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 "record_id": "CW-2004-0003",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0757",
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 "display_title": "Vadodara Police Police Constable vs State of Gujarat",
 "display_title_redacted": "Vadodara Police Police Constable vs State of Gujarat",
 "state": "Gujarat",
 "district": "Vadodara",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Vadodara",
 "police_station_or_unit": "City Police Station, Baroda (Vadodara)",
 "court": "Gujarat High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Gujarat High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Vadodara Police Police Constable vs State of Gujarat",
 "case_number": "Special Civil Application No. 11503 of 1994",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "Akil Kureshi"
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 "judgment_date": "2004-09-06",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2004,
 "incident_date": "1988-06-21",
 "incident_year": 1988,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "misconduct",
 "admin_subcategory": "dereliction_evidence_tampering",
 "subcategory": "dereliction_evidence_tampering",
 "subcategory_display": "dereliction evidence tampering",
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 "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld",
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   "name": null,
   "rank": "Police Constable",
   "unit": "Lock-up guard, City Police Station, Baroda",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
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    "key2:no_row"
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   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Police Constable, Lock-up guard, City Police Station, Baroda"
  }
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 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [],
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 "sentence_type": "dismissal",
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 "compensation_inr": null,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/519548/",
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  "https://archive.org/download/india.highcourt.judgement.gjhc240168491994/GJHC240168491994.pdf"
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 "summary": "The Gujarat High Court upheld the removal from service of Police Constable, lock-up guard at Baroda City police station, who on 21.06.1988 single-handedly took detainee Nazirkhan Pathan to the toilet without informing the station officer, left the door unbolted and unguarded, and let the accused escape. The Court termed the conduct gross negligence and dereliction of duty shocking for a police officer, held the criminal acquittal on the distinct charge of deliberate facilitation did not conclude the disciplinary matter, and found removal commensurate given two prior proved serious misconducts. The petition was rejected and the Rule discharged. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Gujarat High Court upheld the removal from service of Police Constable, lock-up guard at Baroda City police station, who on 21.06.1988 single-handedly took detainee Nazirkhan Pathan to the toilet without informing the station officer, left the door unbolted and unguarded, and let the accused escape. The Court termed the conduct gross negligence and dereliction of duty shocking for a police officer, held the criminal acquittal on the distinct charge of deliberate facilitation did not conclude the disciplinary matter, and found removal commensurate given two prior proved serious misconducts. The petition was rejected and the Rule discharged.",
 "court_quote": "In the present case, I find that the petitioner was held to have committed serious misconduct of gross negligence whereby a person who was accused in criminal case was allowed to escape from the Police lock-up. As a Police Constable this would be a very serious lapse on the part of the petitioner.",
 "court_quote_para": "6",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "HC rejected challenge and upheld removal of lock-up guard for gross negligence letting detainee escape.",
 "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": "2004-09-06",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Gujarat High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Gujarat High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.",
   "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only",
   "source": "Special Civil Application No. 11503 of 1994",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
 ],
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 "followup_history": [],
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   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/519548/",
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   "url": "https://archive.org/download/india.highcourt.judgement.gjhc240168491994/GJHC240168491994.pdf",
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 "source_assessment": {
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 "v3_basis": null,
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 "retracted": {
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 "merged_case_id": "GUJARA-013",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
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 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}