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 "record_id": "CW-2026-0046",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0808",
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 "display_title": "State of Karnataka & Ors. vs Munirabad Police Police Head Constable",
 "display_title_redacted": "State of Karnataka & Ors. vs Munirabad Police Police Head Constable",
 "state": "Karnataka",
 "district": "Koppal",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Munirabad",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Indian Reserve Battalion / Special Reserve Force, Munirabad",
 "court": "Karnataka High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Karnataka High Court",
 "bench": "Dharwad",
 "case_title": "State of Karnataka & Ors. vs Munirabad Police Police Head Constable",
 "case_number": "Writ Petition No. 106139 of 2024 (S-KAT)",
 "citation": "2026:KHC-D:2846-DB",
 "judges": [
  "M. I. Arun",
  "B. Muralidhara Pai"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2026-02-23",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2026,
 "incident_date": "2017-01-11",
 "incident_year": 2017,
 "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": "Police Head Constable",
   "unit": "Special Reserve Force (disciplinary authority: Commandant, Indian Reserve Battalion, Munirabad)",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
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    "key2:no_row"
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   "jev_p_culpable": null,
   "key2_gpt": null,
   "later_outcome": null,
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Police Head Constable, Special Reserve Force (disciplinary authority: Commandant, Indian Reserve Battalion, Munirabad)"
  }
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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://indiankanoon.org/doc/162113100/",
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 "summary": "The Karnataka High Court Division Bench at Dharwad (M.I. Arun and B. Muralidhara Pai JJ., 23 February 2026) allowed the State writ, set aside the KAT relief and sustained the compulsory retirement of Head Constable. The court recorded his admitted continuous absence from 11 January 2017 to 15 March 2022, over five years, attributed only to matrimonial discord and depression. It held such long absence must be treated as wilful, that unauthorised absence in a disciplined force must be viewed very seriously, and that compulsory retirement rather than dismissal was just, fair and reasonable. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Karnataka High Court Division Bench at Dharwad (M.I. Arun and B. Muralidhara Pai JJ., 23 February 2026) allowed the State writ, set aside the KAT relief and sustained the compulsory retirement of Head Constable. The court recorded his admitted continuous absence from 11 January 2017 to 15 March 2022, over five years, attributed only to matrimonial discord and depression. It held such long absence must be treated as wilful, that unauthorised absence in a disciplined force must be viewed very seriously, and that compulsory retirement rather than dismissal was just, fair and reasonable.",
 "court_quote": "the fact that he was continuously absent from 11.01.2017 to 15.03.2022 i.e., for a period of more than five years, has to be considered as willful absence.",
 "court_quote_para": "13",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "State's writ allowed; Tribunal relief set aside; compulsory retirement for 5+ years absence sustained.",
 "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": "2026-02-23",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Karnataka High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Karnataka High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.",
   "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only",
   "source": "2026:KHC-D:2846-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": [
    "officers"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
 "link_checked_per_url": [
  {
   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/162113100/",
   "link_checked": null
  }
 ],
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  "basis": null
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 "v3_basis": null,
 "publication_basis": null,
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 "retracted": {
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 "merged_case_id": "GAP2-28-001",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}