{
 "record_id": "CW-2025-0027",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0645",
 "alias_merged_ids": [],
 "display_title": "Commissioner of Police & Ors. v. Delhi Police Constable",
 "display_title_redacted": "Commissioner of Police & Ors. v. Delhi Police Constable",
 "state": "Delhi",
 "district": null,
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": null,
 "police_station_or_unit": null,
 "court": "Supreme Court of India",
 "court_as_verified": "Supreme Court of India",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Commissioner of Police & Ors. v. Delhi Police Constable",
 "case_number": "Civil Appeal arising out of SLP (C) No. 24705 of 2023",
 "citation": "2025 LiveLaw (SC) 1117",
 "judges": [
  "Ahsanuddin Amanullah",
  "Prashant Kumar Mishra"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2025-11-12",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2025,
 "incident_date": null,
 "incident_year": 1988,
 "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",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "unit": "Delhi Police",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
    "key2_gemapi:unclear"
   ],
   "ledger_role": "held_liable",
   "key2": "yes",
   "key2_agy": "yes",
   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": "yes",
   "key2_gemapi": "unclear",
   "key2_openrouter": "yes",
   "key2_gpt56": "yes",
   "grok": null,
   "jev_risk": 0.1,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.92,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Constable, Delhi Police"
  }
 ],
 "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.livelaw.in/supreme-court/getting-appointment-based-on-forged-degree-certificate-is-uncondonable-supreme-court-310353",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://lawstreet.co/judiciary/appointment-obtained-on-forged-educational-certificate-is-uncondonable-no-full-departmental-inquiry-needed-sc",
  "https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/3991120232025-11-12-631341.pdf"
 ],
 "summary": "The judgment of the Supreme Court of India records the following account. [name withheld] was appointed a Delhi Police constable in 1988, but a 1996 complaint revealed the appointment rested on a forged degree certificate, leading to his dismissal in 1997 without a full-fledged inquiry. The courts below interfered with the dismissal and remanded the matter for a full departmental inquiry. The Supreme Court held that appointment in the uniformed police service on a forged certificate is uncondonable, the forgery stood wholly unrebutted, and no full inquiry was needed; the appeal was allowed and the dismissal restored.",
 "summary_verified": "[name withheld] was appointed a Delhi Police constable in 1988, but a 1996 complaint revealed the appointment rested on a forged degree certificate, leading to his dismissal in 1997 without a full-fledged inquiry. The courts below interfered with the dismissal and remanded the matter for a full departmental inquiry. The Supreme Court held that appointment in the uniformed police service on a forged certificate is uncondonable, the forgery stood wholly unrebutted, and no full inquiry was needed; the appeal was allowed and the dismissal restored.",
 "court_quote": "The fact that once on the basis of a forged degree/certificate, a person gets appointment in the uniformed service of the country, that being the police, which is supposed to uphold the rule of law, the act of the respondent is uncondonable.",
 "court_quote_para": "8",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "SC judgment verified via LiveLaw report and judgment PDF; dismissal for forged-certificate appointment restored.",
 "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": "2025-11-12",
   "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) 1117",
   "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.livelaw.in/supreme-court/getting-appointment-based-on-forged-degree-certificate-is-uncondonable-supreme-court-310353",
   "link_checked": null
  },
  {
   "url": "https://lawstreet.co/judiciary/appointment-obtained-on-forged-educational-certificate-is-uncondonable-no-full-departmental-inquiry-needed-sc",
   "link_checked": null
  },
  {
   "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/3991120232025-11-12-631341.pdf",
   "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-45"
 ],
 "merged_case_id": "SWOTHERM-009",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}