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 "record_id": "CW-2025-0070",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-1365",
 "alias_merged_ids": [],
 "display_title": "Hazaribagh Police Armed police personnel vs The State Of Jharkhand",
 "display_title_redacted": "Hazaribagh Police Armed police personnel vs The State Of Jharkhand",
 "state": "Jharkhand",
 "district": "Hazaribagh",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": null,
 "police_station_or_unit": "JAP-7, Hazaribagh",
 "court": "High Court of Jharkhand at Ranchi",
 "court_as_verified": "High Court of Jharkhand at Ranchi",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Hazaribagh Police Armed police personnel vs The State Of Jharkhand",
 "case_number": "W.P.(S) No. 2580 of 2017",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "Anubha Rawat Choudhary"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2025-05-02",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2025,
 "incident_date": "2005-01-04",
 "incident_year": 2005,
 "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": "Armed police personnel",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "unit": "JAP-7, Hazaribagh",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Armed police personnel, JAP-7, Hazaribagh"
  }
 ],
 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 0,
 "sentence_type": "imprisonment",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": null,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/4836846/",
 "secondary_sources": [],
 "summary": "The High Court held that the armed-police staffer declined assigned duty on 04.01.2005 and stayed away, with four prior penalties for overstay and absence on record. The High Court held that the case was one of refusal of duty rather than overstay of sanctioned leave. The High Court held that the delayed memorial under the Police Manual gave no ground to reopen the penalty. The High Court dismissed the writ petition.",
 "summary_verified": "The High Court held that the armed-police staffer declined assigned duty on 04.01.2005 and stayed away, with four prior penalties for overstay and absence on record. The High Court held that the case was one of refusal of duty rather than overstay of sanctioned leave. The High Court held that the delayed memorial under the Police Manual gave no ground to reopen the penalty. The High Court dismissed the writ petition.",
 "court_quote": "Consequently, this writ petition is dismissed.",
 "court_quote_para": "final paragraph",
 "confidence": "medium",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "None; all claims verified. Neutral citation 2025:JHHC:13275 exists and could be added (record shows null).",
 "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": "2025-05-02",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "High Court of Jharkhand at Ranchi",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The High Court of Jharkhand at Ranchi recorded adverse findings against police personnel.",
   "disposition": "disciplinary upheld",
   "source": "W.P.(S) No. 2580 of 2017",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
 ],
 "later_proceedings": [],
 "final_outcome_url": null,
 "followup_history": [
  {
   "date": "2026-09-24",
   "scope": "Swarm scout and independent verification pass (Muse Spark)."
  }
 ],
 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-24",
 "link_checked_per_url": [
  {
   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/4836846/",
   "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": [
  "swarm-verify-cop-jh-hc"
 ],
 "merged_case_id": "cop-jh-hc-6",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}