ORDER :

In response to the recruitment notification Rc.No.88/ Rect.admin.1/2018 dated 31.05.2018, the petitioner applied for the post of SCT Police Constable (TSSP). The petitioner was provisionally selected on 24.09.2019. Thereafter, he submitted an attestation form to the department as required by them on 09.10.2019. The petitioner received a show cause notice dated 10.03.2020 from the respondent No.3 calling upon him to submit explanation alleging that there was suppression of information about his involvement in a criminal case vide Cr.No.319 of 2016 registered for the offences under Sections 448, 427, 504 read with Section 34 IPC. The petitioner submitted his explanation dated 02.07.2020 stating that the criminal case pending against him was disposed of 08.09.2018 and ended in acquittal; that failure to mention about the criminal case in the attestation form was a mistake due to lack of proper knowledge. It is contended that though the mistake was not intentional, the impugned memo dated 04.11.2020 was issued canceling the selection of the petitioner.

2. Mr. Kiran Palakurthi, learned counsel for the petitioner, submitted that all offences in Cr.No.319 of 2016 are baliable, trivi