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 "record_id": "CW-2009-0036",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-1214",
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 "display_title": "Armed Police Armed Police Constable vs State of Gujarat & 3",
 "display_title_redacted": "Armed Police Armed Police Constable vs State of Gujarat & 3",
 "state": "Gujarat",
 "district": null,
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": null,
 "police_station_or_unit": null,
 "court": "Gujarat High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Gujarat High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Armed Police Armed Police Constable vs State of Gujarat & 3",
 "case_number": "Special Civil Application No. 4599 of 2009",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "M.R. Shah"
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 "judgment_date": "2010-08-11",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2009,
 "incident_date": "2003-09-27",
 "incident_year": 2003,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "misconduct",
 "admin_subcategory": "other",
 "subcategory": "other",
 "subcategory_display": "other",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld",
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 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Armed Police Constable",
   "unit": null,
   "role": "held_liable",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
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   "key2_claude": null,
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   "jev_p_culpable": null,
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   "later_outcome": null,
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Armed Police Constable"
  }
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 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 0,
 "sentence_type": "dismissal",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
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 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1625532/",
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 "summary": "The judgment of the Gujarat High Court records the following account. Armed Constable remained absent without sanctioned leave or intimation for 354 days from September 2003 to September 2004, after more than 25 earlier instances of absenteeism. A departmental inquiry with full opportunity proved the charge and he was dismissed in August 2005; his appeal was time-barred and his revisions failed. The Gujarat High Court held that dismissal of a habitual absentee in a disciplined force is neither harsh nor illegal, and dismissed the petition. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "Armed Constable remained absent without sanctioned leave or intimation for 354 days from September 2003 to September 2004, after more than 25 earlier instances of absenteeism. A departmental inquiry with full opportunity proved the charge and he was dismissed in August 2005; his appeal was time-barred and his revisions failed. The Gujarat High Court held that dismissal of a habitual absentee in a disciplined force is neither harsh nor illegal, and dismissed the petition.",
 "court_quote": "Applying the ratio laid down by the Hon'ble Supreme Court in the said case to the present case when the petitioner had been in the post found guilty of unauthorised absentism for 25 times and in a subsequent departmental inquiry is once again found guilty of unauthorised absent for 354 days, his consequential dismissal from service is not required to be interfered with, as the same cannot be said to be harsh and/or illegal. On the contrary the authority is justified in dismissing the petitioner from service more particularly considering the fact that the petitioner was serving in the disciplined police force and such an indiscipline cannot be tolerated at least in the police department.",
 "court_quote_para": "n/a",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Dismissal of habitual-absentee armed constable (354 days absent) upheld as neither harsh nor illegal.",
 "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": "2010-08-11",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Gujarat High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Gujarat High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.",
   "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only",
   "source": "Special Civil Application No. 4599 of 2009",
   "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": "wrong_facts",
   "corrections_applied": [
    "judgment_date"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
 "link_checked_per_url": [
  {
   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1625532/",
   "link_checked": null
  }
 ],
 "source_assessment": {
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  "basis": null
 },
 "v3_basis": null,
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 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
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 "fidelity_checked": true,
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 "merged_case_id": "GAP3-49-004",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}