{ "record_id": "CW-2014-0040", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1159", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Kolkata Woman & Ors. v. The State of West Bengal & Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "Kolkata Woman & Ors. v. The State of West Bengal & Ors.", "state": "West Bengal", "district": "Kolkata", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Kolkata", "police_station_or_unit": "Kolkata Police Force", "court": "Calcutta High Court", "court_as_verified": "Calcutta High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Kolkata Woman & Ors. v. The State of West Bengal & Ors.", "case_number": "W.P.S.T. No. 109 of 2013 with CAN No. 8104 of 2013", "citation": "(2014) 12 CAL CK 0101", "judges": [ "Jayanta Kumar Biswas", "Ishan Chandra Das" ], "judgment_date": "2014-12-19", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2014, "incident_date": "2000-12-15", "incident_year": 2000, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "Police Regulations of Calcutta 1968 Chap 19 Reg 8", "Administrative Tribunals Act 1985 s.21" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "Kolkata Police Force", "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, Kolkata Police Force" } ], "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.casemine.com/judgement/in/5ac5e3c64a93261a672b94d1", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/873436/maya-rani-das-appellant-hash-the-state-of-west-bengal-respondent/", "WBAT order dated 10 Sep 2012 in O.A. No. 748 of 2012" ], "summary": "Kolkata Police constable pleaded guilty to unauthorised absence from 15 December 2000, with 16 prior punishments and 164 days of extraordinary leave on record, and was dismissed with effect from 6 April 2001. His legal representatives later sought rescission citing a December 2011 criminal acquittal, but the West Bengal Administrative Tribunal dismissed the 2012 original application. The Calcutta High Court held the Tribunal could not condone the nine-year delay, that Regulation 8 permits dismissal for absence, and that the penalty was not shockingly disproportionate. The WPST was dismissed on 19 December 2014. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "Kolkata Police constable pleaded guilty to unauthorised absence from 15 December 2000, with 16 prior punishments and 164 days of extraordinary leave on record, and was dismissed with effect from 6 April 2001. His legal representatives later sought rescission citing a December 2011 criminal acquittal, but the West Bengal Administrative Tribunal dismissed the 2012 original application. The Calcutta High Court held the Tribunal could not condone the nine-year delay, that Regulation 8 permits dismissal for absence, and that the penalty was not shockingly disproportionate. The WPST was dismissed on 19 December 2014.", "court_quote": "For these reasons, we affirm the Tribunal order dismissing the OA and dismiss the WPST.", "court_quote_para": "26", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC judgment text verified via CourtKutchehry mirror; dismissal upheld, WPST dismissed as time-barred.", "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": "2014-12-19", "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) 12 CAL CK 0101", "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.casemine.com/judgement/in/5ac5e3c64a93261a672b94d1", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/873436/maya-rani-das-appellant-hash-the-state-of-west-bengal-respondent/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "WBAT order dated 10 Sep 2012 in O.A. No. 748 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": "GAP3-32-004", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }