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 "record_id": "CW-2012-0034",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-1257",
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 "display_title": "BSF Constable vs The Union of India and Others",
 "display_title_redacted": "BSF Constable vs The Union of India and Others",
 "state": "West Bengal",
 "district": null,
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": null,
 "police_station_or_unit": "E Coy, 195 Battalion BSF",
 "court": "Madhya Pradesh High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Madhya Pradesh High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "BSF Constable vs The Union of India and Others",
 "case_number": "Writ Petition No. 1024 of 2000",
 "citation": "(2012) 09 MP CK 0278",
 "judges": [
  "Rajendra Menon"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2012-09-11",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2012,
 "incident_date": "1999-06-29",
 "incident_year": 1999,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "misconduct",
 "admin_subcategory": "other",
 "subcategory": "other",
 "subcategory_display": "other",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld",
 "sections": [
  "BSF Act 1968 s.20(a)",
  "BSF Act 1968 s.20(b)"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Constable",
   "unit": "E Coy, 195 Battalion BSF",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "ledger:no_row",
    "key2:no_row"
   ],
   "ledger_role": null,
   "key2": null,
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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,
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   "later_outcome": null,
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Constable, E Coy, 195 Battalion BSF"
  }
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 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "West Bengal man"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "dismissal",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": null,
 "force": "central_armed",
 "primary_source_url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/603895/ramashray-prasad-dwivedi-vs-the-union-of-india-and-others/",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "(2012) 09 MP CK 0278"
 ],
 "summary": "The judgment of the Madhya Pradesh High Court records the following account. BSF Constable was charge-sheeted for slapping Assistant Commandant a West Bengal man, his Company Commandant, on the left cheek and threatening to shoot and kill him without provocation on 29 June 1999 at about 19:45 hours. A Summary Security Force Court convened on 5 July 1999 established his guilt and the Commandant dismissed him from service the same day. An earlier dismissal of his writ on jurisdiction grounds was set aside by a Division Bench in 2007 and the matter was heard on merits. The Madhya Pradesh High Court held the assault on a superior officer was proved in a properly conducted departmental inquiry, the cited judgments had no relevance to the peculiar facts, and dismissed the petition, sustaining the dismissal. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "BSF Constable was charge-sheeted for slapping Assistant Commandant a West Bengal man, his Company Commandant, on the left cheek and threatening to shoot and kill him without provocation on 29 June 1999 at about 19:45 hours. A Summary Security Force Court convened on 5 July 1999 established his guilt and the Commandant dismissed him from service the same day. An earlier dismissal of his writ on jurisdiction grounds was set aside by a Division Bench in 2007 and the matter was heard on merits. The Madhya Pradesh High Court held the assault on a superior officer was proved in a properly conducted departmental inquiry, the cited judgments had no relevance to the peculiar facts, and dismissed the petition, sustaining the dismissal.",
 "court_quote": "Accordingly, finding the petitioner - a Member of the Disciplined Armed Force, to have been punished for the act of assaulting a Superior Officer, which has been proved in a properly conducted departmental inquiry, I see no reason to interfere into the matter.",
 "court_quote_para": "23",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "MP HC upheld SSFC dismissal of BSF constable for slapping and threatening to kill his Company Commandant; purely internal-discipline matter, incident in West Bengal per jurisdiction discussion.",
 "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": "2012-09-11",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Madhya Pradesh High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Madhya Pradesh High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.",
   "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only",
   "source": "(2012) 09 MP CK 0278",
   "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",
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   "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/603895/ramashray-prasad-dwivedi-vs-the-union-of-india-and-others/",
   "link_checked": null
  },
  {
   "url": "(2012) 09 MP CK 0278",
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 },
 "v3_basis": null,
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 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
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 "fidelity_checked": true,
 "verified_by": [
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 "merged_case_id": "GAP3-77-006",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}