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 "record_id": "CW-2023-0051",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0954",
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 "display_title": "The State of West Bengal & Ors. vs. Calcutta Police Constable",
 "display_title_redacted": "The State of West Bengal & Ors. vs. Calcutta Police Constable",
 "state": "West Bengal",
 "district": "Kolkata",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Kolkata",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Calcutta Police (Central Bank guard duty)",
 "court": "Calcutta High Court",
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 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "The State of West Bengal & Ors. vs. Calcutta Police Constable",
 "case_number": "WP.ST 627 of 2009",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "Debangsu Basak",
  "Md. Shabbar Rashidi"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2023-09-06",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2023,
 "incident_date": "2000-07-23",
 "incident_year": 2000,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "misconduct",
 "admin_subcategory": "dereliction_evidence_tampering",
 "subcategory": "dereliction_evidence_tampering",
 "subcategory_display": "dereliction evidence tampering",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld",
 "sections": [
  "IPC 170",
  "IPC 419",
  "IPC 511"
 ],
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   "name": null,
   "rank": "Constable",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "unit": "Calcutta Police",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
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   "display": "Constable, Calcutta Police"
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 "victims": [],
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 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 0,
 "sentence_type": "dismissal",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": null,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/6571589e7eb9195f0af3c66d",
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 "summary": "Constable of Calcutta Police was booked for Central Bank guard duty with firearms on 23 July 2000, left without informing any authority and without depositing his firearm, and remained absent until 8 August 2000, during which he was arrested on 31 July 2000 in an English Bazar impersonation case and held in custody until 7 August 2000. The disciplinary authority dismissed him on 22 September 2003, but the West Bengal Administrative Tribunal set aside the dismissal and directed reinstatement. The court held the charges stood established by the respondent's own admission, that abandoning guard duty and issued arms was serious dereliction unbecoming of police personnel, and that the enquiry complied with natural justice. It held the Tribunal exceeded jurisdiction in interfering with the quantum of punishment, set aside the Tribunal order, and restored the dismissal. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "Constable of Calcutta Police was booked for Central Bank guard duty with firearms on 23 July 2000, left without informing any authority and without depositing his firearm, and remained absent until 8 August 2000, during which he was arrested on 31 July 2000 in an English Bazar impersonation case and held in custody until 7 August 2000. The disciplinary authority dismissed him on 22 September 2003, but the West Bengal Administrative Tribunal set aside the dismissal and directed reinstatement. The court held the charges stood established by the respondent's own admission, that abandoning guard duty and issued arms was serious dereliction unbecoming of police personnel, and that the enquiry complied with natural justice. It held the Tribunal exceeded jurisdiction in interfering with the quantum of punishment, set aside the Tribunal order, and restored the dismissal.",
 "court_quote": "In such circumstances, the impugned order of the Tribunal is set aside. The order of dismissal from service of the respondent is restored.",
 "court_quote_para": "32",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Calcutta Police constable's dismissal restored for abandoning armed bank-guard duty and firearms.",
 "verification_status": "V2",
 "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported",
 "tier_badge": "Externally reported",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
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  "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": "2023-09-06",
   "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 627 of 2009",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
 ],
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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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  }
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 "officers_named_public": 0,
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 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
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