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 "record_id": "CW-1954-0005",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-1055",
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 "display_title": "Punjab State v. [name withheld]",
 "display_title_redacted": "Punjab State v. [name withheld]",
 "state": "Himachal Pradesh",
 "district": "Shimla",
 "district_at_time": "Simla (Punjab, pre-reorganisation)",
 "city_town": "Shimla",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Punjab Police, Simla (Censor Department posting)",
 "court": "Punjab High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Punjab High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Punjab State v. [name withheld]",
 "case_number": "Regular Second Appeal No. 891 of 1951",
 "citation": "I.L.R. Punjab Series, Vol. VIII, p. 934",
 "judges": [
  "Kapur"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "1954-11-29",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 1954,
 "incident_date": "1944-01-01",
 "incident_year": 1944,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "misconduct",
 "admin_subcategory": "extortion",
 "subcategory": "extortion",
 "subcategory_display": "extortion",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld",
 "sections": [
  "Police Act 1861 s.7",
  "GOI Act 1935 s.243"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Head Constable (officiating Assistant Sub-Inspector)",
   "unit": "Punjab Police, Simla (Censor Department posting)",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "ledger:no_row",
    "key2:no_row"
   ],
   "ledger_role": null,
   "key2": null,
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   "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": "Head Constable (officiating Assistant Sub-Inspector), Punjab Police, Simla (Censor Department posting)"
  }
 ],
 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [
  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": "female",
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Shimla woman"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "dismissal",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": null,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://highcourtchd.gov.in/landmark_judgments/HC/English/Regular%20Second%20Appeal%20No._891_1951.pdf",
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 "summary": "The Punjab High Court sustained the dismissal of Head Constable (officiating ASI) [name withheld] of Simla, who was dismissed on 25 January 1944 after a departmental enquiry found he had misused his wartime posting in the Censor Department to extract and keep private letters and attempt to blackmail the young woman addressee, for which a trap had caught him. The court held subordinate police were governed by s.243 (not s.240(3)) of the Government of India Act, 1935, that breach of procedural rules gives no right of action, and that both courts below took an erroneous view of law. It allowed the State's second appeal, set aside the decrees declaring the dismissal void, and dismissed the policeman's suit with costs. Simla was then in Punjab and is now Shimla, Himachal Pradesh. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Punjab High Court sustained the dismissal of Head Constable (officiating ASI) [name withheld] of Simla, who was dismissed on 25 January 1944 after a departmental enquiry found he had misused his wartime posting in the Censor Department to extract and keep private letters and attempt to blackmail the young woman addressee, for which a trap had caught him. The court held subordinate police were governed by s.243 (not s.240(3)) of the Government of India Act, 1935, that breach of procedural rules gives no right of action, and that both courts below took an erroneous view of law. It allowed the State's second appeal, set aside the decrees declaring the dismissal void, and dismissed the policeman's suit with costs. Simla was then in Punjab and is now Shimla, Himachal Pradesh.",
 "court_quote": "I would therefore allow this appeal, set aside the decree of the Courts below and dismiss the plaintiff's suit with costs throughout.",
 "court_quote_para": "n/a",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Judgment verified from official HC ILR scan; dismissal for blackmail-type misconduct sustained. Court name is the 1954 official name (predecessor of Punjab and Haryana HC).",
 "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": "1954-11-29",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Punjab High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Punjab High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.",
   "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only",
   "source": "I.L.R. Punjab Series, Vol. VIII, p. 934",
   "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": []
  }
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 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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  {
   "url": "https://highcourtchd.gov.in/landmark_judgments/HC/English/Regular%20Second%20Appeal%20No._891_1951.pdf",
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 "v3_basis": null,
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 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
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 "fidelity_checked": true,
 "verified_by": [
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 "merged_case_id": "GAP3-109-002",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}