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 "record_id": "CW-2015-0025",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0849",
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 "display_title": "Nagapattinam Police Grade II Police Constable (Driver) vs The Superintendent of Police and Others",
 "display_title_redacted": "Nagapattinam Police Grade II Police Constable (Driver) vs The Superintendent of Police and Others",
 "state": "Tamil Nadu",
 "district": "Nagapattinam",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Nagapattinam",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Office of Deputy Superintendent of Police, District Crime Record Bureau, Nagapattinam",
 "court": "Madras High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Madras High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Nagapattinam Police Grade II Police Constable (Driver) vs The Superintendent of Police and Others",
 "case_number": "W.P. No.14011 of 2011",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "K.K. Sasidharan"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2015-03-16",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2015,
 "incident_date": "2008-01-01",
 "incident_year": 2008,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "misconduct",
 "admin_subcategory": "other",
 "subcategory": "other",
 "subcategory_display": "other",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld",
 "sections": [
  "IPC 379",
  "IPC 427"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Grade II Police Constable (Driver)",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "unit": "Office of Deputy Superintendent of Police, District Crime Record Bureau, Nagapattinam",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
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    "key2:no_row"
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   "key2_gemapi": null,
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   "key2_gpt56": null,
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   "jev_risk": null,
   "jev_p_culpable": null,
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   "later_outcome": null,
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Grade II Police Constable (Driver), Office of Deputy Superintendent of Police, District Crime Record Bureau, Nagapattinam"
  }
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 "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://indiankanoon.org/doc/60770303/",
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 "summary": "The judgment of the Madras High Court records the following account. Grade-II constable driver [name withheld], Armed Reserve Nagapattinam attached to the DSP office, District Crime Record Bureau, was dismissed after Crime No.518 of 2008 (Velipalayam PS, IPC ss.379/427) and a departmental enquiry in which he did not participate and which examined PWs 1-3 ex parte (paras 2, 6); the DGP later converted the dismissal into compulsory retirement as a concession (paras 2, 8). Justice K.K. Sasidharan refused to interfere, treating the conversion itself as leniency (para 11). The petitioner relied on his subsequent acquittal in C.C.No.193 of 2009, but the court held a benefit-of-doubt acquittal does not undo departmental findings given the different standard of proof (paras 7-9). The writ petition was dismissed, leaving the compulsory retirement intact (para 12). Note: the misconduct (drunken fracas and forcible taking of money at Velipalayam bus stand, paras 3, 6) is criminality by an officer rather than an on-duty abuse of police power. The respondents' case (counter affidavit; AGP contending maximum punishment was commensurate) is at paras 3 and 5. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The judgment of the Madras High Court records the following account. Grade-II constable driver [name withheld], Armed Reserve Nagapattinam attached to the DSP office, District Crime Record Bureau, was dismissed after Crime No.518 of 2008 (Velipalayam PS, IPC ss.379/427) and a departmental enquiry in which he did not participate and which examined PWs 1-3 ex parte (paras 2, 6); the DGP later converted the dismissal into compulsory retirement as a concession (paras 2, 8). Justice K.K. Sasidharan refused to interfere, treating the conversion itself as leniency (para 11). The petitioner relied on his subsequent acquittal in C.C.No.193 of 2009, but the court held a benefit-of-doubt acquittal does not undo departmental findings given the different standard of proof (paras 7-9). The writ petition was dismissed, leaving the compulsory retirement intact (para 12). Note: the misconduct (drunken fracas and forcible taking of money at Velipalayam bus stand, paras 3, 6) is criminality by an officer rather than an on-duty abuse of police power. The respondents' case (counter affidavit; AGP contending maximum punishment was commensurate) is at paras 3 and 5.",
 "court_quote": "The Director General of Police took a lenient view and modified the punishment. The modification of punishment itself was a concession. Such being the position, I do not find any reason to interfere in the matter.",
 "court_quote_para": "11",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "HC dismissed constable-driver writ; compulsory retirement (converted from dismissal) for criminal misconduct stands.",
 "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": "2015-03-16",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Madras High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Madras High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.",
   "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only",
   "source": "W.P. No.14011 of 2011",
   "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": [
    "summary"
   ]
  }
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 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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  {
   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/60770303/",
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  }
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 "v3_basis": null,
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 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
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 "fidelity_checked": true,
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 "merged_case_id": "GAP2-39-012",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}