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 "display_title": "The State of Bihar and Others vs Patna Police Constable and others",
 "display_title_redacted": "The State of Bihar and Others vs Patna Police Constable and others",
 "state": "Bihar",
 "district": "Patna",
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 "police_station_or_unit": "Dog Squad, CID, Bihar, Patna",
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 "case_title": "The State of Bihar and Others vs Patna Police Constable and others",
 "case_number": "Letters Patent Appeal No. 516 of 2014 (arising out of CWJC No. 471 of 2004)",
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  "Hemant Gupta",
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 "incident_date": "1988-08-08",
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 "category": "Other",
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   "descriptor": "Patna resident"
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 "summary": "A Division Bench of the Patna High Court restored the dismissal of CID Dog Squad constable [name withheld], caught red-handed with Rs 40,000 blackmail money by a raiding party on 8 August 1988. Though convicted in the criminal case in 1994 and acquitted on appeal in 1996, he was dismissed after a departmental enquiry, a penalty affirmed in appeal and memorial but set aside by a Single Judge in 2013. The Division Bench held the Single Judge had impermissibly re-appreciated evidence, found no procedural infirmity on perusing the original file, and held criminal acquittal does not conclude departmental proceedings. The LPA was allowed and the writ dismissed. Later proceedings: on 23 April 2025, the Supreme Court of India set aside the order recorded in this judgment (concerning [name withheld] [name withheld]); the outcome recorded here therefore does not stand. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "A Division Bench of the Patna High Court restored the dismissal of CID Dog Squad constable [name withheld], caught red-handed with Rs 40,000 blackmail money by a raiding party on 8 August 1988. Though convicted in the criminal case in 1994 and acquitted on appeal in 1996, he was dismissed after a departmental enquiry, a penalty affirmed in appeal and memorial but set aside by a Single Judge in 2013. The Division Bench held the Single Judge had impermissibly re-appreciated evidence, found no procedural infirmity on perusing the original file, and held criminal acquittal does not conclude departmental proceedings. The LPA was allowed and the writ dismissed.",
 "court_quote": "The respondent was caught with Rs. 40,000/- by the raiding party and taken into custody",
 "court_quote_para": "2",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "LPA allowed; dismissal for Rs 40,000 blackmail restored, criminal acquittal held no bar.",
 "verification_status": "V2",
 "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported",
 "tier_badge": "Externally reported",
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  "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded"
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   "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"
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   "date": "2016-11-16",
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   "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": "Letters Patent Appeal No. 516 of 2014 (arising out of CWJC No. 471 of 2004)",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  },
  {
   "date": "2025-04-23",
   "action_type": "Order set aside",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Supreme Court of India",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "Later proceedings: on 23 April 2025, the Supreme Court of India set aside the order recorded in this judgment (concerning [name withheld] [name withheld]); the outcome recorded here therefore does not stand.",
   "disposition": "Later proceeding · Conviction not standing",
   "source": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/120966011/",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
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   "court": "Supreme Court of India",
   "date": "2025-04-23",
   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/120966011/",
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