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 "record_id": "CW-1975-0003",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0893",
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 "display_title": "Inspector-General of Police, Punjab vs [name withheld]",
 "display_title_redacted": "Inspector-General of Police, Punjab vs [name withheld]",
 "state": "Punjab",
 "district": "Kapurthala",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Phagwara",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Punjab Police (Kapurthala)",
 "court": "Punjab and Haryana High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Punjab and Haryana High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Inspector-General of Police, Punjab vs [name withheld]",
 "case_number": "Letters Patent Appeal No. 10 of 1972",
 "citation": "ILR (1975) 1 P&H 417",
 "judges": [
  "Harbans Singh",
  "Bal Raj Tuli"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "1975-07-24",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 1975,
 "incident_date": "1966-11-06",
 "incident_year": 1966,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "misconduct",
 "admin_subcategory": "other",
 "subcategory": "other",
 "subcategory_display": "other",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld",
 "sections": [
  "Excise Act s.61/1/14",
  "Punjab Police Rules 1934 r.16.3(1)(a)",
  "Punjab Police Rules 1934 r.16.3(1)(b)"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Constable",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "unit": "Punjab Police (Kapurthala)",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "ledger:no_row",
    "key2:no_row"
   ],
   "ledger_role": null,
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   "key2_agy": null,
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   "key2_union": null,
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   "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, Punjab Police (Kapurthala)"
  }
 ],
 "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://highcourtchd.gov.in/landmark_judgments/HC/English/LPA_10_1972.pdf",
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 "summary": "Permanent Constable was allegedly found carrying 4,500 ml of illicit liquor near village Athali on 6 November 1966 (FIR 383 under the Excise Act, Phagwara), but the Magistrate acquitted him on 17 June 1967 without recording the available official witnesses after the prosecution gave up the public witness as won over. The SP Kapurthala dismissed him on 23 December 1967 after disciplinary proceedings, affirmed on appeal and revision, but a Single Judge allowed his writ on 20 July 1971. The Division Bench held the acquittal was without jurisdiction and the charge had failed on a technical ground, so action lay under Rule 16.3(1)(a), and the wrong citation of clause (b) did not vitiate it. It allowed the State's appeal, set aside the Single Judge, and restored the dismissal.",
 "summary_verified": "Permanent Constable was allegedly found carrying 4,500 ml of illicit liquor near village Athali on 6 November 1966 (FIR 383 under the Excise Act, Phagwara), but the Magistrate acquitted him on 17 June 1967 without recording the available official witnesses after the prosecution gave up the public witness as won over. The SP Kapurthala dismissed him on 23 December 1967 after disciplinary proceedings, affirmed on appeal and revision, but a Single Judge allowed his writ on 20 July 1971. The Division Bench held the acquittal was without jurisdiction and the charge had failed on a technical ground, so action lay under Rule 16.3(1)(a), and the wrong citation of clause (b) did not vitiate it. It allowed the State's appeal, set aside the Single Judge, and restored the dismissal.",
 "court_quote": "We respectfully agree with the learned Single Judge, that the criminal charge against the respondent had failed on a technical ground because the Magistrate refused to record the evidence of the two prosecution witnesses, who were available",
 "court_quote_para": "4",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "State's LPA allowed; Single Judge set aside and illicit-liquor dismissal restored — 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": "1975-07-24",
   "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": "ILR (1975) 1 P&H 417",
   "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": [
    "court_quote_para"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
 "link_checked_per_url": [
  {
   "url": "https://highcourtchd.gov.in/landmark_judgments/HC/English/LPA_10_1972.pdf",
   "link_checked": null
  }
 ],
 "source_assessment": {
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  "basis": null
 },
 "v3_basis": null,
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 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
 },
 "fidelity_checked": true,
 "verified_by": [
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 "merged_case_id": "GAP2-49-009",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}