{ "record_id": "CW-2017-0039", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1044", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Jharkhand Police Constable v. State of Jharkhand and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Jharkhand Police Constable v. State of Jharkhand and Others", "state": "Jharkhand", "district": "West Singhbhum", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Bara Jamda", "police_station_or_unit": "Bara Jamda Out Post (Reserve Guard)", "court": "Jharkhand High Court", "court_as_verified": "Jharkhand High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Jharkhand Police Constable v. State of Jharkhand and Others", "case_number": "W.P.(S) No. 3946 of 2009", "citation": "2018 (2) AJR 187", "judges": [ "Anil Kumar Choudhary" ], "judgment_date": "2017-12-08", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2017, "incident_date": "2004-03-31", "incident_year": 2004, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "dereliction_evidence_tampering", "subcategory": "dereliction_evidence_tampering", "subcategory_display": "dereliction evidence tampering", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "Constitution Art. 226" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "unit": "Jharkhand Police, Bara Jamda Out Post (Reserve Guard), West Singhbhum", "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, Jharkhand Police, Bara Jamda Out Post (Reserve Guard), West Singhbhum" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 0, "sentence_type": "dismissal", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/135345609/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "Constable, Reserve Guard at Bara Jamda Out Post, West Singhbhum, was dismissed on 24.09.2007 after a departmental enquiry found he was watching TV instead of reporting for his 2-4 pm duty when MCC militants attacked the post on 31.03.2004 and looted nine rifles, a revolver and cartridges. His departmental appeal was rejected on 13.06.2009. The Jharkhand High Court held the Superintendent of Police was competent to dismiss him on proved charges of indiscipline, dereliction and negligence, that the findings were not based on no evidence, and that the punishment was not shocking. The Court found no apparent illegality in the enquiry procedure and dismissed the writ application, so the dismissal stands. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "Constable, Reserve Guard at Bara Jamda Out Post, West Singhbhum, was dismissed on 24.09.2007 after a departmental enquiry found he was watching TV instead of reporting for his 2-4 pm duty when MCC militants attacked the post on 31.03.2004 and looted nine rifles, a revolver and cartridges. His departmental appeal was rejected on 13.06.2009. The Jharkhand High Court held the Superintendent of Police was competent to dismiss him on proved charges of indiscipline, dereliction and negligence, that the findings were not based on no evidence, and that the punishment was not shocking. The Court found no apparent illegality in the enquiry procedure and dismissed the writ application, so the dismissal stands.", "court_quote": "Certainly a police personnel who meekly surrenders fire arms of police to miscreants armed with simple weapons like knife, lathi(danda) and chain without any resistance is a liability to any police force and such a person is a burden which no efficient police can shoulder.", "court_quote_para": "11", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Judgment verified on Indian Kanoon; writ dismissed, dismissal for cowardice/negligence 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": "2017-12-08", "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 (2) AJR 187", "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/135345609/", "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-90" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-105-045", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }