Employer can reject candidate acquitted of serious crime: SC

Question 1

What court said?

Answer 1

• public employer can reject a candidate as unsuitable if he had, in the past, been acquitted of a serious crime merely on the benefit of doubt.
• acquittal on the benefit of doubt is quite different from an honourable acquittal.

Question 2

What is honourable acquittal?

Answer 2

accused who is acquitted after full consideration of the prosecution evidence and prosecution has miserably failed to prove the charges levelled against the accused