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 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0788",
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 "display_title": "Surender Kumar vs Commissioner of Police & Ors.",
 "display_title_redacted": "Surender Kumar vs Commissioner of Police & Ors.",
 "state": "Delhi",
 "district": "Central Delhi",
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 "court": "Delhi High Court",
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 "case_title": "Surender Kumar vs Commissioner of Police & Ors.",
 "case_number": "CW No. 10451 of 2004",
 "citation": "(2005) 123 DLT 185 : (2005) 83 DRJ 703",
 "judges": [
  "Mukundakam Sharma",
  "Sanjiv Khanna"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2005-07-25",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2005,
 "incident_date": null,
 "incident_year": null,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "misconduct",
 "admin_subcategory": "other",
 "subcategory": "other",
 "subcategory_display": "other",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld",
 "sections": [
  "Delhi Police Act 1978 s.23",
  "Delhi Police (Punishment & Appeal) Rules 1980 r.24"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": "Surender Kumar",
   "rank": "Constable",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "unit": "Delhi Police (Central District)",
   "publish_grade": "named_safe",
   "gate_reasons": [],
   "ledger_role": "held_liable",
   "key2": "yes",
   "key2_agy": "yes",
   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": null,
   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": null,
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   "grok": null,
   "jev_risk": 0.06,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.94,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": "Surender Kumar",
   "display": "Surender Kumar (Constable)"
  }
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 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [],
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 "victim_count": 0,
 "sentence_type": "dismissal",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": null,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/914874/surender-kumar-vs-commissioner-of-police-and-others/",
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  "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/678626/",
  "https://sooperkanoon.com/case/702126/surender-kumar-vs-commissioner-police-ors"
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 "summary": "The Delhi High Court dismissed the writ petition of Delhi Police constable Surender Kumar and upheld his removal from service for habitual unauthorised absence, holding it proved that he absented himself on five occasions between June 1997 and June 1999 totalling 137 days, on top of 34 earlier absences that had drawn warnings and censure. The Court rejected his illness plea, noting he produced no medical certificates for four of the five spells and did not respond to directions to report for medical examination. It held judicial review of the quantum of punishment is extremely limited, that removal was not ex-facie disproportionate, and described him as a habitual absentee of incorrigible type in a disciplined force. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Delhi High Court dismissed the writ petition of Delhi Police constable Surender Kumar and upheld his removal from service for habitual unauthorised absence, holding it proved that he absented himself on five occasions between June 1997 and June 1999 totalling 137 days, on top of 34 earlier absences that had drawn warnings and censure. The Court rejected his illness plea, noting he produced no medical certificates for four of the five spells and did not respond to directions to report for medical examination. It held judicial review of the quantum of punishment is extremely limited, that removal was not ex-facie disproportionate, and described him as a habitual absentee of incorrigible type in a disciplined force.",
 "court_quote": "It is quite clear that the petitioner is a habitual absentee of incorrigible type.",
 "court_quote_para": "13",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "HC upheld removal of constable for 137 days' absence over five spells; internal-discipline matter.",
 "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": "2005-07-25",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Delhi High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Delhi High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.",
   "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only",
   "source": "(2005) 123 DLT 185 : (2005) 83 DRJ 703",
   "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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   "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/914874/surender-kumar-vs-commissioner-of-police-and-others/",
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  {
   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/678626/",
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 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
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