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 "record_id": "CW-2018-0021",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-1050",
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 "display_title": "Bihar Police Constable v. State of Bihar and Others",
 "display_title_redacted": "Bihar Police Constable v. State of Bihar and Others",
 "state": "Bihar",
 "district": "Buxar",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Buxar",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Buxar district police",
 "court": "Patna High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Patna High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Bihar Police Constable v. State of Bihar and Others",
 "case_number": "CWJC No. 3524 of 2011",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "Rajeev Ranjan Prasad"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2018-01-04",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2018,
 "incident_date": null,
 "incident_year": 2006,
 "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": "Bihar Police, Buxar",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "ledger:no_row",
    "key2:no_row"
   ],
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   "key2_claude": null,
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   "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, Bihar Police, Buxar"
  }
 ],
 "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/176523706/",
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 "summary": "Constable, appointed on compassionate ground in Buxar, was dismissed on 16.01.2007 (with effect from 12.01.2007) for repeated prolonged unauthorised absence, about 128 days during basic training and 82 days on Durga Puja duty in 2006; his appeal was rejected in 2009. He pleaded violation of natural justice and produced jaundice certificates only with the writ. The Court held natural justice is not a strait-jacket formula, police discipline and larger public interest outweighed the individual interest of an unconfirmed absconder, and no illegality or infirmity vitiated the impugned orders. The writ application was dismissed. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "Constable, appointed on compassionate ground in Buxar, was dismissed on 16.01.2007 (with effect from 12.01.2007) for repeated prolonged unauthorised absence, about 128 days during basic training and 82 days on Durga Puja duty in 2006; his appeal was rejected in 2009. He pleaded violation of natural justice and produced jaundice certificates only with the writ. The Court held natural justice is not a strait-jacket formula, police discipline and larger public interest outweighed the individual interest of an unconfirmed absconder, and no illegality or infirmity vitiated the impugned orders. The writ application was dismissed.",
 "court_quote": "The facts would show that the petitioner not only remained absconding for about 128 days while he was sent for basic training, he repeated the same conduct by remaining absent unauthorizedly for 82 days when he was sent to perform his duty during Durga Puja festival. During all this period he did not take trouble to inform his employer about his whereabouts and the reasons for his absconding from duty.",
 "court_quote_para": "n/a",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Judgment verified on Indian Kanoon; writ dismissed, dismissal for absence 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": "2018-01-04",
   "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": "CWJC No. 3524 of 2011",
   "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/176523706/",
   "link_checked": null
  }
 ],
 "source_assessment": {
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  "basis": null
 },
 "v3_basis": null,
 "publication_basis": null,
 "reviews": [],
 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
 },
 "fidelity_checked": true,
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 "merged_case_id": "GAP3-106-006",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}