In this case, a wife filed a 498-A filed on her advocate husband who had to pay the price by giving up the District Judge post. Inspite of getting acquitted in the 498-A case, the Lawyer could not get any relief from the Supreme Court.

The Madhya Pradesh High Court issued an advertisement in 2020, inviting applications for recruitment to the post of District Judge through Direct Recruitment from amongst the eligible Advocates.

The appellant submitted an online application form for the same. The Appellant cleared both Writtern and Mains Exam.

Thereafter Appellant was also declared selected under Unreserved Category. He recieved a communcation from Law Department that he has to appear for medical test.

But on 02.07.2018, the department directed the Appellant to submit the copy of FIR No.852/2014 lodged under Section 498/406/34 IPC. Whereas, the details of this FIR was himself disclosed by the Appellant in attestation form.

Shockingly, on 14.09.2018 the Legislative Department declared the appellant in-egible and the name of Appellant was also deleted from the selected list of candidates.

After that, the appellant approached the High Court of Madhya Pradesh challenging the orders. However the High Court dismissed the Writ Petition

The lawyer then moved the Supreme Court but he did not get help from there either.

A bench of Hon’ble Justice Ashok Bhushan and Hon’ble Justice MR Shah held that the decision of the Exam-Selection Committee and Appointments Committee to find the appellant unfit for the post of District Judge is correct. His wife had filed a case against the appellant under Section 498A / 406/34 of IPC.

In this case, the trial court acquitted the appellant from all charges but this argument also did not work in the Supreme Court. The bench said that criminal case was pending against the candidate at the time of selection and before the appointment.

Civil Appeal No(S).3419 Of 2020