{ "record_id": "CW-2017-0012", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0047", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Manjhaul Police Constable vs The State of Bihar and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Manjhaul Police Constable vs The State of Bihar and Others", "state": "Bihar", "district": "Begusarai", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Manjhaul", "police_station_or_unit": "Quick Mobile, Patliputra Police Station, Patna", "court": "Patna High Court", "court_as_verified": "Patna High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Manjhaul Police Constable vs The State of Bihar and Others", "case_number": "Letters Patent Appeal No. 736 of 2014 (arising out of CWJC No. 20311 of 2011)", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Ajay Kumar Tripathi", "Rajeev Ranjan Prasad" ], "judgment_date": "2017-11-13", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2017, "incident_date": "2009-09-30", "incident_year": 2009, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "IPC 307", "IPC 34", "Arms Act s.27", "IPC 302", "Constitution Art. 311(2)(b)" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "unit": "Quick Mobile, Patliputra Police Station, Patna (earlier Pandarak PS)", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2_gemapi:unclear", "key2_gpt56:no" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": "yes", "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": "unclear", "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": "no", "grok": "no", "jev_risk": 0.12, "jev_p_culpable": 0.92, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Constable, Quick Mobile, Patliputra Police Station, Patna (earlier Pandarak PS)" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "age": null, "gender": null, "name": null, "descriptor": "Manjhaul 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/163362002/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "A Division Bench of the Patna High Court upheld the dismissal of Patna constable, arrested on 2 October 2009 in Manjhaul PS Case No. 160/2009 under Sections 307/34 IPC and the Arms Act, later converted to murder under Section 302 IPC. The SSP Patna dismissed him without enquiry under Article 311(2)(b), recording that holding an enquiry was not reasonably practicable; the DIG Magadh and then a Single Judge affirmed. The Court held that his subsequent criminal acquittal, secured after all prosecution witnesses turned hostile, did not vitiate the dismissal and that dispensing with the enquiry was justified. The LPA was dismissed. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "A Division Bench of the Patna High Court upheld the dismissal of Patna constable, arrested on 2 October 2009 in Manjhaul PS Case No. 160/2009 under Sections 307/34 IPC and the Arms Act, later converted to murder under Section 302 IPC. The SSP Patna dismissed him without enquiry under Article 311(2)(b), recording that holding an enquiry was not reasonably practicable; the DIG Magadh and then a Single Judge affirmed. The Court held that his subsequent criminal acquittal, secured after all prosecution witnesses turned hostile, did not vitiate the dismissal and that dispensing with the enquiry was justified. The LPA was dismissed.", "court_quote": "We are of the considered opinion that in the facts and circumstances of the present case and the materials available on the records in form of the admission of the petitioner-appellant, seizure of his service revolver with the fired cartridge and the remaining 34 live cartridges, the fact that the deceased [name withheld] was killed by the bullet fired from the said service revolver of the appellant as found by the supervising authority in the rank of Sr.S.P. are the convincing factors on the basis of which the Sr.S.P., Patna has reached to a conclusion and dispensed with the departmental enquiry as it was not reasonably practicable to hold the same because any further delay in throwing out the appellant could have shaken the public confidence.", "court_quote_para": "29", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "LPA dismissed; 311(2)(b) dismissal over murder arrest upheld despite hostile-witness acquittal.", "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": "2017-11-13", "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. 736 of 2014 (arising out of CWJC No. 20311 of 2011)", "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/163362002/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-36" ], "merged_case_id": "BIHAR1-010", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }