{ "record_id": "CW-2021-0012", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1224", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Navsari District Police Armed Police Constable vs State of Gujarat", "display_title_redacted": "Navsari District Police Armed Police Constable vs State of Gujarat", "state": "Gujarat", "district": "Navsari", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": null, "police_station_or_unit": "Superintendent of Police, Navsari", "court": "Gujarat High Court", "court_as_verified": "Gujarat High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Navsari District Police Armed Police Constable vs State of Gujarat", "case_number": "R/Special Civil Application No. 11044 of 2006", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Umesh A. Trivedi" ], "judgment_date": "2021-01-08", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2021, "incident_date": "1994-01-13", "incident_year": 1994, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "Gujarat Civil Services (Conduct) Rules 1971 r.26" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Armed Police Constable", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "Navsari District Police", "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": "Armed Police Constable, Navsari District Police" } ], "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/143144216/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The judgment of the Gujarat High Court records the following account. Armed Police Constable of Navsari was removed from service on 18 April 2001 for contracting a second marriage with Kanizaben on 13 January 1994 while his first spouse lived, without divorce or State permission, and for falsely denying the second marriage before the Deputy Superintendent of Police on 6 January 1998. The inquiry officer held both charges proved on witness and documentary evidence including the petitioner's own admission of the registered marriage. His appeal and revision failed, and he challenged the removal under Article 226. The Court found no reason to interfere with the concurrent findings of fact and held removal not shockingly disproportionate, rejecting the petition. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "Armed Police Constable of Navsari was removed from service on 18 April 2001 for contracting a second marriage with Kanizaben on 13 January 1994 while his first spouse lived, without divorce or State permission, and for falsely denying the second marriage before the Deputy Superintendent of Police on 6 January 1998. The inquiry officer held both charges proved on witness and documentary evidence including the petitioner's own admission of the registered marriage. His appeal and revision failed, and he challenged the removal under Article 226. The Court found no reason to interfere with the concurrent findings of fact and held removal not shockingly disproportionate, rejecting the petition.", "court_quote": "I see no reason to interfere with the concurrent finding of facts recorded by the authorities, as aforesaid which requires no interference by this Court as even a punishment of removal has also not shockingly disproportionate", "court_quote_para": "16", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC judgment verified on IK; removal of constable for bigamy and false statement 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": "2021-01-08", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Gujarat High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Gujarat High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "R/Special Civil Application No. 11044 of 2006", "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://indiankanoon.org/doc/143144216/", "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-114" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-53-007", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }