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 "record_id": "CW-2016-0028",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-1006",
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 "display_title": "Dhanbad Police Constable vs The State of Jharkhand and Others",
 "display_title_redacted": "Dhanbad Police Constable vs The State of Jharkhand and Others",
 "state": "Jharkhand",
 "district": "Dhanbad",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Dhanbad",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Dhanbad Police (Hariharpur Police Station)",
 "court": "Jharkhand High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Jharkhand High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Dhanbad Police Constable vs The State of Jharkhand and Others",
 "case_number": "L.P.A. No. 2 of 2016",
 "citation": "(2016) 3 AIR Jhar R 861; (2016) 3 JCR 717",
 "judges": [
  "Virender Singh",
  "Shree Chandrashekhar"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2016-05-17",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2016,
 "incident_date": "2008-07-28",
 "incident_year": 2008,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "corruption",
 "admin_subcategory": "extortion",
 "subcategory": "extortion",
 "subcategory_display": "extortion",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld",
 "sections": [
  "IPC 384"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Constable",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "unit": "Dhanbad Police",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "ledger:no_row",
    "key2:no_row"
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   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Constable, Dhanbad Police"
  }
 ],
 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": null,
   "descriptor": "Dhanbad resident"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "dismissal",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": null,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/177078118/",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "(2016) 3 AIR Jhar R 861",
  "(2016) 3 JCR 717"
 ],
 "summary": "The Jharkhand High Court Division Bench dismissed the appeal of Constable against his dismissal for snatching Rs. 17,000 from passenger a Dhanbad resident at Dhanbad Railway Station on 28 July 2008 and for unauthorised absence. The court held the ex parte enquiry was fair, with registered notice sent, local police alerted, the written defence considered and two witnesses examined, and that non-examination of the victim did not make it a no-evidence case. It found dismissal was not a disproportionate penalty. The dismissal, already affirmed in appeal, memorial and writ, therefore stands.",
 "summary_verified": "The Jharkhand High Court Division Bench dismissed the appeal of Constable against his dismissal for snatching Rs. 17,000 from passenger a Dhanbad resident at Dhanbad Railway Station on 28 July 2008 and for unauthorised absence. The court held the ex parte enquiry was fair, with registered notice sent, local police alerted, the written defence considered and two witnesses examined, and that non-examination of the victim did not make it a no-evidence case. It found dismissal was not a disproportionate penalty. The dismissal, already affirmed in appeal, memorial and writ, therefore stands.",
 "court_quote": "Having considered all aspects of the matter, we are of the considered opinion that the instant Letters Patent Appeal lacks merit and accordingly, it warrants dismissal. Ordered accordingly.",
 "court_quote_para": "15",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "LPA against dismissal for extortion from railway passenger dismissed; dismissal stands.",
 "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": "2016-05-17",
   "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) 3 AIR Jhar R 861; (2016) 3 JCR 717",
   "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": []
  }
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 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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  {
   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/177078118/",
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  },
  {
   "url": "(2016) 3 AIR Jhar R 861",
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  {
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 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}