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 "record_id": "CW-1996-0015",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-1148",
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 "display_title": "Cooch Behar Police Constable v. State of West Bengal and Others",
 "display_title_redacted": "Cooch Behar Police Constable v. State of West Bengal and Others",
 "state": "West Bengal",
 "district": "Cooch Behar",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Cooch Behar",
 "police_station_or_unit": "DAP, Cooch Behar",
 "court": "Calcutta High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Calcutta High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Cooch Behar Police Constable v. State of West Bengal and Others",
 "case_number": "Appeal No. 1136 of 1990 (arising from C.R. No. 3878(W) of 1983)",
 "citation": "(1998) 1 DMC 450",
 "judges": [
  "Satyabrata Sinha",
  "Satya Narayan Chakraborty"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "1996-07-04",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 1996,
 "incident_date": "1980-01-01",
 "incident_year": 1980,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "misconduct",
 "admin_subcategory": "other",
 "subcategory": "other",
 "subcategory_display": "other",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld",
 "sections": [
  "IPC 494",
  "WB Government Servants Conduct Rules 1959 r.30",
  "WB Government Services (Duties, Rights and Obligations) Rules 1980 r.5(4)"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Constable",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "unit": "DAP, Cooch Behar",
   "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, DAP, Cooch Behar"
  }
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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/1820615/",
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  "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/56095fcfe4b01497112cb31b"
 ],
 "summary": "Constable of DAP Cooch Behar was charge-sheeted on 22 April 1980 for contracting a second marriage during his first wife's lifetime, and dismissed from service on 30 April 1981. In his written defence he stated he had remarried with his first wife's written consent, which the court treated as an admission of the charge. The Division Bench held the admitted bigamy was both an offence under section 494 IPC and misconduct, that a fact admitted need not be proved, and that wrong mentioning of the conduct rule caused no prejudice. It dismissed the appeal against the Single Judge's rejection of his writ, leaving the dismissal intact.",
 "summary_verified": "Constable of DAP Cooch Behar was charge-sheeted on 22 April 1980 for contracting a second marriage during his first wife's lifetime, and dismissed from service on 30 April 1981. In his written defence he stated he had remarried with his first wife's written consent, which the court treated as an admission of the charge. The Division Bench held the admitted bigamy was both an offence under section 494 IPC and misconduct, that a fact admitted need not be proved, and that wrong mentioning of the conduct rule caused no prejudice. It dismissed the appeal against the Single Judge's rejection of his writ, leaving the dismissal intact.",
 "court_quote": "As noticed hereinbefore, the appellant in his written statement categorically admitted the misconduct committed by him. His only defence was that he married Smt. Sefali De Chowdhury with the written consent of his first wife. It is not in dispute that in terms of the provision of Section 494 of IPC, Bigamy is a penal offence as well as in terms of the provision of the W.B. Government Servant Conduct Rules no employee is permitted to commit misconduct or a penal offence with the consent of any other person.",
 "court_quote_para": "9",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Calcutta HC Division Bench dismissed the constable's appeal; dismissal for admitted bigamy (IPC 494 offence and conduct-rule misconduct) stands.",
 "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": "1996-07-04",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Calcutta High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Calcutta High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.",
   "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only",
   "source": "(1998) 1 DMC 450",
   "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": []
  }
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 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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  "is_retracted": false
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 "merged_case_id": "GAP3-28-001",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}