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 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0406",
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 "display_title": "Uttarakhand Police Head Constable and others vs State of Uttarakhand",
 "display_title_redacted": "Uttarakhand Police Head Constable and others vs State of Uttarakhand",
 "state": "Uttarakhand",
 "district": "Haridwar",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Haridwar",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Uttarakhand Police Escort Party",
 "court": "Uttarakhand High Court",
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 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Uttarakhand Police Head Constable and others vs State of Uttarakhand",
 "case_number": "Criminal Appeal No. 3 of 2015",
 "citation": "(2015) 01 UK CK 0003",
 "judges": [
  "Umesh Chandra Dhyani"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2015-01-07",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2015,
 "incident_date": "2005-08-12",
 "incident_year": 2005,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "misconduct",
 "admin_subcategory": "dereliction_evidence_tampering",
 "subcategory": "dereliction_evidence_tampering",
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 "outcome_type": "conviction_upheld",
 "sections": [
  "IPC 223",
  "Probation of Offenders Act 1958 s.4"
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   "rank": "Head Constable",
   "unit": "Uttarakhand Police Escort Party",
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   "display": "Head Constable, Uttarakhand Police Escort Party"
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   "later_outcome": null,
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   "display": "Constable, Uttarakhand Police Escort Party"
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 "officer_count": 2,
 "victims": [],
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 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 0,
 "sentence_type": null,
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 "compensation_inr": null,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/254454/head-constable-41-ap-puran-singh-appellant-hash-state-of-uttarakhand-respondent/",
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 "summary": "The Uttarakhand High Court affirmed the conviction of Head Constable and other escort personnel under Section 223 of the Indian Penal Code for negligently suffering the escape of an undertrial prisoner from custody. The police party was escorting prisoner Gulzar Khan by train from Haldwani to Dehradun on 12 August 2005 when the personnel fell asleep and the handcuffed prisoner escaped. The trial court had sentenced each appellant to three months' simple imprisonment and a fine of Rs 500. While upholding the conviction, the High Court released the appellants on probation of good conduct for one year under Section 4 of the Probation of Offenders Act, 1958, and directed refund of the fine. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Uttarakhand High Court affirmed the conviction of Head Constable and other escort personnel under Section 223 of the Indian Penal Code for negligently suffering the escape of an undertrial prisoner from custody. The police party was escorting prisoner Gulzar Khan by train from Haldwani to Dehradun on 12 August 2005 when the personnel fell asleep and the handcuffed prisoner escaped. The trial court had sentenced each appellant to three months' simple imprisonment and a fine of Rs 500. While upholding the conviction, the High Court released the appellants on probation of good conduct for one year under Section 4 of the Probation of Offenders Act, 1958, and directed refund of the fine.",
 "court_quote": "There is no infirmity in the impugned judgment so far as the conviction of the appellants for the offence punishable under Section 223 IPC is concerned. The conviction of the appellants under Section 223 IPC is, therefore, affirmed.",
 "court_quote_para": "2",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Uttarakhand HC affirmed conviction of Head Constable and escort constables under IPC 223 for negligent escape of prisoner, releasing them on probation.",
 "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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  {
   "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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   "action_type": "Conviction",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Trial court (as recorded in the Uttarakhand High Court judgment)",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Uttarakhand High Court judgment.",
   "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation",
   "source": "(2015) 01 UK CK 0003",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  },
  {
   "date": "2015-01-07",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Uttarakhand High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Uttarakhand High Court dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.",
   "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)",
   "source": "(2015) 01 UK CK 0003",
   "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",
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 "merged_case_id": "UTTARA-003",
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 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
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