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 "record_id": "CW-2025-0013",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0666",
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 "display_title": "Arshad v. State of Haryana & Ors.",
 "display_title_redacted": "Arshad v. State of Haryana & Ors.",
 "state": "Haryana",
 "district": null,
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": null,
 "police_station_or_unit": null,
 "court": "Punjab and Haryana High Court",
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 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Arshad v. State of Haryana & Ors.",
 "case_number": "CWP No. 20467 of 2025",
 "citation": "2025:PHHC:089339",
 "judges": [
  "Jagmohan Bansal"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2025-07-21",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2025,
 "incident_date": "2023-01-12",
 "incident_year": 2023,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "misconduct",
 "admin_subcategory": "other",
 "subcategory": "other",
 "subcategory_display": "other",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld",
 "sections": [],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": "Arshad",
   "rank": "Constable",
   "unit": "Haryana Police",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "publish_grade": "named_safe",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "key2_agy:no(overruled by grok)",
    "key2_openrouter:unclear(overruled by grok)"
   ],
   "ledger_role": "held_liable",
   "key2": "yes",
   "key2_agy": "no",
   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": "yes",
   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": "unclear",
   "key2_gpt56": null,
   "grok": "yes",
   "jev_risk": 0.07,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.94,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": "Arshad",
   "display": "Arshad (Constable)"
  }
 ],
 "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://livelaw-hpnlu.refread.com/pdf_upload/cwp20467202521072025finalorder-612503.pdf",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/punjab-and-haryana-high-court/punjab-haryana-high-court-police-officer-absented-from-duty-to-visit-tantarik-upholds-dismissal-says-armed-forces-cant-retain-indiscipline-member-299079",
  "https://www.scconline.com/blog/post/2025/08/04/ph-hc-armed-forces-cannot-retain-indisciplined-member/"
 ],
 "summary": "The judgment of the Punjab and Haryana High Court records the following account. Haryana Police Constable Arshad, who joined in April 2012, proceeded on one week's leave on 12 January 2023 and never returned, remaining absent for over 300 days; his justification included treatment for black magic by a tantrik. Suspended in September 2023, he boycotted the enquiry, was found guilty ex parte, and was dismissed on 20 June 2024 after a record of 40-plus prior absences, with his appeal and revision failing. The Punjab and Haryana High Court held armed forces cannot retain an indisciplined member, declined to interfere on proportionality for a habitual offender, and dismissed the writ petition. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "Haryana Police Constable Arshad, who joined in April 2012, proceeded on one week's leave on 12 January 2023 and never returned, remaining absent for over 300 days; his justification included treatment for black magic by a tantrik. Suspended in September 2023, he boycotted the enquiry, was found guilty ex parte, and was dismissed on 20 June 2024 after a record of 40-plus prior absences, with his appeal and revision failing. The Punjab and Haryana High Court held armed forces cannot retain an indisciplined member, declined to interfere on proportionality for a habitual offender, and dismissed the writ petition.",
 "court_quote": "The petitioner was concededly part of disciplined force and was bound to strictly follow the rules and regulations. Armed Forces cannot retain any indisciplined member.",
 "court_quote_para": "6",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "P&H HC dismissed writ, upheld dismissal of constable absent 300+ days visiting tantrik; habitual offender.",
 "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": "2025-07-21",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Punjab and Haryana High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Punjab and Haryana High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.",
   "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only",
   "source": "2025:PHHC:089339",
   "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": []
  }
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 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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   "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/punjab-and-haryana-high-court/punjab-haryana-high-court-police-officer-absented-from-duty-to-visit-tantarik-upholds-dismissal-says-armed-forces-cant-retain-indiscipline-member-299079",
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   "url": "https://www.scconline.com/blog/post/2025/08/04/ph-hc-armed-forces-cannot-retain-indisciplined-member/",
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 "merged_case_id": "SWOTHERM-030",
 "officers_named_public": 1,
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 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}