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 "record_id": "CW-2016-0025",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-1007",
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 "display_title": "Union of India vs Patna Police Constable",
 "display_title_redacted": "Union of India vs Patna Police Constable",
 "state": "Bihar",
 "district": "Patna",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Patna",
 "police_station_or_unit": "CISF Company 613 (Shatabdi Bhawan Strong Room election duty, Patna)",
 "court": "Jharkhand High Court",
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 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Union of India vs Patna Police Constable",
 "case_number": "L.P.A. No. 267 of 2013",
 "citation": "(2016) 4 AIR Jhar R 696; (2017) 1 JLJR 337",
 "judges": [
  "D. N. Patel",
  "Ananda Sen"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2016-04-27",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2016,
 "incident_date": "1999-10-07",
 "incident_year": 1999,
 "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": [
  "CISF Act 1968 s.8"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Constable",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "unit": "Central Industrial Security Force",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "ledger:no_row",
    "key2:no_row"
   ],
   "ledger_role": null,
   "key2": null,
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   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": null,
   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": null,
   "key2_gpt56": null,
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   "jev_p_culpable": null,
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   "later_outcome": null,
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Constable, Central Industrial Security Force"
  }
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 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 0,
 "sentence_type": "dismissal",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": null,
 "force": "central_armed",
 "primary_source_url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/484032/union-of-india-appellant-hash-harendra-singh-respondent/",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "(2016) 4 AIR Jhar R 696",
  "(2017) 1 JLJR 337"
 ],
 "summary": "The Jharkhand High Court Division Bench allowed the Union of India appeal and restored the dismissal of CISF Constable, setting aside the Single Bench order of 8 March 2013. The court held that his admitted abandonment of the Shatabdi Bhawan strong-room post during the 1999 Lok Sabha elections, leaving a 7.62mm rifle and 50 rounds unguarded, amounted to dereliction, negligence, indiscipline and wilful disobedience. It disbelieved the illness defence and held dismissal was not disproportionate for a member of a disciplined force. The dismissal of 25 September 2000, already affirmed in appeal and revision, therefore stands.",
 "summary_verified": "The Jharkhand High Court Division Bench allowed the Union of India appeal and restored the dismissal of CISF Constable, setting aside the Single Bench order of 8 March 2013. The court held that his admitted abandonment of the Shatabdi Bhawan strong-room post during the 1999 Lok Sabha elections, leaving a 7.62mm rifle and 50 rounds unguarded, amounted to dereliction, negligence, indiscipline and wilful disobedience. It disbelieved the illness defence and held dismissal was not disproportionate for a member of a disciplined force. The dismissal of 25 September 2000, already affirmed in appeal and revision, therefore stands.",
 "court_quote": "As a cumulative effect of the aforesaid facts, reasons and judicial pronouncements, the judgment and order delivered by the learned Single Judge in W.P. (S) No. 864 of 2002 dated 8th March, 2013 is, hereby, quashed and set aside and we, hereby, uphold the order passed by the disciplinary authority dated 25th September, 2000 (Annexure-3) as well as the order passed by the appellate authority dated 08th January, 2001 (Annexure-4) and the order passed by the revisional authority dated 25th July, 2001(Annexure- 5).",
 "court_quote_para": "8",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Union appeal allowed; Single Bench order set aside and CISF dismissal restored.",
 "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": "2016-04-27",
   "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) 4 AIR Jhar R 696; (2017) 1 JLJR 337",
   "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": "wrong_facts",
   "corrections_applied": []
  }
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 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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   "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/484032/union-of-india-appellant-hash-harendra-singh-respondent/",
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  {
   "url": "(2016) 4 AIR Jhar R 696",
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 "v3_basis": null,
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 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
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 "officers_named_public": 0,
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 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}