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 "record_id": "CW-2018-0022",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-1089",
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 "display_title": "Rajasthan Police Constable vs State of Rajasthan and Others",
 "display_title_redacted": "Rajasthan Police Constable vs State of Rajasthan and Others",
 "state": "Rajasthan",
 "district": "Rajsamand",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Deogarh",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Deogarh",
 "court": "Rajasthan High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Rajasthan High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Rajasthan Police Constable vs State of Rajasthan and Others",
 "case_number": "S.B. Civil Writ Petition No. 521/2009",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "Pushpendra Singh Bhati"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2018-02-01",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2018,
 "incident_date": "2002-08-01",
 "incident_year": 2002,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "misconduct",
 "admin_subcategory": "other",
 "subcategory": "other",
 "subcategory_display": "other",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld",
 "sections": [
  "IPC 302",
  "IPC 120B",
  "IPC 34",
  "Rajasthan Civil Services (Classification, Control and Appeal) Rules, 1958 Rule 16"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Constable",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "unit": "Rajasthan Police, Deogarh, District Rajsamand",
   "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, Rajasthan Police, Deogarh, District Rajsamand"
  }
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 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [
  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": null,
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Deogarh resident"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "dismissal",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": null,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/181864053/",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://www.livelaw.in/top-stories/sc-upholds-dismissal-of-police-constable-acquitted-in-a-murder-case-165156"
 ],
 "summary": "The judgment of the Rajasthan High Court records the following account. Constable, posted at Deogarh, proceeded on leave on 13 August 2002 and was accused during unauthorised absence of joining associates in crushing a Deogarh resident under a jeep over a land dispute and passing it off as an accident. The court recorded a criminal trial under Sections 302/120B/34 IPC ending in acquittal on 8 October 2003, followed by a six-charge departmental inquiry ending in dismissal on 11 December 2003, affirmed on appeal in 2005 and review in 2008. The court held the inquiry strictly lawful, the murder charge proved on eye-witness [name withheld] with corroboration, and the benefit-of-doubt acquittal no bar given differing standards of proof, and dismissed the writ. The dismissal was later set aside by a Division Bench in April 2019 but restored by the Supreme Court in October 2020. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "Constable, posted at Deogarh, proceeded on leave on 13 August 2002 and was accused during unauthorised absence of joining associates in crushing a Deogarh resident under a jeep over a land dispute and passing it off as an accident. The court recorded a criminal trial under Sections 302/120B/34 IPC ending in acquittal on 8 October 2003, followed by a six-charge departmental inquiry ending in dismissal on 11 December 2003, affirmed on appeal in 2005 and review in 2008. The court held the inquiry strictly lawful, the murder charge proved on eye-witness [name withheld] with corroboration, and the benefit-of-doubt acquittal no bar given differing standards of proof, and dismissed the writ. The dismissal was later set aside by a Division Bench in April 2019 but restored by the Supreme Court in October 2020.",
 "court_quote": "The departmental enquiry, in this case, includes consideration of the evidence given by Jodh Singh, Hamer Singh, [name withheld], Shanker Singh etc. In the departmental enquiry, the authority has categorically found that Jodh Singh has given the evidence as an eye witness and has supported the complete allegations.",
 "court_quote_para": "20",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "SB judgment verified; dismissal for off-duty murder upheld (later DB reversal itself reversed by SC).",
 "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": "2018-02-01",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Rajasthan High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Rajasthan High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.",
   "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only",
   "source": "S.B. Civil Writ Petition No. 521/2009",
   "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",
   "corrections_applied": [
    "sections"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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  {
   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/181864053/",
   "link_checked": null
  },
  {
   "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/top-stories/sc-upholds-dismissal-of-police-constable-acquitted-in-a-murder-case-165156",
   "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": [
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 "merged_case_id": "GAP3-124-001",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}