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 "display_title": "Government Railway Police Constable v. Superintendent of Police (Railways)",
 "display_title_redacted": "Government Railway Police Constable v. Superintendent of Police (Railways)",
 "state": "Uttar Pradesh",
 "district": "Agra",
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 "city_town": "Agra",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Government Railway Police, Agra",
 "court": "Allahabad High Court",
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 "case_title": "Government Railway Police Constable v. Superintendent of Police (Railways)",
 "case_number": "C.M.W.P. No. 19352 of 2002",
 "citation": "(2002) 3 UPLBEC 2765",
 "judges": [
  "Sunil Ambwani"
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 "judgment_date": "2002-08-23",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2002,
 "incident_date": "2000-12-26",
 "incident_year": 2000,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "misconduct",
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 "subcategory": "other",
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 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld",
 "sections": [
  "U.P. Police Officers of Subordinate Ranks (Punishment and Appeal) Rules, 1991 Rule 8(2)(b)"
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   "rank": "Constable",
   "unit": "Government Railway Police, Agra",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
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 "sentence_type": "dismissal",
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 "summary": "The Allahabad High Court (single Judge, 23-8-2002) dismissed the writ petition of Constable (Civil Police posted to Government Railway Police, Agra) challenging his dismissal dated 17-2-2001 under Rule 8(2)(b) of the U.P. Police Officers of Subordinate Ranks (Punishment and Appeal) Rules, 1991. The court found sufficient material, including statements of fellow police personnel recorded by the Deputy Superintendent of Police, that the petitioner formed a gang and harboured criminals committing robberies on trains where he was on duty and shared the booty. The court held direct evidence of complicity could not feasibly be procured, so dispensing with a regular enquiry in public interest on Tulsiram Patel principles was justified, with no mala fides pleaded. The dismissal from service was upheld with no order as to costs; no criminal-trial component is recorded in the judgment. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Allahabad High Court (single Judge, 23-8-2002) dismissed the writ petition of Constable (Civil Police posted to Government Railway Police, Agra) challenging his dismissal dated 17-2-2001 under Rule 8(2)(b) of the U.P. Police Officers of Subordinate Ranks (Punishment and Appeal) Rules, 1991. The court found sufficient material, including statements of fellow police personnel recorded by the Deputy Superintendent of Police, that the petitioner formed a gang and harboured criminals committing robberies on trains where he was on duty and shared the booty. The court held direct evidence of complicity could not feasibly be procured, so dispensing with a regular enquiry in public interest on Tulsiram Patel principles was justified, with no mala fides pleaded. The dismissal from service was upheld with no order as to costs; no criminal-trial component is recorded in the judgment.",
 "court_quote": "In my opinion, there was sufficient material on record to support the fact that the petitioner was actively involved in forming a gang and harbouring the criminals for committing crimes in trains on which he was assigned duty; that it was not possible to procure direct evidence against his complicity and that in the prevailing situation the enquiry was rightly dispensed with.",
 "court_quote_para": "7",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "HC upheld Rule 8(2)(b) dismissal of GRP constable for patronising train robbers.",
 "verification_status": "V2",
 "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported",
 "tier_badge": "Externally reported",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
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  "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded"
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 "allegations": [
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   "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"
  }
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   "date": "2002-08-23",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Allahabad High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Allahabad High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.",
   "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only",
   "source": "(2002) 3 UPLBEC 2765",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
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   "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",
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