{ "record_id": "CW-2017-0018", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1188", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Delhi Traffic Police Constable vs Govt. of NCT of Delhi & Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "Delhi Traffic Police Constable vs Govt. of NCT of Delhi & Ors.", "state": "Delhi", "district": null, "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "New Delhi", "police_station_or_unit": "Delhi Traffic Police", "court": "Delhi High Court", "court_as_verified": "Delhi High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Delhi Traffic Police Constable vs Govt. of NCT of Delhi & Ors.", "case_number": "W.P.(C) 717/2017", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Sanjiv Khanna", "Chander Shekhar" ], "judgment_date": "2017-03-16", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2017, "incident_date": "2004-07-04", "incident_year": 2004, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "Delhi Police (Punishment & Appeal) Rules 1980", "CCS (Leave) Rules 1972" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "unit": "Delhi Traffic Police", "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, Delhi Traffic Police" } ], "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://indiankanoon.org/doc/124454578/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Delhi High Court (Sanjiv Khanna and Chander Shekhar, JJ.) on 16 March 2017 dismissed the writ petition of Delhi Traffic Police Constable and upheld his dismissal from service. The court recorded his wilful unauthorised absence from 4 July 2004 to 25 February 2009, over four years and seven months at one stretch, compounded by a false written statement about resuming duty and three past absences. It held the Central Administrative Tribunal's order dismissing his challenge was just and fair. The Disciplinary Authority had dismissed him on 23 April 2010 for grave misconduct rendering him unfit for police service. This is an internal-discipline case with no civilian victim. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Delhi High Court (Sanjiv Khanna and Chander Shekhar, JJ.) on 16 March 2017 dismissed the writ petition of Delhi Traffic Police Constable and upheld his dismissal from service. The court recorded his wilful unauthorised absence from 4 July 2004 to 25 February 2009, over four years and seven months at one stretch, compounded by a false written statement about resuming duty and three past absences. It held the Central Administrative Tribunal's order dismissing his challenge was just and fair. The Disciplinary Authority had dismissed him on 23 April 2010 for grave misconduct rendering him unfit for police service. This is an internal-discipline case with no civilian victim.", "court_quote": "In the factual matrix of the present case, we are satisfied that the order of the Tribunal is just and fair. This is a case of wilful unauthorised absence not for a small period, but for over 4 years and 7 months at one stretch and thereafter again for the period from 6 th April, 2009 till the order of dismissal was passed on 23rd April, 2010.", "court_quote_para": "7", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Dismissal of traffic constable for 4.5-year wilful absence upheld; no civilian victim.", "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": "2017-03-16", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Delhi High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Delhi High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "W.P.(C) 717/2017", "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/124454578/", "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-109" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-42-003", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }