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 "record_id": "CW-2001-0016",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0780",
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 "display_title": "Ex. Constable Jal Singh vs Commissioner of Police and Others",
 "display_title_redacted": "Ex. Constable Jal Singh vs Commissioner of Police and Others",
 "state": "Delhi",
 "district": "New Delhi",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "New Delhi",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Delhi Police",
 "court": "Delhi High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Delhi High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Ex. Constable Jal Singh vs Commissioner of Police and Others",
 "case_number": null,
 "citation": "2002(63) DRJ 198",
 "judges": [
  "Sharda Aggarwal"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2001-09-19",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2001,
 "incident_date": "1991-05-08",
 "incident_year": 1991,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "misconduct",
 "admin_subcategory": "other",
 "subcategory": "other",
 "subcategory_display": "other",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld",
 "sections": [
  "Constitution Art.226"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": "Jal Singh",
   "rank": "Constable",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "unit": "Delhi Police",
   "publish_grade": "named_safe",
   "gate_reasons": [],
   "ledger_role": "held_liable",
   "key2": "yes",
   "key2_agy": "yes",
   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": null,
   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": null,
   "key2_gpt56": null,
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   "jev_p_culpable": 0.93,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": "Jal Singh",
   "display": "Jal Singh (Constable)"
  }
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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/398507/",
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 "summary": "The judgment of the Delhi High Court records the following account. Delhi Police constable Jal Singh remained unauthorisedly absent from 8 May 1991 to 26 July 1991 despite two absentee notices, and had 40 prior unauthorised absences on record. A departmental enquiry held the misconduct charge proved and he was dismissed on 17 July 1992; his departmental appeal and OA No.1529/93 before the Central Administrative Tribunal both failed. The court held that regularising the absence as leave without pay was only for maintaining a correct service record and did not obliterate the dismissal, following Harihar Gopal. It found no illegality in the dismissal, dismissed the Article 226 writ petition, and upheld the Tribunal order dated 14 July 1999. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "Delhi Police constable Jal Singh remained unauthorisedly absent from 8 May 1991 to 26 July 1991 despite two absentee notices, and had 40 prior unauthorised absences on record. A departmental enquiry held the misconduct charge proved and he was dismissed on 17 July 1992; his departmental appeal and OA No.1529/93 before the Central Administrative Tribunal both failed. The court held that regularising the absence as leave without pay was only for maintaining a correct service record and did not obliterate the dismissal, following Harihar Gopal. It found no illegality in the dismissal, dismissed the Article 226 writ petition, and upheld the Tribunal order dated 14 July 1999.",
 "court_quote": "we are of the opinion that the order dismissal of the petitioner does not suffer from any illegality",
 "court_quote_para": "14",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Delhi Police constable's dismissal for habitual unauthorised absence upheld; writ dismissed.",
 "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": "2001-09-19",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Delhi High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Delhi High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.",
   "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only",
   "source": "2002(63) DRJ 198",
   "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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  {
   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/398507/",
   "link_checked": null
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  {
   "url": "https://sooperkanoon.com/case/703602/ex-constable-jal-singh-vs-commissioner-police",
   "link_checked": null
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 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
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 "merged_case_id": "GAP2-17-001",
 "officers_named_public": 1,
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 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}