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 "record_id": "CW-2013-0037",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-1232",
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 "display_title": "Belagavi Police Police Constable and others vs State of Karnataka",
 "display_title_redacted": "Belagavi Police Police Constable and others vs State of Karnataka",
 "state": "Karnataka",
 "district": "Belagavi",
 "district_at_time": "Belgaum",
 "city_town": "Belagavi",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Belgaum Market Police Station",
 "court": "Karnataka High Court",
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 "bench": "Dharwad",
 "case_title": "Belagavi Police Police Constable and others vs State of Karnataka",
 "case_number": "Writ Petition Nos. 70837/2012 (S-KAT) c/w 71237/2012 (S-KAT)",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "Dilip B. Bhosale",
  "B. Manohar"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2013-11-12",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2013,
 "incident_date": null,
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 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "misconduct",
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 "subcategory": "other",
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 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld",
 "sections": [
  "Karnataka State Police (Disciplinary Proceedings) Rules Rule 6 (major penalty)"
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   "rank": "Police Constable",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "unit": "Belgaum Market Police Station, Belgaum District Unit",
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   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Police Constable, Belgaum Market Police Station, Belgaum District Unit"
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  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Police Constable",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "unit": "Belgaum Market Police Station, Belgaum District Unit",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
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   "display": "Police Constable, Belgaum Market Police Station, Belgaum District Unit"
  }
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 "officer_count": 2,
 "victims": [],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 0,
 "sentence_type": "dismissal",
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 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/160500680/",
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 "summary": "The judgment of the Karnataka High Court records the following account. While posted at Belgaum Market Police Station, constables and [name withheld] stole KSRTC bus warrants from the station, forged the officer's signature on them, and encashed them in collusion with a bus conductor, misappropriating Rs.25,670. A departmental inquiry examining 22 witnesses held the charges proved, and both constables were removed from service, which the KAT confirmed. The Karnataka High Court (Dharwad Bench) held no joint inquiry with the censured supervising inspectors was required since the charges differed, found the penalty proportionate, and dismissed both writ petitions. The court ruled the criminal acquittal was no ground to unsettle the disciplinary findings; no compensation was ordered. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "While posted at Belgaum Market Police Station, constables and [name withheld] stole KSRTC bus warrants from the station, forged the officer's signature on them, and encashed them in collusion with a bus conductor, misappropriating Rs.25,670. A departmental inquiry examining 22 witnesses held the charges proved, and both constables were removed from service, which the KAT confirmed. The Karnataka High Court (Dharwad Bench) held no joint inquiry with the censured supervising inspectors was required since the charges differed, found the penalty proportionate, and dismissed both writ petitions. The court ruled the criminal acquittal was no ground to unsettle the disciplinary findings; no compensation was ordered.",
 "court_quote": "The petitioners being Police Constables and public servants have to maintain integrity and purity in their life and safeguard the life and property of the person and society. Being the members of disciplined force they themselves have involved in the theft, forgery as well as misappropriation.",
 "court_quote_para": "6",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "HC judgment verified on Indian Kanoon; removal of two constables for bus-warrant theft, forgery and misappropriation upheld.",
 "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": "2013-11-12",
   "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 Nos. 70837/2012 (S-KAT) c/w 71237/2012 (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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 "merged_case_id": "GAP3-59-004",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
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 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}