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 "display_title": "Deputy Inspector General of Police & Anr. v. [name withheld]",
 "display_title_redacted": "Deputy Inspector General of Police & Anr. v. [name withheld]",
 "state": "Tamil Nadu",
 "district": "Tenkasi",
 "district_at_time": "Tirunelveli",
 "city_town": "Tenkasi",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Tenkasi Police Station",
 "court": "Supreme Court of India",
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 "case_title": "Deputy Inspector General of Police & Anr. v. [name withheld]",
 "case_number": "Civil Appeal No. 8513 of 2012",
 "citation": "(2013) 1 SCC 598; AIR 2013 SC 14",
 "judges": [
  "K.S. Radhakrishnan",
  "Dipak Misra"
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 "judgment_date": "2012-11-30",
 "date_precision": "day",
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 "incident_date": "1999-07-09",
 "incident_year": 1999,
 "category": "Other",
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 "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld",
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  "IPC 509",
  "Tamil Nadu Prohibition of Eve-Teasing Act 1998 s.4"
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   "rank": "Police Constable (PC 388)",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "unit": "Armed Reserve, Palayamkottai",
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   "age": null,
   "gender": "female",
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Tenkasi woman"
  }
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 "sentence_type": "dismissal",
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 "summary": "On 9 July 1999 the respondent, an Armed Reserve police constable on Courtallam-season bandobust duty, went to Tenkasi bus stand in a drunken state and eve-teased a married woman waiting with her husband, threatening to book a case against the husband; he was taken into custody by head constables on night duty and dismissed from service on 4 January 2000 after disciplinary proceedings. He was acquitted in the criminal case under Section 509 IPC and the Tamil Nadu Prohibition of Eve-Teasing Act, and the Madras High Court set aside the dismissal and ordered reinstatement with back wages. The Supreme Court held the criminal acquittal was on technical grounds rather than honourable and no bar to the departmental penalty, allowed the State appeal, set aside the High Court judgment and restored the dismissal. The Court additionally issued eight directions to States and Union Territories to curb eve-teasing. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "On 9 July 1999 the respondent, an Armed Reserve police constable on Courtallam-season bandobust duty, went to Tenkasi bus stand in a drunken state and eve-teased a married woman waiting with her husband, threatening to book a case against the husband; he was taken into custody by head constables on night duty and dismissed from service on 4 January 2000 after disciplinary proceedings. He was acquitted in the criminal case under Section 509 IPC and the Tamil Nadu Prohibition of Eve-Teasing Act, and the Madras High Court set aside the dismissal and ordered reinstatement with back wages. The Supreme Court held the criminal acquittal was on technical grounds rather than honourable and no bar to the departmental penalty, allowed the State appeal, set aside the High Court judgment and restored the dismissal. The Court additionally issued eight directions to States and Union Territories to curb eve-teasing.",
 "court_quote": "We are in this case concerned with a situation where a member of the law enforcement agency, a police personnel, himself was caught in the act of eve-teasing of a married woman leading to criminal and disciplinary proceeding, ending in his dismissal from service, the legality of which is the subject matter of this appeal.",
 "court_quote_para": "3",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "SC allowed State appeal; dismissal of constable for drunk on-duty eve-teasing restored.",
 "verification_status": "V2",
 "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported",
 "tier_badge": "Externally reported",
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   "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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   "date": "2012-11-30",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Supreme Court of India",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Supreme Court of India upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.",
   "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only",
   "source": "(2013) 1 SCC 598; AIR 2013 SC 14",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
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   "date": "2026-09-19",
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