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 "status": "current",
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 "display_title": "Railway Police Constable vs The State of Bihar and Others",
 "display_title_redacted": "Railway Police Constable vs The State of Bihar and Others",
 "state": "Bihar",
 "district": "Bhagalpur",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Kharik",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Rail Police, Katihar (Kharik Railway Station post)",
 "court": "Patna High Court",
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 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Railway Police Constable vs The State of Bihar and Others",
 "case_number": "Letters Patent Appeal No. 1620 of 2012",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "Hemant Gupta",
  "Navaniti Prasad Singh"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2016-03-01",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2016,
 "incident_date": "2000-01-24",
 "incident_year": 2000,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "misconduct",
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 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld",
 "sections": [
  "IPC 395",
  "IPC 397",
  "IPC 120B",
  "CrPC s.164"
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   "rank": "Constable",
   "unit": "Railway Police, Katihar",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
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   "display": "Constable, Railway Police, Katihar"
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 "sentence_type": "dismissal",
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 "summary": "[name withheld], a Katihar Rail Police constable posted at Kharik station, was dismissed in May 2001 for complicity in the January 2000 armed attack on his own police post in which personnel were injured and arms looted. The court held the co-accused Section 164 statement was relevant departmental evidence, the Evidence Act does not strictly govern departmental enquiries, and no prejudice from procedural lapses had been proved. The court found no error in the Single Bench order upholding the punishment. The appeal was dismissed and the dismissal stands.",
 "summary_verified": "[name withheld], a Katihar Rail Police constable posted at Kharik station, was dismissed in May 2001 for complicity in the January 2000 armed attack on his own police post in which personnel were injured and arms looted. The court held the co-accused Section 164 statement was relevant departmental evidence, the Evidence Act does not strictly govern departmental enquiries, and no prejudice from procedural lapses had been proved. The court found no error in the Single Bench order upholding the punishment. The appeal was dismissed and the dismissal stands.",
 "court_quote": "In view of the above, we do not find any error in the order passed by the learned Single Bench of this Court which may warrant interference in the present Letters Patent Appeal.",
 "court_quote_para": "15",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Patna HC Division Bench dismissed the LPA; dismissal of Rail Police constable for complicity in armed dacoity stands.",
 "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"
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 "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": "2016-03-01",
   "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": "Letters Patent Appeal No. 1620 of 2012",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
 ],
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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": "holds",
   "corrections_applied": []
  }
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   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/64059240/",
   "link_checked": null
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 ],
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 },
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 "merged_case_id": "GAP3-105-020",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
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 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
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