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 "record_id": "CW-2020-0010",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0662",
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 "display_title": "Mizoram Police Constable v. State of Mizoram & Ors.",
 "display_title_redacted": "Mizoram Police Constable v. State of Mizoram & Ors.",
 "state": "Mizoram",
 "district": null,
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Mangaldai",
 "police_station_or_unit": "3rd India Reserve Battalion",
 "court": "Gauhati High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Gauhati High Court",
 "bench": "Aizawl",
 "case_title": "Mizoram Police Constable v. State of Mizoram & Ors.",
 "case_number": "WP(C) No. 99 of 2020",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "Michael Zothankhuma"
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 "judgment_date": "2020-11-10",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2020,
 "incident_date": "2014-03-26",
 "incident_year": 2014,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "misconduct",
 "admin_subcategory": "other",
 "subcategory": "other",
 "subcategory_display": "other",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld",
 "sections": [
  "Mizoram Police Act 2011 s.92"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Constable",
   "unit": "3rd India Reserve Battalion, Mizoram Police",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "key2:no",
    "key2_union:unclear",
    "key2_openrouter:unclear"
   ],
   "ledger_role": "held_liable",
   "key2": "no",
   "key2_agy": null,
   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": "unclear",
   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": "unclear",
   "key2_gpt56": null,
   "grok": null,
   "jev_risk": 0.05,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.96,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Constable, 3rd India Reserve Battalion, Mizoram 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://livelaw-hpnlu.refread.com/pdf_upload/pdf_upload-384745.pdf",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://www.livelaw.in/news-updates/gauhati-high-court-declines-relief-to-af-constable-dismissed-from-service-for-entering-church-165984",
  "https://www.the-laws.com/Encyclopedia/Browse/Case?caseId=600202890100&title=m-s-dawngliana-vs-state-of-mizoram"
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 "summary": "The judgment of the Gauhati High Court records the following account. Constable of the 3rd IR Battalion, posted at Mangaldai, was found intoxicated on CI Ops duty on 25 March 2014 and, on 26 March 2014, entered the battalion church in full uniform with his service rifle while drunk during a service, causing panic. Charge-sheeted under Section 92 of the Mizoram Police Act, 2011, he admitted the charges, and the Appellate Authority altered the penalty to removal from service, implemented on 8 September 2020. The Gauhati High Court held the disciplinary and appellate authorities were the sole judges of facts, found no illegality and a penalty that did not shock the conscience, and dismissed the writ petition. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "Constable of the 3rd IR Battalion, posted at Mangaldai, was found intoxicated on CI Ops duty on 25 March 2014 and, on 26 March 2014, entered the battalion church in full uniform with his service rifle while drunk during a service, causing panic. Charge-sheeted under Section 92 of the Mizoram Police Act, 2011, he admitted the charges, and the Appellate Authority altered the penalty to removal from service, implemented on 8 September 2020. The Gauhati High Court held the disciplinary and appellate authorities were the sole judges of facts, found no illegality and a penalty that did not shock the conscience, and dismissed the writ petition.",
 "court_quote": "The petitioner being from a disciplined force, he should have known better than to enter a place of worship with a rifle, while being under the influence of alcohol, as the said act endangers the lives of the people inside the place of worship.",
 "court_quote_para": "22",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Gauhati HC (Aizawl Bench) dismissed writ, upheld removal of drunk-on-duty constable who entered church with rifle.",
 "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": "2020-11-10",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Gauhati High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Gauhati High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.",
   "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only",
   "source": "WP(C) No. 99 of 2020",
   "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.livelaw.in/news-updates/gauhati-high-court-declines-relief-to-af-constable-dismissed-from-service-for-entering-church-165984",
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 "source_assessment": {
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  "basis": null
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 "v3_basis": null,
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 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
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 "merged_case_id": "SWOTHERM-026",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}