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 "record_id": "CW-2003-0021",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0871",
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 "display_title": "Bihar Police Constable v. The State of Bihar and Others",
 "display_title_redacted": "Bihar Police Constable v. The State of Bihar and Others",
 "state": "Bihar",
 "district": "Bhagalpur",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Bhagalpur",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Kotwali Police Station",
 "court": "Patna High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Patna High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Bihar Police Constable v. The State of Bihar and Others",
 "case_number": "L.P.A. No. 869 of 2003",
 "citation": "(2004) 1 PLJR 35",
 "judges": [
  "Ravi S. Dhavan",
  "Shashank Kumar Singh"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2003-09-23",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2003,
 "incident_date": "1991-02-26",
 "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": [
  "IPC 147",
  "IPC 148",
  "IPC 149",
  "IPC 354",
  "IPC 448",
  "IPC 323",
  "Arms Act 1959 s.35"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Constable",
   "unit": "Bihar Police, Bhagalpur",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
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    "key2:no_row"
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   "jev_p_culpable": null,
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   "later_outcome": null,
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Constable, Bihar Police, Bhagalpur"
  }
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 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "female",
   "descriptor": "Bhagalpur 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://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/738498/jitendra-singh-vs-the-state-of-bihar-and-others/",
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 "summary": "The Patna High Court Division Bench dismissed the Letters Patent Appeal of police constable, upholding his dismissal from service. The Court recorded that on 26 February 1991 he was caught on the spot with 10-12 armed associates during a forcible house invasion and assault on the survivor at Bhagalpur (Kotwali P.S. Case No. 110/91), and was thereafter departmentally tried, found guilty and dismissed by the S.P. Bhagalpur on 30 May 1995, confirmed by the DIG and the Zonal IG. It held the record showed he received the show-cause notice, replied to it, faced inquiry and preferred a departmental appeal, and that his criminal acquittal on benefit of doubt did not vitiate the departmental action. Having regard to his assault on a woman, the Court declined to interfere. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Patna High Court Division Bench dismissed the Letters Patent Appeal of police constable, upholding his dismissal from service. The Court recorded that on 26 February 1991 he was caught on the spot with 10-12 armed associates during a forcible house invasion and assault on the survivor at Bhagalpur (Kotwali P.S. Case No. 110/91), and was thereafter departmentally tried, found guilty and dismissed by the S.P. Bhagalpur on 30 May 1995, confirmed by the DIG and the Zonal IG. It held the record showed he received the show-cause notice, replied to it, faced inquiry and preferred a departmental appeal, and that his criminal acquittal on benefit of doubt did not vitiate the departmental action. Having regard to his assault on a woman, the Court declined to interfere.",
 "court_quote": "Regard being had to the circumstances that the Petitioner had assaulted a woman, this Court ought not to interfere in this appeal.",
 "court_quote_para": "8",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Patna HC Division Bench dismissed constable's LPA, upholding dismissal for armed house invasion and assault on a woman.",
 "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": "2003-09-23",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Patna High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Patna High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.",
   "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only",
   "source": "(2004) 1 PLJR 35",
   "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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 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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 "merged_case_id": "GAP2-45-001",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
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 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}