{ "record_id": "CW-2012-0021", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0687", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Bengaluru Police Armed Police Constable (APC-1140) vs The State of Karnataka and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Bengaluru Police Armed Police Constable (APC-1140) vs The State of Karnataka and Others", "state": "Karnataka", "district": "Bengaluru Urban", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Bengaluru", "police_station_or_unit": "City Armed Reserve (South), Bengaluru", "court": "Karnataka High Court", "court_as_verified": "Karnataka High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Bengaluru Police Armed Police Constable (APC-1140) vs The State of Karnataka and Others", "case_number": "W.P. No. 46400 of 2012 (S-KAT) (against KAT Application No. 5066/2007, 10.07.2012)", "citation": null, "judges": [ "N. K. Patil", "B. S. Indrakala" ], "judgment_date": "2012-12-03", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2012, "incident_date": "2004-08-02", "incident_year": 2004, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Armed Police Constable (APC-1140)", "unit": "City Armed Reserve (South), Bengaluru", "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": "Armed Police Constable (APC-1140), City Armed Reserve (South), Bengaluru" } ], "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/7205702/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The judgment of the Karnataka High Court records the following account. Armed Police Constable of CAR (South), Bengaluru remained unauthorisedly absent from 2 August 2004, admitting 192 days absence before the enquiry officer. The Deputy Commissioner of Police imposed compulsory retirement in June 2005 considering his earlier record of absence in 18 years of service, and the appellate, revisional and KAT orders affirmed the penalty. The Division Bench held the disciplinary authority was justified in imposing compulsory retirement, calling it a lenient view, and found the 192-day absence from an essential service astonishing. Recording concurrent findings of fact, the Court held the penalty not disproportionate and dismissed the writ petition as devoid of merit. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "Armed Police Constable of CAR (South), Bengaluru remained unauthorisedly absent from 2 August 2004, admitting 192 days absence before the enquiry officer. The Deputy Commissioner of Police imposed compulsory retirement in June 2005 considering his earlier record of absence in 18 years of service, and the appellate, revisional and KAT orders affirmed the penalty. The Division Bench held the disciplinary authority was justified in imposing compulsory retirement, calling it a lenient view, and found the 192-day absence from an essential service astonishing. Recording concurrent findings of fact, the Court held the penalty not disproportionate and dismissed the writ petition as devoid of merit.", "court_quote": "justified in imposing penalty of compulsory retirement to the petitioner, which is infact a lenient view", "court_quote_para": "5", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC upheld compulsory retirement of armed constable for 192-day unauthorised absence; service-discipline matter.", "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": "2012-12-03", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Karnataka High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Karnataka High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "W.P. No. 46400 of 2012 (S-KAT) (against KAT Application No. 5066/2007, 10.07.2012)", "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/7205702/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": false, "verified_by": [ "chunk-51" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP10-005", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }