{ "record_id": "CW-2011-0036", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1117", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Prayagraj Police Constable v. State of U.P. & Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "Prayagraj Police Constable v. State of U.P. & Ors.", "state": "Uttar Pradesh", "district": "Prayagraj", "district_at_time": "Allahabad", "city_town": "Prayagraj", "police_station_or_unit": "IV Battalion, PAC, Allahabad", "court": "Supreme Court of India", "court_as_verified": "Supreme Court of India", "bench": null, "case_title": "Prayagraj Police Constable v. State of U.P. & Ors.", "case_number": "Civil Appeal No. 7643 of 2011", "citation": "[2011] 11 SCR 136", "judges": [ "Mukundakam Sharma", "Anil R. Dave" ], "judgment_date": "2011-09-05", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2011, "incident_date": "1991-10-27", "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": [ "IPC 392" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "IV Battalion, Provincial Armed Constabulary, Allahabad", "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, IV Battalion, Provincial Armed Constabulary, Allahabad" } ], "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://orderlaw-bphmhzeseagsd2ce.z03.azurefd.net/cms-cnr-data/supreme_court_data/pdf_files/jonew/judis/38454.pdf", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The appellant, a constable in the IV Battalion, Provincial Armed Constabulary, Allahabad, was unauthorisedly absent on 27 October 1991 and that evening forcibly grabbed a liquor bottle from a wine shop and threatened the staff; medical examination found he had consumed alcohol though he was not intoxicated. A departmental inquiry held the charges proved and he was dismissed on 11 February 1993; the departmental appeal, the U.P. Public Services Tribunal and the Allahabad High Court all upheld the dismissal, though he was acquitted in the linked criminal case under Section 392 IPC. The Supreme Court held the criminal acquittal had no bearing on the departmental proceedings given the different standards of proof, and that dismissal of a member of a disciplined force found under the influence of liquor was not shocking to the conscience. The appeal was dismissed with parties bearing their own costs.", "summary_verified": "The appellant, a constable in the IV Battalion, Provincial Armed Constabulary, Allahabad, was unauthorisedly absent on 27 October 1991 and that evening forcibly grabbed a liquor bottle from a wine shop and threatened the staff; medical examination found he had consumed alcohol though he was not intoxicated. A departmental inquiry held the charges proved and he was dismissed on 11 February 1993; the departmental appeal, the U.P. Public Services Tribunal and the Allahabad High Court all upheld the dismissal, though he was acquitted in the linked criminal case under Section 392 IPC. The Supreme Court held the criminal acquittal had no bearing on the departmental proceedings given the different standards of proof, and that dismissal of a member of a disciplined force found under the influence of liquor was not shocking to the conscience. The appeal was dismissed with parties bearing their own costs.", "court_quote": "The appellant belongs to a disciplinary force and the members of such a force is required to maintain discipline and to act in a befitting manner in public. Instead of that, he was found under the influence of liquor and then indulged himself in an offence.", "court_quote_para": "12", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "SC dismissed appeal; dismissal of PAC constable for absence and liquor-related misconduct upheld.", "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": "2011-09-05", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Supreme Court of India", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Supreme Court of India upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "[2011] 11 SCR 136", "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://orderlaw-bphmhzeseagsd2ce.z03.azurefd.net/cms-cnr-data/supreme_court_data/pdf_files/jonew/judis/38454.pdf", "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-100" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-130-002", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }