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 "record_id": "CW-2024-0028",
 "status": "current",
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 "display_title": "Bengaluru Police Police Head Constable (HC-126) vs The State of Karnataka and Others",
 "display_title_redacted": "Bengaluru Police Police Head Constable (HC-126) vs The State of Karnataka and Others",
 "state": "Karnataka",
 "district": "Bengaluru Urban",
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 "city_town": "Bengaluru",
 "police_station_or_unit": "1st Battalion, KSRP",
 "court": "Karnataka High Court",
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 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Bengaluru Police Police Head Constable (HC-126) vs The State of Karnataka and Others",
 "case_number": "Writ Petition No. 31065 of 2019 (S), NC: 2024:KHC:35037-DB (against KSAT Application No. 7479/2010, 28.02.2019)",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "S. G. Pandit",
  "C. M. Poonacha"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2024-08-30",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2024,
 "incident_date": "2006-03-12",
 "incident_year": 2006,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "misconduct",
 "admin_subcategory": "other",
 "subcategory": "other",
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 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld",
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   "name": null,
   "rank": "Police Head Constable (HC-126)",
   "unit": "1st Battalion, KSRP",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
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   "display": "Police Head Constable (HC-126), 1st Battalion, KSRP"
  }
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 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [],
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 "anonymised": false,
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 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/159226099/",
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 "summary": "The judgment of the Karnataka High Court records the following account. KSRP Head Constable contracted a first marriage in 1999 and a second marriage with Nagarathna on 12 March 2006 while the first subsisted, without divorce (obtained later in 2007) or government permission. The enquiry proved the charge on the first wife's evidence plus the kalyana mantap receipt and invitation card. The Commandant dismissed him; the appellate authority substituted reduction of pay to the minimum of the PC scale for five years, affirmed in revision and by the KSAT. The Division Bench held the bigamy charge proved on preponderance of probabilities, ruled acquittal in the Section 498A criminal case immaterial, noted the 2001 circular prescribes compulsory retirement so the pay-cut was lenient, and rejected the writ petition as without merit. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "KSRP Head Constable contracted a first marriage in 1999 and a second marriage with Nagarathna on 12 March 2006 while the first subsisted, without divorce (obtained later in 2007) or government permission. The enquiry proved the charge on the first wife's evidence plus the kalyana mantap receipt and invitation card. The Commandant dismissed him; the appellate authority substituted reduction of pay to the minimum of the PC scale for five years, affirmed in revision and by the KSAT. The Division Bench held the bigamy charge proved on preponderance of probabilities, ruled acquittal in the Section 498A criminal case immaterial, noted the 2001 circular prescribes compulsory retirement so the pay-cut was lenient, and rejected the writ petition as without merit.",
 "court_quote": "We do not find any merit in the writ petition and accordingly writ petition stands rejected.",
 "court_quote_para": "13",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "HC upheld pay-cut penalty for KSRP constable's bigamy; 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"
  }
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 "institutional_response": [
  {
   "date": "2024-08-30",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Karnataka High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Karnataka High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.",
   "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only",
   "source": "Writ Petition No. 31065 of 2019 (S), NC: 2024:KHC:35037-DB (against KSAT Application No. 7479/2010, 28.02.2019)",
   "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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   ]
  }
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 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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  {
   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/159226099/",
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 "merged_case_id": "GAP10-006",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
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 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}