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 "record_id": "CW-2013-0009",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0413",
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 "display_title": "Devendra Kumar vs State of Uttaranchal and Others",
 "display_title_redacted": "Devendra Kumar vs State of Uttaranchal and Others",
 "state": "Uttarakhand",
 "district": null,
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": null,
 "police_station_or_unit": "Uttarakhand Police (2001 constable recruitment; training from 18.10.2001)",
 "court": "Supreme Court of India",
 "court_as_verified": "Supreme Court of India",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Devendra Kumar vs State of Uttaranchal and Others",
 "case_number": "Civil Appeal (against Special Appeal No. 16 of 2003, Uttarakhand High Court)",
 "citation": "(2013) 9 SCC 363",
 "judges": [
  "B.S. Chauhan",
  "S.A. Bobde"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2013-07-29",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2013,
 "incident_date": "2001-10-18",
 "incident_year": 2001,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "misconduct",
 "admin_subcategory": "other",
 "subcategory": "other",
 "subcategory_display": "other",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld",
 "sections": [],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": "Devendra Kumar",
   "rank": "Constable (recruit, 2001 batch)",
   "unit": "Uttarakhand Police (training from 18.10.2001)",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "publish_grade": "named_safe",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "key2_union:no(overruled by grok)"
   ],
   "ledger_role": "held_liable",
   "key2": "yes",
   "key2_agy": null,
   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": "no",
   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": "yes",
   "key2_gpt56": null,
   "grok": "yes",
   "jev_risk": 0.07,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.93,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": "Devendra Kumar",
   "display": "Devendra Kumar (Constable (recruit, 2001 batch))"
  }
 ],
 "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://www.lawweb.in/2014/01/suppression-of-material-information.html?m=1",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/5609af35e4b0149711415d2d"
 ],
 "summary": "The judgment of the Supreme Court of India records the following account. Devendra Kumar was selected as a constable in Uttarakhand's September 2001 recruitment and sent for training on 18 October 2001, submitting an affidavit that he had never been involved in any criminal case. Character verification in January 2002 revealed he had in fact been involved in a criminal case in which a final report was later accepted, and he was discharged in April 2002 as a temporary servant. A Single Judge and then a Division Bench of the Uttarakhand High Court upheld the discharge. The Supreme Court dismissed his appeal, holding that suppression of material information sought by the employer itself amounts to moral turpitude and fraud, so the termination was proper and called for no interference.",
 "summary_verified": "Devendra Kumar was selected as a constable in Uttarakhand's September 2001 recruitment and sent for training on 18 October 2001, submitting an affidavit that he had never been involved in any criminal case. Character verification in January 2002 revealed he had in fact been involved in a criminal case in which a final report was later accepted, and he was discharged in April 2002 as a temporary servant. A Single Judge and then a Division Bench of the Uttarakhand High Court upheld the discharge. The Supreme Court dismissed his appeal, holding that suppression of material information sought by the employer itself amounts to moral turpitude and fraud, so the termination was proper and called for no interference.",
 "court_quote": "The case pending against a person might not involve moral turpitude but suppressing of this information itself amounts to moral turpitude.",
 "court_quote_para": "10",
 "confidence": "medium",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "SC upheld discharge of constable-recruit for suppressing criminal antecedents in affidavit.",
 "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": "2013-07-29",
   "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) 9 SCC 363",
   "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.lawweb.in/2014/01/suppression-of-material-information.html?m=1",
   "link_checked": null
  },
  {
   "url": "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/5609af35e4b0149711415d2d",
   "link_checked": null
  }
 ],
 "source_assessment": {
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  "basis": null
 },
 "v3_basis": null,
 "publication_basis": null,
 "reviews": [],
 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
 },
 "fidelity_checked": true,
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 "merged_case_id": "UTTARA-010",
 "officers_named_public": 1,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}