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The petitioner herein is an applicant, to the advertisement for common recruitment for the posts of Grade II Police Constables (Armed Reserve, Tamil Nadu Special Force), Jail Warder and Fireman(Men) in the Tamil Nadu Uniformed Services Recruitment Board for the year 2020. He is aggrieved against the non-selection of his candidature in the aforesaid recruitment process.

2. The main ground on which the petitioner's candidature was not considered in the selection process, was due to his prior involvement in a criminal case. Such a rejection, merely on a claim for his pre-involvement in a criminal case, may not ipso facto render a candidate ineligible, in view of the Memorandum issued by the Director General of Police, Chennai, dated 17.12.2015, for adoption during the recruitment processes conducted by the Tamil Nadu Uniformed Services Recruitment Board (TNUSRB). https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis

6. However, insofar as the recruitment process conducted by the Tamil Nadu Uniformed Services Recruitment Board is concerned, the Director General of Police had issued certain guidelines through his proceedings, dated 22.02.2021, for consideration of the candidature of such candidates, who had involved themselves in cases, which are insignificant in nature. The proceedings also laid down guidelines to the Appointing Authority to consider cases, where the TNUSRB had already condoned acts of involvement in criminal offences.

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7. When the Director General of Police himself had issued the above guidelines for the purpose of relaxing the selection criteria in the selection process, insofar as the candidate's involvement in a criminal case is concerned, the need or necessity to place reliance on other case laws touching upon the consequence of a candidate's criminal antecedents, does not arise. As a matter of fact, the proceedings, dated 22.02.2021, came to be issued in the background of some of the orders passed by the Hon'ble Supreme Court and this Court. Thus, the instructions of the Director General of Police in this regard, would supersede all the earlier case laws governing the general principles in a recruitment process and these instructions of the Director General of Police alone would be the guiding factor for all recruitments made through a selection process conducted by the TNUSRB. It is also brought to the notice of this Court that though the selection process of TNUSRB has been challenged on various occasions spreading over different recruitment processes, none of the decisions of this Court or the Hon'ble Supreme Court had dealt with the proceedings, dated 22.02.2021, passed by the Director General of Police and on this ground also, the case laws, which the learned Additional Advocate General relied upon, may not be of any assistance.