UOI vs A NAGAMALLESHWAR RAO — C.A. No. 7766/1997

Summary of C.A. No. 007766/1997 The Supreme Court allowed the Union of India's appeal and set aside the Central Administrative Tribunal's decision. The respondent, a Telephone Operator, obtained employment by falsely representing he had secured 79.80% marks in SSC when he actually scored only 48.6%—below the minimum qualification threshold. The Court held that the Tribunal erred by applying strict evidentiary rules to the departmental inquiry and rejected the official Z register entry and witness testimony as unreliable, when these constituted valid public documents properly authenticated for such proceedings. This case analysis is maintained by casestatus.in based on publicly available court records.