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 "status": "current",
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 "display_title": "Haryana Police Exemptee Head Constable vs State of Haryana and Others",
 "display_title_redacted": "Haryana Police Exemptee Head Constable vs State of Haryana and Others",
 "state": "Haryana",
 "district": "Karnal",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Karnal",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Police Station Civil Lines, Karnal",
 "court": "Punjab and Haryana High Court",
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 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Haryana Police Exemptee Head Constable vs State of Haryana and Others",
 "case_number": "Civil Writ Petition No.16680 of 2013",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "Rajiv Narain Raina"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2013-08-02",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2013,
 "incident_date": "2007-09-12",
 "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": [
  "PC Act 1988 s.7",
  "PC Act 1988 s.13",
  "IPC 120-B"
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  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Exemptee Head Constable",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "unit": "Haryana Police, District Karnal",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
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   "display": "Exemptee Head Constable, Haryana Police, District Karnal"
  }
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 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Karnal man"
  }
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 "victims_redacted": null,
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 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": null,
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": null,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/189731314/",
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 "summary": "The Punjab and Haryana High Court dismissed the writ petition of Exemptee Head Constable of the Haryana Police, Karnal, thereby sustaining a major disciplinary penalty for bribe-taking. [name withheld] and Head Constable were accused in FIR No.465 of 12.9.2007 of demanding a bribe from a Karnal man under threat of a false NDPS case, but both were acquitted by the Special Judge, Karnal in 2010 after the complainant and an eyewitness turned hostile. In the parallel departmental enquiry [name withheld] was held guilty of demanding and taking his share of the bribe, punished with reversion to Constable, reduced on appeal to stoppage of one annual increment with cumulative effect plus integrity-dishonest ACRs. The Court called it proven misconduct involving moral turpitude of the worst kind and directed the DGP to re-examine the clean chit given to co-delinquent not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Punjab and Haryana High Court dismissed the writ petition of Exemptee Head Constable of the Haryana Police, Karnal, thereby sustaining a major disciplinary penalty for bribe-taking. [name withheld] and Head Constable were accused in FIR No.465 of 12.9.2007 of demanding a bribe from a Karnal man under threat of a false NDPS case, but both were acquitted by the Special Judge, Karnal in 2010 after the complainant and an eyewitness turned hostile. In the parallel departmental enquiry [name withheld] was held guilty of demanding and taking his share of the bribe, punished with reversion to Constable, reduced on appeal to stoppage of one annual increment with cumulative effect plus integrity-dishonest ACRs. The Court called it proven misconduct involving moral turpitude of the worst kind and directed the DGP to re-examine the clean chit given to co-delinquent.",
 "court_quote": "This Court cannot put a premium on proven misconduct involving moral turpitude of the worst kind.",
 "court_quote_para": "n/a",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "HC dismissed writ, sustaining bribe-taking penalty despite criminal acquittal on hostile witnesses.",
 "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": "2013-08-02",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Punjab and Haryana High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Punjab and Haryana High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.",
   "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only",
   "source": "Civil Writ Petition No.16680 of 2013",
   "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/189731314/",
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 "merged_case_id": "GAP3-113-002",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}