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 "record_id": "CW-2017-0040",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-1022",
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 "display_title": "Munger District Police Constable vs The State of Bihar and Others",
 "display_title_redacted": "Munger District Police Constable vs The State of Bihar and Others",
 "state": "Bihar",
 "district": "Patna",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Patna",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Munger District Police (escort party, Munger Jail to PMCH Patna)",
 "court": "Patna High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Patna High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Munger District Police Constable vs The State of Bihar and Others",
 "case_number": "Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case No. 10321 of 2014",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "Madhuresh Prasad"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2017-12-13",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2017,
 "incident_date": "2011-06-06",
 "incident_year": 2011,
 "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",
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 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Constable",
   "unit": "Munger District Police, Bihar Police",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "ledger:no_row",
    "key2:no_row"
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   "key2": null,
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   "later_outcome": null,
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Constable, Munger District Police, Bihar Police"
  }
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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": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/9416790/",
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 "summary": "The judgment of the Patna High Court records the following account. [name withheld], a Munger District Police constable, was detailed on escort command 547412 dated 06.06.2011 to escort undertrial Amit Mandal from Munger Jail to PMCH Patna with four constables and a Hawaldar. He reported 35 hours late, lodged the prisoner with his mother and wife in Janta Hotel rooms on Govind Mitra Road, Patna from 08 to 16.06.2011 instead of the prisoner ward, and the prisoner absconded on 16.06.2011 with the loss reported a day late. After an earlier dismissal was remanded by the DGP for service of the enquiry report, the SP Munger dismissed him again on 12.01.2013; his appeal (DIG, 30.06.2013) and memorial (DGP, 12.12.2013) were rejected. The Court found the charges stood admitted, identical punishment had been imposed on the five other escort-party members, and the procedure complied with natural justice and fair play. 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 Munger District Police constable, was detailed on escort command 547412 dated 06.06.2011 to escort undertrial Amit Mandal from Munger Jail to PMCH Patna with four constables and a Hawaldar. He reported 35 hours late, lodged the prisoner with his mother and wife in Janta Hotel rooms on Govind Mitra Road, Patna from 08 to 16.06.2011 instead of the prisoner ward, and the prisoner absconded on 16.06.2011 with the loss reported a day late. After an earlier dismissal was remanded by the DGP for service of the enquiry report, the SP Munger dismissed him again on 12.01.2013; his appeal (DIG, 30.06.2013) and memorial (DGP, 12.12.2013) were rejected. The Court found the charges stood admitted, identical punishment had been imposed on the five other escort-party members, and the procedure complied with natural justice and fair play. The writ petition was dismissed and the dismissal from service stands.",
 "court_quote": "Such gross dereliction of duty and the act of indiscipline cannot be countenanced by member of the police service where duty is to protect the public safety with discipline.",
 "court_quote_para": "10",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Primary source read; HC dismissed writ, upholding dismissal for escort dereliction letting undertrial abscond.",
 "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": "2017-12-13",
   "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. 10321 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": "holds",
   "corrections_applied": []
  }
 ],
 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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  {
   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/9416790/",
   "link_checked": null
  }
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  "basis": null
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 "v3_basis": null,
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 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
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 "fidelity_checked": true,
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 "merged_case_id": "GAP3-105-023",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}