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 "status": "current",
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 "display_title": "BSF Non-Commissioned Officer vs The Union of India and Others",
 "display_title_redacted": "BSF Non-Commissioned Officer vs The Union of India and Others",
 "state": "West Bengal",
 "district": "Dakshin Dinajpur",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Patiram",
 "police_station_or_unit": "57th Battalion, BSF, Patiram (Kote/armoury)",
 "court": "Patna High Court",
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 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "BSF Non-Commissioned Officer vs The Union of India and Others",
 "case_number": "Letters Patent Appeal No. 2115 of 2015",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "Hemant Gupta",
  "Ahsanuddin Amanullah"
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 "judgment_date": "2016-08-30",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2016,
 "incident_date": "2007-06-01",
 "incident_year": 2007,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "misconduct",
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 "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld",
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   "rank": "Non-Commissioned Officer",
   "unit": "57th Battalion, BSF",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
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   "display": "Non-Commissioned Officer, 57th Battalion, BSF"
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 "sentence_type": "dismissal",
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 "force": "central_armed",
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 "summary": "[name withheld], a BSF non-commissioned officer in charge of the Kote (armoury) of 57 Battalion at Patiram, was dismissed in July 2007 after an enquiry found Rs.53,440 concealed in an old register inside the Kote under his control. The court found he had been given a fair hearing with a defence assistant and that concealment of private money in the armoury was unauthorized. The court held that even on re-appreciation of the evidence no illegality tainted the punishment. The appeal was dismissed and the dismissal stands.",
 "summary_verified": "[name withheld], a BSF non-commissioned officer in charge of the Kote (armoury) of 57 Battalion at Patiram, was dismissed in July 2007 after an enquiry found Rs.53,440 concealed in an old register inside the Kote under his control. The court found he had been given a fair hearing with a defence assistant and that concealment of private money in the armoury was unauthorized. The court held that even on re-appreciation of the evidence no illegality tainted the punishment. The appeal was dismissed and the dismissal stands.",
 "court_quote": "even on re-appreciation of evidence, we find no illegality in the order of punishment against the appellant.",
 "court_quote_para": "n/a",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Patna HC Division Bench dismissed the LPA; dismissal of BSF NCO for concealing cash in the armoury 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": "2016-08-30",
   "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. 2115 of 2015",
   "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/63374546/",
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  }
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 "merged_case_id": "GAP3-105-019",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}