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 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0896",
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 "display_title": "Union of India & Anr. vs Indo-Tibetan Border Police Constable (General Duty)",
 "display_title_redacted": "Union of India & Anr. vs Indo-Tibetan Border Police Constable (General Duty)",
 "state": "Uttarakhand",
 "district": "Uttarkashi",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": null,
 "police_station_or_unit": "ITBP battalion Kote, border post near Uttarkashi",
 "court": "Supreme Court of India",
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 "case_title": "Union of India & Anr. vs Indo-Tibetan Border Police Constable (General Duty)",
 "case_number": "Civil Appeal arising out of SLP (C) No. 18628 of 2019",
 "citation": "2025 LiveLaw (SC) 668",
 "judges": [
  "Surya Kant",
  "N. Kotiswar Singh"
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 "judgment_date": "2025-05-20",
 "date_precision": "day",
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 "incident_date": "2005-07-04",
 "incident_year": 2005,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "misconduct",
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 "subcategory": "other",
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 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld",
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   "rank": "Constable (General Duty)",
   "unit": "Indo-Tibetan Border Police",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
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   "display": "Constable (General Duty), Indo-Tibetan Border Police"
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 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [],
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 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 0,
 "sentence_type": "dismissal",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": null,
 "force": "central_armed",
 "primary_source_url": "https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/2025-livelaw-sc-668-union-of-india-v-no-900224364-const-gd-jageshwar-singh-20-may-2025-609899.pdf",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://www.livelaw.in/top-stories/supreme-court-upholds-dismissal-of-itbp-sentry-for-gross-misconduct-cash-box-robbed-guardian-became-looter-294424",
  "https://courtbook.in/posts/supreme-court-upholds-dismissal-of-itbp-constable-for-robbery-the-custodian-became-the-robber"
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 "summary": "The judgment of the Supreme Court of India records the following account. Constable of the ITBP, recruited in 1990, was on sentry duty at the Kote on the night of 4/5 July 2005 guarding company cash boxes containing lakhs of rupees meant for disbursement to personnel. He broke open the Kote lock, took the cash, concealed the cash box about 200 yards away and fled the post, later confessing upon arrest. A Court of Inquiry and Summary Force Court found him guilty on all five charges and dismissed him on 14 November 2005, but a Single Judge and then a Division Bench of the Uttarakhand High Court directed reconsideration of the punishment as disproportionate. The Supreme Court allowed the Union's appeal, holding the robbery involved moral turpitude warranting zero tolerance in a paramilitary force, and restored the dismissal.",
 "summary_verified": "Constable of the ITBP, recruited in 1990, was on sentry duty at the Kote on the night of 4/5 July 2005 guarding company cash boxes containing lakhs of rupees meant for disbursement to personnel. He broke open the Kote lock, took the cash, concealed the cash box about 200 yards away and fled the post, later confessing upon arrest. A Court of Inquiry and Summary Force Court found him guilty on all five charges and dismissed him on 14 November 2005, but a Single Judge and then a Division Bench of the Uttarakhand High Court directed reconsideration of the punishment as disproportionate. The Supreme Court allowed the Union's appeal, holding the robbery involved moral turpitude warranting zero tolerance in a paramilitary force, and restored the dismissal.",
 "court_quote": "All members of the force must note that there is zero tolerance for such brazen misconduct, where the guardian of the cash box became its looter.",
 "court_quote_para": "11",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Supreme Court restored dismissal of ITBP sentry [name withheld] for robbing the company cash box he was guarding.",
 "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"
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 "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": "2025-05-20",
   "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": "2025 LiveLaw (SC) 668",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
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  {
   "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)",
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