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 "status": "current",
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 "display_title": "Haryana Police Inspector vs State of Haryana",
 "display_title_redacted": "Haryana Police Inspector vs State of Haryana",
 "state": "Haryana",
 "district": null,
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": null,
 "police_station_or_unit": "State Vigilance Bureau, Gurgaon (FIR No.17 of 07.07.2012)",
 "court": "Punjab and Haryana High Court",
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 "case_title": "Haryana Police Inspector vs State of Haryana",
 "case_number": "CWP No.24214 of 2015 (O&M)",
 "citation": "(2017) 03 P&H CK 0127",
 "judges": [
  "Kuldip Singh"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2017-03-21",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2017,
 "incident_date": "2012-07-07",
 "incident_year": 2012,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "corruption",
 "admin_subcategory": "bribery_pc_act",
 "subcategory": "bribery_pc_act",
 "subcategory_display": "bribery pc act",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld",
 "sections": [
  "PC Act 1988 s.7",
  "PC Act 1988 s.13"
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 "officers": [
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   "rank": "Inspector",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "unit": "Haryana Police",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
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   "display": "Inspector, Haryana Police"
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 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Haryana man"
  }
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 "victims_redacted": null,
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 "victim_count": 1,
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 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/180282/suraj-bhan-vs-state-of-haryana/",
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 "summary": "The Punjab and Haryana High Court dismissed the writ petition of Inspector of the Haryana Police, upholding a 15% cut in pension imposed for bribe-taking. [name withheld] was booked in FIR No.17 of 7.7.2012 under ss.7 and 13 of the Prevention of Corruption Act at the State Vigilance Bureau, Gurgaon, with Rs.10,000 of tainted notes recovered from under his mattress, and a departmental enquiry held him guilty in February 2014. The Special Judge, Palwal acquitted him in the criminal trial in October 2014 after complainant [name withheld] turned hostile, but the department imposed the pension cut in January 2015 and the DGP dismissed his appeal in July 2015. The Court held the complainant was won over, other witnesses proved the recovery, and preponderance of probabilities sustains the departmental penalty. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Punjab and Haryana High Court dismissed the writ petition of Inspector of the Haryana Police, upholding a 15% cut in pension imposed for bribe-taking. [name withheld] was booked in FIR No.17 of 7.7.2012 under ss.7 and 13 of the Prevention of Corruption Act at the State Vigilance Bureau, Gurgaon, with Rs.10,000 of tainted notes recovered from under his mattress, and a departmental enquiry held him guilty in February 2014. The Special Judge, Palwal acquitted him in the criminal trial in October 2014 after complainant [name withheld] turned hostile, but the department imposed the pension cut in January 2015 and the DGP dismissed his appeal in July 2015. The Court held the complainant was won over, other witnesses proved the recovery, and preponderance of probabilities sustains the departmental penalty.",
 "court_quote": "However, other witnesses did prove that when the raid was conducted, the petitioner took out the tainted money of Rs. 10,000/- below his matress and hand over the same to the raiding party.",
 "court_quote_para": "7",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "HC dismissed writ and upheld 15% pension cut for bribe-taking despite criminal acquittal on hostile complainant.",
 "verification_status": "V2",
 "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported",
 "tier_badge": "Externally reported",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
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  "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded"
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 "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": "2017-03-21",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Punjab and Haryana High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Punjab and Haryana High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.",
   "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only",
   "source": "(2017) 03 P&H CK 0127",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
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 "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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 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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 "merged_case_id": "GAP3-114-001",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
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 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
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