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 "record_id": "CW-2012-0022",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0988",
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 "display_title": "Motihari District Police Constable vs The State of Bihar and Others",
 "display_title_redacted": "Motihari District Police Constable vs The State of Bihar and Others",
 "state": "Bihar",
 "district": "East Champaran",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Raxaul",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Motihari District Police, East Champaran",
 "court": "Patna High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Patna High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Motihari District Police Constable vs The State of Bihar and Others",
 "case_number": "C.W.J.C. No. 7410 of 2007",
 "citation": "(2012) 2 PLJR 843",
 "judges": [
  "V.N. Sinha"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2012-01-06",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2012,
 "incident_date": "2002-02-13",
 "incident_year": 2002,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "misconduct",
 "admin_subcategory": "other",
 "subcategory": "other",
 "subcategory_display": "other",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld",
 "sections": [
  "IPC 364A",
  "IPC 120B",
  "IPC 34"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Constable",
   "unit": "Motihari District Police",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
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    "key2:no_row"
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   "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, Motihari District Police"
  }
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 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": null,
   "descriptor": "Raxaul resident"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "dismissal",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": null,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/732778/arbind-kumar-singh-appellant-hash-the-state-of-bihar-and-others-respondent/",
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  "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/775257/arbind-kumar-singh-appellant-hash-the-state-of-bihar-and-others-respondent-1/"
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 "summary": "The judgment of the Patna High Court records the following account. Constable of the Motihari District Police was departmentally proceeded for complicity in Raxaul P.S. Case No. 20 of 2002, the abduction of a Raxaul resident for ransom, in which his home telephone was used for ransom demands and the victim was confined at his house. The Superintendent of Police initially withheld three increments, but the Director General-cum-Inspector General enhanced the penalty to dismissal under Rule 853A of the Bihar Police Manual. The Patna High Court found that the constable had accepted the guilt finding, declined opportunities to cross-examine witnesses, and was named by a co-accused as an active participant. The Court held the enhancement was made within reasonable time and that he did not deserve retention in the police force, and dismissed the writ petition. His Letters Patent Appeal and review were also dismissed, making the dismissal final.",
 "summary_verified": "Constable of the Motihari District Police was departmentally proceeded for complicity in Raxaul P.S. Case No. 20 of 2002, the abduction of a Raxaul resident for ransom, in which his home telephone was used for ransom demands and the victim was confined at his house. The Superintendent of Police initially withheld three increments, but the Director General-cum-Inspector General enhanced the penalty to dismissal under Rule 853A of the Bihar Police Manual. The Patna High Court found that the constable had accepted the guilt finding, declined opportunities to cross-examine witnesses, and was named by a co-accused as an active participant. The Court held the enhancement was made within reasonable time and that he did not deserve retention in the police force, and dismissed the writ petition. His Letters Patent Appeal and review were also dismissed, making the dismissal final.",
 "court_quote": "Petitioner having not questioned his complicity in the crime of abduction in the initial punishment order, in my opinion, he is not well advised to question his complicity in the same crime when punishment has been enhanced. In any view of the matter, petitioner having been named by one of the co-accused as active participant in the occurrence and named as suspect in the charge-sheet (sic) not deserve to be retained in the police force.",
 "court_quote_para": "6",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Patna HC dismissed writ; DGP's enhanced dismissal of kidnapping-complicit constable upheld (LPA/review also dismissed).",
 "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"
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 "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": "2012-01-06",
   "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": "(2012) 2 PLJR 843",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
 ],
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 "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": []
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 "source_assessment": {
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 "v3_basis": null,
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 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
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 "merged_case_id": "GAP3-104-003",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
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 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}