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 "display_title": "Belagavi Police Police Constable vs State of Karnataka",
 "display_title_redacted": "Belagavi Police Police Constable vs State of Karnataka",
 "state": "Karnataka",
 "district": "Belagavi",
 "district_at_time": "Belgaum",
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 "police_station_or_unit": "Belgaum Market Police Station",
 "court": "Karnataka High Court",
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 "bench": "Dharwad",
 "case_title": "Belagavi Police Police Constable vs State of Karnataka",
 "case_number": "Writ Petition No. 78358/2013 (S-KAT)",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "N. Kumar",
  "Aravind Kumar"
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 "judgment_date": "2013-08-13",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2013,
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 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "corruption",
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 "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld",
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   "rank": "Police Constable",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "unit": "Belgaum Market Police Station, Belgaum",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
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   "display": "Police Constable, Belgaum Market Police Station, Belgaum"
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 "sentence_type": "dismissal",
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 "force": "state_police",
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 "summary": "The judgment of the Karnataka High Court records the following account. Police Constable of Belgaum Market Police Station and two colleagues were charged with stealing KSRTC bus warrants and misappropriating Rs.25,670 with the connivance of Mysore depot bus conductors, leading to his removal from service on 11 March 1999 after an enquiry with 22 witnesses, affirmed on appeal. His challenge before the Karnataka Administrative Tribunal, filed 8.5 years late, was rejected on delay and merits. He contended separate enquiries for supervising officers and discriminatory punishment vitiated the order. The High Court held the inspectors faced only supervision charges justifying censure while proved theft, forgery and misappropriation warranted dismissal, dismissing the writ petition. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "Police Constable of Belgaum Market Police Station and two colleagues were charged with stealing KSRTC bus warrants and misappropriating Rs.25,670 with the connivance of Mysore depot bus conductors, leading to his removal from service on 11 March 1999 after an enquiry with 22 witnesses, affirmed on appeal. His challenge before the Karnataka Administrative Tribunal, filed 8.5 years late, was rejected on delay and merits. He contended separate enquiries for supervising officers and discriminatory punishment vitiated the order. The High Court held the inspectors faced only supervision charges justifying censure while proved theft, forgery and misappropriation warranted dismissal, dismissing the writ petition.",
 "court_quote": "Therefore, having regard to the nature of mis-conduct proved, the punishment imposed is just and proper.",
 "court_quote_para": "11",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "HC judgment verified on IK; removal for bus-warrant theft/forgery/misappropriation upheld as just and proper.",
 "verification_status": "V2",
 "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported",
 "tier_badge": "Externally reported",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
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  "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded"
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 "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"
  }
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 "institutional_response": [
  {
   "date": "2013-08-13",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Karnataka High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Karnataka High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.",
   "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only",
   "source": "Writ Petition No. 78358/2013 (S-KAT)",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
 ],
 "later_proceedings": [],
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 "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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 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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  {
   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/62282649/",
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 "merged_case_id": "GAP3-59-002",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
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