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 "record_id": "CW-2016-0029",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0801",
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 "display_title": "Gujarat Police Police Constable vs State of Gujarat & Ors.",
 "display_title_redacted": "Gujarat Police Police Constable vs State of Gujarat & Ors.",
 "state": "Gujarat",
 "district": "Banaskantha",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Vav",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Vav Treasury / Vav Police Station, Banaskantha",
 "court": "Gujarat High Court",
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 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Gujarat Police Police Constable vs State of Gujarat & Ors.",
 "case_number": "Special Civil Application No. 25765 of 2007 with Civil Application No. 4140 of 2016",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "J. B. Pardiwala"
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 "judgment_date": "2016-06-07",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2016,
 "incident_date": "1994-09-08",
 "incident_year": 1994,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "misconduct",
 "admin_subcategory": "other",
 "subcategory": "other",
 "subcategory_display": "other",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld",
 "sections": [
  "IPC 224",
  "IPC 332",
  "IPC 353",
  "IPC 504"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Police Constable",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "unit": "Banaskantha, Gujarat Police",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "ledger:no_row",
    "key2:no_row"
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   "jev_risk": null,
   "jev_p_culpable": null,
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   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Police Constable, Banaskantha, Gujarat Police"
  }
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 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Vav man"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Vav man"
  }
 ],
 "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/3623497/",
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 "summary": "The Gujarat High Court (J.B. Pardiwala J., 7 June 2016) rejected the Article 226 writ of former Police Constable, confirming his removal from service. The court recorded that on 8 September 1994 he assaulted on-duty unarmed constable at the Vav Treasury, consumed liquor and misbehaved with the Treasury Officer, and escaped from custody. The court held that his acquittals in the related criminal cases, decided on proof beyond reasonable doubt, did not undo the departmental finding of serious misconduct proved on preponderance of probability. It declined to re-appreciate the domestic-inquiry evidence and found no interference warranted with the removal order as affirmed in appeal and revision.",
 "summary_verified": "The Gujarat High Court (J.B. Pardiwala J., 7 June 2016) rejected the Article 226 writ of former Police Constable, confirming his removal from service. The court recorded that on 8 September 1994 he assaulted on-duty unarmed constable at the Vav Treasury, consumed liquor and misbehaved with the Treasury Officer, and escaped from custody. The court held that his acquittals in the related criminal cases, decided on proof beyond reasonable doubt, did not undo the departmental finding of serious misconduct proved on preponderance of probability. It declined to re-appreciate the domestic-inquiry evidence and found no interference warranted with the removal order as affirmed in appeal and revision.",
 "court_quote": "A Police Constable cannot take law in his own hands and indulge in any act which would tarnish the image of the department.",
 "court_quote_para": "7",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Writ rejected; removal of constable for 1994 assault, intoxication and escape from custody upheld.",
 "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": "2016-06-07",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Gujarat High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Gujarat High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.",
   "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only",
   "source": "Special Civil Application No. 25765 of 2007 with Civil Application No. 4140 of 2016",
   "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",
 "link_checked_per_url": [
  {
   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/3623497/",
   "link_checked": null
  }
 ],
 "source_assessment": {
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  "basis": null
 },
 "v3_basis": null,
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 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
 },
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 "merged_case_id": "GAP2-23-003",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}