{ "record_id": "CW-1964-0002", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0809", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "The State of Kerala and Anr. vs Kerala Police Police Constable", "display_title_redacted": "The State of Kerala and Anr. vs Kerala Police Police Constable", "state": "Kerala", "district": null, "district_at_time": null, "city_town": null, "police_station_or_unit": null, "court": "Kerala High Court", "court_as_verified": "Kerala High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "The State of Kerala and Anr. vs Kerala Police Police Constable", "case_number": "Writ Appeal against O.P. No. 2905 of 1961", "citation": "AIR 1964 Ker 254; 1964 KLT 310; 1964 KLJ 1005", "judges": [ "Madhavan Nair J." ], "judgment_date": "1964-03-09", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 1964, "incident_date": null, "incident_year": null, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Police Constable", "unit": null, "role": "held_liable", "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": "Police Constable" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 0, "sentence_type": "dismissal", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/507922/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://sooperkanoon.com/case/720705/the-state-kerala-anr-vs-k-madhavan" ], "summary": "The Kerala High Court Division Bench allowed the State appeal against a Single Judge order that had quashed the dismissal of Police Constable. The Court held that the Circle Inspector who held the oral enquiry was competent under Rule 8 of the Kerala Police Departmental Enquiries, Punishment and Appeal Rules, 1958 read with the IG 1 August 1958 circular as a general authorisation. The Single Judge jurisdictional objection was found unsubstantial, the quashing order was discharged, and O.P. No. 2905 of 1961 was dismissed. The IG dismissal order, confirmed by Government after PSC consultation, therefore stands; the judgment does not state the underlying misconduct. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Kerala High Court Division Bench allowed the State appeal against a Single Judge order that had quashed the dismissal of Police Constable. The Court held that the Circle Inspector who held the oral enquiry was competent under Rule 8 of the Kerala Police Departmental Enquiries, Punishment and Appeal Rules, 1958 read with the IG 1 August 1958 circular as a general authorisation. The Single Judge jurisdictional objection was found unsubstantial, the quashing order was discharged, and O.P. No. 2905 of 1961 was dismissed. The IG dismissal order, confirmed by Government after PSC consultation, therefore stands; the judgment does not state the underlying misconduct.", "court_quote": "The only defect on which the learned Judge has held the disciplinary proceedings to be without jurisdiction being thus found to be unsubstantial, the order quashing the dismissal of the delinquent Police Constable has to be discharged.", "court_quote_para": "2", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Division Bench allowed State appeal; dismissal of Police Constable stands.", "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": "1964-03-09", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Kerala High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Kerala High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "AIR 1964 Ker 254; 1964 KLT 310; 1964 KLJ 1005", "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/507922/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://sooperkanoon.com/case/720705/the-state-kerala-anr-vs-k-madhavan", "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-63" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP2-29-001", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }