{ "record_id": "CW-2019-0003", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0296", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Nicobar Police Constable vs Union of India and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Nicobar Police Constable vs Union of India and Others", "state": "Andaman and Nicobar Islands", "district": "South Andaman", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Port Blair", "police_station_or_unit": "Indian Reserve Battalion, Andaman and Nicobar Police", "court": "Calcutta High Court", "court_as_verified": "Calcutta High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Nicobar Police Constable vs Union of India and Others", "case_number": "WPCT No. 243 of 2018", "citation": "(2019) 03 CAL CK 0034", "judges": [ "Arijit Banerjee", "Amrita Sinha" ], "judgment_date": "2019-03-11", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2019, "incident_date": "2012-10-06", "incident_year": 2012, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "Wildlife (Protection) Act 1972 s.50", "Wildlife (Protection) Act 1972 s.51", "CCS (Conduct) Rules 1964 r.3" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "unit": "Indian Reserve Battalion, Andaman and Nicobar Police", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": "yes", "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Constable, Indian Reserve Battalion, Andaman and Nicobar Police" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 0, "sentence_type": null, "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/983689/shri-p-murugeshan-appellant-hash-union-of-india-and-others-respondent/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/192378653/" ], "summary": "The Calcutta High Court Division Bench dismissed the writ petition of IRB Constable, caught red-handed with three colleagues on 6 October 2012 illegally trading wild water monitor lizards. The Court upheld the major penalty of forfeiture of five years' future increments with cumulative effect for grave misconduct and gross indiscipline, affirming the Commandant, DGP and CAT orders. It held the subsequent criminal acquittal under the Wildlife (Protection) Act had no bearing on the proved departmental charges. The penalty was held not disproportionate to the gravity of the offence. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Calcutta High Court Division Bench dismissed the writ petition of IRB Constable, caught red-handed with three colleagues on 6 October 2012 illegally trading wild water monitor lizards. The Court upheld the major penalty of forfeiture of five years' future increments with cumulative effect for grave misconduct and gross indiscipline, affirming the Commandant, DGP and CAT orders. It held the subsequent criminal acquittal under the Wildlife (Protection) Act had no bearing on the proved departmental charges. The penalty was held not disproportionate to the gravity of the offence.", "court_quote": "On 06th October, 2012 he along with three other members of the said battalion were caught red handed for indulging in illegal trade of Wild Water Monitor Lizard.", "court_quote_para": null, "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Calcutta HC DB dismissed the writ, confirming the major penalty on the IRB constable; matches disciplinary_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": "2019-03-11", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Calcutta High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Calcutta High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "(2019) 03 CAL CK 0034", "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": [ "court_quote", "court_quote_para" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/983689/shri-p-murugeshan-appellant-hash-union-of-india-and-others-respondent/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/192378653/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": false, "verified_by": [ "chunk-29" ], "merged_case_id": "PUDUCH-004", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }