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 "record_id": "CW-2018-0012",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0664",
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 "display_title": "Bihar Police Constable v. State of Bihar & Ors.",
 "display_title_redacted": "Bihar Police Constable v. State of Bihar & Ors.",
 "state": "Bihar",
 "district": "Samastipur",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": null,
 "police_station_or_unit": null,
 "court": "Patna High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Patna High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Bihar Police Constable v. State of Bihar & Ors.",
 "case_number": "Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case No. 20236 of 2010",
 "citation": "2018 SCC OnLine Pat 1703",
 "judges": [
  "Mohit Kumar Shah"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2018-09-11",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2018,
 "incident_date": "2008-01-09",
 "incident_year": 2008,
 "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": "Bihar Police",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "key2_gemapi:unclear"
   ],
   "ledger_role": "held_liable",
   "key2": "yes",
   "key2_agy": "yes",
   "key2_claude": "yes",
   "key2_union": null,
   "key2_gemapi": "unclear",
   "key2_openrouter": "yes",
   "key2_gpt56": "yes",
   "grok": null,
   "jev_risk": 0.05,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.95,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Constable, 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/187888229/",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://www.scconline.com/blog/post/2018/09/15/high-level-of-discipline-imperative-in-the-police-forces-absconding-on-various-occasions-cannot-be-accepted-patna-hc/"
 ],
 "summary": "The judgment of the Patna High Court records the following account. Constable, appointed on compassionate ground in July 1998, absconded from duty without information on several occasions, including during training at BMP-5 Patna from January 2008. After an enquiry proved the charges and a second show-cause notice, the SP Samastipur dismissed him on 22 December 2009, and his departmental appeal was rejected on 8 June 2010. The Patna High Court held ample evidence proved the guilt, past punishments for unauthorised absence could be considered, and a high level of discipline is imperative in police forces, and dismissed the writ petition as without merit. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "Constable, appointed on compassionate ground in July 1998, absconded from duty without information on several occasions, including during training at BMP-5 Patna from January 2008. After an enquiry proved the charges and a second show-cause notice, the SP Samastipur dismissed him on 22 December 2009, and his departmental appeal was rejected on 8 June 2010. The Patna High Court held ample evidence proved the guilt, past punishments for unauthorised absence could be considered, and a high level of discipline is imperative in police forces, and dismissed the writ petition as without merit.",
 "court_quote": "Moreover, this Court also finds that a high level of discipline is imperative in the Police and Armed Forces and even one isolated incident of discipline is enough to take the most harsh step against the delinquent. However, in the instant case, the petitioner is a habitual offender and had absconded on several occasions from his duties without any information to the respondents, hence no mercy is required to be shown with the petitioner especially in view of his proved misconduct.",
 "court_quote_para": "n/a",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Patna HC dismissed writ, upheld dismissal of habitually absconding constable; no merit found.",
 "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": "2018-09-11",
   "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": "2018 SCC OnLine Pat 1703",
   "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/187888229/",
   "link_checked": null
  },
  {
   "url": "https://www.scconline.com/blog/post/2018/09/15/high-level-of-discipline-imperative-in-the-police-forces-absconding-on-various-occasions-cannot-be-accepted-patna-hc/",
   "link_checked": null
  }
 ],
 "source_assessment": {
  "established": null,
  "basis": null
 },
 "v3_basis": null,
 "publication_basis": null,
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 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
 },
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 "merged_case_id": "SWOTHERM-028",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}