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 "record_id": "CW-2012-0002",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0053",
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 "display_title": "Narhan Bazar, Bibhutipur Police Constable vs The State Of Bihar & Ors",
 "display_title_redacted": "Narhan Bazar, Bibhutipur Police Constable vs The State Of Bihar & Ors",
 "state": "Bihar",
 "district": "Samastipur",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Narhan Bazar, Bibhutipur",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Narhan Bazar police post / Bibhutipur Police Station",
 "court": "Patna High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Patna High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Narhan Bazar, Bibhutipur Police Constable vs The State Of Bihar & Ors",
 "case_number": "Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case No. 9314 of 1998",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "Shivaji Pandey"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2012-02-06",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2012,
 "incident_date": "1989-03-06",
 "incident_year": 1989,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "brutality",
 "admin_subcategory": "disproportionate_force",
 "subcategory": "disproportionate_force",
 "subcategory_display": "disproportionate force",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld",
 "sections": [
  "IPC 307",
  "IPC 34",
  "Arms Act 1959 s.27"
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 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Constable",
   "unit": "Narhan Bazar, Samastipur",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
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   "ledger_role": "held_liable",
   "key2": "yes",
   "key2_agy": "yes",
   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": "yes",
   "key2_gemapi": "unclear",
   "key2_openrouter": "yes",
   "key2_gpt56": null,
   "grok": null,
   "jev_risk": 0.06,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.93,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Constable, Narhan Bazar, Samastipur"
  }
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 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "female",
   "descriptor": "Narhan Bazar, Bibhutipur woman"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Narhan Bazar, Bibhutipur man"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": null,
   "descriptor": "Narhan Bazar, Bibhutipur resident"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": null,
   "descriptor": "Narhan Bazar, Bibhutipur resident"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": null,
   "descriptor": "Narhan Bazar, Bibhutipur resident"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": null,
   "descriptor": "Narhan Bazar, Bibhutipur resident"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": null,
   "descriptor": "Narhan Bazar, Bibhutipur resident"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 7,
 "sentence_type": "dismissal",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": null,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/102197345/",
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 "summary": "The Patna High Court upheld the dismissal of Bihar Police constable, posted at Narhan Bazar in Samastipur for law-and-order duty, who quarrelled with vegetable vendor a Narhan Bazar, Bibhutipur woman over 25 paise on March 6, 1989, assaulted her and her husband, then returned with his service rifle and an associate and fired twice, killing one person and injuring four (Bibhutipur PS Case No. 34 of 1989). A departmental enquiry proved the charges, leading to dismissal by the SP Samastipur on September 28, 1995, affirmed on appeal and memorial; the constable was also criminally convicted and sentenced to 5 years RI under Sections 307/34 IPC and 2 years RI under the Arms Act, upheld on criminal appeal. Holding the misconduct of the highest degree and a barbaric crime, the Court found dismissal not disproportionate and dismissed the writ petition. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Patna High Court upheld the dismissal of Bihar Police constable, posted at Narhan Bazar in Samastipur for law-and-order duty, who quarrelled with vegetable vendor a Narhan Bazar, Bibhutipur woman over 25 paise on March 6, 1989, assaulted her and her husband, then returned with his service rifle and an associate and fired twice, killing one person and injuring four (Bibhutipur PS Case No. 34 of 1989). A departmental enquiry proved the charges, leading to dismissal by the SP Samastipur on September 28, 1995, affirmed on appeal and memorial; the constable was also criminally convicted and sentenced to 5 years RI under Sections 307/34 IPC and 2 years RI under the Arms Act, upheld on criminal appeal. Holding the misconduct of the highest degree and a barbaric crime, the Court found dismissal not disproportionate and dismissed the writ petition.",
 "court_quote": "for a petty matter, petitioner used his service rifle and killed one person and injured others without any provocation and, as such, he does not deserve any sympathy from this Court. This act is not only highest degree of misconduct but at same time a barbaric and heinous crime against the society.",
 "court_quote_para": "9",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Patna HC upheld dismissal of constable for firing service rifle in market over petty dispute, killing one and injuring four.",
 "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": "2012-02-06",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Patna High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Patna High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.",
   "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only",
   "source": "Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case No. 9314 of 1998",
   "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": [
    "court_quote_para"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
 "link_checked_per_url": [
  {
   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/102197345/",
   "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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 "merged_case_id": "BIHAR2-005",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}