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 "record_id": "CW-2025-0079",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-1385",
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 "display_title": "Meghalaya Police BN Constable vs State of Meghalaya and Ors",
 "display_title_redacted": "Meghalaya Police BN Constable vs State of Meghalaya and Ors",
 "state": "Meghalaya",
 "district": "East Khasi Hills",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": null,
 "police_station_or_unit": "1st Battalion, Meghalaya Police, Mawiong, Shillong",
 "court": "High Court of Meghalaya at Shillong",
 "court_as_verified": "High Court of Meghalaya at Shillong",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Meghalaya Police BN Constable vs State of Meghalaya and Ors",
 "case_number": "W.A. No. 70 of 2024 (arising from WP(C) No. 309 of 2024)",
 "citation": "2025:MLHC:236-DB",
 "judges": [
  "H. S. Thangkhiew",
  "B. Bhattacharjee"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2025-03-27",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2025,
 "incident_date": "2020-12-15",
 "incident_year": 2020,
 "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": "BN Constable",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "unit": "1st Battalion, Meghalaya Police, Mawiong",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "BN Constable, 1st Battalion, Meghalaya Police, Mawiong"
  }
 ],
 "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/141431524/",
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 "summary": "The High Court Division Bench upheld the dismissal of a battalion constable for unauthorized absence from duty. The High Court held that the misconduct of absence from General Roll Call without leave stood proved in the departmental inquiry. The High Court found no procedural unfairness where the constable offered no defence witnesses and declined questioning opportunities. The High Court dismissed the writ appeal, leaving the dismissal and the Single Judge's rejection of the challenge intact.",
 "summary_verified": "The High Court Division Bench upheld the dismissal of a battalion constable for unauthorized absence from duty. The High Court held that the misconduct of absence from General Roll Call without leave stood proved in the departmental inquiry. The High Court found no procedural unfairness where the constable offered no defence witnesses and declined questioning opportunities. The High Court dismissed the writ appeal, leaving the dismissal and the Single Judge's rejection of the challenge intact.",
 "court_quote": "Resultantly, the writ appeal stands dismissed.",
 "court_quote_para": "operative part of judgment dated 27.03.2025",
 "confidence": "medium",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Verified against the cited judgment.",
 "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": "2025-03-27",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "High Court of Meghalaya at Shillong",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The High Court of Meghalaya at Shillong recorded adverse findings against police personnel.",
   "disposition": "disciplinary upheld",
   "source": "2025:MLHC:236-DB",
   "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/141431524/",
   "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-ml-hc"
 ],
 "merged_case_id": "cop-ml-hc-1",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}