law: Emigration Act, 1983
  17. Procedure for obtaining permits .-
  (1) An employer desiring to obtain a permit
  
  under this Chapter may make an application in that behalf in the prescribed
  
  form to the competent authority.
  On receipt of such application, the competent
  
  authority shall, subject to any rules made in this behalf, make such inquiry as
  
  he may deem necessary and grant the permit applied for the reject the
  
  application :
  Provided that before granting a permit the
  
  competent authority may require the applicant to comply with such conditions as
  
  may be prescribed, including conditions as to furnishing of security and such
  
  other conditions as that authority may, for reasons to be recorded in writing,
  
  deem necessary in the interests of the citizens of India likely to be recruited
  
  by the applicant.
  Subject to the other provisions of this Act, the
  
  competent authority may reject an application under sub section (1) on any of
  
  more of the following grounds and on no other grounds, namely.- That the
  
  application is not complete in all respects or that any of the material
  
  particulars furnished in the application are not true that the terms and
  
  conditions of employment which the applicant proposes to offer to persons
  
  recruited or proposed to be recruited by him are discriminatory or
  
  exploitative, that the employment which the applicant proposes to offer
  
  involves work for a nature which in unlawful according to the laws of India or
  
  offends against the public policy of India or is violative of norms of human
  
  dignity and decency, that having regard to the antecedents of the applicant,
  
  his financial standing, the facilities at his disposal, the working and living
  
  conditions of persons employed by him in the past, it would not be in the
  
  public interest or in the interest of the persons who may be recruited by him,
  
  to issue a permit to him.
  That having regard to the prevailing
  
  circumstances in the country or in the place where the applicant proposes to
  
  employ the persons recruited by him, it would not be in the interests of any
  
  citizen of India to emigrate for taking up such employment.
  Where the competent authority makes an order
  
  under sub Section (2) rejecting an application, he shall record in writing a
  
  brief statement of his reasons for making such other and furnish the applicant,
  
  on demand, a copy of the same:
  Provided that if the competent authority is of
  
  the opinion that it is necessary or expedient in the interests of friendly
  
  relations with a foreign country or in the interest of the general public so to
  
  do, he may refuse to provide such copy, or, as the case may be, furnish a copy
  
  of only such parts of the statement as he may deem fit.