{ "record_id": "CW-2008-0007", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0185", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Ratnesh Kumar Singh vs State of Jharkhand and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Ratnesh Kumar Singh vs State of Jharkhand and Others", "state": "Jharkhand", "district": "East Singhbhum", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Tatanagar, Jamshedpur", "police_station_or_unit": "Railway Police, Tatanagar", "court": "Jharkhand High Court", "court_as_verified": "Jharkhand High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Ratnesh Kumar Singh vs State of Jharkhand and Others", "case_number": "W.P.(S) (vs Memo No. 648(A) dated 20.09.2007)", "citation": "(2008) 03 JH CK 0024", "judges": [ "Amareshwar Sahay" ], "judgment_date": "2008-03-04", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2008, "incident_date": "2004-01-01", "incident_year": 2004, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "IPC 385", "IPC 352", "IPC 506", "IPC 323", "IPC 427", "SC/ST Act 1989 s.3" ], "officers": [ { "name": "Ratnesh Kumar Singh", "rank": "Police Constable", "unit": "Railway Police, Tatanagar", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "named_safe", "gate_reasons": [], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.09, "jev_p_culpable": 0.93, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": "Ratnesh Kumar Singh", "display": "Ratnesh Kumar Singh (Police 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://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/469414/ratnesh-kumar-singh-appellant-hash-state-of-jharkhand-and-others-respondent/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/56092d72e4b01497111fc064" ], "summary": "The Jharkhand High Court dismissed police constable Ratnesh Kumar Singh's writ petition and upheld his dismissal for gross station-house misconduct at Tatanagar Railway Police, where in civil dress he abused the ASI with a caste slur, tried to tear the station diary and threw the telephone set down, leading to an FIR under Sections 385/352/506/323/427 IPC and the SC/ST Act plus departmental proceedings. Though the criminal trial (S.T. No. 315 of 2004) acquitted him after witnesses turned hostile, the Court held the departmental evidence, where witnesses supported the charges, stood independently and the G.M. Tank parity did not apply. The dismissal affirmed by Memo No. 648(A) dated 20 September 2007 was sustained. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Jharkhand High Court dismissed police constable Ratnesh Kumar Singh's writ petition and upheld his dismissal for gross station-house misconduct at Tatanagar Railway Police, where in civil dress he abused the ASI with a caste slur, tried to tear the station diary and threw the telephone set down, leading to an FIR under Sections 385/352/506/323/427 IPC and the SC/ST Act plus departmental proceedings. Though the criminal trial (S.T. No. 315 of 2004) acquitted him after witnesses turned hostile, the Court held the departmental evidence, where witnesses supported the charges, stood independently and the G.M. Tank parity did not apply. The dismissal affirmed by Memo No. 648(A) dated 20 September 2007 was sustained.", "court_quote": "But in the present case, we find that the evidence in the departmental proceedings and in the criminal trial were not the same. As a matter of fact, in the criminal trial, the witnesses did not support the prosecution case and were declared hostile whereas, in the departmental proceedings, the witnesses supported the charge and thereby, the charges were established against the petitioner.", "court_quote_para": "10", "confidence": "medium", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Jharkhand HC order verified on CourtKutchehry; constable's dismissal for station-house misconduct 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": "2008-03-04", "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": "(2008) 03 JH CK 0024", "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://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/469414/ratnesh-kumar-singh-appellant-hash-state-of-jharkhand-and-others-respondent/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/56092d72e4b01497111fc064", "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-28" ], "merged_case_id": "JHARKH-015", "officers_named_public": 1, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }