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 "record_id": "CW-2017-0028",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-1043",
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 "display_title": "CISF Constable vs The Union of India and Others",
 "display_title_redacted": "CISF Constable vs The Union of India and Others",
 "state": "Jharkhand",
 "district": "Dhanbad",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Dhanbad",
 "police_station_or_unit": "CISF Unit, BCCL, Dhanbad",
 "court": "Jharkhand High Court",
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 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "CISF Constable vs The Union of India and Others",
 "case_number": "L.P.A. No. 204 of 2016",
 "citation": "2018 (1) AJR 63; (2018) 1 JCR 668",
 "judges": [
  "D. N. Patel",
  "Ratnaker Bhengra"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2017-08-04",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2017,
 "incident_date": "2007-06-13",
 "incident_year": 2007,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "misconduct",
 "admin_subcategory": "other",
 "subcategory": "other",
 "subcategory_display": "other",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld",
 "sections": [],
 "officers": [
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   "name": null,
   "rank": "Constable",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "unit": "CISF Unit, BCCL, Dhanbad",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
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    "key2:no_row"
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   "key2_agy": null,
   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": null,
   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": null,
   "key2_gpt56": null,
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   "jev_p_culpable": null,
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   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Constable, CISF Unit, BCCL, Dhanbad"
  }
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 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 0,
 "sentence_type": "dismissal",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": null,
 "force": "central_armed",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/151883941/",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "2018 (1) AJR 63",
  "(2018) 1 JCR 668"
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 "summary": "The Jharkhand High Court Division Bench dismissed the Letters Patent Appeal of CISF constable of the BCCL Dhanbad unit against his removal dated 19 February 2008. The court found three charges proved through a multi-witness enquiry: intoxication on duty, outraging the modesty of a woman during duty hours on 13 June 2007, and incorrigibility from two prior intoxication and one absenteeism punishment. The court held there was no procedural lacuna, with charge sheet, enquiry, pre-penalty hearing and a heard departmental appeal dismissed 30 April 2008, and the Single Judge order of 16 March 2016 committed no error. The removal therefore stands. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Jharkhand High Court Division Bench dismissed the Letters Patent Appeal of CISF constable of the BCCL Dhanbad unit against his removal dated 19 February 2008. The court found three charges proved through a multi-witness enquiry: intoxication on duty, outraging the modesty of a woman during duty hours on 13 June 2007, and incorrigibility from two prior intoxication and one absenteeism punishment. The court held there was no procedural lacuna, with charge sheet, enquiry, pre-penalty hearing and a heard departmental appeal dismissed 30 April 2008, and the Single Judge order of 16 March 2016 committed no error. The removal therefore stands.",
 "court_quote": "Therefore, there is no substance in this Letters Patent Appeal and the same is, hereby, dismissed.",
 "court_quote_para": "14",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Division Bench dismissed LPA; CISF removal for on-duty intoxication and outraging modesty upheld.",
 "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": "2017-08-04",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Jharkhand High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Jharkhand High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.",
   "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only",
   "source": "2018 (1) AJR 63; (2018) 1 JCR 668",
   "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": []
  }
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 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/151883941/",
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  },
  {
   "url": "2018 (1) AJR 63",
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 "merged_case_id": "GAP3-105-044",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
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 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}