{ "record_id": "CW-2001-0012", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1081", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Rajasthan Police Constable vs State of Rajasthan & Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "Rajasthan Police Constable vs State of Rajasthan & Ors.", "state": "Rajasthan", "district": null, "district_at_time": null, "city_town": null, "police_station_or_unit": null, "court": "Rajasthan High Court", "court_as_verified": "Rajasthan High Court", "bench": "Jaipur", "case_title": "Rajasthan Police Constable vs State of Rajasthan & Ors.", "case_number": "Civil Special Appeal No. 72 of 2001", "citation": "(2001) 2 RLW 819", "judges": [ "H.R. Panwar", "B.J. Shethna" ], "judgment_date": "2001-01-25", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2001, "incident_date": "1997-06-02", "incident_year": 1997, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "dereliction_evidence_tampering", "subcategory": "dereliction_evidence_tampering", "subcategory_display": "dereliction evidence tampering", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "Rajasthan CCA Rules 1958" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "Rajasthan Police", "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, Rajasthan Police" } ], "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/137789/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/212008/navratan-mal-appellant-hash-state-of-rajasthan-and-others-respondent/", "https://sooperkanoon.com/case/758820/navratan-mal-vs-state-rajasthan-ors" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Rajasthan High Court records the following account. Police Constable, selected in December 1996 and on duty from February 1997, left duty on 2 June 1997 without intimation or leave and stayed continuously absent until 10 November 1997 — 162 days — ignoring a show-cause notice to report immediately, with a prior 43-day absence on record. He pleaded his mother's serious illness and ignorance of rules as a novice, and contended termination was disproportionate. The Division Bench found these unsubstantiated lame excuses with no medical certificate produced, held that 162 days' absence without leave in a disciplined police force is serious misconduct for which no order except termination could be passed, and dismissed the special appeal.", "summary_verified": "Police Constable, selected in December 1996 and on duty from February 1997, left duty on 2 June 1997 without intimation or leave and stayed continuously absent until 10 November 1997 — 162 days — ignoring a show-cause notice to report immediately, with a prior 43-day absence on record. He pleaded his mother's serious illness and ignorance of rules as a novice, and contended termination was disproportionate. The Division Bench found these unsubstantiated lame excuses with no medical certificate produced, held that 162 days' absence without leave in a disciplined police force is serious misconduct for which no order except termination could be passed, and dismissed the special appeal.", "court_quote": "If he was in the other department, then there would have been a different consideration but the appellant was in police department which is a disciplined force where such along absence of 162 days from duly without any leave should be viewed as a serious mis-conduct for which no other order except the order of termination could be passed.", "court_quote_para": "2", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Judgment text verified; constable's termination for 162 days' absence without leave upheld.", "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": "2001-01-25", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Rajasthan High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Rajasthan High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "(2001) 2 RLW 819", "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/137789/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/212008/navratan-mal-appellant-hash-state-of-rajasthan-and-others-respondent/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://sooperkanoon.com/case/758820/navratan-mal-vs-state-rajasthan-ors", "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-95" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-119-002", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }