{ "record_id": "CW-1977-0003", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1104", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "State of Uttar Pradesh vs Uttar Pradesh Police Sub-Inspector (confirmed)", "display_title_redacted": "State of Uttar Pradesh vs Uttar Pradesh Police Sub-Inspector (confirmed)", "state": "Uttar Pradesh", "district": "Etah", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Etah", "police_station_or_unit": null, "court": "Supreme Court of India", "court_as_verified": "Supreme Court of India", "bench": null, "case_title": "State of Uttar Pradesh vs Uttar Pradesh Police Sub-Inspector (confirmed)", "case_number": "Civil Appeal No. 2339 of 1968", "citation": "AIR 1977 SC 1680; (1977) 2 SCC 806", "judges": [ "P. N. Shinghal", "Y. V. Chandrachud", "P. K. Goswami" ], "judgment_date": "1977-04-04", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 1977, "incident_date": "1954-01-01", "incident_year": 1954, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "corruption", "admin_subcategory": "bribery_pc_act", "subcategory": "bribery_pc_act", "subcategory_display": "bribery pc act", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "PC Act 1947", "IPC" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Sub-Inspector (confirmed)", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "Etah, Uttar Pradesh 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": "Sub-Inspector (confirmed), Etah, Uttar Pradesh 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/739415/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.legalauthority.in/judgement/state-of-uttar-pradesh-vs-nawab-hussain-33885" ], "summary": "The Supreme Court on 4 April 1977 allowed the State's appeal and dismissed former sub-inspector 's suit, leaving his 1954 corruption-based dismissal intact. The Court found that two cases under the Prevention of Corruption Act and the Penal Code had been registered against the confirmed Etah SI following an anonymous complaint, and that he had been dismissed by the Deputy Inspector-General. It held that his plea that only the Inspector-General could dismiss him under Article 311(1) ought to have been raised in his earlier writ petition and was barred by constructive res judicata. The merits of the corruption charges were not re-examined, and no compensation was ordered. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Supreme Court on 4 April 1977 allowed the State's appeal and dismissed former sub-inspector 's suit, leaving his 1954 corruption-based dismissal intact. The Court found that two cases under the Prevention of Corruption Act and the Penal Code had been registered against the confirmed Etah SI following an anonymous complaint, and that he had been dismissed by the Deputy Inspector-General. It held that his plea that only the Inspector-General could dismiss him under Article 311(1) ought to have been raised in his earlier writ petition and was barred by constructive res judicata. The merits of the corruption charges were not re-examined, and no compensation was ordered.", "court_quote": "Two cases were registered against him under the Prevention of Corruption Act and the Penal Code.", "court_quote_para": "n/a", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "SC restored corruption-based dismissal of Etah SI on constructive res judicata; merits of PC Act charges not re-examined.", "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": "1977-04-04", "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 1977 SC 1680; (1977) 2 SCC 806", "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/739415/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.legalauthority.in/judgement/state-of-uttar-pradesh-vs-nawab-hussain-33885", "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-98" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-127-013", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }