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 "record_id": "CW-2026-0024",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0063",
 "alias_merged_ids": [
  "CWC-0956"
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 "display_title": "State of Jammu and Kashmir and Others v. J&K Police Driver Constable",
 "display_title_redacted": "State of Jammu and Kashmir and Others v. J&K Police Driver Constable",
 "state": "Jammu and Kashmir",
 "district": "Srinagar",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Srinagar",
 "police_station_or_unit": "J&K Police Department",
 "court": "Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "High Court of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh",
 "bench": "Srinagar",
 "case_title": "State of Jammu and Kashmir and Others v. J&K Police Driver Constable",
 "case_number": "LPAW No. 268/2011",
 "citation": "2026 LiveLaw (JKL) 237",
 "judges": [
  "Sanjeev Kumar",
  "Sanjay Parihar"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2026-05-30",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2026,
 "incident_date": "2004-01-01",
 "incident_year": 2004,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "misconduct",
 "admin_subcategory": "other",
 "subcategory": "other",
 "subcategory_display": "other",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld",
 "sections": [
  "J&K Constitution s.126(2)(c)",
  "Constitution Art 226"
 ],
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   "name": null,
   "rank": "Driver Constable",
   "unit": "J&K Police Department",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
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   "key2": "yes",
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   "key2_claude": null,
   "key2_union": "yes",
   "key2_gemapi": null,
   "key2_openrouter": "unclear",
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   "jev_p_culpable": 0.94,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Driver Constable, J&K Police Department"
  }
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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://images.assettype.com/barandbench/2026-06-02/sgtzo0rd/State_of_JK_Vs_Ghulam_Mohd_Tantray.pdf",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/jammu-kashmir/jammu-and-kashmir-high-court-enemy-infiltrated-government-through-employees-to-disintegrate-nation-jk-hc-upholds-dismissal-of-police-constable-who-sheltered-pakistani-militant-possessed-grenades-536508",
  "https://www.barandbench.com/news/jammu-kashmir-high-court-restores-dismissal-of-policeman-accused-of-militant-links"
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 "summary": "A Division Bench of the High Court of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh allowed the administration's appeal and restored the 2007 dismissal of Driver Constable, setting aside the Single Judge's 2011 order. The constable had been arrested in 2004 for contact with a Pakistani militant and arranging his hideout, with arms and grenades recovered, and was dismissed after the Cabinet was satisfied that holding an enquiry would endanger witnesses. The Court held that abundant contemporaneous material justified dispensing with the enquiry under Section 126(2)(c) of the then J&K Constitution and that the writ court had acted in a slipshod manner. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "A Division Bench of the High Court of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh allowed the administration's appeal and restored the 2007 dismissal of Driver Constable, setting aside the Single Judge's 2011 order. The constable had been arrested in 2004 for contact with a Pakistani militant and arranging his hideout, with arms and grenades recovered, and was dismissed after the Cabinet was satisfied that holding an enquiry would endanger witnesses. The Court held that abundant contemporaneous material justified dispensing with the enquiry under Section 126(2)(c) of the then J&K Constitution and that the writ court had acted in a slipshod manner.",
 "court_quote": "The respondent was one such pawn in the hands of the enemy who had been persuaded to act not only against his employer but also against his country for extraneous reasons and considerations. Not only had he established contacts with a Pakistani militant, but he had also arranged a hideout for him.",
 "court_quote_para": "25",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Militant-link dismissal restored by DB; operative order verified from judgment PDF.",
 "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"
 ],
 "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": "2026-05-30",
   "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": "2026 LiveLaw (JKL) 237",
   "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": [
    "court_quote_para"
   ]
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-25",
   "scope": "Duplicate record CW-2026-0050 (same court, LPAW No. 268/2011, judgment of 30 May 2026) merged into this record; its sources are kept here and its URL redirects here."
  }
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   "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/jammu-kashmir/jammu-and-kashmir-high-court-enemy-infiltrated-government-through-employees-to-disintegrate-nation-jk-hc-upholds-dismissal-of-police-constable-who-sheltered-pakistani-militant-possessed-grenades-536508",
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  "basis": null
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 "merged_case_id": "CHANDI-009",
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 "service": "police",
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}