{ "record_id": "CW-2009-0025", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1086", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Rajasthan Police Constable vs State of Rajasthan and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Rajasthan Police Constable vs State of Rajasthan and Others", "state": "Rajasthan", "district": null, "district_at_time": null, "city_town": null, "police_station_or_unit": null, "court": "Rajasthan High Court", "court_as_verified": "Rajasthan High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Rajasthan Police Constable vs State of Rajasthan and Others", "case_number": "S.B. Civil Writ Petition No. 8120/2007", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Govind Mathur" ], "judgment_date": "2009-05-05", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2009, "incident_date": "1973-01-01", "incident_year": 1973, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "Rajasthan Civil Services (Classification, Control and Appeal) Rules, 1958 Rule 14", "Rajasthan Civil Services (Classification, Control and Appeal) Rules, 1958 Rule 23", "Rajasthan Civil Services (Pension) Rules, 1996" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "Rajasthan Police", "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": "Constable, Rajasthan Police" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 0, "sentence_type": null, "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1734881/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The judgment of the Rajasthan High Court records the following account. Constable joined the Rajasthan Police on 11 May 1973 against a Scheduled Caste vacancy on a 1969 caste certificate, and was charge-sheeted in November 2006 for obtaining the appointment by a false certificate. The court recorded that he first denied the charge but admitted guilt in writing on 16 December 2006, and was awarded withholding of pension from his 31 December 2006 retirement, affirmed on appeal in June 2007. The court held the appointment was void ab initio and that no penalty less than dismissal was proportionate, but on equity substituted the penalty with withholding of pension beyond the minimum pension under the 1996 Pension Rules, payable from the date of the writ decision. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "Constable joined the Rajasthan Police on 11 May 1973 against a Scheduled Caste vacancy on a 1969 caste certificate, and was charge-sheeted in November 2006 for obtaining the appointment by a false certificate. The court recorded that he first denied the charge but admitted guilt in writing on 16 December 2006, and was awarded withholding of pension from his 31 December 2006 retirement, affirmed on appeal in June 2007. The court held the appointment was void ab initio and that no penalty less than dismissal was proportionate, but on equity substituted the penalty with withholding of pension beyond the minimum pension under the 1996 Pension Rules, payable from the date of the writ decision.", "court_quote": "The narration of facts makes it apparent that the petitioner obtained appointment by playing fraud and that cannot be condoned.", "court_quote_para": "n/a", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Judgment text verified; police constable appointment-fraud penalty sustained as modified.", "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": "2009-05-05", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Rajasthan High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Rajasthan High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "S.B. Civil Writ Petition No. 8120/2007", "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/1734881/", "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-96" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-121-004", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }