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 "display_title": "Jharkhand Police Constable vs The State of Jharkhand and Others",
 "display_title_redacted": "Jharkhand Police Constable vs The State of Jharkhand and Others",
 "state": "Jharkhand",
 "district": "Dhanbad",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Dhanbad",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Jharkhand Police, Dhanbad (PMCH prisoner-ward guard)",
 "court": "Jharkhand High Court",
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 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Jharkhand Police Constable vs The State of Jharkhand and Others",
 "case_number": "W.P.(S) No. 7671 of 2011",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "Pramath Patnaik"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2015-12-04",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2015,
 "incident_date": "2008-09-22",
 "incident_year": 2008,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "misconduct",
 "admin_subcategory": "dereliction_evidence_tampering",
 "subcategory": "dereliction_evidence_tampering",
 "subcategory_display": "dereliction evidence tampering",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld",
 "sections": [
  "Constitution Art. 226"
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   "rank": "Constable",
   "unit": "Jharkhand Police, Dhanbad (PMCH prisoner-ward guard)",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
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   "display": "Constable, Jharkhand Police, Dhanbad (PMCH prisoner-ward guard)"
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 "victims": [
  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": null,
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Dhanbad resident"
  }
 ],
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 "sentence_type": "dismissal",
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 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/158631019/",
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 "summary": "The Jharkhand High Court (Pramath Patnaik J.) dismissed a Dhanbad constable writ against his dismissal dated 6 March 2010. The court found proved gross negligence on prisoner-ward guard duty at PMCH, where an undertrial suffered burn injuries on 22 September 2008 and an inspection later found no uniformed guard at the ward. It held three concurrent evidence-based findings cannot be reappraised under Article 226 given the serious misconduct. The dismissal, affirmed in appeal and revision, therefore stands.",
 "summary_verified": "The Jharkhand High Court (Pramath Patnaik J.) dismissed a Dhanbad constable writ against his dismissal dated 6 March 2010. The court found proved gross negligence on prisoner-ward guard duty at PMCH, where an undertrial suffered burn injuries on 22 September 2008 and an inspection later found no uniformed guard at the ward. It held three concurrent evidence-based findings cannot be reappraised under Article 226 given the serious misconduct. The dismissal, affirmed in appeal and revision, therefore stands.",
 "court_quote": "As per the statement of the accused, there was candles and matches in the prisoner ward, the fire incident took place due to absence of the petitioner and others on the spot the fire engulfed.",
 "court_quote_para": "7(i)",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Writ dismissed; dismissal for negligence on undertrial guard duty upheld.",
 "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"
 ],
 "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": "2015-12-04",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Jharkhand High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Jharkhand High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.",
   "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only",
   "source": "W.P.(S) No. 7671 of 2011",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
 ],
 "later_proceedings": [],
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 "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": "wrong_facts",
   "corrections_applied": [
    "summary"
   ]
  }
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 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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  {
   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/158631019/",
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  }
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  "basis": null
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 "retracted": {
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 "merged_case_id": "GAP3-105-035",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}