{ "record_id": "CW-2013-0016", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0418", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Deepak Singh Bhandari v. State of Uttarakhand and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Deepak Singh Bhandari v. State of Uttarakhand and Others", "state": "Uttarakhand", "district": "Tehri Garhwal", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": null, "police_station_or_unit": "Uttarakhand Police (dismissed by Superintendent of Police, Tehri Garhwal)", "court": "Uttarakhand High Court", "court_as_verified": "Uttarakhand High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Deepak Singh Bhandari v. State of Uttarakhand and Others", "case_number": "Writ Petition No. 1574 of 2012", "citation": "(2014) LabIC 355", "judges": [ "Alok Singh" ], "judgment_date": "2013-10-29", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2013, "incident_date": "2007-01-01", "incident_year": 2007, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "corruption", "admin_subcategory": "bribery_pc_act", "subcategory": "bribery_pc_act", "subcategory_display": "bribery pc act", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [], "officers": [ { "name": "Deepak Singh Bhandari", "rank": "Constable", "unit": "Uttarakhand Police", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "named_safe", "gate_reasons": [], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.06, "jev_p_culpable": 0.94, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": "Deepak Singh Bhandari", "display": "Deepak Singh Bhandari (Constable)" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Tehri Garhwal man" } ], "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/944870/deepak-singh-bhandari-appellant-hash-state-of-uttarakhand-and-others-respondent/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.the-laws.com/Encyclopedia/browse/Case?CaseId=123102152000&Title=DEEPAK-SINGH-BHANDARI-Vs.-STATE-OF-UTTARAKHAND" ], "summary": "The Uttarakhand High Court dismissed Constable Deepak Singh Bhandari's writ petition, upholding his dismissal from service on 13 May 2010. The Court recorded that in 2007 he took Rs. 1 lakh from villager a Tehri Garhwal man, claiming influence with superior officers and promising to get a Tehri Garhwal man's son recruited into the Uttarakhand Police, and never refunded the money after the son failed selection. It held the inquiry finding that he had demanded and accepted the money was justified and that such conduct was serious misconduct. The Court found the punishment totally justified; no Prevention of Corruption Act prosecution is recorded in the judgment. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Uttarakhand High Court dismissed Constable Deepak Singh Bhandari's writ petition, upholding his dismissal from service on 13 May 2010. The Court recorded that in 2007 he took Rs. 1 lakh from villager a Tehri Garhwal man, claiming influence with superior officers and promising to get a Tehri Garhwal man's son recruited into the Uttarakhand Police, and never refunded the money after the son failed selection. It held the inquiry finding that he had demanded and accepted the money was justified and that such conduct was serious misconduct. The Court found the punishment totally justified; no Prevention of Corruption Act prosecution is recorded in the judgment.", "court_quote": "Therefore, punishment awarded by the Disciplinary Authority in the peculiar facts and circumstances of the case, seems to be totally justified. Consequently, writ petition fails and is hereby dismissed.", "court_quote_para": "11", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "UHC judgment verified on CourtKutchehry; dismissal for taking Rs.1 lakh for recruitment upheld (departmental finding only).", "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": "2013-10-29", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Uttarakhand High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Uttarakhand High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "(2014) LabIC 355", "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": [ "court_quote_para" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/944870/deepak-singh-bhandari-appellant-hash-state-of-uttarakhand-and-others-respondent/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.the-laws.com/Encyclopedia/browse/Case?CaseId=123102152000&Title=DEEPAK-SINGH-BHANDARI-Vs.-STATE-OF-UTTARAKHAND", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": false, "verified_by": [ "chunk-38" ], "merged_case_id": "UTTARA-015", "officers_named_public": 1, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }