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 "display_title": "Railway Police Constable vs State of Jharkhand and Others (Railway Police personnel vs State of Jharkhand and Others; [name withheld] vs State of Jharkhand and Others)",
 "display_title_redacted": "Railway Police Constable vs State of Jharkhand and Others (Railway Police personnel vs State of Jharkhand and Others; [name withheld] vs State of Jharkhand and Others)",
 "state": "Jharkhand",
 "district": "East Singhbhum",
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 "city_town": "Jamshedpur",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Railway Police Station, Jamshedpur",
 "court": "Jharkhand High Court",
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 "case_title": "Railway Police Constable vs State of Jharkhand and Others (Railway Police personnel vs State of Jharkhand and Others; [name withheld] vs State of Jharkhand and Others)",
 "case_number": "W.P.(S) Nos. 3861 of 2003, 1778 of 2003, 3905 of 2003",
 "citation": "(2009) 1 JCR 549 (JHA)",
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  "Ajit Kumar Sinha"
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 "judgment_date": "2008-12-17",
 "date_precision": "day",
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 "incident_date": "2001-05-26",
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 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "corruption",
 "admin_subcategory": "extortion",
 "subcategory": "extortion",
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 "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld",
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  "IPC 386/34"
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  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": null,
   "descriptor": "Jamshedpur resident"
  }
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 "sentence_type": "dismissal",
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 "force": "railway",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1050376/",
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  "2009 LAB. I. C. (NOC) 614 (JHAR.)",
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 "summary": "The judgment of the Jharkhand High Court records the following account. On 26 May 2001 Railway Police constables, [name withheld] and [name withheld], while on duty at the Jamshedpur railway platform, extorted Rs 500 from a Gitanjali Express passenger; G.R.P. Case No. 31/2000 (as stated in the judgment) under Section 386/34 IPC was lodged. All three participated in departmental enquiries, were held guilty, were dismissed by the Superintendent of Police, Railway, in July-August 2002, and their appeals were rejected by the DIG, Railway, in June-July 2003. The Jharkhand High Court (Ajit Kumar Sinha, J.) held full opportunity was given, natural justice was followed, and the court could not reappreciate concurrent findings of fact under Article 226. All three writ petitions were dismissed on 17 December 2008, so the dismissals stand; the court made no finding on the criminal charge itself.",
 "summary_verified": "On 26 May 2001 Railway Police constables, [name withheld] and [name withheld], while on duty at the Jamshedpur railway platform, extorted Rs 500 from a Gitanjali Express passenger; G.R.P. Case No. 31/2000 (as stated in the judgment) under Section 386/34 IPC was lodged. All three participated in departmental enquiries, were held guilty, were dismissed by the Superintendent of Police, Railway, in July-August 2002, and their appeals were rejected by the DIG, Railway, in June-July 2003. The Jharkhand High Court (Ajit Kumar Sinha, J.) held full opportunity was given, natural justice was followed, and the court could not reappreciate concurrent findings of fact under Article 226. All three writ petitions were dismissed on 17 December 2008, so the dismissals stand; the court made no finding on the criminal charge itself.",
 "court_quote": "Under these facts and circumstances of the case all the three writ petitions, being devoid of any merit, are accordingly dismissed.",
 "court_quote_para": "16",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Judgment verified; dismissal of three railway constables for passenger extortion upheld, writs dismissed.",
 "verification_status": "V2",
 "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported",
 "tier_badge": "Externally reported",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
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  "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded"
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   "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"
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   "date": "2008-12-17",
   "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": "(2009) 1 JCR 549 (JHA)",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
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  {
   "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",
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