{ "record_id": "CW-2014-0026", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1156", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Kolkata Police Constable (Traffic) v. State of West Bengal", "display_title_redacted": "Kolkata Police Constable (Traffic) v. State of West Bengal", "state": "West Bengal", "district": "Kolkata", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Kolkata", "police_station_or_unit": "Kolkata Police (Traffic)", "court": "Calcutta High Court", "court_as_verified": "Calcutta High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Kolkata Police Constable (Traffic) v. State of West Bengal", "case_number": "W.P.S.T. No. 143 of 2013", "citation": "(2014) 4 CHN 487; (2014) 04 CAL CK 0026", "judges": [ "Nishita Mhatre", "Tapash Mookherjee" ], "judgment_date": "2014-04-08", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2014, "incident_date": "2005-05-04", "incident_year": 2005, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable (Traffic)", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "Kolkata Police", "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 (Traffic), Kolkata Police" } ], "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://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/872516/prollad-das-appellant-hash-state-of-west-bengal-respondent/", "secondary_sources": [ "WBAT order dated 17 Dec 2012 in O.A. No. 661 of 2012" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Calcutta High Court records the following account. Kolkata Police traffic constable absented himself from 4 May 2005 after medical rest only until 6 May 2005, sending no intimation and evading examination by the Kolkata Police doctor while producing a private angina certificate from a consulting obstetrician and gynaecologist. An ex-parte enquiry led to his dismissal on 12 June 2007, affirmed in appeal and review and by the West Bengal Administrative Tribunal. The Calcutta High Court disbelieved the medical defence and stressed his eight prior punishments for similar misconduct. The writ petition was dismissed on 8 April 2014 with no order as to costs. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "Kolkata Police traffic constable absented himself from 4 May 2005 after medical rest only until 6 May 2005, sending no intimation and evading examination by the Kolkata Police doctor while producing a private angina certificate from a consulting obstetrician and gynaecologist. An ex-parte enquiry led to his dismissal on 12 June 2007, affirmed in appeal and review and by the West Bengal Administrative Tribunal. The Calcutta High Court disbelieved the medical defence and stressed his eight prior punishments for similar misconduct. The writ petition was dismissed on 8 April 2014 with no order as to costs.", "court_quote": "Considering the entire material on record, in our opinion, the petitioner does not deserve any sympathy, especially since he has been punished on eight occasions earlier for the similar acts of misconduct.", "court_quote_para": "9", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC judgment text verified; Kolkata Police constable's dismissal for 700+ days' absence upheld.", "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": "2014-04-08", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Calcutta High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Calcutta High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "(2014) 4 CHN 487; (2014) 04 CAL CK 0026", "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", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/872516/prollad-das-appellant-hash-state-of-west-bengal-respondent/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "WBAT order dated 17 Dec 2012 in O.A. No. 661 of 2012", "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-105" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-32-001", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }