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 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0977",
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 "display_title": "Bihar Military Police Constable vs State of Bihar and Others",
 "display_title_redacted": "Bihar Military Police Constable vs State of Bihar and Others",
 "state": "Jharkhand",
 "district": "Hazaribagh",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Hazaribagh",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Bihar Military Police-3, Govindpur, Dhanbad (on deputation at D.A.V. School, Hazaribagh)",
 "court": "Jharkhand High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Jharkhand High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Bihar Military Police Constable vs State of Bihar and Others",
 "case_number": "C.W.J.C. No. 1844 of 2000 (P)",
 "citation": "2004 (3) JCR 511 Jhr",
 "judges": [
  "Amareshwar Sahay"
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 "judgment_date": "2004-05-18",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2004,
 "incident_date": "1996-05-08",
 "incident_year": 1996,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "misconduct",
 "admin_subcategory": "other",
 "subcategory": "other",
 "subcategory_display": "other",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld",
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 "officers": [
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   "name": null,
   "rank": "Constable",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "unit": "Bihar Military Police-3, Govindpur, Dhanbad",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
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   "display": "Constable, Bihar Military Police-3, Govindpur, Dhanbad"
  }
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 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Hazaribagh man"
  }
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 "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.legalindia.com/judgments/bijendra-singh-vs-state-of-bihar-through-home-on-18-may-2004",
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 "summary": "The judgment of the Jharkhand High Court records the following account. On 8 May 1996, while on deputation at D.A.V. School, Hazaribagh, during the Lok Sabha elections, BMP constable abused and pushed down constable and later that night assaulted the sleeping constable on the chest with boots, hospitalising him till 13 May 1996 (station diary No. 290/96, Sadar Police Station). The enquiry officer gave benefit of doubt, but the Commandant disagreed and dismissed him on 7 April 1998; the appellate authority confirmed guilt while reducing dismissal to compulsory retirement on 3 November 1998. The Jharkhand High Court (Amareshwar Sahay, J.) held the disciplinary authority had stated reasons for disagreement in the show-cause notice with opportunity to reply, had carefully considered the record including eyewitness evidence, and that a writ court cannot substitute findings of fact. The writ application was dismissed on 18 May 2004, leaving compulsory retirement undisturbed; the 1996 incident pre-dates Jharkhand's formation, hence the State of Bihar respondent. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "On 8 May 1996, while on deputation at D.A.V. School, Hazaribagh, during the Lok Sabha elections, BMP constable abused and pushed down constable and later that night assaulted the sleeping constable on the chest with boots, hospitalising him till 13 May 1996 (station diary No. 290/96, Sadar Police Station). The enquiry officer gave benefit of doubt, but the Commandant disagreed and dismissed him on 7 April 1998; the appellate authority confirmed guilt while reducing dismissal to compulsory retirement on 3 November 1998. The Jharkhand High Court (Amareshwar Sahay, J.) held the disciplinary authority had stated reasons for disagreement in the show-cause notice with opportunity to reply, had carefully considered the record including eyewitness evidence, and that a writ court cannot substitute findings of fact. The writ application was dismissed on 18 May 2004, leaving compulsory retirement undisturbed; the 1996 incident pre-dates Jharkhand's formation, hence the State of Bihar respondent.",
 "court_quote": "The disciplinary authority has very carefully considered the materials on the record then had come to a definite finding of fact holding the petitioner guilty.",
 "court_quote_para": "13",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Judgment verified; compulsory retirement for assault on fellow constable upheld (Bihar-era incident, Jharkhand HC decision).",
 "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"
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 "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": "2004-05-18",
   "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 511 Jhr",
   "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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 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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 "v3_basis": null,
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 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
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 "merged_case_id": "GAP3-101-007",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}