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 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0152",
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  "CWC-0506"
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 "display_title": "Gujarat Police Police Constable v. State of Gujarat & Ors.",
 "display_title_redacted": "Gujarat Police Police Constable v. State of Gujarat & Ors.",
 "state": "Gujarat",
 "district": "Tapi",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Vyara",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Tapi ACB Police Station / Tapi, Gujarat Police (ACB C.R. No. I-4/2010)",
 "court": "Gujarat High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Gujarat High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Gujarat Police Police Constable v. State of Gujarat & Ors.",
 "case_number": "R/Special Civil Application No. 7162 of 2022",
 "citation": "2026:GUJHC:20681; 2026 LiveLaw (Guj) 99",
 "judges": [
  "Maulik J. Shelat"
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 "judgment_date": "2026-03-20",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2026,
 "incident_date": "2010-08-12",
 "incident_year": 2010,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "corruption",
 "admin_subcategory": "bribery_pc_act",
 "subcategory": "bribery_pc_act",
 "subcategory_display": "bribery pc act",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld",
 "sections": [
  "PC Act 1988 s.7",
  "PC Act 1988 s.12",
  "PC Act 1988 s.13",
  "Constitution Art. 311",
  "Bombay Police (Punishment & Appeal) Rules 1956 r.3"
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 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Police Constable",
   "unit": "Gujarat Police (appointed 30.04.2001)",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "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": null,
   "grok": null,
   "jev_risk": 0.08,
   "jev_p_culpable": 0.92,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Police Constable, Gujarat Police (appointed 30.04.2001)"
  }
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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/2026/03/23/2-663297.pdf",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/gujarat-high-court/gujarat-high-court-police-constable-dismissal-corruption-case-527557",
  "https://courtbook.in/posts/gujarat-hc-dismissal-without-notice-corruption-case",
  "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/85005193/"
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 "summary": "The Gujarat High Court dismissed the writ petition of Police Constable, upholding his dismissal from service on 19 July 2019 following his conviction on 30 April 2019 by the Additional (Ad-hoc) Sessions Judge, Tapi at Vyara in ACB Case CR No.I-4/2010 under Sections 7, 12 and 13 of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988. The Court held that no show-cause notice or hearing was required before dismissal on conviction, applying the second proviso to Article 311(2) and the Constitution Bench ruling in Union of India v. Tulsiram Patel. It noted his criminal appeal (No.1080/2019) was admitted but only the sentence, not the conviction, had been suspended. Since his conduct led to conviction under the 1988 Act, the dismissal suffered from no error of law. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Gujarat High Court dismissed the writ petition of Police Constable, upholding his dismissal from service on 19 July 2019 following his conviction on 30 April 2019 by the Additional (Ad-hoc) Sessions Judge, Tapi at Vyara in ACB Case CR No.I-4/2010 under Sections 7, 12 and 13 of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988. The Court held that no show-cause notice or hearing was required before dismissal on conviction, applying the second proviso to Article 311(2) and the Constitution Bench ruling in Union of India v. Tulsiram Patel. It noted his criminal appeal (No.1080/2019) was admitted but only the sentence, not the conviction, had been suspended. Since his conduct led to conviction under the 1988 Act, the dismissal suffered from no error of law.",
 "court_quote": "Since the conduct of the petitioner lead to his conviction under the Act, 1988, in the aforesaid ACB case, the impugned order dismissing him from service suffers from no error of law.",
 "court_quote_para": "16.1",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Gujarat HC judgment PDF verified; dismissal after PC Act conviction upheld under Art.311(2) proviso.",
 "verification_status": "V2",
 "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported",
 "tier_badge": "Externally reported",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
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  "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded"
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 "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": "2026-03-20",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Gujarat High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Gujarat High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.",
   "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only",
   "source": "2026:GUJHC:20681; 2026 LiveLaw (Guj) 99",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
 ],
 "later_proceedings": [],
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 "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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