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 "record_id": "CW-2005-0020",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0985",
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 "display_title": "Pratappur Police Constable vs State of Jharkhand and Others",
 "display_title_redacted": "Pratappur Police Constable vs State of Jharkhand and Others",
 "state": "Jharkhand",
 "district": "Chatra",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Pratappur",
 "police_station_or_unit": "JAP-7, Hazaribagh (posted Pratappur, Chatra)",
 "court": "Jharkhand High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Jharkhand High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Pratappur Police Constable vs State of Jharkhand and Others",
 "case_number": "W.P.(S) No. 6077 of 2005",
 "citation": "[2006(1) JCR 309 (JHR)]",
 "judges": [
  "M.Y. Eqbal"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2005-12-23",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2005,
 "incident_date": "2002-04-18",
 "incident_year": 2002,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "misconduct",
 "admin_subcategory": "dereliction_evidence_tampering",
 "subcategory": "dereliction_evidence_tampering",
 "subcategory_display": "dereliction evidence tampering",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld",
 "sections": [],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Constable",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "unit": "JAP-7, Hazaribagh",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "ledger:no_row",
    "key2:no_row"
   ],
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   "jev_risk": null,
   "jev_p_culpable": null,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": null,
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Constable, JAP-7, Hazaribagh"
  }
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 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 0,
 "sentence_type": "dismissal",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": null,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/524457/",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "[2006(1)JCR309(JHR)]"
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 "summary": "The Jharkhand High Court (M.Y. Eqbal J.) on 23 December 2005 dismissed the writ petition of JAP-7 constable against his dismissal for habitual unauthorised absence. The court recorded that he absconded from 18 April to 29 July 2002 (102 days), covering it with a story of kidnapping by Naxalites that neither his superior officers nor the Chatra police had reported, supported by a private practitioner's certificate of mental-illness treatment, and that he had three earlier major punishments for absconding for up to 186 days before absconding again in December 2002. The court held the kidnapping story was hatched to cover wilful absence and that he was not fit to be retained in police service. It declared the dismissal order perfectly legal and valid and dismissed the writ petition, so the dismissal stands. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Jharkhand High Court (M.Y. Eqbal J.) on 23 December 2005 dismissed the writ petition of JAP-7 constable against his dismissal for habitual unauthorised absence. The court recorded that he absconded from 18 April to 29 July 2002 (102 days), covering it with a story of kidnapping by Naxalites that neither his superior officers nor the Chatra police had reported, supported by a private practitioner's certificate of mental-illness treatment, and that he had three earlier major punishments for absconding for up to 186 days before absconding again in December 2002. The court held the kidnapping story was hatched to cover wilful absence and that he was not fit to be retained in police service. It declared the dismissal order perfectly legal and valid and dismissed the writ petition, so the dismissal stands.",
 "court_quote": "the petitioner is not at all fit to be retained in the police service. The impugned order of dismissal from service is perfectly legal and valid which needs no interference.",
 "court_quote_para": "7",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Writ dismissed; JAP constable's dismissal for habitual absence with fabricated kidnapping story upheld.",
 "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": "2005-12-23",
   "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": "[2006(1) JCR 309 (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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  {
   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/524457/",
   "link_checked": null
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  {
   "url": "[2006(1)JCR309(JHR)]",
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  }
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 "source_assessment": {
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  "basis": null
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 "v3_basis": null,
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 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
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 "fidelity_checked": true,
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 "merged_case_id": "GAP3-102-007",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}