{ "record_id": "CW-1967-0001", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0892", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Ambala Police Constable (No. 1751) vs Inspector General of Police, Punjab and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Ambala Police Constable (No. 1751) vs Inspector General of Police, Punjab and Others", "state": "Haryana", "district": "Ambala", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Ambala", "police_station_or_unit": "Police Lines, Ambala", "court": "Punjab and Haryana High Court", "court_as_verified": "Punjab and Haryana High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Ambala Police Constable (No. 1751) vs Inspector General of Police, Punjab and Others", "case_number": "Civil Writ No. 756 of 1966", "citation": "AIR 1970 P&H 81; (1968) 1 ILR (P&H) 368", "judges": [ "Tek Chand" ], "judgment_date": "1967-08-01", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 1967, "incident_date": "1965-01-03", "incident_year": 1965, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "Punjab Police Rules 1934 r.16.2(1)" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable (No. 1751)", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "Police Lines, Ambala", "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": "Constable (No. 1751), Police Lines, Ambala" } ], "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/1669326/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://sooperkanoon.com/case/610712/bhagwat-parshad-vs-inspector-general" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Punjab and Haryana High Court records the following account. Constable (No. 1751), posted at the Police Lines, Ambala, allegedly consumed liquor off duty on 3 January 1965 and created a noisy, rowdy scene in Barrack No. 1, and the police doctor opined he had taken liquor. An enquiry by Sub-Inspector held him guilty, and the SP dismissed him on 4 March 1965 for grave misconduct, affirmed on departmental appeal and revision. The High Court held that no prejudice was caused by non-supply of the Reserve Inspector's report, that the medical and other evidence sustained the finding, and that the gravest-misconduct standard for dismissal under Rule 16.2(1) was met on these facts. It dismissed the writ petition, leaving the dismissal intact. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "Constable (No. 1751), posted at the Police Lines, Ambala, allegedly consumed liquor off duty on 3 January 1965 and created a noisy, rowdy scene in Barrack No. 1, and the police doctor opined he had taken liquor. An enquiry by Sub-Inspector held him guilty, and the SP dismissed him on 4 March 1965 for grave misconduct, affirmed on departmental appeal and revision. The High Court held that no prejudice was caused by non-supply of the Reserve Inspector's report, that the medical and other evidence sustained the finding, and that the gravest-misconduct standard for dismissal under Rule 16.2(1) was met on these facts. It dismissed the writ petition, leaving the dismissal intact.", "court_quote": "Having carefully gone through the impugned orders, I cannot find any error or lacunao which may be deemed to be apparent on the face of the record. After giving due weight to the issues raised, I find the petition devoid of merit and it is, therefore, dismissed.", "court_quote_para": "19", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Writ dismissed; dismissal for drunken rowdyism in Police Lines 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": "1967-08-01", "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": "AIR 1970 P&H 81; (1968) 1 ILR (P&H) 368", "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/1669326/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://sooperkanoon.com/case/610712/bhagwat-parshad-vs-inspector-general", "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": "GAP2-49-008", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }