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20. The civil concept of an offence being of a depraving character is to look at : Whether the act complained of suffers from the tag of a moral turpitude or not.

21. If we look at case law pertaining to summary dismissal or removal from service without inquiries we find that on the anvil of public interest and public good theory, only in extreme cases constituting grave and serious offences recourse to summary dismissal or removal is accepted by Courts.

22. Now, if a person has already obtained public employment and does a wrong, we find that not for all offences the door has to be shown. It is the test of moral turpitude in the offence which acts as the anvil to sacrifice the offender. We find that where the wrongs are an offence but not having a moral turpitude, the civil penalty is of a kind where public employment is not lost. Doing reverse engineering and looking at the prism from the other side, it can be gainsaid that such offences which do not attract the taint of a moral turpitude should ordinarily not deny public employment.