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 "record_id": "CW-2015-0030",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0965",
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 "display_title": "U.P. Police Constable v. State of Uttar Pradesh and Others",
 "display_title_redacted": "U.P. Police Constable v. State of Uttar Pradesh and Others",
 "state": "Uttar Pradesh",
 "district": null,
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": null,
 "police_station_or_unit": "U.P. Police (Police Department)",
 "court": "Allahabad High Court",
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 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "U.P. Police Constable v. State of Uttar Pradesh and Others",
 "case_number": "Special Appeal No. 1905 of 2010",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "Rajes Kumar",
  "S.B. Singh"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2015-07-21",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2015,
 "incident_date": null,
 "incident_year": null,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "misconduct",
 "admin_subcategory": "other",
 "subcategory": "other",
 "subcategory_display": "other",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld",
 "sections": [
  "Rule 8(2)(a), U.P. Police Officers of the Subordinate Ranks (Punishment and Appeal) Rules, 1991",
  "Constitution Art. 311(2) second proviso cl. (a)"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Constable",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "unit": "U.P. Police (Police Department)",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
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    "key2:no_row"
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   "later_outcome": null,
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Constable, U.P. Police (Police Department)"
  }
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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://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/354455/mahendra-kumar-gaud-appellant-hash-state-of-uttar-pradesh-and-others-respondent/",
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 "summary": "The Allahabad High Court (Division Bench, 21 July 2015) dismissed Special Appeal No. 1905 of 2010 and sustained the dismissal dated 7 September 2002 of police Constable under Rule 8(2)(a) of the 1991 Rules, imposed on the ground of conduct leading to his trial-court conviction for murder and life sentence. The Court recorded that the appellant's writ petition (No. 70001 of 2009) had already been dismissed by the single Judge on 20 July 2010 following S. Nagoor Meera (AIR 1995 SC 1364). The Court held there was no substance in the plea that a stay of sentence in the pending criminal appeal entitled him to reinstatement, since the conduct underlying the conviction was not stayed. The special appeal accordingly failed and was dismissed, with no compensation ordered; this judgment does not itself adjudicate the murder charge.",
 "summary_verified": "The Allahabad High Court (Division Bench, 21 July 2015) dismissed Special Appeal No. 1905 of 2010 and sustained the dismissal dated 7 September 2002 of police Constable under Rule 8(2)(a) of the 1991 Rules, imposed on the ground of conduct leading to his trial-court conviction for murder and life sentence. The Court recorded that the appellant's writ petition (No. 70001 of 2009) had already been dismissed by the single Judge on 20 July 2010 following S. Nagoor Meera (AIR 1995 SC 1364). The Court held there was no substance in the plea that a stay of sentence in the pending criminal appeal entitled him to reinstatement, since the conduct underlying the conviction was not stayed. The special appeal accordingly failed and was dismissed, with no compensation ordered; this judgment does not itself adjudicate the murder charge.",
 "court_quote": "A bare perusal of proviso of Rule 8 makes it clear that the Police personnel can be dismissed or removed on the ground of conduct which has led to his conviction on criminal charges even without any disciplinary proceeding being contemplated. Therefore, exercise of power dismissing the appellant on the ground of conduct which has led to his conviction on criminal charges cannot be said to be illegal.",
 "court_quote_para": "6",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Special Appeal dismissed; constable's dismissal after murder conviction (Rule 8(2)(a)) sustained.",
 "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": "2015-07-21",
   "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": "Special Appeal No. 1905 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": [
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   ]
  }
 ],
 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
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 "merged_case_id": "GAP3-6-005",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}