{ "record_id": "CW-2022-0027", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1220", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "State Reserve Police Armed Police Constable vs State of Gujarat", "display_title_redacted": "State Reserve Police Armed Police Constable vs State of Gujarat", "state": "Gujarat", "district": "Gandhinagar", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Gandhinagar", "police_station_or_unit": "State Reserve Police Force, Group-12", "court": "Gujarat High Court", "court_as_verified": "Gujarat High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "State Reserve Police Armed Police Constable vs State of Gujarat", "case_number": "R/Letters Patent Appeal No. 1123 of 2021 in R/Special Civil Application No. 10335 of 2021", "citation": null, "judges": [ "R.M. Chhaya", "Niral R. Mehta" ], "judgment_date": "2022-01-06", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2022, "incident_date": "1983-02-01", "incident_year": 1983, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Armed Police Constable", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "State Reserve Police Force, Group-12, Gandhinagar", "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, State Reserve Police Force, Group-12, Gandhinagar" } ], "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/66817616/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "On 6 January 2022 the Gujarat High Court Division Bench dismissed the appeal of an Armed Police Constable (SRP Group-12, Gandhinagar) against his dismissal from service ordered on 28 April 1998. The court recorded that the appellant, appointed in February 1983, had been charge-sheeted for producing a false school leaving certificate and misrepresenting his date of birth, and that he approached the court only in June 2020 seeking parity with other dismissed constables. Agreeing with the Single Judge, the court held the appellant had accepted the dismissal for almost 23 years and could not question it in extraordinary writ jurisdiction after such inordinate delay, leaving the dismissal undisturbed. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "On 6 January 2022 the Gujarat High Court Division Bench dismissed the appeal of an Armed Police Constable (SRP Group-12, Gandhinagar) against his dismissal from service ordered on 28 April 1998. The court recorded that the appellant, appointed in February 1983, had been charge-sheeted for producing a false school leaving certificate and misrepresenting his date of birth, and that he approached the court only in June 2020 seeking parity with other dismissed constables. Agreeing with the Single Judge, the court held the appellant had accepted the dismissal for almost 23 years and could not question it in extraordinary writ jurisdiction after such inordinate delay, leaving the dismissal undisturbed.", "court_quote": "In addition to that, the appellant has already accepted the order of dismissal for almost 23 years and hence, the appellant cannot now be permitted to question the same in exercise of extraordinary discretionary jurisdiction under Article 226 of the Constitution of India.", "court_quote_para": "10", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Gujarat HC Division Bench dismissed LPA on 23-year laches; 1998 dismissal for false appointment records left undisturbed.", "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": "2022-01-06", "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/Letters Patent Appeal No. 1123 of 2021 in R/Special Civil Application No. 10335 of 2021", "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/66817616/", "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-113" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-53-003", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }