{ "record_id": "CW-2023-0014", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0326", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Bahadur Singh vs State of Rajasthan & Anr.", "display_title_redacted": "Bahadur Singh vs State of Rajasthan & Anr.", "state": "Rajasthan", "district": "Tonk", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Todaraisingh", "police_station_or_unit": "Sadar Police Station, Tonk", "court": "Rajasthan High Court", "court_as_verified": "Rajasthan High Court", "bench": "Jaipur", "case_title": "Bahadur Singh vs State of Rajasthan & Anr.", "case_number": "S.B. Civil Writ Petition No. 13411/2011", "citation": "2023/RJJP/007400", "judges": [ "Anoop Kumar Dhand" ], "judgment_date": "2023-05-03", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2023, "incident_date": "2002-01-18", "incident_year": 2002, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "illegal_detention_false_imprisonment", "subcategory": "illegal_detention_false_imprisonment", "subcategory_display": "illegal detention false imprisonment", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "IPC 365", "IPC 342", "IPC 327", "IPC 323", "IPC 120B" ], "officers": [ { "name": "Bahadur Singh", "rank": "Constable", "unit": "Sadar Police Station, Tonk", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "named_safe", "gate_reasons": [], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.05, "jev_p_culpable": 0.95, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": "Bahadur Singh", "display": "Bahadur Singh (Constable)" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Todaraisingh 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/117852468/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/rajasthan-high-court/rajasthan-high-court-petition-police-constable-compulsory-retirement-departmental-enquiry-231468" ], "summary": "The Jaipur Bench of the Rajasthan High Court dismissed a writ petition filed by the legal heirs of deceased Constable Bahadur Singh of Sadar Police Station, Tonk, upholding his compulsory retirement for serious misconduct. On 18 January 2002, while unauthorizedly absent from duty, Bahadur Singh and four accomplices abducted a Todaraisingh man, assaulted him, and forcibly obtained his signatures on stamp paper, leading to registration of FIR No. 14/2002 under Sections 365, 342, 327, 323, and 120-B IPC and subsequent departmental inquiry under Rule 16 of the CCA Rules. Rejecting the claim that his later acquittal by a criminal court vitiated departmental action, the High Court held that the inquiry findings were based on credible evidence and the penalty of compulsory retirement was commensurate with the misconduct. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Jaipur Bench of the Rajasthan High Court dismissed a writ petition filed by the legal heirs of deceased Constable Bahadur Singh of Sadar Police Station, Tonk, upholding his compulsory retirement for serious misconduct. On 18 January 2002, while unauthorizedly absent from duty, Bahadur Singh and four accomplices abducted a Todaraisingh man, assaulted him, and forcibly obtained his signatures on stamp paper, leading to registration of FIR No. 14/2002 under Sections 365, 342, 327, 323, and 120-B IPC and subsequent departmental inquiry under Rule 16 of the CCA Rules. Rejecting the claim that his later acquittal by a criminal court vitiated departmental action, the High Court held that the inquiry findings were based on credible evidence and the penalty of compulsory retirement was commensurate with the misconduct.", "court_quote": "The department has led credible evidence to show that the petitioner was guilty of misconduct. The findings of the Inquiry Officer are neither perverse nor based on 'no evidence'.", "court_quote_para": "20", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Rajasthan High Court dismissed writ petition and upheld compulsory retirement of Constable Bahadur Singh for abducting and assaulting a civilian to extort signatures on stamp paper.", "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": "2023-05-03", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Rajasthan High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Rajasthan High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "2023/RJJP/007400", "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/117852468/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/rajasthan-high-court/rajasthan-high-court-petition-police-constable-compulsory-retirement-departmental-enquiry-231468", "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-11" ], "merged_case_id": "RAJAST-008", "officers_named_public": 1, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }