{ "record_id": "CW-2006-0018", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0924", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Government of Andhra Pradesh & Ors. vs Shamshabad Police Head Constable", "display_title_redacted": "Government of Andhra Pradesh & Ors. vs Shamshabad Police Head Constable", "state": "Telangana", "district": "Ranga Reddy", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Shamshabad", "police_station_or_unit": "Shamshabad Police Station", "court": "Supreme Court of India", "court_as_verified": "Supreme Court of India", "bench": null, "case_title": "Government of Andhra Pradesh & Ors. vs Shamshabad Police Head Constable", "case_number": "Civil Appeal No. 1318 of 2005", "citation": "(2006) 2 SCC 373; AIR 2006 SC 1214", "judges": [ "H.K. Sema", "A.R. Lakshmanan" ], "judgment_date": "2006-01-31", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2006, "incident_date": "2000-03-01", "incident_year": 2000, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "Constitution Art. 226" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Head Constable", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "Shamshabad Police Station", "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": "Head Constable, Shamshabad Police Station" } ], "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": "http://indiankanoon.org/doc/1584936/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/658563/govt-of-ap-and-others-vs-mohd-narsullah-khan/" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Supreme Court of India records the following account. Head Constable of Shamshabad Police Station was on bandobast duty at the Oracle office in Hi-Tech City, Hyderabad, during the March 2000 US Presidential visit when he was alleged to have removed a CCTV lens from the office ceiling. The Court recorded that electrician G. Sridhar saw the removal on the monitor, confronted him, and the lens was recovered, leading to a DSP-led disciplinary inquiry and dismissal in September 2000, confirmed on departmental appeal and by the A.P. Administrative Tribunal. The Andhra Pradesh High Court had quashed the dismissal and ordered reinstatement with full back wages. The Supreme Court held the High Court exceeded Article 226 review by re-appreciating inquiry evidence like an appellate authority, allowed the State appeal, and restored the dismissal without back wages.", "summary_verified": "Head Constable of Shamshabad Police Station was on bandobast duty at the Oracle office in Hi-Tech City, Hyderabad, during the March 2000 US Presidential visit when he was alleged to have removed a CCTV lens from the office ceiling. The Court recorded that electrician G. Sridhar saw the removal on the monitor, confronted him, and the lens was recovered, leading to a DSP-led disciplinary inquiry and dismissal in September 2000, confirmed on departmental appeal and by the A.P. Administrative Tribunal. The Andhra Pradesh High Court had quashed the dismissal and ordered reinstatement with full back wages. The Supreme Court held the High Court exceeded Article 226 review by re-appreciating inquiry evidence like an appellate authority, allowed the State appeal, and restored the dismissal without back wages.", "court_quote": "We entirely agree with the inquiry officer that the charges are serious in nature, being committed by a member of Disciplinary Force, who deserved stringent punishment. To instill the confidence of the public in the Establishment, the only appropriate punishment in such cases is dismissal from service, which has been correctly awarded.", "court_quote_para": "15", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "SC restored dismissal of head constable for theft on duty; site now in Telangana (Andhra Pradesh at the time).", "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": "2006-01-31", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Supreme Court of India", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Supreme Court of India upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "(2006) 2 SCC 373; AIR 2006 SC 1214", "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": "wrong_facts", "corrections_applied": [ "court_quote_para" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "http://indiankanoon.org/doc/1584936/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/658563/govt-of-ap-and-others-vs-mohd-narsullah-khan/", "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-77" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP2-58-003", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }