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 "record_id": "CW-2021-0013",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-1225",
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 "display_title": "Halvad Police Unarmed Police Constable vs State of Gujarat",
 "display_title_redacted": "Halvad Police Unarmed Police Constable vs State of Gujarat",
 "state": "Gujarat",
 "district": "Surendranagar",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Halvad",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Halvad Police Station",
 "court": "Gujarat High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Gujarat High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Halvad Police Unarmed Police Constable vs State of Gujarat",
 "case_number": "R/Special Civil Application No. 9430 of 2007",
 "citation": "AIRONLINE 2021 GUJ 796",
 "judges": [
  "Umesh A. Trivedi"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2021-01-27",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2021,
 "incident_date": "2000-07-03",
 "incident_year": 2000,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "misconduct",
 "admin_subcategory": "other",
 "subcategory": "other",
 "subcategory_display": "other",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld",
 "sections": [
  "Gujarat Police Act s.145(2)"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Unarmed Police Constable",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "unit": "Halvad Police Station, Surendranagar",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "ledger:no_row",
    "key2:no_row"
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   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": null,
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Unarmed Police Constable, Halvad Police Station, Surendranagar"
  }
 ],
 "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/97921735/",
 "secondary_sources": [],
 "summary": "The judgment of the Gujarat High Court records the following account. Unarmed Police Constable B.[name withheld] of Halvad Police Station went on casual leave from 30 June to 2 July 2000 and never reported back on 3 July 2000, remaining absent despite arrest in October 2001 in a case under Section 145(2) of the Bombay (now Gujarat) Police Act. He was charge-sheeted for withdrawing from duty without written permission of the Superintendent of Police and dismissed on 21 October 2003, confirmed by the Range IG and the DGP. He contended sickness certificates explained part of the absence. The Court held the unauthorised absence stood proved and his conscious defiant attitude intolerable in a disciplined force, rejecting the petition. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "Unarmed Police Constable B.[name withheld] of Halvad Police Station went on casual leave from 30 June to 2 July 2000 and never reported back on 3 July 2000, remaining absent despite arrest in October 2001 in a case under Section 145(2) of the Bombay (now Gujarat) Police Act. He was charge-sheeted for withdrawing from duty without written permission of the Superintendent of Police and dismissed on 21 October 2003, confirmed by the Range IG and the DGP. He contended sickness certificates explained part of the absence. The Court held the unauthorised absence stood proved and his conscious defiant attitude intolerable in a disciplined force, rejecting the petition.",
 "court_quote": "The conduct of the petitioner appears to be of a conscious defiant attitude which cannot be tolerated in a disciplined force like Police",
 "court_quote_para": "14 (record says 13)",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "HC judgment verified on IK (AIRONLINE 2021 GUJ 796); dismissal for desertion of duty 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": "2021-01-27",
   "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": "AIRONLINE 2021 GUJ 796",
   "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/97921735/",
   "link_checked": null
  }
 ],
 "source_assessment": {
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  "basis": null
 },
 "v3_basis": null,
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 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
 },
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 "merged_case_id": "GAP3-53-008",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}