{ "record_id": "CW-1974-0004", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1307", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Malkangiri Police Constable v. State of Orissa & Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "Malkangiri Police Constable v. State of Orissa & Ors.", "state": "Odisha", "district": "Malkangiri", "district_at_time": "Koraput", "city_town": "Malkangiri", "police_station_or_unit": "Malkangiri Police Station", "court": "Orissa High Court", "court_as_verified": "Orissa High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Malkangiri Police Constable v. State of Orissa & Ors.", "case_number": "O.J.C. No. 240 of 1973", "citation": "(1974) 40 CLT 1294", "judges": [ "G. K. Misra", "B. K. Ray" ], "judgment_date": "1974-08-20", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 1974, "incident_date": "1967-03-25", "incident_year": 1967, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "IPC 342", "IPC 392", "Orissa Service Code Rules 90, 93, 94" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "unit": "Malkangiri Police Station", "role": "convicted", "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, Malkangiri Police Station" } ], "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://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/91812/banshidhar-panigrahi-appellant-hash-state-of-orissa-and-others-respondent/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "Police constable of Malkangiri P.S. faced an FIR under sections 342/392 IPC in March 1967, was suspended, convicted and fined (conviction upheld on 3 April 1969 with reduced fine), and was dismissed from service in September 1969 after a parallel disciplinary proceeding. He challenged the dismissal alleging delayed subsistence allowance denied him reasonable opportunity and that retrospective dismissal was bad. On 20 August 1974 the Division Bench rejected the challenge to the dismissal itself, holding he had received subsistence amounts and never pleaded inability to attend the enquiry. The court allowed the writ only to the extent of full salary from 3 April 1969 till communication of dismissal, holding dismissal effective 19 September 1969; the dismissal stood. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "Police constable of Malkangiri P.S. faced an FIR under sections 342/392 IPC in March 1967, was suspended, convicted and fined (conviction upheld on 3 April 1969 with reduced fine), and was dismissed from service in September 1969 after a parallel disciplinary proceeding. He challenged the dismissal alleging delayed subsistence allowance denied him reasonable opportunity and that retrospective dismissal was bad. On 20 August 1974 the Division Bench rejected the challenge to the dismissal itself, holding he had received subsistence amounts and never pleaded inability to attend the enquiry. The court allowed the writ only to the extent of full salary from 3 April 1969 till communication of dismissal, holding dismissal effective 19 September 1969; the dismissal stood.", "court_quote": "On the aforesaid analysis the writ application succeeds in part and a writ of mandamus be issued directing payment, of salary as Indicated above.", "court_quote_para": "5", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Dismissal of constable for criminal misconduct sustained; writ allowed only for interim salary.", "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": "1974-08-20", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Orissa High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Orissa High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "(1974) 40 CLT 1294", "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/91812/banshidhar-panigrahi-appellant-hash-state-of-orissa-and-others-respondent/", "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-125" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-91-002", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }