{ "record_id": "CW-2010-0030", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1281", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "[name withheld] vs The Deputy Inspector General of Police, Vellore Range and Another", "display_title_redacted": "[name withheld] vs The Deputy Inspector General of Police, Vellore Range and Another", "state": "Tamil Nadu", "district": "Tirupattur", "district_at_time": "Vellore", "city_town": "Tirupattur", "police_station_or_unit": "Tirupattur Town Police Station", "court": "Madras High Court", "court_as_verified": "Madras High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "[name withheld] vs The Deputy Inspector General of Police, Vellore Range and Another", "case_number": "W.P. No.1811 of 2006", "citation": null, "judges": [ "N. Paul Vasanthakumar" ], "judgment_date": "2010-06-28", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2010, "incident_date": "1991-12-11", "incident_year": 1991, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "Tamil Nadu Forest Act 1882 s.36(E)", "TN Sandalwood Possession Rules 1970 r.3(1)", "Probation of Offenders Act 1958 s.4", "Probation of Offenders Act 1958 s.12", "Constitution Art. 226" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Grade-II Police Constable", "unit": "Tirupattur Town Police Station", "role": "convicted", "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": "Grade-II Police Constable, Tirupattur Town Police Station" } ], "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://indiankanoon.org/doc/87354/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The judgment of the Madras High Court records the following account. Grade-II Constable of Tirupattur Town Police Station challenged his dismissal and the rejection of his reinstatement plea following his conviction for concealing sandalwood in a 1991 forest offence. The court found that the conviction under the Tamil Nadu Forest Act stood confirmed through appeal and revision, with only the sentence of imprisonment set aside in favour of release on probation. The court held that the department was entitled to remove a convicted constable and, applying Trikha Ram, treated the dismissal as a removal so as not to disqualify him from future employment. The writ petition was dismissed with no costs. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "Grade-II Constable of Tirupattur Town Police Station challenged his dismissal and the rejection of his reinstatement plea following his conviction for concealing sandalwood in a 1991 forest offence. The court found that the conviction under the Tamil Nadu Forest Act stood confirmed through appeal and revision, with only the sentence of imprisonment set aside in favour of release on probation. The court held that the department was entitled to remove a convicted constable and, applying Trikha Ram, treated the dismissal as a removal so as not to disqualify him from future employment. The writ petition was dismissed with no costs.", "court_quote": "Here, the conviction imposed against the petitioner is not set aside and the leniency was shown to the petitioner only in respect of sentence after noticing the fact of dismissal of the petitioner from his service.", "court_quote_para": "8", "confidence": "medium", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC dismissed constable's writ; removal from service for a standing forest-offence conviction upheld (off-duty crime, borderline scope).", "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": "2010-06-28", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Madras High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Madras High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "W.P. No.1811 of 2006", "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/87354/", "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-122" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-85-010", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }