{ "record_id": "CW-1970-0004", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1226", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Dharwad Police Police Constable vs State of Mysore", "display_title_redacted": "Dharwad Police Police Constable vs State of Mysore", "state": "Karnataka", "district": "Dharwad", "district_at_time": "Dharwar", "city_town": "Dharwad", "police_station_or_unit": "Dharwad District Police", "court": "Supreme Court of India", "court_as_verified": "Supreme Court of India", "bench": null, "case_title": "Dharwad Police Police Constable vs State of Mysore", "case_number": "Civil Appeal No. 485 of 1967", "citation": "AIR 1972 SC 32", "judges": [ "M. Hidayatullah", "A. N. Ray" ], "judgment_date": "1970-10-16", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 1970, "incident_date": "1953-01-01", "incident_year": 1953, "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", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "Dharwad district police", "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, Dharwad district police" } ], "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/1481963/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.advocatekhoj.com/library/judgments/index.php?go=1970/october/channabasappa-basappa-happali-vs-state-of-mysore-insc-220-16-october-1970-12" ], "summary": "The Supreme Court on 16 October 1970 dismissed the appeal of former police constable, sustaining his 1953 dismissal from the Mysore (now Karnataka) police. The Court found that he had overstayed sanctioned leave from January 1953 without permission and then staged a seven-day public fast near Dharwar as a demonstration against his superior officers. It held that admission of facts in a departmental enquiry amounts to a plea of guilty and that absence without leave coupled with a demonstrative fast is fully established indiscipline in a police force. The dismissal was held merited; the case involved internal indiscipline with no public victim. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Supreme Court on 16 October 1970 dismissed the appeal of former police constable, sustaining his 1953 dismissal from the Mysore (now Karnataka) police. The Court found that he had overstayed sanctioned leave from January 1953 without permission and then staged a seven-day public fast near Dharwar as a demonstration against his superior officers. It held that admission of facts in a departmental enquiry amounts to a plea of guilty and that absence without leave coupled with a demonstrative fast is fully established indiscipline in a police force. The dismissal was held merited; the case involved internal indiscipline with no public victim.", "court_quote": "If a police officer remains absent without leave and also resorts to fast as a demonstration against the action of the superior officer the indiscipline is fully established.", "court_quote_para": "n/a", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "SC upheld dismissal of constable for overstaying leave and staging a protest fast; internal indiscipline, no public victim.", "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": "1970-10-16", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Supreme Court of India", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Supreme Court of India upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "AIR 1972 SC 32", "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/1481963/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.advocatekhoj.com/library/judgments/index.php?go=1970/october/channabasappa-basappa-happali-vs-state-of-mysore-insc-220-16-october-1970-12", "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-114", "chunk-98" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-55-001", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }