{ "record_id": "CW-2004-0014", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0973", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Railway Police personnel vs State of Bihar and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Railway Police personnel vs State of Bihar and Others", "state": "Bihar", "district": "Patna", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Bakhtiarpur", "police_station_or_unit": "Railway Police, Bakhtiarpur Railway Station", "court": "Patna High Court", "court_as_verified": "Patna High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Railway Police personnel vs State of Bihar and Others", "case_number": "C.W.J.C. No. 2013 of 1999", "citation": "(2004) 4 PLJR 374", "judges": [ "Narayan Roy" ], "judgment_date": "2004-09-08", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2004, "incident_date": "1996-12-21", "incident_year": 1996, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "corruption", "admin_subcategory": "extortion", "subcategory": "extortion", "subcategory_display": "extortion", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": null, "role": "held_liable", "unit": "Railway Police, Bihar", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Police personnel, Railway Police, Bihar" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": null, "sentence_type": "dismissal", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "railway", "primary_source_url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/772103/babu-lal-choudhary-vs-state-of-bihar-and-others/", "secondary_sources": [ "(2004) 09 PAT CK 0166" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Patna High Court records the following account. On 21 December 1996 the Superintendent of Railway Police, Patna, with a police force caught railway policeman at Bakhtiarpur Railway Station collecting money from Patna-Mokama train passengers. After a departmental inquiry found the charges proved he was dismissed; in appeal the dismissal was modified to compulsory retirement under Rule 854(A)(6) of the Bihar Police Manual. The Patna High Court (Narayan Roy, J.) held that the accompanying police party had proved the charges, that the authorities had applied the rules of law and observed natural justice, and that substituting compulsory retirement for dismissal was already a lenient view. Finding no ground to interfere, the court dismissed the writ petition on 8 September 2004. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "On 21 December 1996 the Superintendent of Railway Police, Patna, with a police force caught railway policeman at Bakhtiarpur Railway Station collecting money from Patna-Mokama train passengers. After a departmental inquiry found the charges proved he was dismissed; in appeal the dismissal was modified to compulsory retirement under Rule 854(A)(6) of the Bihar Police Manual. The Patna High Court (Narayan Roy, J.) held that the accompanying police party had proved the charges, that the authorities had applied the rules of law and observed natural justice, and that substituting compulsory retirement for dismissal was already a lenient view. Finding no ground to interfere, the court dismissed the writ petition on 8 September 2004.", "court_quote": "From the materials on record, it appears that the police party, who were accompanying the Superintendent of Railway Police, have proved the charges against the petitioner.", "court_quote_para": "6", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Judgment verified; railway policeman's extortion charge proved, compulsory retirement upheld, writ dismissed.", "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": "2004-09-08", "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) 4 PLJR 374", "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": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/772103/babu-lal-choudhary-vs-state-of-bihar-and-others/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "(2004) 09 PAT CK 0166", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-81" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-101-003", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }