JUDGMENT Mookerjee, J. - This is an application for re-instatement by a pleader who was suspended from the practice of his profession, on the 20th December 1905, and subsequently removed from the rolls, on the 8th March 1906, by an order of this Court. The circumstances under which the order in question was made may be briefly narrated. The Petitioner applied to this Court for enrolment as a candidate for appointment in the Provincial Judicial Service. He annexed to his application the certificate of his having passed the Entrance Examination of the Calcutta University, from which it appeared that his age at the time of admission to the examination was 10 years and 3 months. Upon enquiry it was ascertained that his age of that time was 18 years and 3 months, and that the entry in the certificate had been fraudulently altered. The result was that his name was removed from the rolls as stated. At the original hearing, he did not deny that he had been guilty of gross misconduct, and he placed himself entirely at the mercy of the Court, The gravity of the offence, however, was such that the Court declined to make any order short of absolute removal from the rolls, and no suggestion has been made to us on the present occasion that, under the circumstances disclosed, any other order could have been appropriately made. Since the date of that order, however, the Petitioner has been employed as superintendent and manager of the estates of different zemindars; and on the 29th August 1909 he applied to this Court for re-instatement. To the application was annexed a number of certificates by some of the leading pleaders of this Court as also by legal practitioners in the mofussil and zemindars under whom the Petitioner had served, to the effect that since his removal from the folls he had conducted himself honourably. But the Court declined to entertain the application at that time, on the ground that it was premature ; at the same time, it was stated that if the Petitioner so desired, he might renew his application with additional materials after the lapse of five years from the date of suspension. But the Court declined to entertain the application at that time, on the ground that it was premature ; at the same time, it was stated that if the Petitioner so desired, he might renew his application with additional materials after the lapse of five years from the date of suspension. Hence, the present application, to which additional certificates have been annexed ; one of these certificates, given by a zemindar of considerable respectability under whom the Petitioner has served, states that his character and conduct have been entirely satisfactory. Under these circumstances, the learned Counsel who has appeared on his behalf has invited the Court to make an order for re-instatement. As pointed out by this Court in the case of In re Abiruddin 16 C. W. N. 357 : s. c. 12 C. L. J. 626 (628) (1910), "the test to be applied to cases of this description is whether the sentence of exclusion, however right, has had the salutary effect of awakening in the delinquent a higher sense of honour and duty, and whether in the interval his conduct has been irreproachable so that notwithstanding the delinquency in early life, he may be safely entrusted with the affairs of clients and admitted to an honourable profession without that profession suffering degradation." In view of the certificates which have been produced and also in view of the fact that when the original offence, although of great gravity, was committed, the Petitioner was a comparatively young man, we think it right to make an order of re-instatement. The result, therefore, is that the application is granted, and the name of the Petitioner restored to the rolls.