{ "record_id": "CW-2017-0030", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1020", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "CRPF Constable vs The Union of India and Others", "display_title_redacted": "CRPF Constable vs The Union of India and Others", "state": "Bihar", "district": "Gaya", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Barachatti", "police_station_or_unit": "205 COBRA Battalion, CRPF, Barachatti", "court": "Patna High Court", "court_as_verified": "Patna High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "CRPF Constable vs The Union of India and Others", "case_number": "Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case No. 9039 of 2014 (with I.A. No. 6023 of 2017)", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Prabhat Kumar Jha" ], "judgment_date": "2017-09-04", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2017, "incident_date": "2010-03-13", "incident_year": 2010, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "unit": "205 COBRA Battalion, CRPF", "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, 205 COBRA Battalion, CRPF" } ], "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/27796296/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "[name withheld], a constable in the 205 COBRA Battalion of the CRPF at Barachatti, Gaya, was dismissed on 18.01.2012 after a departmental proceeding found he had remained unauthorizedly absent from 13.03.2010 to 22.09.2010 (194 days) and had fled from PMCH Patna while under treatment. His appeal before the DIG (09.10.2012) and revision before the IG (04.09.2013) were rejected. He challenged the dismissal and appellate orders before the Patna High Court under Article 226. The Court found the absence was knowing and without sanctioned leave or justified reason, held that overstay by members of a disciplined force must be dealt with sternly, and found the punishment not disproportionate. The writ petition was dismissed and the dismissal from service stands. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "[name withheld], a constable in the 205 COBRA Battalion of the CRPF at Barachatti, Gaya, was dismissed on 18.01.2012 after a departmental proceeding found he had remained unauthorizedly absent from 13.03.2010 to 22.09.2010 (194 days) and had fled from PMCH Patna while under treatment. His appeal before the DIG (09.10.2012) and revision before the IG (04.09.2013) were rejected. He challenged the dismissal and appellate orders before the Patna High Court under Article 226. The Court found the absence was knowing and without sanctioned leave or justified reason, held that overstay by members of a disciplined force must be dealt with sternly, and found the punishment not disproportionate. The writ petition was dismissed and the dismissal from service stands.", "court_quote": "The petitioner has committed gross misconduct for remaining absent from duty for 194 days without any sanctioned leave and without any justified reason. Over stayal or remaining absent unauthorizedly by a member of disciplined force requires to be dealt with sternly.", "court_quote_para": "n/a", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Primary source read; HC dismissed writ, upholding CRPF constable's dismissal for 194-day unauthorized absence.", "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": "2017-09-04", "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": "Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case No. 9039 of 2014 (with I.A. No. 6023 of 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/27796296/", "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-87" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-105-021", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }