{ "record_id": "CW-2022-0007", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0169", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "State of Haryana and Others vs Satish Kumar", "display_title_redacted": "State of Haryana and Others vs Satish Kumar", "state": "Haryana", "district": "Rohtak", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Rohtak", "police_station_or_unit": "CIA-3, Rohtak", "court": "Punjab and Haryana High Court", "court_as_verified": "Punjab and Haryana High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "State of Haryana and Others vs Satish Kumar", "case_number": "LPA No. 565 of 2020 (O&M)", "citation": null, "judges": [ "G. S. Sandhawalia", "Vikas Suri" ], "judgment_date": "2022-05-30", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2022, "incident_date": "2014-01-01", "incident_year": 2014, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "corruption", "admin_subcategory": "bribery_pc_act", "subcategory": "bribery_pc_act", "subcategory_display": "bribery pc act", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "PC Act 1988 s.7", "PC Act 1988 s.13" ], "officers": [ { "name": "Satish Kumar", "rank": "Assistant Sub-Inspector", "unit": "CIA-3, Rohtak, Haryana Police", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "named_safe", "gate_reasons": [ "key2_agy:no(overruled by grok)" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "no", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": "yes", "jev_risk": 0.06, "jev_p_culpable": 0.94, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": "Satish Kumar", "display": "Satish Kumar (Assistant Sub-Inspector)" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Rohtak man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "dismissal", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/63899068/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "A Division Bench of the Punjab and Haryana High Court allowed the State appeal in LPA 565 of 2020, set aside the Single Judge reinstatement order of 23 October 2019, and restored the dismissal of ASI Satish Kumar of CIA-3 Rohtak. The Court found he made complainant [name withheld] believe he could get his brother dropped from the accused in FIR 454 of 2014, and the Vigilance Bureau arrested him with hands turned pink from the marked money. He was dismissed on 29 October 2015 after an enquiry in which the complainant supported the charge, though he later turned hostile in the criminal trial ending in acquittal. The Bench held the dismissal rested on independent enquiry evidence and the acquittal was no bar, dismissing the employee writ. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "A Division Bench of the Punjab and Haryana High Court allowed the State appeal in LPA 565 of 2020, set aside the Single Judge reinstatement order of 23 October 2019, and restored the dismissal of ASI Satish Kumar of CIA-3 Rohtak. The Court found he made complainant [name withheld] believe he could get his brother dropped from the accused in FIR 454 of 2014, and the Vigilance Bureau arrested him with hands turned pink from the marked money. He was dismissed on 29 October 2015 after an enquiry in which the complainant supported the charge, though he later turned hostile in the criminal trial ending in acquittal. The Bench held the dismissal rested on independent enquiry evidence and the acquittal was no bar, dismissing the employee writ.", "court_quote": "It is not disputed that the writ petitioner was arrested by the State Vigilance Bureau team and his hands had turned pink and, thus, he had handled the money.", "court_quote_para": "19", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "P&H HC Division Bench allowed State LPA and restored dismissal; Single Judge reinstatement set aside.", "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": "2022-05-30", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Punjab and Haryana High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Punjab and Haryana High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "LPA No. 565 of 2020 (O&M)", "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/63899068/", "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-37" ], "merged_case_id": "HARYAN-015", "officers_named_public": 1, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }