{ "record_id": "CW-2019-0008", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0294", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Nicobar Police personnel vs Union of India and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Nicobar Police personnel 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": "Andaman and Nicobar Police", "court": "Calcutta High Court", "court_as_verified": "Calcutta High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Nicobar Police personnel vs Union of India and Others", "case_number": "WPCT No. 153 of 2019", "citation": "(2019) 08 CAL CK 0059", "judges": [ "Subrata Talukdar", "Arindam Mukherjee" ], "judgment_date": "2019-08-19", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2019, "incident_date": "2007-01-01", "incident_year": 2007, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "IPC 419", "IPC 420", "IPC 366", "IPC 392", "IPC 354" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": null, "unit": "Andaman and Nicobar Police", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2_openrouter:no", "key2_gpt:unclear" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": "yes", "key2_openrouter": "no", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": "no", "jev_risk": 0.05, "jev_p_culpable": 0.95, "key2_gpt": "unclear", "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Police personnel, Andaman and Nicobar Police" } ], "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://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/1009308/ssimachalam-appellant-hash-union-of-india-and-others-respondent/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Calcutta High Court Division Bench dismissed the writ petition of [name withheld] of the Andaman and Nicobar Police, whose termination (order dated 7 July 2009) followed proved disciplinary charges of demanding money for a police job, kidnapping/molestation/robbery, and mobile-phone theft. The Court examined the subsequent criminal-trial acquittals and held none was honourable, being based on hostile witnesses and wanting evidence. It found no infirmity in the DGP's refusal to review the penalty under the A&N Police Manual or in the CAT order of 18 December 2018. The termination from the disciplined force therefore stands confirmed. 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 [name withheld] of the Andaman and Nicobar Police, whose termination (order dated 7 July 2009) followed proved disciplinary charges of demanding money for a police job, kidnapping/molestation/robbery, and mobile-phone theft. The Court examined the subsequent criminal-trial acquittals and held none was honourable, being based on hostile witnesses and wanting evidence. It found no infirmity in the DGP's refusal to review the penalty under the A&N Police Manual or in the CAT order of 18 December 2018. The termination from the disciplined force therefore stands confirmed.", "court_quote": "the petitioner, being a member of discipline force, must be said to have lost confidence in his employer and therefore, not fit to be retained in service.", "court_quote_para": "n/a", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Calcutta HC DB dismissed the writ, confirming termination of the A&N policeman; 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": "2019-08-19", "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) 08 CAL CK 0059", "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://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/1009308/ssimachalam-appellant-hash-union-of-india-and-others-respondent/", "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": [ "chunk-29" ], "merged_case_id": "PUDUCH-002", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }