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 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-1017",
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 "display_title": "CRPF Constable vs The Union of India and Others",
 "display_title_redacted": "CRPF Constable vs The Union of India and Others",
 "state": "Assam",
 "district": "Bongaigaon",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Dhaligaon",
 "police_station_or_unit": "F/116 Battalion, CRPF, Dhaligaon",
 "court": "Patna High Court",
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 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "CRPF Constable vs The Union of India and Others",
 "case_number": "Letters Patent Appeal No. 906 of 2014",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "I. A. Ansari",
  "Chakradhari Sharan Singh"
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 "judgment_date": "2016-06-23",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2016,
 "incident_date": "2005-09-21",
 "incident_year": 2005,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "misconduct",
 "admin_subcategory": "other",
 "subcategory": "other",
 "subcategory_display": "other",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld",
 "sections": [
  "Constitution Art. 226"
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   "rank": "Constable",
   "unit": "F/116 Battalion, CRPF",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
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    "key2:no_row"
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   "display": "Constable, F/116 Battalion, CRPF"
  }
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 "victims": [],
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 "victim_count": 0,
 "sentence_type": "dismissal",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": null,
 "force": "central_armed",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/156786043/",
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 "summary": "The judgment of the Patna High Court records the following account. [name withheld], a CRPF constable of F/116 Battalion at Dhaligaon, Assam, challenged his June 2006 dismissal for deserting camp twice for 14 and 84 days while undergoing a confinement punishment. The court found he had initially participated in the enquiry and then deliberately absented himself despite notices sent to his home address, so the ex parte conclusion of proceedings was proper. The court found no infirmity in the Single Bench order dismissing his writ petition. The appeal was dismissed and the dismissal stands.",
 "summary_verified": "[name withheld], a CRPF constable of F/116 Battalion at Dhaligaon, Assam, challenged his June 2006 dismissal for deserting camp twice for 14 and 84 days while undergoing a confinement punishment. The court found he had initially participated in the enquiry and then deliberately absented himself despite notices sent to his home address, so the ex parte conclusion of proceedings was proper. The court found no infirmity in the Single Bench order dismissing his writ petition. The appeal was dismissed and the dismissal stands.",
 "court_quote": "The punishment of dismissal from service cannot be said to be disproportionate to the charge framed against the appellant which came to be proved in a departmental enquiry.",
 "court_quote_para": "17",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Patna HC Division Bench dismissed the LPA; dismissal of CRPF constable for desertion during confinement 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": "2016-06-23",
   "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. 906 of 2014",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
 ],
 "later_proceedings": [],
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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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 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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  {
   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/156786043/",
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  }
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  "basis": null
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 "v3_basis": null,
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 "merged_case_id": "GAP3-105-018",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}