{ "record_id": "CW-1965-0001", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0891", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Assandh Police Sub-Inspector and others vs The State of Punjab and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Assandh Police Sub-Inspector and others vs The State of Punjab and Others", "state": "Haryana", "district": "Karnal", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Assandh", "police_station_or_unit": "Police Station Assandh (Punjab Police at the time; now Haryana Police)", "court": "Punjab and Haryana High Court", "court_as_verified": "Punjab and Haryana High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Assandh Police Sub-Inspector and others vs The State of Punjab and Others", "case_number": "Civil Writ No. 1913 of 1963", "citation": "(1965) 03 P&H CK 0019", "judges": [ "Shamsher Bahadur" ], "judgment_date": "1965-03-10", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 1965, "incident_date": "1959-07-22", "incident_year": 1959, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "corruption", "admin_subcategory": "bribery_pc_act", "subcategory": "bribery_pc_act", "subcategory_display": "bribery pc act", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "Constitution Art. 226", "Constitution Art. 227", "Punjab Police Rules 1934 r.16.38(2)", "Punjab Police Rules 1934 r.16.28(1)" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Sub-Inspector", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "SHO, Police Station Assandh", "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, SHO, Police Station Assandh" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Assandh 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://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/130212/ram-singh-dhawan-vs-the-state-of-punjab-and-others/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The judgment of the Punjab and Haryana High Court records the following account. Sub-Inspector [name withheld], SHO of Police Station Assandh, was alleged to have beaten an Assandh man, confined him in the police station on the night of 22-23 July 1959, and accepted a Rs 300 bribe from him after recovering opium from an Assandh man's brother [name withheld]. After a Vigilance examination, a departmental enquiry initially found the allegations not proved, but the DIG called for the record, held the bribery charge proved, and dismissed him on 28 October 1961, and his appeal was rejected on 10 September 1963. The High Court repelled challenges on Rule 16.38 compliance, the DIG's competence under Rule 16.28, bias, and pre-enquiry association, holding there was no jurisdictional error in the dismissal order. It dismissed the writ petition with no order as to costs, leaving the bribery dismissal intact. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "Sub-Inspector [name withheld], SHO of Police Station Assandh, was alleged to have beaten an Assandh man, confined him in the police station on the night of 22-23 July 1959, and accepted a Rs 300 bribe from him after recovering opium from an Assandh man's brother [name withheld]. After a Vigilance examination, a departmental enquiry initially found the allegations not proved, but the DIG called for the record, held the bribery charge proved, and dismissed him on 28 October 1961, and his appeal was rejected on 10 September 1963. The High Court repelled challenges on Rule 16.38 compliance, the DIG's competence under Rule 16.28, bias, and pre-enquiry association, holding there was no jurisdictional error in the dismissal order. It dismissed the writ petition with no order as to costs, leaving the bribery dismissal intact.", "court_quote": "All that is required is that the petitioner should be given an adequate opportunity at the time of enquiry and when he is to be removed from service. At both stages the petitioner was asked to furnish his explanations which were duly, considered by the appropriate authorities. There is no force in this petition which fails and is dismissed.", "court_quote_para": "9-10", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Writ dismissed; SHO's dismissal on proved Rs 300 bribery charge upheld — disciplinary_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": "1965-03-10", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Punjab and Haryana High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Punjab and Haryana High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "(1965) 03 P&H CK 0019", "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://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/130212/ram-singh-dhawan-vs-the-state-of-punjab-and-others/", "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-74" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP2-49-007", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }