{ "record_id": "CW-2019-0036", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0881", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Gaya Police Constable vs The State of Bihar and Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "Gaya Police Constable vs The State of Bihar and Ors.", "state": "Bihar", "district": "Gaya", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": null, "police_station_or_unit": "Pretshila Parwat police picket, Gaya", "court": "Patna High Court", "court_as_verified": "Patna High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Gaya Police Constable vs The State of Bihar and Ors.", "case_number": "Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case No. 19188 of 2019", "citation": "2020 (1) PLJR 184", "judges": [ "Chakradhari Sharan Singh" ], "judgment_date": "2019-11-04", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2019, "incident_date": "1998-09-17", "incident_year": 1998, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "unit": "Pretshila Parwat police picket, Gaya", "role": "held_liable", "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, Pretshila Parwat police picket, Gaya" } ], "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://patnahighcourt.gov.in/viewjudgment/MTUjMTkxODgjMjAxOSMxI04=-Mkk2Y0J2e2Y=", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.samvidalaw.com/patna-high-court-dismissal-after-acquittal-en/", "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/1017190/pdf/" ], "summary": "The Patna High Court dismissed a writ petition by constable seeking reconsideration of his 1999 dismissal in light of his 2019 criminal acquittal. The court noted he had been dismissed after Departmental Proceeding No. 62 of 1998 proved he abandoned his post and arms during the 17-09-1998 Naxalite attack on the Pretshila Parwat picket in Gaya, in which two constables were killed and rifles looted. It held departmental findings rest on evidence different from criminal trials and the dismissal had attained finality with the dismissal of his earlier writ in 2012. The dismissal from service was therefore left undisturbed. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Patna High Court dismissed a writ petition by constable seeking reconsideration of his 1999 dismissal in light of his 2019 criminal acquittal. The court noted he had been dismissed after Departmental Proceeding No. 62 of 1998 proved he abandoned his post and arms during the 17-09-1998 Naxalite attack on the Pretshila Parwat picket in Gaya, in which two constables were killed and rifles looted. It held departmental findings rest on evidence different from criminal trials and the dismissal had attained finality with the dismissal of his earlier writ in 2012. The dismissal from service was therefore left undisturbed.", "court_quote": "In the departmental proceeding, the allegation against the petitioner was of having abandoned his Post and his Arms without any due permission from the superior authority.", "court_quote_para": "6", "confidence": "medium", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC refused to reopen 1999 dismissal of constable who deserted post and arms in 1998 Naxalite attack; criminal acquittal immaterial.", "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": "2019-11-04", "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": "2020 (1) PLJR 184", "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://patnahighcourt.gov.in/viewjudgment/MTUjMTkxODgjMjAxOSMxI04=-Mkk2Y0J2e2Y=", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.samvidalaw.com/patna-high-court-dismissal-after-acquittal-en/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/1017190/pdf/", "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-73" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP2-48-004", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }