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 "record_id": "CW-2023-0042",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-1196",
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 "display_title": "Guwahati Police IPS officer v. Union of India & Ors.",
 "display_title_redacted": "Guwahati Police IPS officer v. Union of India & Ors.",
 "state": "Assam",
 "district": "Kamrup Metropolitan",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Guwahati",
 "police_station_or_unit": "NEEPCO (CVO on central deputation)",
 "court": "Delhi High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Delhi High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Guwahati Police IPS officer v. Union of India & Ors.",
 "case_number": "W.P.(C) 10539/2021 (with W.P.(C) 10486/2021, 10493/2021, 10519/2021)",
 "citation": "2023:DHC:3630-DB",
 "judges": [
  "Satish Chandra Sharma",
  "Sanjeev Sachdeva"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2023-05-24",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2023,
 "incident_date": "2016-03-02",
 "incident_year": 2016,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "misconduct",
 "admin_subcategory": "other",
 "subcategory": "other",
 "subcategory_display": "other",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld",
 "sections": [
  "AIS (Conduct) Rules 1968 r.3(1)",
  "AIS (Conduct) Rules 1968 r.6",
  "AIS (Conduct) Rules 1968 r.7",
  "AIS (Conduct) Rules 1968 r.9",
  "AIS (Conduct) Rules 1968 r.17"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "IPS officer",
   "unit": "IPS (Gujarat cadre; CVO, NEEPCO on central deputation)",
   "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": "IPS officer, IPS (Gujarat cadre; CVO, NEEPCO on central deputation)"
  }
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 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 0,
 "sentence_type": "dismissal",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": null,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/judgementphp-2-473522.pdf",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/delhi-high-court/delhi-high-court-dismissal-ips-officer-satish-chandra-verma-ishrat-jahan-case-229351"
 ],
 "summary": "The judgment of the Delhi High Court records the following account. IPS officer of the Gujarat cadre, serving as CVO of NEEPCO on central deputation, gave an interview to India Today on 2-3 March 2016 in official NEEPCO premises at Guwahati without authority, commenting on the Ishrat Jahan encounter investigation and official matters. Charge memos of 2016 and 2018 led to an inquiry that held Articles 1 to 4 proved, the UPSC advised the proved charges constituted grave misconduct, and the disciplinary authority dismissed him from service on 30.08.2022. The Delhi High Court held the findings were not based on no evidence, found no procedural irregularity or violation of natural justice, and dismissed his writ petition, rendering the three connected petitions infructuous. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "IPS officer of the Gujarat cadre, serving as CVO of NEEPCO on central deputation, gave an interview to India Today on 2-3 March 2016 in official NEEPCO premises at Guwahati without authority, commenting on the Ishrat Jahan encounter investigation and official matters. Charge memos of 2016 and 2018 led to an inquiry that held Articles 1 to 4 proved, the UPSC advised the proved charges constituted grave misconduct, and the disciplinary authority dismissed him from service on 30.08.2022. The Delhi High Court held the findings were not based on no evidence, found no procedural irregularity or violation of natural justice, and dismissed his writ petition, rendering the three connected petitions infructuous.",
 "court_quote": "Further, in view of the fact that the Petitioner has not been able to show any procedural irregularity or violation of the principles of natural justice and fair play, we do not find any reason to interfere with the findings returned by the Inquiry Authority or the order passed by the Disciplinary Authority.",
 "court_quote_para": "86",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "IPS officer's dismissal for unauthorised press interaction upheld; internal service-discipline matter, no civilian victim.",
 "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": "2023-05-24",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Delhi High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Delhi High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.",
   "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only",
   "source": "2023:DHC:3630-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": []
  }
 ],
 "followup_status": "checked",
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  }
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 },
 "v3_basis": null,
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 "reviews": [],
 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
 },
 "fidelity_checked": true,
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 ],
 "merged_case_id": "GAP3-44-001",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}