{ "record_id": "CW-2017-0016", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0961", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "U.P. Police Constable v. State of U.P. and Others", "display_title_redacted": "U.P. Police Constable v. State of U.P. and Others", "state": "Uttar Pradesh", "district": "Saharanpur", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Saharanpur", "police_station_or_unit": "U.P. Police, Saharanpur (relieved for Refresher Course, Police Training Centre Moradabad)", "court": "Allahabad High Court", "court_as_verified": "Allahabad High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "U.P. Police Constable v. State of U.P. and Others", "case_number": "Writ-A No. 11464 of 2010", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Dilip Gupta", "Siddhartha Varma" ], "judgment_date": "2017-03-02", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2017, "incident_date": "1992-05-08", "incident_year": 1992, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "U.P. Police Regulations, 1861 (disciplinary inquiry)" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "unit": "U.P. Police, Saharanpur", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Constable, U.P. Police, Saharanpur" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 0, "sentence_type": "dismissal", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/356048/jagpal-singh-rathi-vs-uttar-pradesh-state-public-service-tri/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Allahabad High Court (Division Bench, 2 March 2017) dismissed the writ petition of U.P. Police Constable, posted at Saharanpur, who had been dismissed from service on 28 January 1994 after remaining unauthorisedly absent for 503 days from 8 May 1992 instead of joining a Refresher Course at the Police Training Centre, Moradabad. The Court noted the enquiry officer had disbelieved his private medical reports since he had not been examined at a district hospital as the regulations required. The Court held there was no substance in the plea that dismissal was disproportionate to the charge of such prolonged absence. The appellate rejection (27 July 1994) and the U.P. Public Services Tribunal's dismissal of Claim Petition No. 1287 of 1995 (1 December 2009) were left undisturbed, and no compensation was ordered. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Allahabad High Court (Division Bench, 2 March 2017) dismissed the writ petition of U.P. Police Constable, posted at Saharanpur, who had been dismissed from service on 28 January 1994 after remaining unauthorisedly absent for 503 days from 8 May 1992 instead of joining a Refresher Course at the Police Training Centre, Moradabad. The Court noted the enquiry officer had disbelieved his private medical reports since he had not been examined at a district hospital as the regulations required. The Court held there was no substance in the plea that dismissal was disproportionate to the charge of such prolonged absence. The appellate rejection (27 July 1994) and the U.P. Public Services Tribunal's dismissal of Claim Petition No. 1287 of 1995 (1 December 2009) were left undisturbed, and no compensation was ordered.", "court_quote": "We, therefore, do not find any substance in the submission advanced by the learned counsel for the petitioner that the punishment imposed upon the petitioner was disproportionate to the charge levelled against him.", "court_quote_para": "25", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC dismissed writ; constable's dismissal for 503 days' unauthorised absence sustained.", "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": "2017-03-02", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Allahabad High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Allahabad High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "Writ-A No. 11464 of 2010", "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://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/356048/jagpal-singh-rathi-vs-uttar-pradesh-state-public-service-tri/", "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-79" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-6-001", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }