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 "record_id": "CW-1976-0003",
 "status": "current",
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 "display_title": "Mysore State Police Police Constable vs State of Mysore",
 "display_title_redacted": "Mysore State Police Police Constable vs State of Mysore",
 "state": "Karnataka",
 "district": "Belagavi",
 "district_at_time": "Belgaum",
 "city_town": "Belagavi",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Khade-bazar Police Station, Belgaum",
 "court": "Supreme Court of India",
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 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Mysore State Police Police Constable vs State of Mysore",
 "case_number": "Civil Appeal No. 847 of 1974",
 "citation": "AIR 1976 SC 1080; (1976) 3 SCC 76",
 "judges": [
  "A. N. Ray",
  "M. H. Beg",
  "Jaswant Singh"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "1976-03-26",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 1976,
 "incident_date": "1960-01-01",
 "incident_year": 1960,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "misconduct",
 "admin_subcategory": "other",
 "subcategory": "other",
 "subcategory_display": "other",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld",
 "sections": [
  "Bombay Prohibition Act s.66(b)"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Police Constable",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "unit": "Khade-bazar Police Station, Belgaum, Mysore State Police",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
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   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Police Constable, Khade-bazar Police Station, Belgaum, Mysore State Police"
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 "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/927546/",
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 "summary": "The Supreme Court on 26 March 1976 dismissed constable 's appeal, sustaining his dismissal from the Mysore (now Karnataka) police for complicity in bootlegging. The Court found that fellow constables' statements implicated him with six others in smuggling illicit liquor linked to a 1960 seizure at Khade-bazar police station, Belgaum, and that the Superintendent of Police had disagreed with the enquiry officer's lenient recommendation to impose dismissal. It held that reasonable opportunity under Article 311 was satisfied and that courts cannot reweigh evidence in domestic enquiries, which do not require criminal standards of proof. The dismissal stands with no compensation. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Supreme Court on 26 March 1976 dismissed constable 's appeal, sustaining his dismissal from the Mysore (now Karnataka) police for complicity in bootlegging. The Court found that fellow constables' statements implicated him with six others in smuggling illicit liquor linked to a 1960 seizure at Khade-bazar police station, Belgaum, and that the Superintendent of Police had disagreed with the enquiry officer's lenient recommendation to impose dismissal. It held that reasonable opportunity under Article 311 was satisfied and that courts cannot reweigh evidence in domestic enquiries, which do not require criminal standards of proof. The dismissal stands with no compensation.",
 "court_quote": "For the foregoing reasons, we do not find any force in the contention of counsel for the appellant that there was no evidence on the record which could justify the appellant's dismissal from service.",
 "court_quote_para": "n/a",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "SC upheld dismissal of constable for complicity in illicit-liquor smuggling; courts cannot reweigh enquiry evidence.",
 "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"
  }
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 "institutional_response": [
  {
   "date": "1976-03-26",
   "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 1976 SC 1080; (1976) 3 SCC 76",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
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 "followup_status": "never_checked",
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 "source_assessment": {
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 "v3_basis": null,
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 "retracted": {
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 "merged_case_id": "GAP3-127-012",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
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 "service": "police",
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}