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 "record_id": "CW-2016-0016",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-1003",
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 "display_title": "Govindpur Police Constable vs The State of Jharkhand",
 "display_title_redacted": "Govindpur Police Constable vs The State of Jharkhand",
 "state": "Jharkhand",
 "district": "Dhanbad",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Govindpur",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Baliapur Police Station, Dhanbad",
 "court": "Jharkhand High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Jharkhand High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Govindpur Police Constable vs The State of Jharkhand",
 "case_number": "L.P.A. No. 77 of 2015",
 "citation": "2016 LAB. I. C. (NOC) 382 (JHAR.); (2016) 2 JLJR 365; (2016) 2 JCR 504",
 "judges": [
  "Virender Singh",
  "Shree Chandrashekhar"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2016-02-16",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2016,
 "incident_date": "2010-08-20",
 "incident_year": 2010,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "corruption",
 "admin_subcategory": "extortion",
 "subcategory": "extortion",
 "subcategory_display": "extortion",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld",
 "sections": [
  "IPC 420",
  "IPC 491"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Constable",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "unit": "Baliapur Police Station, Dhanbad",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "ledger:no_row",
    "key2:no_row"
   ],
   "ledger_role": null,
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   "key2_claude": null,
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   "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, Baliapur Police Station, Dhanbad"
  }
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 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [
  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": null,
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Govindpur resident"
  },
  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": null,
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Govindpur resident"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 2,
 "sentence_type": "dismissal",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": null,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/106999058/",
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 "summary": "The Jharkhand High Court Division Bench (Virender Singh CJ, Shree Chandrashekhar J.) on 16 February 2016 dismissed the LPA of Dhanbad Constable and upheld his dismissal from service. The court recorded that on 20-21 August 2010 he impersonated the Superintendent of Police bodyguard, demanded Rs. 12,000 from truck driver [name withheld] for releasing his truck and accepted Rs. 5,000, besides absconding from duty. The court held the jail-recorded enquiry was fair, the compromise-based criminal acquittal did not touch the departmental findings, and the appellate order showed proper application of mind. The dismissal, already affirmed in appeal, memorial and writ, was consequently sustained.",
 "summary_verified": "The Jharkhand High Court Division Bench (Virender Singh CJ, Shree Chandrashekhar J.) on 16 February 2016 dismissed the LPA of Dhanbad Constable and upheld his dismissal from service. The court recorded that on 20-21 August 2010 he impersonated the Superintendent of Police bodyguard, demanded Rs. 12,000 from truck driver [name withheld] for releasing his truck and accepted Rs. 5,000, besides absconding from duty. The court held the jail-recorded enquiry was fair, the compromise-based criminal acquittal did not touch the departmental findings, and the appellate order showed proper application of mind. The dismissal, already affirmed in appeal, memorial and writ, was consequently sustained.",
 "court_quote": "The criminal case registered against the appellant ended in acquittal of the appellant on the basis of the compromise between the informant and the appellant. The order of acquittal dated 17.11.2011 in criminal case bearing G.R. No. 2876/2010 (T.R. No. 1692/2011) is not on merits of the case. Even otherwise also, acquittal in the criminal case would not affect the merits of the findings recorded during the departmental enquiry which are based on the evidence led during the enquiry.",
 "court_quote_para": "7",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "DB upheld dismissal of constable for extorting truck driver by impersonation.",
 "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": "2016-02-16",
   "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": "2016 LAB. I. C. (NOC) 382 (JHAR.); (2016) 2 JLJR 365; (2016) 2 JCR 504",
   "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",
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  {
   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/106999058/",
   "link_checked": null
  }
 ],
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  "is_retracted": false
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 "merged_case_id": "GAP3-105-004",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}