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 "record_id": "CW-2013-0036",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-1254",
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 "display_title": "BSF Constable (dismissed) vs Union of India and Others",
 "display_title_redacted": "BSF Constable (dismissed) vs Union of India and Others",
 "state": "Madhya Pradesh",
 "district": "Gwalior",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Tekanpur",
 "police_station_or_unit": "35th Battalion BSF (tried by SSFC at STC, BSF Tekanpur)",
 "court": "Madhya Pradesh High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Madhya Pradesh High Court",
 "bench": "Gwalior",
 "case_title": "BSF Constable (dismissed) vs Union of India and Others",
 "case_number": "Writ Petition No. 7455/2011",
 "citation": "(2014) 1 MPJR 45; (2014) 1 MPLJ 600; (2013) 10 MP CK 0231",
 "judges": [
  "Sujoy Paul"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2013-10-22",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2013,
 "incident_date": null,
 "incident_year": null,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "misconduct",
 "admin_subcategory": "other",
 "subcategory": "other",
 "subcategory_display": "other",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld",
 "sections": [
  "BSF Act 1968 (SSFC trial)",
  "BSF Act 1968 s.117(2)"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Constable (dismissed)",
   "unit": "35th Battalion BSF",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "ledger:no_row",
    "key2:no_row"
   ],
   "ledger_role": null,
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   "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 (dismissed), 35th Battalion BSF"
  }
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 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 0,
 "sentence_type": "mixed",
 "sentence_max_years": 1,
 "compensation_inr": null,
 "force": "central_armed",
 "primary_source_url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/600574/jitender-singh-vs-union-of-india-and-others/",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "(2014) 1 MPJR 45",
  "(2014) 1 MPLJ 600"
 ],
 "summary": "BSF Constable was charge-sheeted on 29 March 2011 on a grave charge of sodomy and tried by a Summary Security Force Court at STC BSF Tekanpur, which found the charge proved and dismissed him from service with one year's rigorous imprisonment in civil jail on 18 May 2011, affirmed on appeal on 27 September 2011. He challenged the punishment contending the allegations were IPC offences not triable under the BSF Act, the convening authority was incompetent, and CrPC and Evidence Act procedures were not followed. The Madhya Pradesh High Court held the SSFC trial competent, that the CrPC and Evidence Act do not apply to SSFC trials, that the bar on the accused's friend cross-examining witnesses under Rule 157 is valid, and that no personal hearing is required under Section 117(2). The Court held the charges very grave and the punishment not harsh or excessive, and dismissed the writ petition. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "BSF Constable was charge-sheeted on 29 March 2011 on a grave charge of sodomy and tried by a Summary Security Force Court at STC BSF Tekanpur, which found the charge proved and dismissed him from service with one year's rigorous imprisonment in civil jail on 18 May 2011, affirmed on appeal on 27 September 2011. He challenged the punishment contending the allegations were IPC offences not triable under the BSF Act, the convening authority was incompetent, and CrPC and Evidence Act procedures were not followed. The Madhya Pradesh High Court held the SSFC trial competent, that the CrPC and Evidence Act do not apply to SSFC trials, that the bar on the accused's friend cross-examining witnesses under Rule 157 is valid, and that no personal hearing is required under Section 117(2). The Court held the charges very grave and the punishment not harsh or excessive, and dismissed the writ petition.",
 "court_quote": "As analyzed above, there is no substance in the petition. The charges established against the petitioner are very grave. It cannot be said that the petitioner is subjected to any harsh/excessive punishment.",
 "court_quote_para": "13",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "MP HC (Gwalior) upheld SSFC dismissal plus one year RI of BSF constable on grave sodomy charge; CrPC/Evidence Act held inapplicable to SSFC trials.",
 "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": "2013-10-22",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Madhya Pradesh High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Madhya Pradesh High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.",
   "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only",
   "source": "(2014) 1 MPJR 45; (2014) 1 MPLJ 600; (2013) 10 MP CK 0231",
   "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": []
  }
 ],
 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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  {
   "url": "(2014) 1 MPJR 45",
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  {
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 "v3_basis": null,
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 "merged_case_id": "GAP3-77-003",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}