{ "record_id": "CW-2013-0040", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1088", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Rajasthan Police Constable (Driver) No. 824 vs State of Rajasthan and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Rajasthan Police Constable (Driver) No. 824 vs State of Rajasthan and Others", "state": "Rajasthan", "district": "Pratapgarh", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Pratapgarh", "police_station_or_unit": "Police Line Pratapgarh", "court": "Rajasthan High Court", "court_as_verified": "Rajasthan High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Rajasthan Police Constable (Driver) No. 824 vs State of Rajasthan and Others", "case_number": "D.B. Civil Writ Review Petition No. 213/2011 (arising from D.B. Civil Special Appeal (Writ) No. 792/2011)", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Amitava Roy", "P. K. Lohra" ], "judgment_date": "2013-12-11", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2013, "incident_date": "2009-02-18", "incident_year": 2009, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "dereliction_evidence_tampering", "subcategory": "dereliction_evidence_tampering", "subcategory_display": "dereliction evidence tampering", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "Rajasthan Civil Services (Classification, Control and Appeal) Rules, 1958 Rule 16" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable (Driver) No. 824", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "Rajasthan Police, Police Line Pratapgarh", "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 (Driver) No. 824, Rajasthan Police, Police Line Pratapgarh" } ], "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://indiankanoon.org/doc/186307814/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/222385/samunder-singh-vs-state-of-rajasthan-and-others/" ], "summary": "Constable (Driver) [name withheld], deputed on 18 February 2009 to escort arrested accused from Pratapgarh to Nimbahera court in government vehicle RJ-09-S-4326, was charged with abandoning the escort party and accused, driving the vehicle away, and consuming liquor inside it until unfit to drive. The court record notes he was photographed half-lying in the vehicle, the photo was published in Rajasthan Patrika on 19 February 2009, and a government-hospital medical examination confirmed alcohol influence. The Division Bench had dismissed his special appeal on 29 June 2011 holding his own statement plus the doctor evidence proved on-duty liquor consumption; the reviewing Division Bench on 11 December 2013 reproduced those findings and dismissed the review, leaving the dismissal from service intact.", "summary_verified": "Constable (Driver) [name withheld], deputed on 18 February 2009 to escort arrested accused from Pratapgarh to Nimbahera court in government vehicle RJ-09-S-4326, was charged with abandoning the escort party and accused, driving the vehicle away, and consuming liquor inside it until unfit to drive. The court record notes he was photographed half-lying in the vehicle, the photo was published in Rajasthan Patrika on 19 February 2009, and a government-hospital medical examination confirmed alcohol influence. The Division Bench had dismissed his special appeal on 29 June 2011 holding his own statement plus the doctor evidence proved on-duty liquor consumption; the reviewing Division Bench on 11 December 2013 reproduced those findings and dismissed the review, leaving the dismissal from service intact.", "court_quote": "Vis-a-vis the plea that his past conduct could not have been taken into consideration for determining the penalty, the Co-ordinate Bench held that even dehors the same, the misconduct proved against him on the charges leveled was adequate enough to warrant his dismissal from service, more particularly in view of the fact that he at all relevant times was a member of the disciplined force.", "court_quote_para": "3", "confidence": "medium", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Review judgment verified; DB dismissal-upheld findings reproduced verbatim though DB text unreported.", "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": "2013-12-11", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Rajasthan High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Rajasthan High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "D.B. Civil Writ Review Petition No. 213/2011 (arising from D.B. Civil Special Appeal (Writ) No. 792/2011)", "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": "wrong_facts", "corrections_applied": [ "court_quote", "court_quote_para" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/186307814/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/222385/samunder-singh-vs-state-of-rajasthan-and-others/", "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-96" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-121-006", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }