{ "record_id": "CW-2008-0004", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0048", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Rail Police Constable vs The State of Bihar and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Rail Police Constable vs The State of Bihar and Others", "state": "Bihar", "district": "Patna", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Patna", "police_station_or_unit": "Rail Police Centre, Patna", "court": "Patna High Court", "court_as_verified": "Patna High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Rail Police Constable vs The State of Bihar and Others", "case_number": "Letters Patent Appeal arising out of CWJC No. 5120 of 1998", "citation": "2008 LAB IC 3035; (2008) 7 Serv LR 278", "judges": [ "S. K. Katriar", "Kishore K. Mandal" ], "judgment_date": "2008-02-28", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2008, "incident_date": "1996-07-30", "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": [ "Bihar Police Manual Rule 826" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "unit": "Rail Police Centre, Patna (Bihar Police)", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2_gemapi:unclear" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": "yes", "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": "unclear", "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": "yes", "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.07, "jev_p_culpable": 0.95, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Constable, Rail Police Centre, Patna (Bihar Police)" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "age": null, "gender": null, "name": null, "descriptor": "Patna resident" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "dismissal", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1922123/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/739586/sudhir-kumar-singh-vs-the-state-of-bihar-and-others/" ], "summary": "A Division Bench of the Patna High Court upheld the dismissal of Bihar Police constable of the Rail Police Centre, Patna, caught by the DSP (Rail) on 30 July 1996 checking tickets from passengers on platform No. 1 at Patna Junction in plain clothes and extorting money, then fleeing across the tracks. Found guilty after enquiry, he was dismissed in 1997, affirmed in appeal and memorial, and his writ was dismissed by a Single Judge in 1999. The Division Bench rejected pleas of denial of cross-examination, parity with a co-delinquent, and disproportionality, noting a second identical proceeding against him, and dismissed the LPA. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "A Division Bench of the Patna High Court upheld the dismissal of Bihar Police constable of the Rail Police Centre, Patna, caught by the DSP (Rail) on 30 July 1996 checking tickets from passengers on platform No. 1 at Patna Junction in plain clothes and extorting money, then fleeing across the tracks. Found guilty after enquiry, he was dismissed in 1997, affirmed in appeal and memorial, and his writ was dismissed by a Single Judge in 1999. The Division Bench rejected pleas of denial of cross-examination, parity with a co-delinquent, and disproportionality, noting a second identical proceeding against him, and dismissed the LPA.", "court_quote": "He found the petitioner checking the railway ticket of a passenger on platform no. 1. On being questioned, the petitioner had kept quiet.", "court_quote_para": "2", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "LPA dismissed; dismissal for extorting railway passengers in plain clothes 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": "2008-02-28", "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": "2008 LAB IC 3035; (2008) 7 Serv LR 278", "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/1922123/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/739586/sudhir-kumar-singh-vs-the-state-of-bihar-and-others/", "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-36" ], "merged_case_id": "BIHAR1-012", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }