{ "record_id": "CW-2024-0039", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0880", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "X vs The State of Jharkhand and Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "X vs The State of Jharkhand and Ors.", "state": "Jharkhand", "district": "Hazaribagh", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Churchu", "police_station_or_unit": "Churchu Police Station", "court": "Jharkhand High Court", "court_as_verified": "Jharkhand High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "X vs The State of Jharkhand and Ors.", "case_number": "W.P.(S) No. 2250 of 2021", "citation": null, "judges": [ "S. N. Pathak" ], "judgment_date": "2024-06-19", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2024, "incident_date": "2017-07-10", "incident_year": 2017, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "Jharkhand Service Code Rule 23", "Jharkhand Police Manual Rule 707" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "unit": "Churchu Police Station, Hazaribagh", "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": "Constable, Churchu Police Station, Hazaribagh" } ], "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.verdictum.in/pdf_upload/x-v-the-state-of-jharkhand-1637771.pdf", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.verdictum.in/court-updates/high-courts/x-v-the-state-of-jharkhand-wps-no-2250-of-2021-jharkhand-high-court-1543899" ], "summary": "The Jharkhand High Court dismissed a Hazaribagh constable's writ petition challenging his dismissal from service. The court held that his admitted live-in relationship with a woman other than his wife, while married with two children, violated Rule 23 of the Service Code read with Rule 707 of the Police Manual and was unbecoming of police personnel. It further held that his acquittal in the related criminal case (Daru P.S. Case No. 29 of 2016) could not unsettle the concurrent findings of the disciplinary, appellate and revisional authorities. Finding no procedural flaw, the court sustained the dismissal. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Jharkhand High Court dismissed a Hazaribagh constable's writ petition challenging his dismissal from service. The court held that his admitted live-in relationship with a woman other than his wife, while married with two children, violated Rule 23 of the Service Code read with Rule 707 of the Police Manual and was unbecoming of police personnel. It further held that his acquittal in the related criminal case (Daru P.S. Case No. 29 of 2016) could not unsettle the concurrent findings of the disciplinary, appellate and revisional authorities. Finding no procedural flaw, the court sustained the dismissal.", "court_quote": "It is unbecoming of a police personnel who was in live-in-relation with another lady other than wife and amounts to violation of rules whereby the service conditions of the petitioner are governed.", "court_quote_para": "7(iii)", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC upheld constable's dismissal for admitted live-in relationship violating service rules; criminal acquittal immaterial.", "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": "2024-06-19", "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": "W.P.(S) No. 2250 of 2021", "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://www.verdictum.in/pdf_upload/x-v-the-state-of-jharkhand-1637771.pdf", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.verdictum.in/court-updates/high-courts/x-v-the-state-of-jharkhand-wps-no-2250-of-2021-jharkhand-high-court-1543899", "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-73" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP2-48-003", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }