{ "record_id": "CW-2002-0020", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1165", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Govt. of NCT of Delhi and Ors. vs Delhi Police Constable", "display_title_redacted": "Govt. of NCT of Delhi and Ors. vs Delhi Police Constable", "state": "Delhi", "district": null, "district_at_time": null, "city_town": null, "police_station_or_unit": null, "court": "Delhi High Court", "court_as_verified": "Delhi High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Govt. of NCT of Delhi and Ors. vs Delhi Police Constable", "case_number": null, "citation": "100(2002)DLT385", "judges": [ "S.B. Sinha", "A.K. Sikri" ], "judgment_date": "2002-04-11", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2002, "incident_date": null, "incident_year": null, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "IPC 354" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "unit": "Delhi Police", "role": "held_liable", "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, Delhi Police" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "age": null, "gender": "female", "name": null, "descriptor": "Delhi 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://indiankanoon.org/doc/758817/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Delhi High Court Division Bench (S.B. Sinha, C.J. and A.K. Sikri, J.) on 11 April 2002 allowed the Government's writ petition arising from CAT OA No. 1161/1996 and set aside the Tribunal's judgment, leaving intact the dismissal of Delhi Police constable for outraging the modesty of the survivor at her jhuggi and threatening her husband. The court held Rule 12 of the Delhi Police (Punishment and Appeal) Rules, 1980 bars fresh departmental punishment after a judicial acquittal but does not vitiate a dismissal already imposed on 15 January 1991 before the acquittal, and that a pending appeal does not keep punishment under animated suspension. It further held the criminal acquittal was only on benefit of doubt, falling within the exception in Rule 12(a). The dismissal therefore stood. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Delhi High Court Division Bench (S.B. Sinha, C.J. and A.K. Sikri, J.) on 11 April 2002 allowed the Government's writ petition arising from CAT OA No. 1161/1996 and set aside the Tribunal's judgment, leaving intact the dismissal of Delhi Police constable for outraging the modesty of the survivor at her jhuggi and threatening her husband. The court held Rule 12 of the Delhi Police (Punishment and Appeal) Rules, 1980 bars fresh departmental punishment after a judicial acquittal but does not vitiate a dismissal already imposed on 15 January 1991 before the acquittal, and that a pending appeal does not keep punishment under animated suspension. It further held the criminal acquittal was only on benefit of doubt, falling within the exception in Rule 12(a). The dismissal therefore stood.", "court_quote": "In the departmental proceedings, the petitioner was found guilty of misconduct and by an order dated 15th January 1991, a penalty of dismissal from service was imposed on him.", "court_quote_para": "2", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC allowed Govt writ, set aside CAT order; dismissal for outraging modesty stands.", "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": "2002-04-11", "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": "100(2002)DLT385", "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/758817/", "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-106" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-38-003", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }