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 "record_id": "CW-2023-0030",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0060",
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 "display_title": "UT Police Constable vs Union of India and Others",
 "display_title_redacted": "UT Police Constable vs Union of India and Others",
 "state": "Chandigarh",
 "district": "Chandigarh",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Chandigarh",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Night patrolling, Sector-20/Aroma Light Point",
 "court": "Punjab and Haryana High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Punjab and Haryana High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "UT Police Constable vs Union of India and Others",
 "case_number": "CWP-37381-2018",
 "citation": "2023:PHHC:137380-DB",
 "judges": [
  "Deepak Sibal",
  "Sukhvinder Kaur"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2023-10-19",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2023,
 "incident_date": "2012-07-25",
 "incident_year": 2012,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "corruption",
 "admin_subcategory": "bribery_pc_act",
 "subcategory": "bribery_pc_act",
 "subcategory_display": "bribery pc act",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld",
 "sections": [],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Constable",
   "unit": "UT Police Chandigarh",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "key2_gemapi:unclear"
   ],
   "ledger_role": "held_liable",
   "key2": "yes",
   "key2_agy": "yes",
   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": "yes",
   "key2_gemapi": "unclear",
   "key2_openrouter": "yes",
   "key2_gpt56": "yes",
   "grok": null,
   "jev_risk": 0.08,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.94,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Constable, UT Police Chandigarh"
  }
 ],
 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [
  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": "female",
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Chandigarh woman"
  },
  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Chandigarh man"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 2,
 "sentence_type": "fine",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": null,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/103983903/",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/punjab-and-haryana-high-court/punjab-haryana-high-court-upholds-punishment-stopping-fifteen-annual-increment-constable-takes-rs-300-bribe-241323",
  "https://www.verdictum.in/pdf_upload/pardeep-kumar-v-union-of-india-and-otherswatermark-1556597.pdf"
 ],
 "summary": "The Punjab and Haryana High Court (Sukhvinder Kaur, J., Deepak Sibal, J. concurring) dismissed the writ of Chandigarh Police constable, upholding the stoppage of 10 annual increments with permanent effect (reduced by the DIG from 15). On the intervening night of 25/26 July 2012, Kumar and fellow patrol constable stopped and harassed a couple near Aroma Light Point, Sector-20, and took Rs. 300 illegal gratification, later returned to the complainant's friend. No criminal Prevention of Corruption Act prosecution was involved; culpability is departmental only, concurrently confirmed by the disciplinary, appellate and revisional authorities, the Central Administrative Tribunal and the High Court, which held the penalty not excessive. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Punjab and Haryana High Court (Sukhvinder Kaur, J., Deepak Sibal, J. concurring) dismissed the writ of Chandigarh Police constable, upholding the stoppage of 10 annual increments with permanent effect (reduced by the DIG from 15). On the intervening night of 25/26 July 2012, Kumar and fellow patrol constable stopped and harassed a couple near Aroma Light Point, Sector-20, and took Rs. 300 illegal gratification, later returned to the complainant's friend. No criminal Prevention of Corruption Act prosecution was involved; culpability is departmental only, concurrently confirmed by the disciplinary, appellate and revisional authorities, the Central Administrative Tribunal and the High Court, which held the penalty not excessive.",
 "court_quote": "It has also been rightly observed by the Tribunal that a perusal of the allegations proved and the penalty imposed upon the petitioner will show, that the same is not excessive and it cannot be said that it pricks the conscience of a prudent man, considering the fact that a protector of law chose to violate the law himself, by demanding illegal gratification and causing harassment.",
 "court_quote_para": "15",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Primary judgment verified: Rs 300 bribe, increment-stoppage penalty upheld; departmental only, no PC Act trial.",
 "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": "2023-10-19",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Punjab and Haryana High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Punjab and Haryana High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.",
   "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only",
   "source": "2023:PHHC:137380-DB",
   "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": []
  }
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 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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   "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/punjab-and-haryana-high-court/punjab-haryana-high-court-upholds-punishment-stopping-fifteen-annual-increment-constable-takes-rs-300-bribe-241323",
   "link_checked": null
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  {
   "url": "https://www.verdictum.in/pdf_upload/pardeep-kumar-v-union-of-india-and-otherswatermark-1556597.pdf",
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  "basis": null
 },
 "v3_basis": null,
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 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
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 "fidelity_checked": true,
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 "merged_case_id": "CHANDI-006",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}