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 "status": "overturned",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0976",
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 "display_title": "Jharkhand Police Constable vs State of Jharkhand and Others",
 "display_title_redacted": "Jharkhand Police Constable vs State of Jharkhand and Others",
 "state": "Jharkhand",
 "district": "East Singhbhum",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Jamshedpur",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Jamshedpur Sadar Court escort",
 "court": "Jharkhand High Court",
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 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Jharkhand Police Constable vs State of Jharkhand and Others",
 "case_number": "Writ Petition (S) No. 6666 of 2002",
 "citation": "(2004) 3 JCR 130",
 "judges": [
  "Tapen Sen"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2004-04-29",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2004,
 "incident_date": "2002-01-18",
 "incident_year": 2002,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "misconduct",
 "admin_subcategory": "dereliction_evidence_tampering",
 "subcategory": "dereliction_evidence_tampering",
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 "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld",
 "sections": [
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  "IPC 225",
  "IPC 120B"
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   "rank": "Constable",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "unit": "Jharkhand Police, Jamshedpur Sadar Court",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
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   "display": "Constable, Jharkhand Police, Jamshedpur Sadar Court"
  }
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 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [],
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 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 0,
 "sentence_type": "dismissal",
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 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/472104/umeshwar-upadhyay-appellant-hash-state-of-jharkhand-and-others-respondent/",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "(2004) 04 JH CK 0039"
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 "summary": "On 18 January 2002 constable, escorting three accused including murder-accused [name withheld] from jail to the Jamshedpur Sadar Court, left Singh untied and unhandcuffed, allowing him to remove his handcuffs and escape; Bistupur P.S. Case No. 19/2002 under Sections 224, 225 and 120B IPC followed. Departmental Proceeding No. 31 of 2002 ended in his discharge/dismissal on 21 June 2002, confirmed on appeal on 5 November 2002. The Jharkhand High Court (Tapen Sen, J.) held the inquiry evidence established gross negligence in escort duty, that a writ court cannot substitute findings of fact, and that dismissal for letting a serious offender escape was not disproportionate. The writ petition was dismissed on 29 April 2004. Later proceedings: on 13 February 2007, the Jharkhand High Court set aside the order recorded in this judgment (concerning [name withheld]); the outcome recorded here therefore does not stand. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "On 18 January 2002 constable, escorting three accused including murder-accused [name withheld] from jail to the Jamshedpur Sadar Court, left Singh untied and unhandcuffed, allowing him to remove his handcuffs and escape; Bistupur P.S. Case No. 19/2002 under Sections 224, 225 and 120B IPC followed. Departmental Proceeding No. 31 of 2002 ended in his discharge/dismissal on 21 June 2002, confirmed on appeal on 5 November 2002. The Jharkhand High Court (Tapen Sen, J.) held the inquiry evidence established gross negligence in escort duty, that a writ court cannot substitute findings of fact, and that dismissal for letting a serious offender escape was not disproportionate. The writ petition was dismissed on 29 April 2004.",
 "court_quote": "In this case it was the duty and responsibility of the Constable to safely bring back a serious offender to the Court Lockup but because of his negligence and carelessness, which amounts to gross dereliction of duty, the said criminal managed to escape from the clutches of law.",
 "court_quote_para": "10",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Judgment verified; dismissal for letting undertrial escape from escort upheld as gross dereliction.",
 "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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   "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": "2004-04-29",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Jharkhand High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Jharkhand High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.",
   "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only",
   "source": "(2004) 3 JCR 130",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  },
  {
   "date": "2007-02-13",
   "action_type": "Order set aside",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Jharkhand High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "Later proceedings: on 13 February 2007, the Jharkhand High Court set aside the order recorded in this judgment (concerning [name withheld]); the outcome recorded here therefore does not stand.",
   "disposition": "Later proceeding · Conviction not standing",
   "source": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/533404/",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
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   "date": "2007-02-13",
   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/533404/",
   "outcome": "conviction_set_aside"
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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)",
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