Juvenile's conviction is not a bar to govt service, rules Allahabad HC

PRAYAGRAJ: The Allahabad precocious tribunal has held that a condemnation nether the Juvenile Justice Act is not to beryllium treated arsenic disqualification for the individual's assignment successful immoderate services.Allowing a petition filed by a Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya teacher, the part seat of Chief Justice Arun Bhansali and Justice Kshitij Shailendra observed: "A bare perusal of conception 19(1) of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2000 makes it wide that it starts with a 'non-obstante clause' excluding the applicability of immoderate different instrumentality successful the substance of a juvenile and intelligibly provides that a juvenile who has committed an offence and has been dealt with nether the provisions of the Act, shall not endure disqualification attaching to a condemnation of an offence nether specified law.

It means that adjacent if a juvenile is convicted for an offence committed by him, his condemnation would not beryllium treated arsenic a disqualification."The petitioner had participated successful a recruitment thrust successful 2019 by applying for postgraduate teacher's post. Declared successful, helium was issued a missive of assignment by Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Gauriganj, Amethi. Two months later, a ailment was filed against him regarding concealment of transgression past relating to an offence during his childhood. After a elaborate inquiry, helium was dismissed from service.Later, the worker approached the precocious court, which allowed his petition.Setting speech the bid of the CAT, the HC connected Oct 16, directed the employee's reinstatement successful work with each consequential benefits.