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 "record_id": "CW-1986-0002",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-1054",
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 "display_title": "State of Punjab and Others v. Punjab Police Constable",
 "display_title_redacted": "State of Punjab and Others v. Punjab Police Constable",
 "state": "Punjab",
 "district": "Patiala",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Patiala",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Punjab Police, Patiala",
 "court": "Punjab and Haryana High Court",
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 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "State of Punjab and Others v. Punjab Police Constable",
 "case_number": "Regular Second Appeal No. 3336 of 1985",
 "citation": "I.L.R. Punjab and Haryana (1987)2",
 "judges": [
  "S. S. Sodhi"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "1986-08-20",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 1986,
 "incident_date": "1981-04-01",
 "incident_year": 1981,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "misconduct",
 "admin_subcategory": "other",
 "subcategory": "other",
 "subcategory_display": "other",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld",
 "sections": [
  "Police Act 1861 s.7"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Constable",
   "unit": "Punjab Police, Patiala",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "ledger:no_row",
    "key2:no_row"
   ],
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   "key2_agy": null,
   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": null,
   "key2_gemapi": null,
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   "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, Patiala"
  }
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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://highcourtchd.gov.in/landmark_judgments/HC/English/Regular%20Second%20Appeal_3336_1985.pdf",
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 "summary": "The Punjab and Haryana High Court sustained the dismissal of Punjab Police constable of Patiala, who had been dismissed on 1 April 1981 by the Additional Superintendent of Police after a departmental enquiry found wilful absence without permission in order to avoid a Refresher Course. The court held the Additional Superintendent of Police has concurrent powers with the Superintendent of Police under s.7 of the Police Act, 1861, so the order was passed by the competent authority. Noting the constable had earned six punishments in ten years of service and was recorded as incorrigible, the court held the punishment called for no interference. It set aside the lower appellate decree that had quashed the dismissal and dismissed the constable's suit; a pure service matter with no citizen victim. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Punjab and Haryana High Court sustained the dismissal of Punjab Police constable of Patiala, who had been dismissed on 1 April 1981 by the Additional Superintendent of Police after a departmental enquiry found wilful absence without permission in order to avoid a Refresher Course. The court held the Additional Superintendent of Police has concurrent powers with the Superintendent of Police under s.7 of the Police Act, 1861, so the order was passed by the competent authority. Noting the constable had earned six punishments in ten years of service and was recorded as incorrigible, the court held the punishment called for no interference. It set aside the lower appellate decree that had quashed the dismissal and dismissed the constable's suit; a pure service matter with no citizen victim.",
 "court_quote": "The impugned order of dismissal thus suffers from no infirmity and in this view of the matter, the judgment and decree of the lower appellate court is hereby set aside and the suit of the plaintiff-[name withheld] is hereby dismissed.",
 "court_quote_para": "7",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Judgment verified from official HC ILR scan; dismissal for wilful absence sustained. Pure service matter, no citizen victim — retained as disciplinary_upheld per outcome list.",
 "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": "1986-08-20",
   "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": "I.L.R. Punjab and Haryana (1987)2",
   "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",
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  {
   "url": "https://highcourtchd.gov.in/landmark_judgments/HC/English/Regular%20Second%20Appeal_3336_1985.pdf",
   "link_checked": null
  }
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  "basis": null
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 "v3_basis": null,
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 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
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 "fidelity_checked": true,
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 "merged_case_id": "GAP3-109-001",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}