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 "record_id": "CW-2023-0025",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0426",
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 "display_title": "The State of West Bengal & Ors. Versus Kolkata Police Police Constable",
 "display_title_redacted": "The State of West Bengal & Ors. Versus Kolkata Police Police Constable",
 "state": "West Bengal",
 "district": "Malda",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Ratua",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Kolkata Police",
 "court": "Calcutta High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Calcutta High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "The State of West Bengal & Ors. Versus Kolkata Police Police Constable",
 "case_number": "WP.ST 508 of 2013",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "Debangsu Basak",
  "Md. Shabbar Rashidi"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2023-08-31",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2023,
 "incident_date": "1994-02-09",
 "incident_year": 1994,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "misconduct",
 "admin_subcategory": "other",
 "subcategory": "other",
 "subcategory_display": "other",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld",
 "sections": [
  "IPC 302",
  "IPC 456",
  "IPC 329",
  "IPC 34",
  "Arms Act 1959 s.25",
  "Arms Act 1959 s.27",
  "Police Regulations of Calcutta 1968 Chapter XIX Regulation 4",
  "Constitution of India Art. 226"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Police Constable",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "unit": "Kolkata Police",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
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   "ledger_role": "held_liable",
   "key2": "yes",
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   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": "yes",
   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": "unclear",
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   "jev_risk": 0.5,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.6,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Police Constable, Kolkata Police"
  }
 ],
 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Ratua 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/28168571/",
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 "summary": "Calcutta Police constable was dismissed from service following Departmental Proceeding No. 110 of 1999 for unauthorized absence from duty, failing to report his implication in a criminal case, and involvement in the murder of a Ratua man under Ratua Police Station in Malda on 9 February 1994. Although Roy was subsequently acquitted in the criminal trial (Sessions Trial No. 1(4) of 2008), the Commissioner of Police rejected his reinstatement plea under Regulation 4, Chapter XIX of the Police Regulations of Calcutta. The West Bengal Administrative Tribunal quashed the dismissal, but the Calcutta High Court allowed the State's writ petition and set aside the Tribunal's order. The High Court held that acquittal in a criminal case does not automatically bar disciplinary punishment or mandate reinstatement, as the standards of proof and scope of charges differ, thereby restoring the constable's dismissal from service. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "Calcutta Police constable was dismissed from service following Departmental Proceeding No. 110 of 1999 for unauthorized absence from duty, failing to report his implication in a criminal case, and involvement in the murder of a Ratua man under Ratua Police Station in Malda on 9 February 1994. Although Roy was subsequently acquitted in the criminal trial (Sessions Trial No. 1(4) of 2008), the Commissioner of Police rejected his reinstatement plea under Regulation 4, Chapter XIX of the Police Regulations of Calcutta. The West Bengal Administrative Tribunal quashed the dismissal, but the Calcutta High Court allowed the State's writ petition and set aside the Tribunal's order. The High Court held that acquittal in a criminal case does not automatically bar disciplinary punishment or mandate reinstatement, as the standards of proof and scope of charges differ, thereby restoring the constable's dismissal from service.",
 "court_quote": "Therefore, in the light of discussions made hereinbefore, the impugned order passed by the tribunal in O.A. 1275 of 2012 is liable to be set aside. We accordingly, set aside the impugned order passed by the West Bengal Administrative Tribunal.",
 "court_quote_para": "35",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Calcutta High Court allowed State's writ petition and restored constable's dismissal from service for murder implication and unauthorized absence despite criminal trial acquittal.",
 "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": "2023-08-31",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Calcutta High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Calcutta High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.",
   "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only",
   "source": "WP.ST 508 of 2013",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
 ],
 "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/28168571/",
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 "merged_case_id": "WESTBE-003",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
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 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
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