{ "record_id": "CW-2022-0016", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0168", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Haryana Police Exemptee Assistant Sub-Inspector vs State of Haryana and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Haryana Police Exemptee Assistant Sub-Inspector vs State of Haryana and Others", "state": "Haryana", "district": "Faridabad", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Faridabad", "police_station_or_unit": "Haryana Police, Faridabad", "court": "Punjab and Haryana High Court", "court_as_verified": "Punjab and Haryana High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Haryana Police Exemptee Assistant Sub-Inspector vs State of Haryana and Others", "case_number": "CWP No. 18431 of 2018 (O&M)", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Jaishree Thakur" ], "judgment_date": "2022-08-18", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2022, "incident_date": "2011-07-11", "incident_year": 2011, "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" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Exemptee Assistant Sub-Inspector", "unit": "Haryana Police, Faridabad", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2_agy:no" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "no", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": "yes", "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Exemptee Assistant Sub-Inspector, Haryana Police, Faridabad" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Faridabad 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/152582255/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Punjab and Haryana High Court dismissed CWP 18431 of 2018 and upheld the dismissal of EASI [name withheld] of Faridabad, trapped by the Vigilance Department on 11 July 2011 accepting eight marked Rs 500 notes from complainant [name withheld]. The Court found a shadow witness watched the exchange, tainted notes were recovered from his pocket, and his hand-wash turned pink, leading DCP HQ Faridabad to dismiss him on 4 July 2013 after a regular enquiry. Though the Special Judge acquitted him in 2016 after the complainant turned hostile, the Court held the departmental proof stood and Rule 16.3 bar did not apply where witnesses were won over. The appeal, revision and mercy petition rejections were left undisturbed.", "summary_verified": "The Punjab and Haryana High Court dismissed CWP 18431 of 2018 and upheld the dismissal of EASI [name withheld] of Faridabad, trapped by the Vigilance Department on 11 July 2011 accepting eight marked Rs 500 notes from complainant [name withheld]. The Court found a shadow witness watched the exchange, tainted notes were recovered from his pocket, and his hand-wash turned pink, leading DCP HQ Faridabad to dismiss him on 4 July 2013 after a regular enquiry. Though the Special Judge acquitted him in 2016 after the complainant turned hostile, the Court held the departmental proof stood and Rule 16.3 bar did not apply where witnesses were won over. The appeal, revision and mercy petition rejections were left undisturbed.", "court_quote": "The departmental authorities took into account the fact that there was recovery of tainted currency notes from the petitioner, shadow witness supported the case and the hands of the petitioner when washed with sodium carbonate solution turned pink which would be a positive affirmation of receipt of bribe.", "court_quote_para": "10", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "P&H HC judgment verified; trap-proved bribe dismissal upheld despite complainant turning hostile.", "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": "2022-08-18", "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": "CWP No. 18431 of 2018 (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/152582255/", "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-014", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }