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 "record_id": "CW-2024-0036",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-1124",
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 "display_title": "Union of India & Ors. v. CRPF Head Constable",
 "display_title_redacted": "Union of India & Ors. v. CRPF Head Constable",
 "state": "Odisha",
 "district": null,
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": null,
 "police_station_or_unit": "Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), Forest Camp Training",
 "court": "Supreme Court of India",
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 "case_title": "Union of India & Ors. v. CRPF Head Constable",
 "case_number": "Civil Appeal No. 6135 of 2024 (arising out of SLP(C) No. 4106 of 2021)",
 "citation": "2024 INSC 392; 2024 SCC OnLine SC 845",
 "judges": [
  "D. Y. Chandrachud",
  "Manoj Misra"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2024-05-08",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2024,
 "incident_date": "2005-06-18",
 "incident_year": 2005,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "misconduct",
 "admin_subcategory": "other",
 "subcategory": "other",
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 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld",
 "sections": [
  "CRPF Act 1949 s.11",
  "CRPF Rules Rule 27"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Head Constable",
   "unit": "Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF)",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
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    "key2:no_row"
   ],
   "ledger_role": 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": "Head Constable, Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF)"
  }
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 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": null,
   "descriptor": "Odisha resident"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "dismissal",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": null,
 "force": "central_armed",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/190417882/",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://lawbeat.in/top-stories/supreme-court-upholds-compulsory-retirement-crpf-head-constable",
  "https://www.scconline.com/blog/post/2024/05/20/punishment-of-compulsory-retirement-crpf-rules-intra-vires-crpf-act-supreme-court-answers/"
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 "summary": "The judgment of the Supreme Court of India records the following account. CRPF Head Constable was charged with abusing and assaulting Hawaldar an Odisha resident with a stick on 18 June 2005 during Forest Camp Training, with injuries confirmed medically. He was compulsorily retired on 16 February 2006 after an inquiry found the charges proved. The Supreme Court held Rule 27 CRPF Rules intra vires, found no perversity in the enquiry, and held the penalty not shockingly disproportionate for a member of a disciplined force. It allowed the Union's appeal, set aside the Orissa High Court orders, dismissed the writ petition, and affirmed compulsory retirement.",
 "summary_verified": "CRPF Head Constable was charged with abusing and assaulting Hawaldar an Odisha resident with a stick on 18 June 2005 during Forest Camp Training, with injuries confirmed medically. He was compulsorily retired on 16 February 2006 after an inquiry found the charges proved. The Supreme Court held Rule 27 CRPF Rules intra vires, found no perversity in the enquiry, and held the penalty not shockingly disproportionate for a member of a disciplined force. It allowed the Union's appeal, set aside the Orissa High Court orders, dismissed the writ petition, and affirmed compulsory retirement.",
 "court_quote": "Rather, considering his past service, already a sympathetic view has been taken in the matter and no further latitude need be shown to the respondent who was part of a disciplined force and has been found guilty of assaulting his colleague.",
 "court_quote_para": "35",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "SC judgment verified; CRPF head constable's compulsory retirement for assaulting colleague affirmed (disciplinary_upheld).",
 "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": "2024-05-08",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Supreme Court of India",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Supreme Court of India upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.",
   "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only",
   "source": "2024 INSC 392; 2024 SCC OnLine SC 845",
   "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",
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   "url": "https://lawbeat.in/top-stories/supreme-court-upholds-compulsory-retirement-crpf-head-constable",
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 "merged_case_id": "GAP3-135-003",
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 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}