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 "record_id": "CW-2012-0023",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0787",
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 "display_title": "Mahender Singh vs Govt. of NCT of Delhi & Ors.",
 "display_title_redacted": "Mahender Singh vs Govt. of NCT of Delhi & Ors.",
 "state": "Delhi",
 "district": "South Delhi",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Delhi",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Aaya Nagar Police Picket",
 "court": "Delhi High Court",
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 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Mahender Singh vs Govt. of NCT of Delhi & Ors.",
 "case_number": "W.P.(C) No. 301 of 2012",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "Badar Durrez Ahmed",
  "V.K. Jain"
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 "judgment_date": "2012-01-27",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2012,
 "incident_date": "2008-02-19",
 "incident_year": 2008,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "corruption",
 "admin_subcategory": "bribery_pc_act",
 "subcategory": "bribery_pc_act",
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 "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld",
 "sections": [
  "PC Act 1988 s.7",
  "PC Act 1988 s.13(1)(d)",
  "Delhi Police (Punishment & Appeal) Rules 1980 r.15(2)"
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   "name": "Mahender Singh",
   "rank": "Head Constable",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "unit": "Aaya Nagar Police Picket, Delhi Police",
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   "key2": "yes",
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   "jev_risk": 0.06,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.9,
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   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": "Mahender Singh",
   "display": "Mahender Singh (Head Constable)"
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   "name": null,
   "rank": "Constable",
   "role": "named_only",
   "unit": "Delhi Police",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "key2:no",
    "key2_agy:no"
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   "ledger_role": "held_liable",
   "key2": "no",
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   "jev_p_culpable": 0.88,
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   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Constable, Delhi Police"
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 "officer_count": 2,
 "victims": [],
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 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 0,
 "sentence_type": "dismissal",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
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 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/25826872/",
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 "summary": "The Delhi High Court dismissed the writ petition of Delhi Police Head Constable Mahender Singh and upheld his removal from service for corrupt practice, holding the enquiry had proved that on 19 February 2008 he stopped a vigilance-decoy vehicle at Aaya Nagar picket for a seat-belt violation, settled the Rs 1,200 challan for a Rs 200 bribe, and had Constable collect the marked notes, which were recovered from [name withheld]'s pocket by the vigilance team on camera. The Court rejected the objection under Rule 15(2) of the Delhi Police (Punishment & Appeal) Rules, holding that proceeding departmentally rather than by criminal trial under Sections 7/13(1)(d) of the PC Act was comparatively favourable to him and caused no prejudice. It held the removal penalty was not disproportionate and agreed that a police official indulging in such corrupt activities needs to be weeded out of the force. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Delhi High Court dismissed the writ petition of Delhi Police Head Constable Mahender Singh and upheld his removal from service for corrupt practice, holding the enquiry had proved that on 19 February 2008 he stopped a vigilance-decoy vehicle at Aaya Nagar picket for a seat-belt violation, settled the Rs 1,200 challan for a Rs 200 bribe, and had Constable collect the marked notes, which were recovered from [name withheld]'s pocket by the vigilance team on camera. The Court rejected the objection under Rule 15(2) of the Delhi Police (Punishment & Appeal) Rules, holding that proceeding departmentally rather than by criminal trial under Sections 7/13(1)(d) of the PC Act was comparatively favourable to him and caused no prejudice. It held the removal penalty was not disproportionate and agreed that a police official indulging in such corrupt activities needs to be weeded out of the force.",
 "court_quote": "We are in agreement with the view that a police official indulging into such corrupt activities should not be allowed to continue in service and needs to be weeded out from the police force.",
 "court_quote_para": "10",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "HC upheld removal of HC caught on camera taking Rs 200 bribe via co-constable; vigilance trap proved.",
 "verification_status": "V2",
 "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported",
 "tier_badge": "Externally reported",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
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  "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"
  }
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 "institutional_response": [
  {
   "date": "2012-01-27",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Delhi High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Delhi High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.",
   "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only",
   "source": "W.P.(C) No. 301 of 2012",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
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   "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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