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3. Per contra, learned counsel for the respondents reiterates the averments made in the counter affidavit 2026.03.12 SNEHA 16:07:59 MEENA +05'30' Item No.79/ C-IV O.A. No.2626/2025 and submits that the offer of appointment in the Delhi Police is always subject to verification of character and antecedents. The action taken by the respondents in cancelling the candidature of the applicant was stated to be legal, justified, and strictly in accordance with the applicable Standing Orders as well as the law laid down by the Hon'ble Supreme Court. 3.1 Learned counsel for the respondents submits that the applicant had admittedly disclosed his involvement in FIR No. 293/2021 registered under Sections 148, 149, 323, 324, 341, 427 and 506 IPC at Police Station Sahlawas, District Jhajjar, Haryana. The offences alleged against him were serious in nature and pertained to rioting, unlawful assembly, voluntarily causing hurt by a dangerous weapon, wrongful restraint, mischief causing damage, and criminal intimidation. The allegations specifically attributed to the applicant the act of inflicting injury upon the complainant with a sharp weapon while being part of an unlawful assembly. Such offences, it was argued, were inherently violent and involved moral turpitude, thereby reflecting adversely upon the character and antecedents of the candidate.

2026.03.12 SNEHA 16:07:59 MEENA +05'30' Item No.79/ C-IV O.A. No.2626/2025 3.2 Learned counsel further submtis that in terms of Standing Order No. HRD/12/2022, the case of the applicant had been placed before the duly constituted Screening Committee for assessment of his suitability. The Committee had examined the entire record, including the FIR, charge-sheet, the role attributed to the applicant, and the judgment of the trial court. Upon detailed consideration, the Committee had recorded that the applicant was one of the main accused and that the accusations related to serious offences involving violence and use of a sharp weapon. The accused persons had been charge-sheeted for rioting, being armed with a deadly weapon, unlawful assembly, voluntarily causing hurt by a dangerous weapon, wrongful restraint, mischief, and criminal intimidation--offences which could not be treated as trivial in nature.

2026.03.12 SNEHA 16:07:59 MEENA +05'30' Item No.79/ C-IV O.A. No.2626/2025 i. The candidate was one of the main accused who inflicted injury upon the complainant with a sharp object while other associates severely beat him, as evident from the FIR.
ii. The accused were charge-sheeted for rioting, being armed with a deadly weapon, unlawful assembly, voluntarily causing hurt, voluntarily causing hurt by a dangerous weapon, wrongful restraint, mischief causing damage and criminal intimidation/threat involving moral turpitude.