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 "record_id": "CW-2017-0033",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-1189",
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 "display_title": "Delhi Police Constable vs Union of India & Ors.",
 "display_title_redacted": "Delhi Police Constable vs Union of India & Ors.",
 "state": "Delhi",
 "district": "North East Delhi",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "New Delhi",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Special Staff, North East District",
 "court": "Delhi High Court",
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 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Delhi Police Constable vs Union of India & Ors.",
 "case_number": "W.P.(C) 4577/2017",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "Rekha Palli",
  "Vipin Sanghi"
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 "judgment_date": "2017-09-21",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2017,
 "incident_date": "1996-04-15",
 "incident_year": 1996,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "corruption",
 "admin_subcategory": "extortion",
 "subcategory": "extortion",
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 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld",
 "sections": [
  "Delhi Police (Punishment & Appeal) Rules 1980"
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   "rank": "Constable",
   "unit": "Special Staff, North East District, Delhi Police",
   "role": "held_liable",
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   "display": "Constable, Special Staff, North East District, Delhi Police"
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   "display": "Police personnel, Special Staff, North East District, Delhi Police"
  }
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 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "New Delhi man"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "New Delhi man"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "New Delhi man"
  }
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 "victims_redacted": null,
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 "sentence_type": "dismissal",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": null,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/51246669/",
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 "summary": "The Delhi High Court (Rekha Palli and Vipin Sanghi, JJ.) on 21 September 2017 dismissed the writ petition of Delhi Police Constable and upheld his dismissal from service. The court recorded that on 15 April 1996 a four-man Special Staff team including the petitioner illegally picked up shopkeeper [name withheld] and his two servants on a false accusation of manufacturing spurious cold drinks, demanded Rs. 50,000, and released them on 16 April 1996 after receiving Rs. 30,000 as bribe. It held this was not a case of no evidence, finding the uncontroverted statement of complainant [name withheld] alone sufficient to hold the charges proved, and saw no infirmity in the Tribunal's order. The petitioner had been dismissed on 7 November 1997 after a joint departmental enquiry rejected his alibi defence. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Delhi High Court (Rekha Palli and Vipin Sanghi, JJ.) on 21 September 2017 dismissed the writ petition of Delhi Police Constable and upheld his dismissal from service. The court recorded that on 15 April 1996 a four-man Special Staff team including the petitioner illegally picked up shopkeeper [name withheld] and his two servants on a false accusation of manufacturing spurious cold drinks, demanded Rs. 50,000, and released them on 16 April 1996 after receiving Rs. 30,000 as bribe. It held this was not a case of no evidence, finding the uncontroverted statement of complainant [name withheld] alone sufficient to hold the charges proved, and saw no infirmity in the Tribunal's order. The petitioner had been dismissed on 7 November 1997 after a joint departmental enquiry rejected his alibi defence.",
 "court_quote": "Having examined the record, including the findings of the Enquiry Officer and the order passed by Disciplinary Authority, we do not find that this is a case of 'no evidence'. In fact, we find that there was sufficient evidence before the Enquiry Officer to hold the Petitioner guilty of the charge levelled against him.",
 "court_quote_para": "20",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Dismissal for illegal detention and Rs.30,000 bribe upheld; charges held proved on evidence.",
 "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": "2017-09-21",
   "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) 4577/2017",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
 ],
 "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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 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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 "merged_case_id": "GAP3-42-004",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}