{ "record_id": "CW-2016-0004", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0653", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "State of West Bengal & Ors. v. State Armed Police Constable", "display_title_redacted": "State of West Bengal & Ors. v. State Armed Police Constable", "state": "West Bengal", "district": "Uttar Dinajpur", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Raiganj", "police_station_or_unit": null, "court": "Calcutta High Court", "court_as_verified": "Calcutta High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "State of West Bengal & Ors. v. State Armed Police Constable", "case_number": "WPST No. 20 of 2016", "citation": "2016 SCC OnLine Cal 4259", "judges": [ "Nishita Mhatre", "Rakesh Tiwari" ], "judgment_date": "2016-08-03", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2016, "incident_date": "2007-10-09", "incident_year": 2007, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "IPC 419", "IPC 420", "IPC 120-B" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "unit": "State Armed Police, West Bengal", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2:no", "key2_openrouter:unclear" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "no", "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "unclear", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": "no", "jev_risk": 0.44, "jev_p_culpable": 0.76, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "unclear", "name_public": null, "display": "Constable, State Armed Police, West Bengal" } ], "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/105609604/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.livelaw.in/policeman-dismissed-service-not-entitled-reinstatement-acquittal-criminal-case-calcutta-hc-read-judgment" ], "summary": "State Armed Police constable, posted at Raiganj, was accused in Raiganj PS Case 383/2007 (Sections 419/420/120-B IPC) over impersonation to procure constable employment, and was dismissed in January 2012 after a departmental enquiry for tarnishing the police image. Though honourably acquitted in the criminal trial, the Division Bench followed State of WB v. [name withheld] and held there is no provision under the Police Regulations to reinstate an employee acquitted of a criminal charge. The State's petition was allowed and the Tribunal's reinstatement order quashed. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "State Armed Police constable, posted at Raiganj, was accused in Raiganj PS Case 383/2007 (Sections 419/420/120-B IPC) over impersonation to procure constable employment, and was dismissed in January 2012 after a departmental enquiry for tarnishing the police image. Though honourably acquitted in the criminal trial, the Division Bench followed State of WB v. [name withheld] and held there is no provision under the Police Regulations to reinstate an employee acquitted of a criminal charge. The State's petition was allowed and the Tribunal's reinstatement order quashed.", "court_quote": "However, there is no provision under the Police Regulations to reinstate an employee who has been acquitted of a criminal charge. We do not, therefore, find that the Tribunal was correct, in allowing the original application.", "court_quote_para": "23", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC judgment text verified on Indian Kanoon; Tribunal reinstatement quashed, constable's dismissal 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": "2016-08-03", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Calcutta High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Calcutta High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "2016 SCC OnLine Cal 4259", "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/105609604/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/policeman-dismissed-service-not-entitled-reinstatement-acquittal-criminal-case-calcutta-hc-read-judgment", "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-45" ], "merged_case_id": "SWOTHERM-017", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }