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 "status": "current",
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 "display_title": "Ashok Kumar v. Senior Superintendent of Police & Ors.",
 "display_title_redacted": "Ashok Kumar v. Senior Superintendent of Police & Ors.",
 "state": "Uttar Pradesh",
 "district": "Mathura",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Mathura",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Civil Police, Mathura (court lock-up duty)",
 "court": "Allahabad High Court",
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 "case_title": "Ashok Kumar v. Senior Superintendent of Police & Ors.",
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 "citation": "LAWS(ALL)-2003-9-39",
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 "judgment_date": "2003-09-24",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2003,
 "incident_date": "2000-06-13",
 "incident_year": 2000,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "corruption",
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 "subcategory": "other",
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 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld",
 "sections": [
  "IPC 223",
  "IPC 224",
  "Constitution Art. 311",
  "UP Police Officers of Subordinate Rank (Punishment & Appeal) Rules 1991 r.8(2)(b)"
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  {
   "name": "Ashok Kumar",
   "rank": "Constable",
   "unit": "Civil Police, Mathura",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "publish_grade": "named_safe",
   "gate_reasons": [],
   "ledger_role": "held_liable",
   "key2": "yes",
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   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": "yes",
   "key2_gpt56": null,
   "grok": null,
   "jev_risk": 0.08,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.92,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": "Ashok Kumar",
   "display": "Ashok Kumar (Constable)"
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 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [],
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 "victim_count": 0,
 "sentence_type": "dismissal",
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 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/714149/",
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  "https://sooperkanoon.com/case/491393/ashok-kumar-vs-senior-superintendent"
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 "summary": "The Allahabad High Court upheld the dismissal of Constable Ashok Kumar, who was on court lock-up duty at Mathura on 13 June 2000 when hardened criminal Prakash, accused in about fifteen cases including murders, escaped from custody. The enquiry found the petitioner acted in complicity with co-constable [name withheld] and allowed the escape after accepting a bribe, a charge supported by the re-arrested criminal deposition and the petitioner own signed statement, with Case Crime No. 91 of 2000 under Sections 223 and 224 IPC registered. The Court held the SSP satisfaction for dispensing with a full enquiry under Rule 8(2)(b) of the 1991 Rules was based on material on record and neither arbitrary nor mala fide. It declined to interfere and dismissed the writ petition. No PC Act trial was involved; the bribe finding is disciplinary only. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Allahabad High Court upheld the dismissal of Constable Ashok Kumar, who was on court lock-up duty at Mathura on 13 June 2000 when hardened criminal Prakash, accused in about fifteen cases including murders, escaped from custody. The enquiry found the petitioner acted in complicity with co-constable [name withheld] and allowed the escape after accepting a bribe, a charge supported by the re-arrested criminal deposition and the petitioner own signed statement, with Case Crime No. 91 of 2000 under Sections 223 and 224 IPC registered. The Court held the SSP satisfaction for dispensing with a full enquiry under Rule 8(2)(b) of the 1991 Rules was based on material on record and neither arbitrary nor mala fide. It declined to interfere and dismissed the writ petition. No PC Act trial was involved; the bribe finding is disciplinary only.",
 "court_quote": "The Senior Superintendent of Police found that petitioner was in complicity with the criminal who made good his escape. He was subsequently apprehended and deposed that he had given bribe to petitioner.",
 "court_quote_para": "8",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Dismissal for bribe-aided escape of murder accused from lock-up upheld; writ dismissed.",
 "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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   "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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 "institutional_response": [
  {
   "date": "2003-09-24",
   "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": "LAWS(ALL)-2003-9-39",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
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 "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)",
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