Unless there is a foolproof system to issue community certificates only to genuine applicants, no time limit or limitation can be prescribed by the courts for subjecting those certificates to verification if any doubt is raised or a complaint is received regarding their genuineness, the Madras High Court has ruled.
A Division Bench of Justices S.S. Sundar and N. Senthilkumar held that the community certificates of those who got employed before 1995 could also be verified any time and that the inquiry regarding the genuineness of the certificates could continue even after the retirement of the employee concerned.
Recalling the Supreme Court ruling that had termed the conduct of gaining public employment with fake community certificates as an “egregious fraud on the Constitution,” the Bench said, those who had deprived jobs to genuine Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe candidates “do not deserve sympathy or indulgence from courts.”
