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 "record_id": "CW-2000-0010",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0978",
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 "display_title": "Bihar Police Constable vs State of Bihar and Others",
 "display_title_redacted": "Bihar Police Constable vs State of Bihar and Others",
 "state": "Bihar",
 "district": "Patna",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Patna",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Bihar Police, Patna Junction",
 "court": "Patna High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Patna High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Bihar Police Constable vs State of Bihar and Others",
 "case_number": "C.W.J.C. No. 8566 of 1998",
 "citation": "2000(2)BLJR846",
 "judges": [
  "S.J. Mukhopadhaya"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2000-01-11",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2000,
 "incident_date": "1992-07-04",
 "incident_year": 1992,
 "category": "Custodial torture",
 "admin_category": "brutality",
 "admin_subcategory": "custodial_rape_sexual_assault",
 "subcategory": "custodial_rape_sexual_assault",
 "subcategory_display": "custodial rape sexual assault",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld",
 "sections": [
  "IPC 363",
  "IPC 366",
  "IPC 376",
  "IPC 376/34"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Constable",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "unit": "Bihar Police",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "ledger:no_row",
    "key2:no_row"
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   "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, Bihar Police"
  }
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 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "female",
   "descriptor": "Patna woman"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "dismissal",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": null,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/764184/bishram-tete-appellant-hash-state-of-bihar-and-others-respondent/",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "(2000) 01 PAT CK 0112",
  "2000(2)PLJR303"
 ],
 "summary": "The judgment of the Patna High Court records the following account. On 4 July 1992 at about 11.30 p.m. at Patna Junction, constable with other constables allegedly kidnapped and raped a woman, leading to G.R. No. 8231/92 under Sections 363, 366, 376 and 376/34 IPC; he was acquitted in Sessions Trial No. 95/92 on 15 January 1994 after the key witness turned hostile. Departmentally he was proceeded against on the rape charge plus dereliction of duty, unauthorised absence and insubordination, and dismissed on 5 December 1994 after a supplementary inquiry, with his appeal rejected on 28 June 1995. The Patna High Court (S.J. Mukhopadhaya, J.) held the inquiry findings were not perverse, that police witnesses including identification evidence supported the charges, and that criminal acquittal on hostile and formal witnesses confers no benefit in departmental proceedings. The writ petition was dismissed on 11 January 2000. The 2000 judgment names the victim; her name is withheld here under BNS s.72 (IPC s.228A). Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "On 4 July 1992 at about 11.30 p.m. at Patna Junction, constable with other constables allegedly kidnapped and raped a woman, leading to G.R. No. 8231/92 under Sections 363, 366, 376 and 376/34 IPC; he was acquitted in Sessions Trial No. 95/92 on 15 January 1994 after the key witness turned hostile. Departmentally he was proceeded against on the rape charge plus dereliction of duty, unauthorised absence and insubordination, and dismissed on 5 December 1994 after a supplementary inquiry, with his appeal rejected on 28 June 1995. The Patna High Court (S.J. Mukhopadhaya, J.) held the inquiry findings were not perverse, that police witnesses including identification evidence supported the charges, and that criminal acquittal on hostile and formal witnesses confers no benefit in departmental proceedings. The writ petition was dismissed on 11 January 2000. The 2000 judgment names the victim; her name is withheld here under BNS s.72 (IPC s.228A).",
 "court_quote": "In absence of witnesses/evidences, if the petitioner was acquitted in the criminal proceeding, he cannot derive any benefit of the same in the departmental proceeding, wherein the named witnesses appeared and supported the case of prosecution.",
 "court_quote_para": "11",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Judgment verified; dismissal for kidnapping/rape and dereliction upheld on departmental evidence despite criminal acquittal.",
 "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": "Custodial torture",
   "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": "2000-01-11",
   "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(2)BLJR846",
   "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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 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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   "link_checked": null
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  {
   "url": "(2000) 01 PAT CK 0112",
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  {
   "url": "2000(2)PLJR303",
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  }
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 "source_assessment": {
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  "basis": null
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 "v3_basis": null,
 "publication_basis": null,
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 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
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 "merged_case_id": "GAP3-101-008",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
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 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}