{ "record_id": "CW-2006-0021", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0789", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Om Pal Singh vs Union of India & Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "Om Pal Singh vs Union of India & Ors.", "state": "Delhi", "district": null, "district_at_time": null, "city_town": null, "police_station_or_unit": null, "court": "Delhi High Court", "court_as_verified": "Delhi High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Om Pal Singh vs Union of India & Ors.", "case_number": "Writ petition (OA 2098/2001 lineage); 2007(1) SLJ 502 (Delhi)", "citation": "2007(1) SLJ 502 (Delhi); LAWS(DLH)-2006-3-214", "judges": [ "Mukundakam Sharma", "Sanjiv Khanna" ], "judgment_date": "2006-03-07", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2006, "incident_date": "1999-02-10", "incident_year": 1999, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "Delhi Police (Punishment & Appeal) Rules 1980 r.16" ], "officers": [ { "name": "Om Pal Singh", "rank": "Constable", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "Delhi Police", "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, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.05, "jev_p_culpable": 0.96, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": "Om Pal Singh", "display": "Om Pal Singh (Constable)" } ], "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/308440/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.the-laws.com/encyclopedia/browse/Case?caseId=106002994000&title=om-pal-singh-vs-unionof-india" ], "summary": "The Delhi High Court dismissed the writ petition of Delhi Police constable Om Pal Singh and sustained his removal from service for wilfully absenting himself from duty from 10 February 1999 without leave application or medical papers, ignoring absentee notices and a direction to undergo medical examination, against a background of 13 earlier absences for which he had been reprimanded. The Court held the ex-parte enquiry complied with Rule 16 of the Delhi Police (Punishment & Appeal) Rules, rejected the departmental-bias challenge, and upheld the constitutional validity of Rule 16. It found no merit in the challenge to the removal penalty or the Central Administrative Tribunal's dismissal of OA 2098/2001. 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 Om Pal Singh and sustained his removal from service for wilfully absenting himself from duty from 10 February 1999 without leave application or medical papers, ignoring absentee notices and a direction to undergo medical examination, against a background of 13 earlier absences for which he had been reprimanded. The Court held the ex-parte enquiry complied with Rule 16 of the Delhi Police (Punishment & Appeal) Rules, rejected the departmental-bias challenge, and upheld the constitutional validity of Rule 16. It found no merit in the challenge to the removal penalty or the Central Administrative Tribunal's dismissal of OA 2098/2001.", "court_quote": "He did not cross-examine the witnesses, file any written statement or give his defense against allegations made against him. There is no allegation that procedure as prescribed in Rule 16 has not been followed.", "court_quote_para": "36", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC upheld removal of constable for wilful absence from Feb 1999; 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": "2006-03-07", "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": "2007(1) SLJ 502 (Delhi); LAWS(DLH)-2006-3-214", "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://indiankanoon.org/doc/308440/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.the-laws.com/encyclopedia/browse/Case?caseId=106002994000&title=om-pal-singh-vs-unionof-india", "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-59" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP2-18-006", "officers_named_public": 1, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }