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 "record_id": "CW-2023-0034",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-1053",
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 "display_title": "Railway Police Constable vs The State of Bihar and Ors",
 "display_title_redacted": "Railway Police Constable vs The State of Bihar and Ors",
 "state": "Bihar",
 "district": "Munger",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Jamalpur",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Railway Police, Jamalpur (Jamalpur-Howrah Super Express escort party)",
 "court": "Patna High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Patna High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Railway Police Constable vs The State of Bihar and Ors",
 "case_number": "Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case No.11616 of 2013",
 "citation": "2023 (1) PLJR 552",
 "judges": [
  "Sanjeev Prakash Sharma"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2023-01-09",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2023,
 "incident_date": "2000-01-01",
 "incident_year": 2000,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "brutality",
 "admin_subcategory": "disproportionate_force",
 "subcategory": "disproportionate_force",
 "subcategory_display": "disproportionate force",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld",
 "sections": [
  "IPC 302",
  "Constitution Art. 311"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Constable",
   "unit": "Railway Police, Jamalpur",
   "role": "convicted",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "ledger:no_row",
    "key2:no_row"
   ],
   "ledger_role": null,
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   "key2_agy": null,
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   "key2_union": null,
   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": null,
   "key2_gpt56": null,
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   "jev_risk": null,
   "jev_p_culpable": null,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": null,
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Constable, Railway Police, Jamalpur"
  }
 ],
 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [
  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": null,
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Jamalpur resident"
  },
  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": null,
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Jamalpur resident"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 2,
 "sentence_type": "dismissal",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": null,
 "force": "railway",
 "primary_source_url": "https://patnahighcourt.gov.in/viewjudgment/MTUjMTE2MTYjMjAxMyMxI04=-txaKkEeLycU=",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://www.samvidalaw.com/patna-high-court-article-311-dismissal-without-inquiry-en/"
 ],
 "summary": "The Patna High Court dismissed the writ petition of Railway Police constable, a member of the Jamalpur-Howrah Super Express escort party who allegedly extorted passengers and then shot dead two persons during an altercation in 2000. The court held the Superintendent of Police (Rail), Jamalpur had recorded cogent reasons for dispensing with the departmental inquiry under Article 311(2)(b) and Rule 20(ii) of the Bihar CCA Rules, 2005, since the petitioner had absconded after service of the charge-sheet. It sustained the dismissal order dated 6 September 2000 along with the appellate and memorial rejections. The court further noted the charges stood proved in the criminal trial with a conviction under s.302 IPC, which independently bars reinstatement under Article 311(2)(a). Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Patna High Court dismissed the writ petition of Railway Police constable, a member of the Jamalpur-Howrah Super Express escort party who allegedly extorted passengers and then shot dead two persons during an altercation in 2000. The court held the Superintendent of Police (Rail), Jamalpur had recorded cogent reasons for dispensing with the departmental inquiry under Article 311(2)(b) and Rule 20(ii) of the Bihar CCA Rules, 2005, since the petitioner had absconded after service of the charge-sheet. It sustained the dismissal order dated 6 September 2000 along with the appellate and memorial rejections. The court further noted the charges stood proved in the criminal trial with a conviction under s.302 IPC, which independently bars reinstatement under Article 311(2)(a).",
 "court_quote": "The charges levelled against the petitioner have been ultimately proved in the criminal trial and he has already been convicted of offense under 302.",
 "court_quote_para": "9",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Judgment verified on Patna HC portal; writ dismissed, dismissal of railway constable upheld; s.302 conviction recorded by the court.",
 "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": "2023-01-09",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Patna High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Patna High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.",
   "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only",
   "source": "2023 (1) PLJR 552",
   "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",
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   "link_checked": null
  },
  {
   "url": "https://www.samvidalaw.com/patna-high-court-article-311-dismissal-without-inquiry-en/",
   "link_checked": null
  }
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 "source_assessment": {
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  "basis": null
 },
 "v3_basis": null,
 "publication_basis": null,
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 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
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 "merged_case_id": "GAP3-107-002",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}