{ "record_id": "CW-2000-0005", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0144", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "H. N. Rao vs State of Gujarat", "display_title_redacted": "H. N. Rao vs State of Gujarat", "state": "Gujarat", "district": "Kheda", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Nadiad", "police_station_or_unit": "Nadiad ACB Police Station (case registered 1993)", "court": "Gujarat High Court", "court_as_verified": "Gujarat High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "H. N. Rao vs State of Gujarat", "case_number": "Special Civil Application No. 1912 of 2000", "citation": null, "judges": [ "R. M. Doshit" ], "judgment_date": "2000-07-21", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2000, "incident_date": "1993-01-01", "incident_year": 1993, "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": [ "IPC 161", "PC Act 1988 s.7", "PC Act 1988 s.12", "PC Act 1988 s.13" ], "officers": [ { "name": "H. N. Rao", "rank": "Police Sub-Inspector", "unit": "Gujarat Police (tried at Nadiad)", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "named_safe", "gate_reasons": [ "key2_gemapi:unclear(overruled by grok)", "key2_openrouter:no(overruled by grok)" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": "unclear", "key2_openrouter": "no", "key2_gpt56": "yes", "grok": "yes", "jev_risk": 0.07, "jev_p_culpable": 0.95, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": "H. N. Rao", "display": "H. N. Rao (Police Sub-Inspector)" } ], "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/1925276/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/438199/h-n-rao-vs-state-of-gujarat/" ], "summary": "The Gujarat High Court dismissed former PSI H. N. Rao challenge to his dismissal from service following his 5 May 1998 conviction by the Additional Sessions Judge, Nadiad, in Special Case 7 of 1994 under Section 161 IPC (1 year RI plus Rs 1,000 fine) and the Prevention of Corruption Act 1988 (2 years RI plus Rs 2,000 fine). The petitioner contended dismissal during the pendency of his criminal appeal without hearing or GPSC consultation was illegal. The Court held, following the Full Bench in P. D. Waghela and the Supreme Court in Tulsiram Patel, that a trial-court conviction sustains dismissal under the second proviso to Article 311(2) despite a pending appeal with no hearing or GPSC consultation required. It found the dismissal wholly justified and discharged the notice. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Gujarat High Court dismissed former PSI H. N. Rao challenge to his dismissal from service following his 5 May 1998 conviction by the Additional Sessions Judge, Nadiad, in Special Case 7 of 1994 under Section 161 IPC (1 year RI plus Rs 1,000 fine) and the Prevention of Corruption Act 1988 (2 years RI plus Rs 2,000 fine). The petitioner contended dismissal during the pendency of his criminal appeal without hearing or GPSC consultation was illegal. The Court held, following the Full Bench in P. D. Waghela and the Supreme Court in Tulsiram Patel, that a trial-court conviction sustains dismissal under the second proviso to Article 311(2) despite a pending appeal with no hearing or GPSC consultation required. It found the dismissal wholly justified and discharged the notice.", "court_quote": "In view of the conviction of the petitioner and the sentence imposed upon him, the impugned order dismissing the petitioner from service is wholly justified.", "court_quote_para": "12", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Gujarat HC judgment verified; dismissal on trial-court conviction upheld despite pending appeal.", "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": "2000-07-21", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Gujarat High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Gujarat High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "Special Civil Application No. 1912 of 2000", "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/1925276/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/438199/h-n-rao-vs-state-of-gujarat/", "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-37" ], "merged_case_id": "GUJARA-015", "officers_named_public": 1, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }