{ "record_id": "CW-1954-0004", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1150", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Shalimar Police Sub-Inspector v. State of West Bengal and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Shalimar Police Sub-Inspector v. State of West Bengal and Others", "state": "West Bengal", "district": "Howrah", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Shalimar", "police_station_or_unit": "Shalimar Government Railway Police Station", "court": "Calcutta High Court", "court_as_verified": "Calcutta High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Shalimar Police Sub-Inspector v. State of West Bengal and Others", "case_number": "Civil Rule challenging dismissal order dated 21-8-1952", "citation": "AIR 1955 Cal 183", "judges": [ "Sinha" ], "judgment_date": "1954-02-05", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 1954, "incident_date": "1948-01-01", "incident_year": 1948, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "corruption", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "Police Act 1861 s.7", "Police Act 1861 s.35", "Police Act 1861 s.42", "Constitution Art. 311", "Constitution Art. 320(3)(c)" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Sub-Inspector", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "Shalimar Government Railway Police Station, Howrah", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Sub-Inspector, Shalimar Government Railway Police Station, Howrah" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 0, "sentence_type": "dismissal", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "railway", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1166907/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/56095edde4b01497112c8d39" ], "summary": "Sub-Inspector, officer-in-charge of Shalimar GRPS from December 1948, faced seven charges of misappropriation in malkhana goods sales during 1948-1950 following anonymous complaints, CID investigation and a DSP enquiry, and was dismissed on 21 August 1952. The court held that departmental findings honestly and impartially reached on circumstantial evidence were unexceptionable. It found no violation of Articles 311 or 320(3)(c), held the section 42 Police Act limitation inapplicable to departmental enquiries, and held the enquiry officer's dual role did not vitiate the findings. The application failed, the Rule was discharged and all interim orders vacated. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "Sub-Inspector, officer-in-charge of Shalimar GRPS from December 1948, faced seven charges of misappropriation in malkhana goods sales during 1948-1950 following anonymous complaints, CID investigation and a DSP enquiry, and was dismissed on 21 August 1952. The court held that departmental findings honestly and impartially reached on circumstantial evidence were unexceptionable. It found no violation of Articles 311 or 320(3)(c), held the section 42 Police Act limitation inapplicable to departmental enquiries, and held the enquiry officer's dual role did not vitiate the findings. The application failed, the Rule was discharged and all interim orders vacated.", "court_quote": "All that has to be seen is as to whether he had honestly and impartially come to a conclusion which a reasonable man could arrive at. Judged by this test I find no error on the face of his findings.", "court_quote_para": "19", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Calcutta HC discharged the Rule; dismissal of Shalimar GRPS officer-in-charge for malkhana misappropriation (1948-1950) upheld.", "verification_status": "V2", "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported", "tier_badge": "Externally reported", "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded", "tier_history": [ "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded" ], "allegations": [ { "category": "Other", "primary": true, "position": "Material fact supported", "position_explainer": "Reliable material supports a specifically documented fact relevant to that allegation, not necessarily the full allegation, causation, intent, unlawfulness, or responsibility.", "official_finding_relation": "supports allegation" } ], "institutional_response": [ { "date": "1954-02-05", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Calcutta High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Calcutta High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "AIR 1955 Cal 183", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." } ], "later_proceedings": [], "final_outcome_url": null, "followup_history": [ { "date": "2026-09-19", "scope": "Round-8 full re-verification: published record re-checked against the judgment text (outcome, officers, quote, key facts) plus methodology-compliance pass", "method": "skills-guided adversarial re-verification of the published record against the judgment text (reverify/t1-*/adversarial-8.jsonl)", "result": "holds", "corrections_applied": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1166907/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/56095edde4b01497112c8d39", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-104" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-28-003", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }