{ "record_id": "CW-2025-0028", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0165", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Haryana Police Constable vs State of Haryana and others", "display_title_redacted": "Haryana Police Constable vs State of Haryana and others", "state": "Haryana", "district": null, "district_at_time": null, "city_town": null, "police_station_or_unit": "Haryana Police (prisoner escort/guard duty)", "court": "Punjab and Haryana High Court", "court_as_verified": "Punjab and Haryana High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Haryana Police Constable vs State of Haryana and others", "case_number": "Civil Writ Petition No. 13740 of 2004 (O&M)", "citation": "(2025) 12 P&H CK 1872", "judges": [ "Jagmohan Bansal" ], "judgment_date": "2025-12-04", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2025, "incident_date": "2003-01-01", "incident_year": 2003, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "dereliction_evidence_tampering", "subcategory": "dereliction_evidence_tampering", "subcategory_display": "dereliction evidence tampering", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "Constitution Art 226", "Constitution Art 227" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "unit": "Haryana Police", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2_gpt:no" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": "yes", "jev_risk": 0.07, "jev_p_culpable": 0.95, "key2_gpt": "no", "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Constable, Haryana 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.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/1217900/dhan-raj-vs-state-of-haryana-and-others/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Punjab and Haryana High Court dismissed Constable's writ petition and upheld his dismissal from service for inaction on prisoner-guard duty. Part of a three-man guard holding two undertrial prisoners in safe custody, he possessed a carbine but did not fire when assailants attacked, letting them escape after killing one undertrial and seriously injuring the other; the enquiry officer found him guilty of inaction and he was dismissed on 28 July 2003, with his departmental appeal and revision also failing. The Court held the enquiry procedurally sound with unassailable factual findings in writ jurisdiction, noting also the 22-year delay since dismissal. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Punjab and Haryana High Court dismissed Constable's writ petition and upheld his dismissal from service for inaction on prisoner-guard duty. Part of a three-man guard holding two undertrial prisoners in safe custody, he possessed a carbine but did not fire when assailants attacked, letting them escape after killing one undertrial and seriously injuring the other; the enquiry officer found him guilty of inaction and he was dismissed on 28 July 2003, with his departmental appeal and revision also failing. The Court held the enquiry procedurally sound with unassailable factual findings in writ jurisdiction, noting also the 22-year delay since dismissal.", "court_quote": "The petitioner was found guilty for inaction. One prisoner was murdered and another injured who were in the safe custody of petitioner. He did not even try to open gunfire at assailants.", "court_quote_para": "9", "confidence": "medium", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "P&H HC judgment verified on CourtKutchehry; dismissal for guard-duty inaction 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": "2025-12-04", "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) 12 P&H CK 1872", "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": "wrong_facts", "corrections_applied": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/1217900/dhan-raj-vs-state-of-haryana-and-others/", "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-28" ], "merged_case_id": "HARYAN-011", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }