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 "record_id": "CW-2019-0009",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0198",
 "alias_merged_ids": [
  "CWC-1483"
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 "display_title": "[name withheld] vs The Commandant, Second Regiment, Karnataka State Reserve Police & Anr.",
 "display_title_redacted": "[name withheld] vs The Commandant, Second Regiment, Karnataka State Reserve Police & Anr.",
 "state": "Karnataka",
 "district": "Belagavi",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Belagavi",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Second Regiment, Karnataka State Reserve Police",
 "court": "Karnataka High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Karnataka High Court",
 "bench": "Dharwad",
 "case_title": "[name withheld] vs The Commandant, Second Regiment, Karnataka State Reserve Police & Anr.",
 "case_number": "WP No. 104315/2018 (S-KAT)",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "S. N. Satyanarayana",
  "P. G. M. Patil"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2019-09-26",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2019,
 "incident_date": "2001-10-01",
 "incident_year": 2001,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "misconduct",
 "admin_subcategory": "other",
 "subcategory": "other",
 "subcategory_display": "other",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld",
 "sections": [
  "Constitution of India Art. 226",
  "Constitution of India Art. 227",
  "IPC 307",
  "IPC 109",
  "IPC 120B",
  "IPC 34",
  "Arms Act 1959 s.3",
  "Arms Act 1959 s.25(1)(b)(a)",
  "Arms Act 1959 s.28",
  "Arms Act 1959 s.29"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Police Constable",
   "unit": "Second Regiment, Karnataka State Reserve Police",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "ledger:unclear"
   ],
   "ledger_role": "unclear",
   "key2": "yes",
   "key2_agy": "yes",
   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": "yes",
   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": "yes",
   "key2_gpt56": null,
   "grok": null,
   "jev_risk": 0.17,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.78,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": null,
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Police Constable, Second Regiment, Karnataka State Reserve 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/157499296/",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://www.livelaw.in/news-updates/karnataka-hc-upholds-dismissal-of-ksrp-constable-despite-his-acquittal-in-criminal-case-148872",
  "https://www.thenewsminute.com/karnataka/employee-cant-seek-benefit-acquittal-disciplinary-authority-karnataka-hc-110553"
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 "summary": "The judgment of the Karnataka High Court records the following account. Petitioner [name withheld], a constable in the Second Regiment of the Karnataka State Reserve Police (KSRP) at Belagavi, was dismissed from service in November 2003 following a departmental enquiry into gross misconduct arising from his arrest in Crime No. 78/2001 for attempt to murder and Arms Act offences. After being acquitted in the criminal trial (S.C. No. 126/2003) in 2005, he challenged his dismissal before the Karnataka State Administrative Tribunal and subsequently before the High Court. The Dharwad Bench of the Karnataka High Court dismissed his writ petition and upheld the dismissal from service, holding that departmental proceedings operate under different standards of proof from criminal trials and that an acquittal recorded long after conclusion of disciplinary proceedings does not vitiate the penalty. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "Petitioner [name withheld], a constable in the Second Regiment of the Karnataka State Reserve Police (KSRP) at Belagavi, was dismissed from service in November 2003 following a departmental enquiry into gross misconduct arising from his arrest in Crime No. 78/2001 for attempt to murder and Arms Act offences. After being acquitted in the criminal trial (S.C. No. 126/2003) in 2005, he challenged his dismissal before the Karnataka State Administrative Tribunal and subsequently before the High Court. The Dharwad Bench of the Karnataka High Court dismissed his writ petition and upheld the dismissal from service, holding that departmental proceedings operate under different standards of proof from criminal trials and that an acquittal recorded long after conclusion of disciplinary proceedings does not vitiate the penalty.",
 "court_quote": "Under these circumstances, we are of the considered opinion that there are no grounds to interfere with the impugned order passed by the KSAT in application No.2960/2005. Therefore, the petition being devoid of merits is liable to be dismissed. Accordingly, it is dismissed.",
 "court_quote_para": "17",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Karnataka HC upheld dismissal of KSRP police constable for misconduct despite subsequent criminal trial acquittal.",
 "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": "2019-09-26",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Karnataka High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Karnataka High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.",
   "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only",
   "source": "WP No. 104315/2018 (S-KAT)",
   "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": []
  }
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 "followup_status": "checked",
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  {
   "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/news-updates/karnataka-hc-upholds-dismissal-of-ksrp-constable-despite-his-acquittal-in-criminal-case-148872",
   "link_checked": null
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  {
   "url": "https://www.thenewsminute.com/karnataka/employee-cant-seek-benefit-acquittal-disciplinary-authority-karnataka-hc-110553",
   "link_checked": null
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 "source_assessment": {
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  "basis": null
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 "v3_basis": null,
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  "is_retracted": false
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 "merged_case_id": "KARNAT-013",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}