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 "status": "current",
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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": "Bhojpur",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Ara",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Bhojpur district police",
 "court": "Patna High Court",
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 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Bihar Police Constable v. State of Bihar and Others",
 "case_number": "Letters Patent Appeal No. 1485 of 2018 (in CWJC No. 12182 of 2012)",
 "citation": "2019 (2) PLJR 908",
 "judges": [
  "Amreshwar Pratap Sahi",
  "Anjana Mishra"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2019-04-16",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2019,
 "incident_date": null,
 "incident_year": 2004,
 "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": [],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Constable",
   "unit": "Bihar Police, Bhojpur",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
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    "key2:no_row"
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   "display": "Constable, Bihar Police, Bhojpur"
  }
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 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 0,
 "sentence_type": "dismissal",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
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 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://patnahighcourt.gov.in/viewjudgment/MyMxNDg1IzIwMTgjMSNO-cLx5oZEdFhA=",
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 "summary": "Constable, appointed in Kaimur in 1999 and transferred to Bhojpur in 2004, absented himself from duty from March 2004 to March 2005 and was dismissed on 13.10.2007 after a departmental inquiry. His appeal, memorial and writ petition (CWJC No. 12182 of 2012, dismissed 06.09.2018 by Nilu Agrawal J.) all failed. The Division Bench held the inquiry finding of unauthorised absence was supported by evidence, the ailment defence was unproved, and the penalty was not disproportionate for a member of a disciplined force. The Court found no perversity or procedural error and rejected the Letters Patent Appeal.",
 "summary_verified": "Constable, appointed in Kaimur in 1999 and transferred to Bhojpur in 2004, absented himself from duty from March 2004 to March 2005 and was dismissed on 13.10.2007 after a departmental inquiry. His appeal, memorial and writ petition (CWJC No. 12182 of 2012, dismissed 06.09.2018 by Nilu Agrawal J.) all failed. The Division Bench held the inquiry finding of unauthorised absence was supported by evidence, the ailment defence was unproved, and the penalty was not disproportionate for a member of a disciplined force. The Court found no perversity or procedural error and rejected the Letters Patent Appeal.",
 "court_quote": "The appellant having not chosen to join his duties on his own volition, therefore, did not deserve to be a member of the disciplined Force.",
 "court_quote_para": "9",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "LPA verified on Patna HC site (PDF) plus Single Judge order; appeal rejected, dismissal upheld.",
 "verification_status": "V2",
 "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported",
 "tier_badge": "Externally reported",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
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  "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded"
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 "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": "2019-04-16",
   "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": "2019 (2) PLJR 908",
   "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",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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   "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/964685/ramesh-ram-appellant-hash-state-of-bihar-ors-respondent/",
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 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}