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 "record_id": "CW-2022-0028",
 "status": "current",
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 "display_title": "Vadodara City Police Police Constable vs The Commissioner of Police & Ors.",
 "display_title_redacted": "Vadodara City Police Police Constable vs The Commissioner of Police & Ors.",
 "state": "Gujarat",
 "district": "Vadodara",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Vadodara",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Vadodara City Police",
 "court": "Gujarat High Court",
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 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Vadodara City Police Police Constable vs The Commissioner of Police & Ors.",
 "case_number": "R/Special Civil Application No. 2532 of 2007",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "A.S. Supehia"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2022-03-14",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2022,
 "incident_date": "1990-01-01",
 "incident_year": 1990,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "misconduct",
 "admin_subcategory": "other",
 "subcategory": "other",
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 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld",
 "sections": [
  "IPC 379"
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   "rank": "Police Constable",
   "unit": "Vadodara City Police",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
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   "display": "Police Constable, Vadodara City Police"
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 "victims": [],
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 "sentence_type": "dismissal",
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 "compensation_inr": null,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/82731018/",
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 "summary": "On 14 March 2022 the Gujarat High Court dismissed the writ petition of a Vadodara City police constable and left his dismissal from service undisturbed. The court recorded that the petitioner, suspended in March 1990 and charge-sheeted in 1994 for stealing motorcycles with duplicate keys and reselling them with duplicate number plates, had been acquitted in the parallel criminal cases under section 379 IPC but found guilty in a detailed departmental inquiry, leading to dismissal in November 2003, confirmed in appeal and revision. The court held that an acquittal premised on similar facts cannot ipso facto dilute a punishment order and that judicial review cannot re-appreciate evidence as an appellate authority. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "On 14 March 2022 the Gujarat High Court dismissed the writ petition of a Vadodara City police constable and left his dismissal from service undisturbed. The court recorded that the petitioner, suspended in March 1990 and charge-sheeted in 1994 for stealing motorcycles with duplicate keys and reselling them with duplicate number plates, had been acquitted in the parallel criminal cases under section 379 IPC but found guilty in a detailed departmental inquiry, leading to dismissal in November 2003, confirmed in appeal and revision. The court held that an acquittal premised on similar facts cannot ipso facto dilute a punishment order and that judicial review cannot re-appreciate evidence as an appellate authority.",
 "court_quote": "In the present case, as noted hereinabove, the entire case of the petitioner is premised on acquittal which cannot ipso facto result in diluting the order of punishment.",
 "court_quote_para": "11",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Gujarat HC held criminal acquittal cannot dilute dismissal; motorcycle-theft dismissal upheld.",
 "verification_status": "V2",
 "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported",
 "tier_badge": "Externally reported",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
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  "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded"
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 "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"
  }
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 "institutional_response": [
  {
   "date": "2022-03-14",
   "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. 2532 of 2007",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
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 "later_proceedings": [],
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 "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": []
  }
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 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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  {
   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/82731018/",
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  }
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  "basis": null
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 "retracted": {
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 "merged_case_id": "GAP3-53-002",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
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 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}