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 "record_id": "CW-2013-0017",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0652",
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 "display_title": "State of West Bengal & Ors. v. Kolkata Armed Police Sepoy",
 "display_title_redacted": "State of West Bengal & Ors. v. Kolkata Armed Police Sepoy",
 "state": "West Bengal",
 "district": "North 24 Parganas",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Khardah",
 "police_station_or_unit": "2nd Battalion, Kolkata Armed Police (on deputation to Traffic Department, Kolkata Police)",
 "court": "Supreme Court of India",
 "court_as_verified": "Supreme Court of India",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "State of West Bengal & Ors. v. Kolkata Armed Police Sepoy",
 "case_number": "Civil Appeal No. 10729 of 2013",
 "citation": "(2014) 3 SCC 610; AIR 2014 SC 405",
 "judges": [
  "K.S. Radhakrishnan",
  "A.K. Sikri"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2013-11-28",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2013,
 "incident_date": "2003-11-12",
 "incident_year": 2003,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "misconduct",
 "admin_subcategory": "other",
 "subcategory": "other",
 "subcategory_display": "other",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld",
 "sections": [
  "IPC 392",
  "IPC 395",
  "IPC 412",
  "Arms Act s.25",
  "Arms Act s.27"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Sepoy",
   "unit": "2nd Battalion, Kolkata Armed Police",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "key2_openrouter:unclear"
   ],
   "ledger_role": "held_liable",
   "key2": "yes",
   "key2_agy": null,
   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": "yes",
   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": "unclear",
   "key2_gpt56": null,
   "grok": null,
   "jev_risk": 0.17,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.84,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Sepoy, 2nd Battalion, Kolkata Armed Police"
  }
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 "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://indiankanoon.org/doc/16056318/",
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 ],
 "summary": "Sepoy (2nd Battalion KAP, on deputation to Kolkata Traffic Police) was arrested on 26 November 2003 for complicity in a dacoity (Khardah PS Case 383, Sections 392/395/412 IPC and Arms Act), suspended and dismissed after a departmental enquiry found gross misconduct. Though acquitted by the Sessions Court, Barrackpore, he won reinstatement from the WB Administrative Tribunal, affirmed by the Calcutta High Court. The Supreme Court held under the Police Regulations of Calcutta 1968 that criminal acquittal is no bar to departmental punishment, allowed the State's appeal and set aside the reinstatement.",
 "summary_verified": "Sepoy (2nd Battalion KAP, on deputation to Kolkata Traffic Police) was arrested on 26 November 2003 for complicity in a dacoity (Khardah PS Case 383, Sections 392/395/412 IPC and Arms Act), suspended and dismissed after a departmental enquiry found gross misconduct. Though acquitted by the Sessions Court, Barrackpore, he won reinstatement from the WB Administrative Tribunal, affirmed by the Calcutta High Court. The Supreme Court held under the Police Regulations of Calcutta 1968 that criminal acquittal is no bar to departmental punishment, allowed the State's appeal and set aside the reinstatement.",
 "court_quote": "The Tribunal as well as the High Court have not considered the above-mentioned provision and have committed a mistake in holding that since the respondent was acquitted by a Criminal Court of the same charges, reinstatement was automatic. We find it difficult to support the finding recorded by the Tribunal which was confirmed by the High Court. We, therefore, allow the appeal and set aside the order of the Tribunal, which was affirmed by the High Court.",
 "court_quote_para": "18",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "SC judgment text verified on Indian Kanoon; Tribunal reinstatement set aside, dacoity-accused sepoy's dismissal sustained.",
 "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": "2013-11-28",
   "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": "(2014) 3 SCC 610; AIR 2014 SC 405",
   "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": []
  }
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 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/16056318/",
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  "is_retracted": false
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 "merged_case_id": "SWOTHERM-016",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}