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 "record_id": "CW-2020-0005",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0414",
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 "display_title": "Pithoragarh Police Constable v. State of Uttarakhand",
 "display_title_redacted": "Pithoragarh Police Constable v. State of Uttarakhand",
 "state": "Uttarakhand",
 "district": "Pithoragarh",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Pithoragarh",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Police Line, Pithoragarh",
 "court": "Uttarakhand High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Uttarakhand High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Pithoragarh Police Constable v. State of Uttarakhand",
 "case_number": "Writ Petition (S/B) No. 457 of 2016",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "Ramesh Ranganathan",
  "Ramesh Chandra Khulbe"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2020-02-14",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2020,
 "incident_date": "2011-10-26",
 "incident_year": 2011,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "misconduct",
 "admin_subcategory": "other",
 "subcategory": "other",
 "subcategory_display": "other",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld",
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 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Constable",
   "unit": "Police Line, Pithoragarh",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "key2_union:no"
   ],
   "ledger_role": "held_liable",
   "key2": "yes",
   "key2_agy": null,
   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": "no",
   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": "yes",
   "key2_gpt56": null,
   "grok": "no",
   "jev_risk": 0.14,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.79,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Constable, Police Line, Pithoragarh"
  }
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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/60405814/",
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 "summary": "The Uttarakhand High Court dismissed the writ petition of Constable, affirming the Public Services Tribunal's order upholding his dismissal from service on 4 January 2013. The Court recorded that he absented himself in three spells from 26 October 2011 totalling over a year (99, 247 and 86 days), ignoring joining notices, the preliminary-enquiry notice, the charge-sheet, inquiry notices and the show-cause notice. It held the absence was wilful and prolonged rather than of short duration, disbelieving his medical certificates. The Court found no ground for interference under Article 226 of the Constitution. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Uttarakhand High Court dismissed the writ petition of Constable, affirming the Public Services Tribunal's order upholding his dismissal from service on 4 January 2013. The Court recorded that he absented himself in three spells from 26 October 2011 totalling over a year (99, 247 and 86 days), ignoring joining notices, the preliminary-enquiry notice, the charge-sheet, inquiry notices and the show-cause notice. It held the absence was wilful and prolonged rather than of short duration, disbelieving his medical certificates. The Court found no ground for interference under Article 226 of the Constitution.",
 "court_quote": "We are satisfied, in such circumstances, that the order of the Tribunal does not necessitate interference in proceedings under Article 226 of the Constitution of India. The writ petition fails and is, accordingly, dismissed.",
 "court_quote_para": "22",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "UHC judgment verified on Indian Kanoon; constable's dismissal for prolonged wilful absence 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": "2020-02-14",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Uttarakhand High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Uttarakhand High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.",
   "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only",
   "source": "Writ Petition (S/B) No. 457 of 2016",
   "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": [
    "court_quote_para"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
 "link_checked_per_url": [
  {
   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/60405814/",
   "link_checked": null
  }
 ],
 "source_assessment": {
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  "basis": null
 },
 "v3_basis": null,
 "publication_basis": null,
 "reviews": [],
 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
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 "fidelity_checked": false,
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 "merged_case_id": "UTTARA-011",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}