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 "record_id": "CW-2025-0030",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0642",
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 "display_title": "UT of J&K & Ors. v. [name withheld]",
 "display_title_redacted": "UT of J&K & Ors. v. [name withheld]",
 "state": "Jammu and Kashmir",
 "district": "Kulgam",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Adjin",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Minority picket, Adjin, Kulgam",
 "court": "Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "High Court of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh",
 "bench": "Srinagar",
 "case_title": "UT of J&K & Ors. v. [name withheld]",
 "case_number": "LPA No. 27 of 2022",
 "citation": "2025:JKLHC-SGR:356-DB",
 "judges": [
  "Sanjeev Kumar",
  "Sanjay Parihar"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2025-12-18",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2025,
 "incident_date": "2016-05-07",
 "incident_year": 2016,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "misconduct",
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 "subcategory": "other",
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 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld",
 "sections": [
  "Constitution Art. 226"
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 "officers": [
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   "rank": "Constable",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "unit": "J&K Police, minority picket, Adjin, Kulgam",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
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   "ledger_role": "held_liable",
   "key2": "yes",
   "key2_agy": "yes",
   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": "yes",
   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": "unclear",
   "key2_gpt56": "yes",
   "grok": null,
   "jev_risk": 0.15,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.91,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Constable, J&K Police, minority picket, Adjin, Kulgam"
  }
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 "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/pdf_upload/doc-20251225-wa0001-642846.pdf",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://www.verdictum.in/court-updates/high-courts/jammu-ladakh-high-court/2025jkhcsgr356-ut-of-j-k-v-bashir-ahmad-mir-1602450",
  "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/jammu-kashmir/jammu-and-kashmir-high-court-surrendering-weapons-without-firing-a-single-round-is-cowardice-brings-moral-disgrace-to-police-force-restores-dismissal-of-constable-for-failing-to-repel-militant-attack-514461"
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 "summary": "The judgment of the Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court records the following account. Constable (J&K Police, appointed 1992), posted with the constabulary guard at the minority picket at Adjin, Kulgam, failed to fire a single round when militants attacked on the night of 7/8 May 2016, surrendering service weapons to them. After inquiry, SP Kulgam dismissed him on 13 October 2016. A Single Judge quashed the dismissal in October 2019 on grounds including inquiry by an allegedly incompetent officer. A Division Bench of Justices Sanjeev Kumar and Sanjay Parihar allowed the UT's appeal, holding the inquiry was by a competent authority with natural justice scrupulously followed, that surrender without firing is cowardice bringing moral disgrace, and that dismissal was not shockingly disproportionate, restoring the dismissal.",
 "summary_verified": "Constable (J&K Police, appointed 1992), posted with the constabulary guard at the minority picket at Adjin, Kulgam, failed to fire a single round when militants attacked on the night of 7/8 May 2016, surrendering service weapons to them. After inquiry, SP Kulgam dismissed him on 13 October 2016. A Single Judge quashed the dismissal in October 2019 on grounds including inquiry by an allegedly incompetent officer. A Division Bench of Justices Sanjeev Kumar and Sanjay Parihar allowed the UT's appeal, holding the inquiry was by a competent authority with natural justice scrupulously followed, that surrender without firing is cowardice bringing moral disgrace, and that dismissal was not shockingly disproportionate, restoring the dismissal.",
 "court_quote": "The failure of the Police Guards on duty to retaliate an attack by the militants and surrendering their weapons without firing a single round is a serious act of cowardice bringing moral disgrace to the police force as a whole.",
 "court_quote_para": "20",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "J&K HC allowed State appeal, restoring dismissal of constable who surrendered weapons; judgment verified.",
 "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"
  }
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 "institutional_response": [
  {
   "date": "2025-12-18",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.",
   "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only",
   "source": "2025:JKLHC-SGR:356-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": []
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 "merged_case_id": "SWOTHERM-006",
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 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
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