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 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-1021",
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 "display_title": "Bihar Police Constable vs The State of Bihar and Others",
 "display_title_redacted": "Bihar Police Constable vs The State of Bihar and Others",
 "state": "Bihar",
 "district": "Patna",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Patna",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Patna district constabulary, Bihar Police",
 "court": "Patna High Court",
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 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Bihar Police Constable vs The State of Bihar and Others",
 "case_number": "Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case No. 5459 of 2014",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "Prabhat Kumar Jha"
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 "judgment_date": "2017-10-12",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2017,
 "incident_date": "1999-05-16",
 "incident_year": 1999,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "misconduct",
 "admin_subcategory": "other",
 "subcategory": "other",
 "subcategory_display": "other",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld",
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 "officers": [
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   "name": null,
   "rank": "Constable",
   "unit": "Bihar Police (Patna district constabulary; appointed Muzaffarpur)",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
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   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Constable, Bihar Police (Patna district constabulary; appointed Muzaffarpur)"
  }
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 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [],
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 "victim_count": 0,
 "sentence_type": "dismissal",
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 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/23417562/",
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 "summary": "The judgment of the Patna High Court records the following account. [name withheld] was selected as a Bihar Police constable on 16.05.1999 under Advertisement 1/1998, where height was the sole criterion, after declaring 186 cm height in his application. A later verification ordered by the High Court found his height had been wrongly recorded and he did not meet the criterion, and the Senior Superintendent of Police, Patna dismissed him on 25.11.2013 following a departmental proceeding; his appeal (DIG, 25.07.2014) and memorial (DGP, 10.02.2015) were rejected. He challenged the dismissal under Article 226. The Court found the appointment had been secured through fraud and manipulation, held that similarly-placed wrongly measured selectees had likewise been denied appointment and illegality cannot be perpetuated, and found no merit in the writ. 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] was selected as a Bihar Police constable on 16.05.1999 under Advertisement 1/1998, where height was the sole criterion, after declaring 186 cm height in his application. A later verification ordered by the High Court found his height had been wrongly recorded and he did not meet the criterion, and the Senior Superintendent of Police, Patna dismissed him on 25.11.2013 following a departmental proceeding; his appeal (DIG, 25.07.2014) and memorial (DGP, 10.02.2015) were rejected. He challenged the dismissal under Article 226. The Court found the appointment had been secured through fraud and manipulation, held that similarly-placed wrongly measured selectees had likewise been denied appointment and illegality cannot be perpetuated, and found no merit in the writ. The writ petition was dismissed and the dismissal from service stands.",
 "court_quote": "Therefore, in my view, the illegality should not be allowed to be perpetuated any more and the petitioner, who got his appointment through fraud and manipulation, does not deserve any leniency.",
 "court_quote_para": "21",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Primary source read; HC dismissed writ, upholding constable's dismissal for appointment secured by height fraud.",
 "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": "2017-10-12",
   "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. 5459 of 2014",
   "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": "wrong_facts",
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    "court_quote_para"
   ]
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 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/23417562/",
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 "merged_case_id": "GAP3-105-022",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
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 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}