{ "record_id": "CW-2022-0029", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1218", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "State Reserve Police Constable vs State of Gujarat", "display_title_redacted": "State Reserve Police Constable vs State of Gujarat", "state": "Gujarat", "district": null, "district_at_time": null, "city_town": null, "police_station_or_unit": "State Reserve Police Force", "court": "Gujarat High Court", "court_as_verified": "Gujarat High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "State Reserve Police Constable vs State of Gujarat", "case_number": "R/Letters Patent Appeal No. 1201 of 2018 in R/Special Civil Application No. 19421 of 2007", "citation": null, "judges": [ "R.M. Chhaya", "Hemant M. Prachchhak" ], "judgment_date": "2022-04-26", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2022, "incident_date": "2005-12-07", "incident_year": 2005, "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": "Constable", "unit": "State Reserve Police Force", "role": "held_liable", "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": "Constable, State Reserve Police Force" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Gujarat 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/82701494/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "On 26 April 2022 the Gujarat High Court Division Bench dismissed the appeal of a State Reserve Police Force constable and confirmed his dismissal from service. The court recorded that on 7 December 2005 the appellant had scuffled with a colleague, who sustained a head injury from the appellant rifle, and that a full departmental inquiry had held the charges proved, leading to dismissal on 15 September 2006, confirmed in appeal and revision. Agreeing with the Single Judge that three concurrent findings of fact, a record of repeated misconduct and subsequent FIRs supported the penalty, the court held dismissal commensurate with the guilt and called for no interference. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "On 26 April 2022 the Gujarat High Court Division Bench dismissed the appeal of a State Reserve Police Force constable and confirmed his dismissal from service. The court recorded that on 7 December 2005 the appellant had scuffled with a colleague, who sustained a head injury from the appellant rifle, and that a full departmental inquiry had held the charges proved, leading to dismissal on 15 September 2006, confirmed in appeal and revision. Agreeing with the Single Judge that three concurrent findings of fact, a record of repeated misconduct and subsequent FIRs supported the penalty, the court held dismissal commensurate with the guilt and called for no interference.", "court_quote": "In the case on hand also, the appellant, who was working in disciplinary force is expected to be properly disciplined. The Disciplinary Authority having come to the conclusion that the charges of assault against the superior co-worker is proved, the same can not be substituted by this Court and the evidence can not be re-appreciated in limited jurisdiction.", "court_quote_para": "11", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Gujarat HC Division Bench dismissed LPA; SRP constable dismissal for rifle assault on colleague 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": "2022-04-26", "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. 1201 of 2018 in R/Special Civil Application No. 19421 of 2007", "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/82701494/", "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": "GAP3-53-001", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }