{ "record_id": "CW-2014-0032", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0989", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Bihar Military Police Constable vs The State of Jharkhand and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Bihar Military Police Constable vs The State of Jharkhand and Others", "state": "Jharkhand", "district": "Dhanbad", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Govindpur", "police_station_or_unit": "Bihar Military Police-3, Govindpur / District Police", "court": "Jharkhand High Court", "court_as_verified": "Jharkhand High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Bihar Military Police Constable vs The State of Jharkhand and Others", "case_number": "W.P.(S) No. 6056 of 2007", "citation": "(2015) 2 JLJR 38", "judges": [ "Sujit Narayan Prasad" ], "judgment_date": "2014-11-10", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2014, "incident_date": "1994-03-09", "incident_year": 1994, "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", "unit": "Bihar Military Police-3, Govindpur, Dhanbad", "role": "held_liable", "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, Bihar Military Police-3, Govindpur, Dhanbad" } ], "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/482513/vinod-kumar-yadav-appellant-hash-the-state-of-jharkhand-and-others-respondent/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "Constable, first dismissed in 1979 for fleeing patrol duty at Ara railway station — a dismissal that attained finality up to the Supreme Court in 1981 — was reinstated in 1993-94 and posted with BMP-3 at Govindpur, Dhanbad. A later enquiry found that the reinstatement rested on a forged Home Department letter, leading to his dismissal in October 2005 and rejection of his appeal. The Jharkhand High Court held that fraud vitiates everything, so no fresh regular departmental proceeding was required before cancelling an appointment obtained by forgery. The Court found the impugned orders warranted no interference and dismissed the writ petition as devoid of merit. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "Constable, first dismissed in 1979 for fleeing patrol duty at Ara railway station — a dismissal that attained finality up to the Supreme Court in 1981 — was reinstated in 1993-94 and posted with BMP-3 at Govindpur, Dhanbad. A later enquiry found that the reinstatement rested on a forged Home Department letter, leading to his dismissal in October 2005 and rejection of his appeal. The Jharkhand High Court held that fraud vitiates everything, so no fresh regular departmental proceeding was required before cancelling an appointment obtained by forgery. The Court found the impugned orders warranted no interference and dismissed the writ petition as devoid of merit.", "court_quote": "Hence applying the principles laid down by Hon'ble Court in the case referred herein above the impugned order does not warrant any interference. Hence, I find no reason to interfere with the impugned order.", "court_quote_para": "22-23", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Jharkhand HC dismissed writ; dismissal over forged-letter reinstatement upheld — fraud vitiates appointment.", "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": "2014-11-10", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Jharkhand High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Jharkhand High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "(2015) 2 JLJR 38", "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/482513/vinod-kumar-yadav-appellant-hash-the-state-of-jharkhand-and-others-respondent/", "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-83" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-104-004", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }