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 "status": "current",
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 "display_title": "Rail Police Constable vs The State of Bihar and Others",
 "display_title_redacted": "Rail Police Constable vs The State of Bihar and Others",
 "state": "Bihar",
 "district": "Patna",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Patna",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Rail Police Centre, Patna (Patna Junction)",
 "court": "Patna High Court",
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 "case_title": "Rail Police Constable vs The State of Bihar and Others",
 "case_number": "C.W.J.C. No. 5120 of 1998",
 "citation": "(2000) 1 PLJR 32; (1999) 09 PAT CK 0069",
 "judges": [
  "S. J. Mukhopadhaya"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "1999-09-30",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 1999,
 "incident_date": "1996-07-30",
 "incident_year": 1996,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "corruption",
 "admin_subcategory": "extortion",
 "subcategory": "extortion",
 "subcategory_display": "extortion",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld",
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   "name": null,
   "rank": "Constable",
   "unit": "Rail Police Centre, Patna",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
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   "display": "Constable, Rail Police Centre, Patna"
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 "sentence_type": "dismissal",
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 "force": "state_police",
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 "summary": "The judgment of the Patna High Court records the following account. On 30 July 1996 a Rail Police constable shown as sick was caught by the Dy.S.P. (Rail) checking passengers' tickets in plain clothes on Patna Junction platform, in violation of standing orders, and fled across the tracks. An ex parte inquiry held him guilty of doubtful integrity and dereliction of duty, and the S.P. (Rail) dismissed him from service. The Patna High Court held the inquiry was lawful with full opportunity which the petitioner himself spurned, declined writ discretion given the grave and repeated charges, and dismissed the petition with the dismissal operating prospectively from 23 September 1997. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "On 30 July 1996 a Rail Police constable shown as sick was caught by the Dy.S.P. (Rail) checking passengers' tickets in plain clothes on Patna Junction platform, in violation of standing orders, and fled across the tracks. An ex parte inquiry held him guilty of doubtful integrity and dereliction of duty, and the S.P. (Rail) dismissed him from service. The Patna High Court held the inquiry was lawful with full opportunity which the petitioner himself spurned, declined writ discretion given the grave and repeated charges, and dismissed the petition with the dismissal operating prospectively from 23 September 1997.",
 "court_quote": "In the aforesaid circumstances, the charges being grave and as it appears that for similar charge, another departmental proceeding has been initiated, enquiry officer has submitted report holding the petitioner guilty for other similar charge, even if there remains any technical defect in the order of dismissal, I am not inclined to exercise my discretion under writ jurisdiction, except that the order of dismissal should be treated to be prospective i.e. w.e.f. 23.9.1997. The writ petition is, accordingly, dismissed, with the aforesaid observations.",
 "court_quote_para": "10",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Rail Police constable's dismissal for extortionate ticket-checking upheld; writ dismissed.",
 "verification_status": "V2",
 "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported",
 "tier_badge": "Externally reported",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
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  "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded"
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 "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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  {
   "date": "1999-09-30",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Patna High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Patna High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.",
   "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only",
   "source": "(2000) 1 PLJR 32; (1999) 09 PAT CK 0069",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
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  {
   "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",
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 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
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