CHENNAI : The Madras High Court has upheld the dismissal of an employee of the Central government on a charge of furnishing a forged community certificate.Setting aside an order of the TN bench of the Central Administrative Tribunal, a division bench comprising Justices Elipe Dharma Rao and M Venugopal said the authority who had issued the certificate had denied having issued it. Therefore, the authorities had ample powers to dismiss the employee as per Clause 5 in the Appointment Order.According to the provision, if any information furnished was proved to be false or if the candidate was found to have willfully suppressed any material information, he would be dismissed.According to R Ramesh, who belonged to the Kattunaicken community, he had obtained a community certificate dated September 21, 1997, from the PA (General) to the Chennai Collector. He was appointed as a Technical Operator (Drilling) in the Central Ground Water Board under the ST quota in 1998. At the time of appointment, the community certificate was verified. In November 2005, while travelling in a bus, he lost a file containing all educational records and the community certificate. He had obtained duplicate certificates for the records. But he had not been issued a fresh community certificate.Following a Delhi High Court order that community certificates of ST employees should be scrutinised, Ramesh’s certificate was verified. In September 2007, the Collector said the certificate was a forged one.Stating that he was dismissed without any disciplinary proceedings, Ramesh moved CAT, which quashed the dismissal order and ordered reinstatement. Hence, the present petition.
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