{ "record_id": "CW-2013-0025", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0992", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Patmada Police Constable vs The State of Jharkhand and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Patmada Police Constable vs The State of Jharkhand and Others", "state": "Jharkhand", "district": "East Singhbhum", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Patmada", "police_station_or_unit": "Patmada Police Station, East Singhbhum", "court": "Jharkhand High Court", "court_as_verified": "Jharkhand High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Patmada Police Constable vs The State of Jharkhand and Others", "case_number": "W.P.(S) No. 704 of 2003", "citation": "(2013) 2 JLJR 628", "judges": [ "S. Chandrashekhar" ], "judgment_date": "2013-04-18", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2013, "incident_date": "2000-09-25", "incident_year": 2000, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "IPC 461", "IPC 379", "IPC 411" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "unit": "Patmada Police Station, East Singhbhum", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Constable, Patmada Police Station, East Singhbhum" } ], "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.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/471686/barmeshwar-nath-singh-yadav-appellant-hash-the-state-of-jharkhand-and-others-respondent/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/482891/barmeshwar-nath-singh-yadav-appellant-hash-state-of-jharkhand-and-others-respondent/" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Jharkhand High Court records the following account. Constable of Patmada Police Station, East Singhbhum, was apprehended by villagers on the night of 24/25 September 2000 at the scene of a godown theft near the Swarnrekha river, leading to Patmada P.S. Case No. 66 of 2000 under IPC sections 461, 379 and 411. He was dismissed in August 2001 after a departmental enquiry in which villagers deposed against him, and his appeal was rejected. The Jharkhand High Court found the enquiry report had been supplied with the show-cause notice and no prejudice was shown, and held that theft involving moral turpitude warranted dismissal. The Court dismissed the writ petition, and the Division Bench later dismissed his appeal, holding departmental proof could stand despite his criminal acquittal on hostile witnesses.", "summary_verified": "Constable of Patmada Police Station, East Singhbhum, was apprehended by villagers on the night of 24/25 September 2000 at the scene of a godown theft near the Swarnrekha river, leading to Patmada P.S. Case No. 66 of 2000 under IPC sections 461, 379 and 411. He was dismissed in August 2001 after a departmental enquiry in which villagers deposed against him, and his appeal was rejected. The Jharkhand High Court found the enquiry report had been supplied with the show-cause notice and no prejudice was shown, and held that theft involving moral turpitude warranted dismissal. The Court dismissed the writ petition, and the Division Bench later dismissed his appeal, holding departmental proof could stand despite his criminal acquittal on hostile witnesses.", "court_quote": "A perusal of the enquiry report would disclose that the petitioner was apprehended on the spot by the villagers in the night of 24/25.9.2000 and a First Information Report was lodged against him. During the departmental enquiry, the villagers have deposed that the petitioner was apprehended on the spot and he along with the officer-in-charge of the police station and other two persons facilitated the theft of iron rods from the godown.", "court_quote_para": "5", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Jharkhand HC dismissed writ; dismissal for facilitating godown theft (moral turpitude) upheld despite criminal acquittal.", "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": "2013-04-18", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Jharkhand High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Jharkhand High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "(2013) 2 JLJR 628", "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": [ "secondary_sources" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/471686/barmeshwar-nath-singh-yadav-appellant-hash-the-state-of-jharkhand-and-others-respondent/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/482891/barmeshwar-nath-singh-yadav-appellant-hash-state-of-jharkhand-and-others-respondent/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-83" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-104-007", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }