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 "record_id": "CW-1964-0005",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-1149",
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 "display_title": "Calcutta Police Constable v. Commissioner of Police and Others",
 "display_title_redacted": "Calcutta Police Constable v. Commissioner of Police and Others",
 "state": "West Bengal",
 "district": "Kolkata",
 "district_at_time": "Calcutta",
 "city_town": "Kolkata",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Calcutta Police",
 "court": "Calcutta High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Calcutta High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Calcutta Police Constable v. Commissioner of Police and Others",
 "case_number": "Matter No. 463 of 1963",
 "citation": "AIR 1967 Cal 381",
 "judges": [
  "Banerjee"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "1964-12-04",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 1964,
 "incident_date": "1962-03-02",
 "incident_year": 1962,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "corruption",
 "admin_subcategory": "other",
 "subcategory": "other",
 "subcategory_display": "other",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld",
 "sections": [
  "Calcutta Police Act 1898 s.9-B(2)",
  "Constitution Art. 226"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Constable",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "unit": "Calcutta Police",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
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    "key2:no_row"
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   "jev_risk": null,
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   "later_outcome": null,
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Constable, Calcutta Police"
  }
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 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Kolkata man"
  }
 ],
 "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://indiankanoon.org/doc/1218131/",
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  "https://sooperkanoon.com/case/862955/ram-subhak-ojha-vs-commissioner-police"
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 "summary": "The judgment of the Calcutta High Court records the following account. Constable was charged with wrongfully detaining a bullion merchant's guard on 2 March 1962, seizing a 234-tola gold bar without authority and without reporting it, and misappropriating 134 tolas of it. The departmental enquiry found the detention/seizure and misappropriation charges proved, and the Deputy Commissioner dismissed him on 14 March 1963, affirmed by the Commissioner of Police in appeal. The court rejected challenges based on the dismissing authority's competence under section 9-B(2) of the Calcutta Police Act, natural justice, identity of the guard, and reliance on admissions. It held there was no substance in the Rule and discharged it, upholding the dismissal. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "Constable was charged with wrongfully detaining a bullion merchant's guard on 2 March 1962, seizing a 234-tola gold bar without authority and without reporting it, and misappropriating 134 tolas of it. The departmental enquiry found the detention/seizure and misappropriation charges proved, and the Deputy Commissioner dismissed him on 14 March 1963, affirmed by the Commissioner of Police in appeal. The court rejected challenges based on the dismissing authority's competence under section 9-B(2) of the Calcutta Police Act, natural justice, identity of the guard, and reliance on admissions. It held there was no substance in the Rule and discharged it, upholding the dismissal.",
 "court_quote": "Further apart from the admission, evidence was led to prove the charges against the petitioner. That evidence appealed to the disciplinary authority. Therefore, even though the admission, said to have been made by the petitioner, was treated as supporting the evidence against the petitioner that does not vitiate the proceeding.",
 "court_quote_para": "7",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Calcutta HC discharged the Rule; dismissal of Calcutta Police constable for wrongful detention, unauthorised gold seizure and misappropriation 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": "1964-12-04",
   "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 1967 Cal 381",
   "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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 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
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 "fidelity_checked": true,
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 "merged_case_id": "GAP3-28-002",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}