{ "record_id": "CW-2025-0011", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0415", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "[name withheld] (deceased, through LRs) v. Public Services Tribunal and Others", "display_title_redacted": "[name withheld] (deceased, through LRs) v. Public Services Tribunal and Others", "state": "Uttarakhand", "district": "Tehri Garhwal", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Narendra Nagar", "police_station_or_unit": "Police Station Narendra Nagar", "court": "Uttarakhand High Court", "court_as_verified": "Uttarakhand High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "[name withheld] (deceased, through LRs) v. Public Services Tribunal and Others", "case_number": "Writ Petition (S/B) No. 269 of 2011", "citation": "2025:UHC:5603-DB", "judges": [ "Manoj Kumar Tiwari", "Subhash Upadhyay" ], "judgment_date": "2025-07-02", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2025, "incident_date": "1993-01-12", "incident_year": 1993, "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 (Civil Police)", "unit": "Police Station Narendra Nagar, Tehri Garhwal", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2_openrouter:unclear" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "unclear", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.12, "jev_p_culpable": 0.8, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Constable (Civil Police), Police Station Narendra Nagar, Tehri Garhwal" } ], "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/25728127/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Uttarakhand High Court dismissed the writ petition filed by the legal representatives of deceased Constable, concurring with the Tribunal's order upholding his removal from service. The Court recorded that while posted at Police Station Narendra Nagar and deputed to Police Station Tehri for law-and-order duty, he absented himself from 12 January 1993 without leave and reported back after 123 days on 14 May 1993. It noted he ignored the de novo charge-sheet and enquiry notices leading to an ex parte enquiry and removal on 17 July 1997. The Court held such absence by a uniformed-force member amounts to desertion justifying dismissal. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Uttarakhand High Court dismissed the writ petition filed by the legal representatives of deceased Constable, concurring with the Tribunal's order upholding his removal from service. The Court recorded that while posted at Police Station Narendra Nagar and deputed to Police Station Tehri for law-and-order duty, he absented himself from 12 January 1993 without leave and reported back after 123 days on 14 May 1993. It noted he ignored the de novo charge-sheet and enquiry notices leading to an ex parte enquiry and removal on 17 July 1997. The Court held such absence by a uniformed-force member amounts to desertion justifying dismissal.", "court_quote": "Learned Tribunal has given valid reasons for dismissing the claim petition. We concur with the reasons given by learned Tribunal. Thus, there is no scope for interference in the matter. The writ petition fails and is dismissed.", "court_quote_para": "16", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "UHC judgment verified on Indian Kanoon; removal for 123-day desertion upheld, writ dismissed.", "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": "2025-07-02", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Uttarakhand High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Uttarakhand High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "2025:UHC:5603-DB", "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_para" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/25728127/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": false, "verified_by": [ "chunk-38" ], "merged_case_id": "UTTARA-012", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }