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 "record_id": "CW-2024-0041",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-1123",
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 "display_title": "Union of India & Ors. v. CRPF Constable (General Duty)",
 "display_title_redacted": "Union of India & Ors. v. CRPF Constable (General Duty)",
 "state": "Uttar Pradesh",
 "district": "Mainpuri",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Barnhal",
 "police_station_or_unit": "149 Battalion, Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF)",
 "court": "Supreme Court of India",
 "court_as_verified": "Supreme Court of India",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Union of India & Ors. v. CRPF Constable (General Duty)",
 "case_number": "Civil Appeal No. 7933 of 2024 (arising out of SLP(C) No. 25631 of 2019)",
 "citation": "2024 INSC 550; [2024] 7 S.C.R. 910",
 "judges": [
  "Hima Kohli",
  "Ahsanuddin Amanullah"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2024-07-23",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2024,
 "incident_date": "2011-11-17",
 "incident_year": 2011,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "misconduct",
 "admin_subcategory": "other",
 "subcategory": "other",
 "subcategory_display": "other",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld",
 "sections": [],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Constable (General Duty)",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "unit": "149 Battalion, Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF)",
   "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 (General Duty), 149 Battalion, Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF)"
  }
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 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 0,
 "sentence_type": "dismissal",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": null,
 "force": "central_armed",
 "primary_source_url": "https://www.verdictum.in/pdf_upload/union-of-india-v-shishu-pal-shiv-palwatermark-1640206.pdf",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/165563836/",
  "https://www.livelaw.in/supreme-court/stringent-yardsticks-in-law-enforcement-agencies-supreme-court-terminates-crpf-constables-appointment-for-suppressing-criminal-case-264345"
 ],
 "summary": "The judgment of the Supreme Court of India records the following account. [name withheld] was appointed CRPF Constable (GD) on 17 November 2011 and denied any arrest or pending case in his verification roll, though FIR No. 76 of 2011 at Barnhal, Mainpuri, and two criminal cases were pending against him. The inquiry also found he filed fake SHO reports during verification, and he was terminated on 24 June 2014 (upheld 23 September 2014). The Supreme Court held suppression proved beyond doubt, including concealment of judicial custody and bail, and applied a stringent yardstick for law-enforcement appointments. It allowed the Union's appeal, set aside the Gauhati High Court's reinstatement orders, and restored termination.",
 "summary_verified": "[name withheld] was appointed CRPF Constable (GD) on 17 November 2011 and denied any arrest or pending case in his verification roll, though FIR No. 76 of 2011 at Barnhal, Mainpuri, and two criminal cases were pending against him. The inquiry also found he filed fake SHO reports during verification, and he was terminated on 24 June 2014 (upheld 23 September 2014). The Supreme Court held suppression proved beyond doubt, including concealment of judicial custody and bail, and applied a stringent yardstick for law-enforcement appointments. It allowed the Union's appeal, set aside the Gauhati High Court's reinstatement orders, and restored termination.",
 "court_quote": "Full sentence: 'The respondent does not deserve any latitude as it has been established beyond doubt that he was all along aware of the FIR registered against him with Barnhal Police Station, Mainpuri, Uttar Pradesh and the ensuing criminal cases.' (para 26)",
 "court_quote_para": "26",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "SC judgment verified; CRPF constable's termination for suppression of criminal cases restored (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": "2024-07-23",
   "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 550; [2024] 7 S.C.R. 910",
   "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": [
    "court_quote"
   ]
  }
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 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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   "url": "https://www.verdictum.in/pdf_upload/union-of-india-v-shishu-pal-shiv-palwatermark-1640206.pdf",
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  },
  {
   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/165563836/",
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  {
   "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/supreme-court/stringent-yardsticks-in-law-enforcement-agencies-supreme-court-terminates-crpf-constables-appointment-for-suppressing-criminal-case-264345",
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 "source_assessment": {
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  "basis": null
 },
 "v3_basis": null,
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 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
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 "fidelity_checked": true,
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 "merged_case_id": "GAP3-135-002",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}