge. The respondent had applied for the post of Constable (Executive) in the Delhi Police for the Recruitment Year 2003. He had filed his application for the same on 12.03.2009 and he had also submitted an Attestation Form on 22.10.2009. In both, the application form as well as the Attestation Form, the respondent had not disclosed that he had been involved in FIR No. 60/2004 under Sections 323/325 of IPC registered at Police Station Nangal Chaudhary (Haryana), District Haryana, registered on 19.06.2004.

2. The respondent had cleared the tests and was being considered for employment when this fact was discovered by the petitioner and consequently a show-cause notice dated 23.03.2010 was issued to the respondent asking him to show cause as to why his candidature ought not to be cancelled. The respondent submitted a reply in which he had specifically taken the plea that he was under the impression that, as he had been acquitted, it was not necessary for him to provide the said information with regard to his involvement in the said FIR