{ "record_id": "CW-2015-0036", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1013", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Motihari District Police Constable vs The State of Bihar and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Motihari District Police Constable vs The State of Bihar and Others", "state": "Bihar", "district": "East Champaran", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Raxaul", "police_station_or_unit": "Motihari District Police (Raxaul P.S. Case No. 20 of 2002)", "court": "Patna High Court", "court_as_verified": "Patna High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Motihari District Police Constable vs The State of Bihar and Others", "case_number": "Civil Review No. 124 of 2014 in L.P.A. No. 227 of 2012", "citation": null, "judges": [ "I. A. Ansari", "Ashwani Kumar Singh" ], "judgment_date": "2015-11-27", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2015, "incident_date": "2002-02-13", "incident_year": 2002, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "IPC 364A", "IPC 34", "IPC 120B", "CPC Order XLVII Rule 1" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "Motihari District Police, Bihar Police", "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, Motihari District Police, Bihar Police" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "age": null, "gender": null, "name": null, "descriptor": "Raxaul resident" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "dismissal", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/2275886/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The judgment of the Patna High Court records the following account. [name withheld], a 1999-recruited Bihar Police constable posted at Motihari, sought review of the dismissal of his appeal against the termination of his service for complicity in the February 2002 kidnapping of a Raxaul resident for ransom. The court recorded that a departmental enquiry had found his home telephone was used in the crime, the victim was kept at his house, and he associated with a known criminal, leading the DGP to enhance an initial minor penalty to dismissal in January 2006. The court held the review was merely an attempt at a re-hearing on merits beyond Order XLVII Rule 1 CPC and disclosed no error apparent. The review application was dismissed as devoid of merit, and the dismissal stands. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "[name withheld], a 1999-recruited Bihar Police constable posted at Motihari, sought review of the dismissal of his appeal against the termination of his service for complicity in the February 2002 kidnapping of a Raxaul resident for ransom. The court recorded that a departmental enquiry had found his home telephone was used in the crime, the victim was kept at his house, and he associated with a known criminal, leading the DGP to enhance an initial minor penalty to dismissal in January 2006. The court held the review was merely an attempt at a re-hearing on merits beyond Order XLVII Rule 1 CPC and disclosed no error apparent. The review application was dismissed as devoid of merit, and the dismissal stands.", "court_quote": "The application, being devoid of any merit, is dismissed.", "court_quote_para": "15", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Patna HC dismissed the review; dismissal of constable for complicity in kidnapping for ransom 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": "2015-11-27", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Patna High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Patna High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "Civil Review No. 124 of 2014 in L.P.A. No. 227 of 2012", "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://indiankanoon.org/doc/2275886/", "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-86" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-105-014", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }