{ "record_id": "CW-2024-0038", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0879", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Bhagalpur Police Inspector vs The State of Jharkhand and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Bhagalpur Police Inspector vs The State of Jharkhand and Others", "state": "Bihar", "district": "Bhagalpur", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Bhagalpur", "police_station_or_unit": "Kotwali Police Station, Bhagalpur (at time of misconduct)", "court": "Jharkhand High Court", "court_as_verified": "Jharkhand High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Bhagalpur Police Inspector vs The State of Jharkhand and Others", "case_number": "L.P.A. No. 385 of 2023", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Sujit Narayan Prasad", "Arun Kumar Rai" ], "judgment_date": "2024-06-12", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2024, "incident_date": "1997-11-18", "incident_year": 1997, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "Constitution Art. 311(2)(a)" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Inspector", "unit": "Kotwali Police Station, Bhagalpur", "role": "convicted", "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": "Inspector, Kotwali Police Station, Bhagalpur" } ], "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://indiankanoon.org/doc/94038206/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The appellant, Inspector-in-Charge of Kotwali police station at the time, was convicted of criminal contempt with eight other policemen for the November 1997 Bhagalpur court-premises disruption, a conviction affirmed by the Supreme Court, and was dismissed from service by Jharkhand in 2004 after bifurcation. His departmental appeal failed and the Single Judge dismissed his writ; he sought parity with co-delinquents whose dismissals had been reduced. The Division Bench held that a public servant whose criminal conviction stands to the final forum cannot be retained under Article 311(2)(a), that parity cannot be claimed from illegal relief given to others, and dismissed the appeal, sustaining the dismissal.", "summary_verified": "The appellant, Inspector-in-Charge of Kotwali police station at the time, was convicted of criminal contempt with eight other policemen for the November 1997 Bhagalpur court-premises disruption, a conviction affirmed by the Supreme Court, and was dismissed from service by Jharkhand in 2004 after bifurcation. His departmental appeal failed and the Single Judge dismissed his writ; he sought parity with co-delinquents whose dismissals had been reduced. The Division Bench held that a public servant whose criminal conviction stands to the final forum cannot be retained under Article 311(2)(a), that parity cannot be claimed from illegal relief given to others, and dismissed the appeal, sustaining the dismissal.", "court_quote": "This Court, considering the fact that once the public servant has been convicted and the said conviction order has sustained upto the final adjudicatory forum, i.e., the Hon'ble Apex Court, therefore, is of the view that such public servant cannot be allowed to retain on the post, otherwise, the same will hit the constitutional mandate as under Article 311 (2)(a) of the Constitution of India.", "court_quote_para": "53", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Dismissal over Supreme Court-affirmed Bhagalpur contempt conviction sustained; no parity with co-delinquents.", "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": "2024-06-12", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Jharkhand High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Jharkhand High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "L.P.A. No. 385 of 2023", "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", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/94038206/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-72" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP2-48-002", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }