{ "record_id": "CW-2015-0013", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0571", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Misrikh Police Constable, Civil Police and others v. State of U.P. and Others with [name withheld] v. State of U.P. and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Misrikh Police Constable, Civil Police and others v. State of U.P. and Others with [name withheld] v. State of U.P. and Others", "state": "Uttar Pradesh", "district": "Sitapur", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Misrikh", "police_station_or_unit": "Police Station Misrikh, Sitapur", "court": "Allahabad High Court", "court_as_verified": "Allahabad High Court", "bench": "Lucknow", "case_title": "Misrikh Police Constable, Civil Police and others v. State of U.P. and Others with [name withheld] v. State of U.P. and Others", "case_number": "Writ Petition Nos. 53 (S/S) and 56 (S/S) of 2010", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Devendra Kumar Arora" ], "judgment_date": "2015-12-23", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2015, "incident_date": "1981-02-10", "incident_year": 1981, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "fake_encounter_extrajudicial_killing", "subcategory": "fake_encounter_extrajudicial_killing", "subcategory_display": "fake encounter extrajudicial killing", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "IPC 147", "IPC 148", "IPC 149", "IPC 218", "IPC 302" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable, Civil Police", "unit": "Police Station Misrikh, Sitapur", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2:no" ], "ledger_role": "convicted", "key2": "no", "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.22, "jev_p_culpable": 0.76, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Constable, Civil Police, Police Station Misrikh, Sitapur" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Constable, Civil Police", "unit": "Police Station Misrikh, Sitapur", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2:no" ], "ledger_role": "convicted", "key2": "no", "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.32, "jev_p_culpable": 0.64, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Constable, Civil Police, Police Station Misrikh, Sitapur" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Sub-Inspector, Civil Police", "unit": "Police Station Misrikh, Sitapur", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2:no" ], "ledger_role": "convicted", "key2": "no", "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.11, "jev_p_culpable": 0.8, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Sub-Inspector, Civil Police, Police Station Misrikh, Sitapur" } ], "officer_count": 3, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Misrikh man" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Misrikh man" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": null, "descriptor": "Misrikh resident" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 3, "sentence_type": "dismissal", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/71378871/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.allahabadhighcourt.in/ILR/ilr-2015/Dec2015.pdf" ], "summary": "The Allahabad High Court (Lucknow Bench) dismissed the writ petitions of two constables and a sub-inspector of Police Station Misrikh, Sitapur, upholding their dismissal from service under clause (a) of the second proviso to Article 311(2) read with Rule 8(2)(a) of the U.P. Police Subordinate Ranks (Punishment and Appeal) Rules 1991. The dismissals rested on their conviction and life sentences by the Additional Sessions Judge/FTC Sitapur on 7 August 2008 with eleven other police officers for the 10 February 1981 Sarsai encounter in which a Misrikh man, a Misrikh man and a Misrikh resident were killed, which the Court described as an alleged fake encounter and murder by the police party. The Court held a Section 302 convict should not be reinstated till absolved in appeal and that pendency of Criminal Appeal No. 1853 of 2008 does not bar dismissal. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Allahabad High Court (Lucknow Bench) dismissed the writ petitions of two constables and a sub-inspector of Police Station Misrikh, Sitapur, upholding their dismissal from service under clause (a) of the second proviso to Article 311(2) read with Rule 8(2)(a) of the U.P. Police Subordinate Ranks (Punishment and Appeal) Rules 1991. The dismissals rested on their conviction and life sentences by the Additional Sessions Judge/FTC Sitapur on 7 August 2008 with eleven other police officers for the 10 February 1981 Sarsai encounter in which a Misrikh man, a Misrikh man and a Misrikh resident were killed, which the Court described as an alleged fake encounter and murder by the police party. The Court held a Section 302 convict should not be reinstated till absolved in appeal and that pendency of Criminal Appeal No. 1853 of 2008 does not bar dismissal.", "court_quote": "A person convicted under Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code should not be reinstated in service till he is absolved in appeal.", "court_quote_para": null, "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Allahabad HC (Lucknow) upheld dismissal of 3 Misrikh policemen convicted of murder in 1981 Sarsai fake encounter.", "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": "2015-12-23", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Allahabad High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Allahabad High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "Writ Petition Nos. 53 (S/S) and 56 (S/S) of 2010", "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": [ "sections" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/71378871/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.allahabadhighcourt.in/ILR/ilr-2015/Dec2015.pdf", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": false, "verified_by": [ "chunk-47" ], "merged_case_id": "NORTH-001", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }