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 "record_id": "CW-2026-0048",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0916",
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 "display_title": "State of Jharkhand & Ors. v. Jharkhand Police Constable and others",
 "display_title_redacted": "State of Jharkhand & Ors. v. Jharkhand Police Constable and others",
 "state": "Jharkhand",
 "district": "Garhwa",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Dhurki",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Dhurki Police Station",
 "court": "Supreme Court of India",
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 "case_title": "State of Jharkhand & Ors. v. Jharkhand Police Constable and others",
 "case_number": "Civil Appeal No. 7364 of 2026 [arising out of SLP (C) No. 6111 of 2023]",
 "citation": "2026 INSC 466; 2026 SCC OnLine SC 824",
 "judges": [
  "Ahsanuddin Amanullah",
  "R. Mahadevan"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2026-05-08",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2026,
 "incident_date": "2007-12-23",
 "incident_year": 2007,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "misconduct",
 "admin_subcategory": "other",
 "subcategory": "other",
 "subcategory_display": "other",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld",
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  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Constable",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "unit": "Jharkhand Police, Dhurki Police Station, Garhwa",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
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    "key2:no_row"
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   "key2_gpt56": null,
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   "jev_risk": null,
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   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Constable, Jharkhand Police, Dhurki Police Station, Garhwa"
  }
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 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [],
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 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 0,
 "sentence_type": "dismissal",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
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 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://www.verdictum.in/pdf_upload/2026/05/09/the-state-of-jharkhand-v-ranjan-kumar-1777285.pdf",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://www.livelaw.in/supreme-court/supreme-court-orders-criminal-action-against-constable-who-joined-bihar-jharkhand-police-in-different-names-533562",
  "https://www.barandbench.com/news/litigation/supreme-court-orders-dismissal-of-cop-who-joined-bihar-and-jharkhand-police-under-different-names"
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 "summary": "The judgment of the Supreme Court of India records the following account. [name withheld], appointed Constable in the Jharkhand Police in May 2005 and serving as Reserve Guard at Dhurki Police Station, took two days compensatory leave from 20 December 2007 and never rejoined. The Court recorded that during that absence he secured appointment as Constable in the Bihar Police under the name [name withheld] on forged certificates, then abandoned the Patna posting in January 2008. A forensic comparison of fingerprints, biometrics and photographs confirmed both names were one person, and the Superintendent of Police, Garhwa dismissed him in August 2010. The writ court sustained the dismissal but the Division Bench set it aside; the Supreme Court restored the dismissal as proportionate, quashed the Bihar appointment under Article 142, and directed the DGPs to examine criminal proceedings. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "[name withheld], appointed Constable in the Jharkhand Police in May 2005 and serving as Reserve Guard at Dhurki Police Station, took two days compensatory leave from 20 December 2007 and never rejoined. The Court recorded that during that absence he secured appointment as Constable in the Bihar Police under the name [name withheld] on forged certificates, then abandoned the Patna posting in January 2008. A forensic comparison of fingerprints, biometrics and photographs confirmed both names were one person, and the Superintendent of Police, Garhwa dismissed him in August 2010. The writ court sustained the dismissal but the Division Bench set it aside; the Supreme Court restored the dismissal as proportionate, quashed the Bihar appointment under Article 142, and directed the DGPs to examine criminal proceedings.",
 "court_quote": "Public employment, particularly in the police service, cannot be converted into an instrument of fraud.",
 "court_quote_para": "24",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "SC restored dismissal for fraudulent dual police appointment under forged identity; criminal aspect sent for examination.",
 "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"
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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": "2026-05-08",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Supreme Court of India",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Supreme Court of India upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.",
   "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only",
   "source": "2026 INSC 466; 2026 SCC OnLine SC 824",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
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 "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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 "merged_case_id": "GAP2-60-007",
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 "service": "police",
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