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 "record_id": "CW-2010-0031",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-1212",
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 "display_title": "Unarmed Police Unarmed Police Constable vs State of Gujarat & 3",
 "display_title_redacted": "Unarmed Police Unarmed Police Constable vs State of Gujarat & 3",
 "state": "Gujarat",
 "district": "Kheda",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Nadiad",
 "police_station_or_unit": null,
 "court": "Gujarat High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Gujarat High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Unarmed Police Unarmed Police Constable vs State of Gujarat & 3",
 "case_number": "Special Civil Application No. 8325 of 2010",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "A.L. Dave"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2010-07-22",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2010,
 "incident_date": "1995-05-26",
 "incident_year": 1995,
 "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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   "name": null,
   "rank": "Unarmed Police Constable",
   "unit": null,
   "role": "held_liable",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
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   "key2_claude": null,
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   "later_outcome": null,
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Unarmed Police Constable"
  }
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 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 0,
 "sentence_type": "dismissal",
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 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/676192/",
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 "summary": "Unarmed Constable was found drunk on a public road near Pathikashram, Nadiad, at about 2:30 am on 26 May 1995 and prosecuted under the Bombay Prohibition Act and Bombay Police Act. The criminal court acquitted him on benefit of doubt, but departmental proceedings held the misconduct proved and he was dismissed, with the appeal and revision both failing in 2006. After his death in 2007, his widow challenged the dismissal. The Gujarat High Court held that a criminal acquittal does not dislodge a departmental finding recorded on preponderance of probability, and dismissed the petition. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "Unarmed Constable was found drunk on a public road near Pathikashram, Nadiad, at about 2:30 am on 26 May 1995 and prosecuted under the Bombay Prohibition Act and Bombay Police Act. The criminal court acquitted him on benefit of doubt, but departmental proceedings held the misconduct proved and he was dismissed, with the appeal and revision both failing in 2006. After his death in 2007, his widow challenged the dismissal. The Gujarat High Court held that a criminal acquittal does not dislodge a departmental finding recorded on preponderance of probability, and dismissed the petition.",
 "court_quote": "It is now a settled proposition of law that acquittal in a criminal proceedings may not have consequential effect on departmental proceedings, since both the proceedings are decided on different principles of proof. In criminal proceedings, strict proof beyond reasonable doubt is expected; whereas in the departmental proceedings strict proof is not a parameter and the proceedings are decided on the principles of preponderance of probability and, therefore, acquittal of the deceased employee in criminal trial cannot be a ground to entertain this petition.",
 "court_quote_para": "4",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Widow's challenge to constable's dismissal for drunken misconduct failed; criminal acquittal held no bar.",
 "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": "2010-07-22",
   "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. 8325 of 2010",
   "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/676192/",
   "link_checked": null
  }
 ],
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  "basis": null
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 "retracted": {
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 "merged_case_id": "GAP3-49-002",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}