{ "state": "Bihar", "slug": "bihar", "count": 63, "url": "https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/state/bihar", "cases": [ { "record_id": "CW-2026-0058", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0882", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Katauna Resident and Anr. vs The State of Bihar and Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "Katauna Resident and Anr. vs The State of Bihar and Ors.", "state": "Bihar", "district": "Nalanda", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Katauna", "police_station_or_unit": "Giriyak Police Station", "court": "Patna High Court", "court_as_verified": "Patna High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Katauna Resident and Anr. vs The State of Bihar and Ors.", "case_number": "Criminal Writ Jurisdiction Case No. 3363 of 2025", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Rajeev Ranjan Prasad", "Sunil Dutta Mishra" ], "judgment_date": null, "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2026, "incident_date": "2025-10-10", "incident_year": 2025, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "illegal_detention_false_imprisonment", "subcategory": "illegal_detention_false_imprisonment", "subcategory_display": "illegal detention false imprisonment", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation", "sections": [ "Bihar Crime Control Act 2024 s.3(3)" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Superintendent of Police", "unit": "Nalanda", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Superintendent of Police, Nalanda" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Sub-Divisional Police Officer", "unit": "Rajgir, Nalanda", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Sub-Divisional Police Officer, Rajgir, Nalanda" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Station House Officer", "unit": "Giriyak Police Station, Nalanda", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Station House Officer, Giriyak Police Station, Nalanda" } ], "officer_count": 3, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": null, "descriptor": "Katauna resident" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": null, "descriptor": "Katauna resident" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 2, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 200000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/162543170/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://thebarbulletin.com/patna-hc-quashes-bihar-crime-control-act-orders-compensation/" ], "summary": "The Patna High Court quashed District Magistrate orders imposing Section 3(3) Bihar Crime Control Act, 2024 restrictions on two Nalanda men, which required thrice-weekly attendance at Silao police station 40 km from home. The court held the orders were passed without subjective satisfaction or verification beyond an unverified police sanha, and that the SP Nalanda, the SDPO and the SHO police station had acted in haste in ignorance of the law, apparently to keep the petitioners out of the Assembly Election. It directed the State to pay each petitioner 1,00,000 compensation plus Rs 10,000 litigation costs within one month, recoverable from the erring officials after hearing. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Patna High Court quashed District Magistrate orders imposing Section 3(3) Bihar Crime Control Act, 2024 restrictions on two Nalanda men, which required thrice-weekly attendance at Silao police station 40 km from home. The court held the orders were passed without subjective satisfaction or verification beyond an unverified police sanha, and that the SP Nalanda, the SDPO and the SHO police station had acted in haste in ignorance of the law, apparently to keep the petitioners out of the Assembly Election. It directed the State to pay each petitioner 1,00,000 compensation plus Rs 10,000 litigation costs within one month, recoverable from the erring officials after hearing.", "court_quote": "We are constrained to observe that even the SP, Nalanda, the SDPO, Nalanda and the SHO, Giriyak Police Station, all have acted in haste without verification of the allegations made in the Sanha and they, being police officers, have shown complete ignorance of the law on the subject.", "court_quote_para": "39", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC quashed unverified BCC Act restrictions, held SP/SDPO/SHO acted in haste, awarded Rs 1L plus costs to each petitioner.", "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": "2026-09-11", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Patna High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Patna High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 200,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "Criminal Writ Jurisdiction Case No. 3363 of 2025", "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": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/162543170/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://thebarbulletin.com/patna-hc-quashes-bihar-crime-control-act-orders-compensation/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-73" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP2-48-005", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-1986-0001", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0344", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Arwal Resident v. State of Bihar and Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "Arwal Resident v. State of Bihar and Ors.", "state": "Bihar", "district": "Arwal", "district_at_time": "Gaya", "city_town": "Arwal", "police_station_or_unit": null, "court": "Supreme Court of India", "court_as_verified": "Supreme Court of India", "bench": null, "case_title": "Arwal Resident v. State of Bihar and Ors.", "case_number": "Writ Petition (Criminal) No. 369 of 1986", "citation": "(1987) 1 SCC 265; AIR 1987 SC 355", "judges": [], "judgment_date": "1986-12-19", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 1986, "incident_date": "1986-04-19", "incident_year": 1986, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "disproportionate_force", "subcategory": "disproportionate_force", "subcategory_display": "disproportionate force", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation", "sections": [ "Constitution Art. 32" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Superintendent of Police", "unit": "Bihar Police", "role": "named_only", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:named_only", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": "named_only", "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Superintendent of Police, Bihar Police" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 21, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 20000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/273558/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://pub-138b930c26524cb4bf6e9099898947c0.r2.dev/judgments/1986/Peoples__Union_For_Democratic_Rights_vs_State_Of_Bihar_Ors_on_19_December_1986.PDF" ], "summary": "The Supreme Court directed Bihar to pay Rs 20,000 for every death and Rs 5,000 for every injured person from the 19 April 1986 Arwal police firing, adjusting sums already paid, in a petition alleging the SP-led force surrounded 600-700 peaceful peasants at Gandhi Library and opened fire without warning, killing at least 21 including children. The Court treated such compensation as the ordinary consequence of police-firing deaths, raising the State Rs 10,000 ex gratia to the normal scale. It left the justification for the firing and the challenge to Arwal PS Case 59 of 1986 allegedly foisted on innocents including the dead to the pending Patna High Court writ. It also directed the pending police-case investigation to finish within three months.", "summary_verified": "The Supreme Court directed Bihar to pay Rs 20,000 for every death and Rs 5,000 for every injured person from the 19 April 1986 Arwal police firing, adjusting sums already paid, in a petition alleging the SP-led force surrounded 600-700 peaceful peasants at Gandhi Library and opened fire without warning, killing at least 21 including children. The Court treated such compensation as the ordinary consequence of police-firing deaths, raising the State Rs 10,000 ex gratia to the normal scale. It left the justification for the firing and the challenge to Arwal PS Case 59 of 1986 allegedly foisted on innocents including the dead to the pending Patna High Court writ. It also directed the pending police-case investigation to finish within three months.", "court_quote": "for every case of death compensation of Rupees twenty thousand and for every injured person compensation of Rupees five thousand shall be paid.", "court_quote_para": "n/a", "confidence": "medium", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Rs 20k per death + Rs 5k per injury for Arwal police firing; justification left to Patna HC.", "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": "1986-12-19", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Supreme Court of India", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Supreme Court of India recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 20,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "(1987) 1 SCC 265; AIR 1987 SC 355", "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": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/273558/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://pub-138b930c26524cb4bf6e9099898947c0.r2.dev/judgments/1986/Peoples__Union_For_Democratic_Rights_vs_State_Of_Bihar_Ors_on_19_December_1986.PDF", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-30" ], "merged_case_id": "SUPREM-029", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-1997-0015", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0969", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Sasaram Man v. State of Bihar and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Sasaram Man v. State of Bihar and Others", "state": "Bihar", "district": "Rohtas", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Sasaram", "police_station_or_unit": "Sasaram jail escort party (Sasaram Town P.S. Case No. 558/96)", "court": "Patna High Court", "court_as_verified": "Patna High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Sasaram Man v. State of Bihar and Others", "case_number": "Cr.W.J.C. No. 859 of 1996", "citation": "(1997) 2 BLJR 1477 : (1997) 1 PLJR 1022", "judges": [ "Choudhary S.N. Mishra" ], "judgment_date": "1997-05-14", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 1997, "incident_date": "1996-10-14", "incident_year": 1996, "category": "Custodial death", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "custodial_death", "subcategory": "custodial_death", "subcategory_display": "custodial death", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation", "sections": [ "Constitution Art. 226", "Constitution Art. 21", "Constitution Art. 32 (discussed)", "IPC 302/307/324/34 + Arms Act s.27 (Sasaram Town P.S. Case No. 558/96 against private accused, as recorded)" ], "officers": [], "officer_count": null, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": 23, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Sasaram man, age 23" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 100000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/741060/ajmeri-khatoon-appellant-hash-state-of-bihar-and-others-respondent/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.legalindia.com/judgments/ajmeri-khatoon-vs-state-of-bihar-and-ors-on-14-may-1997" ], "summary": "The Patna High Court allowed the widow's writ after undertrial a Sasaram man, aged 23, was shot dead by assailants while handcuffed in a police escort at the Sasaram court premises on 14 October 1996. The court held the State and its instrumentalities responsible for the negligent failure to protect a prisoner in police custody, following Rudul Sah and Nilabati Behera. It directed the State to deposit Rs 1 lakh with the Registrar General within six weeks, Rs 50,000 payable to the widow and Rs 50,000 held in fixed deposit until her minor daughter attains majority. The killers were private accused (Sasaram Town P.S. Case No. 558/96); the police liability was custodial failure to protect. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Patna High Court allowed the widow's writ after undertrial a Sasaram man, aged 23, was shot dead by assailants while handcuffed in a police escort at the Sasaram court premises on 14 October 1996. The court held the State and its instrumentalities responsible for the negligent failure to protect a prisoner in police custody, following Rudul Sah and Nilabati Behera. It directed the State to deposit Rs 1 lakh with the Registrar General within six weeks, Rs 50,000 payable to the widow and Rs 50,000 held in fixed deposit until her minor daughter attains majority. The killers were private accused (Sasaram Town P.S. Case No. 558/96); the police liability was custodial failure to protect.", "court_quote": "The husband of the petitioner was killed under handcuffs while he was in police custody. In such situation the State has to answer for every unlawful and negligent act committed by its instrumentilities and the State and its instrumentalities are to be held responsible for such act on their part.", "court_quote_para": "6", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Writ allowed; Rs 1 lakh compensation for failure to protect handcuffed undertrial killed in police custody.", "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": "Custodial death", "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": "1997-05-14", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Patna High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Patna High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 100,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "(1997) 2 BLJR 1477 : (1997) 1 PLJR 1022", "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://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/741060/ajmeri-khatoon-appellant-hash-state-of-bihar-and-others-respondent/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.legalindia.com/judgments/ajmeri-khatoon-vs-state-of-bihar-and-ors-on-14-may-1997", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-80" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-100-002", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-1997-0006", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0050", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Jagdishpur Man vs State Of Bihar And Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "Jagdishpur Man vs State Of Bihar And Ors.", "state": "Bihar", "district": "Bhagalpur", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Jagdishpur", "police_station_or_unit": "Jagdishpur Police Station / DSP Law & Order, Bhagalpur", "court": "Patna High Court", "court_as_verified": "Patna High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Jagdishpur Man vs State Of Bihar And Ors.", "case_number": null, "citation": "1998 ACJ 981, 1997 (45) BLJR 1365", "judges": [ "Choudhary S.N. Mishra" ], "judgment_date": "1997-05-20", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 1997, "incident_date": "1994-07-24", "incident_year": 1994, "category": "Custodial death", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "custodial_death", "subcategory": "custodial_death", "subcategory_display": "custodial death", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation", "sections": [ "Constitution of India Art. 21", "Constitution of India Art. 226", "IPC 304" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Deputy Superintendent of Police (Law & Order)", "unit": "Bhagalpur", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2_gemapi:unclear(overruled by grok)", "key2_openrouter:no(overruled by grok)", "key2_gpt:unclear" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": "unclear", "key2_openrouter": "no", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": "yes", "jev_risk": 0.37, "jev_p_culpable": 0.75, "key2_gpt": "unclear", "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Deputy Superintendent of Police (Law & Order), Bhagalpur" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Assistant Sub-Inspector", "unit": "Jagdishpur Police Station", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2_gemapi:unclear(overruled by grok)", "key2_openrouter:no(overruled by grok)", "key2_gpt:unclear" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": "unclear", "key2_openrouter": "no", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": "yes", "jev_risk": 0.37, "jev_p_culpable": 0.75, "key2_gpt": "unclear", "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Assistant Sub-Inspector, Jagdishpur Police Station" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Driver-cum-Constable", "unit": "Office of DSP Law & Order, Bhagalpur", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Driver-cum-Constable, Office of DSP Law & Order, Bhagalpur" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Constable (Bodyguard)", "unit": "Office of DSP Law & Order, Bhagalpur", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2_gemapi:unclear(overruled by grok)", "key2_openrouter:no(overruled by grok)", "key2_gpt:unclear" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": "unclear", "key2_openrouter": "no", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": "yes", "jev_risk": 0.45, "jev_p_culpable": 0.73, "key2_gpt": "unclear", "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Constable (Bodyguard), Office of DSP Law & Order, Bhagalpur" } ], "officer_count": 4, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": 27, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Jagdishpur man, age 27" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Jagdishpur man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 2, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 155000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/721289/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Patna High Court allowed a criminal writ petition filed by Dulari Devi for the custodial death of her 27-year-old husband, a Jagdishpur man, who died in Central Jail Bhagalpur on July 28, 1994, following severe beatings in police custody. On July 24, 1994, a police party led by DSP tied up and assaulted a Jagdishpur man and neighbor a Jagdishpur man with lathis, assaulted them further at Jagdishpur police station, and falsely implicated them under the Arms Act. The Court held that the deceased died due to excessive torture inflicted by the four police respondents, directed the State to deposit Rs. 1,50,000 compensation and Rs. 5,00,000 costs with liberty to recover the sum from the guilty officers, and instructed the State to consider initiating criminal prosecution against them. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Patna High Court allowed a criminal writ petition filed by Dulari Devi for the custodial death of her 27-year-old husband, a Jagdishpur man, who died in Central Jail Bhagalpur on July 28, 1994, following severe beatings in police custody. On July 24, 1994, a police party led by DSP tied up and assaulted a Jagdishpur man and neighbor a Jagdishpur man with lathis, assaulted them further at Jagdishpur police station, and falsely implicated them under the Arms Act. The Court held that the deceased died due to excessive torture inflicted by the four police respondents, directed the State to deposit Rs. 1,50,000 compensation and Rs. 5,00,000 costs with liberty to recover the sum from the guilty officers, and instructed the State to consider initiating criminal prosecution against them.", "court_quote": "On the contrary, the material available on record including the admitted facts amply goes to show that the husband of the petitioner died because of excessive torture meted out to him by the respondent Nos. 7 to 10. Now the question arises as to the quantum of compensation.", "court_quote_para": "5", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Patna HC found custodial death due to excessive torture by police, awarded Rs. 1,50,000 compensation and Rs. 5,000 costs, directing State to consider criminal prosecution.", "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": "Custodial death", "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": "1997-05-20", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Patna High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Patna High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 155,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "1998 ACJ 981, 1997 (45) BLJR 1365", "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": "wrong_facts", "corrections_applied": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/721289/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-02" ], "merged_case_id": "BIHAR2-002", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-1998-0008", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0873", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "B.K. 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"name": null, "rank": "Sub-Inspector", "unit": "Bhagalpur Police", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Sub-Inspector, Bhagalpur Police" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Sub-Inspector", "unit": "Bhagalpur Police", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Sub-Inspector, Bhagalpur Police" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Sub-Inspector", "unit": "Bhagalpur Police", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Sub-Inspector, Bhagalpur Police" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Sub-Inspector", "unit": "Bhagalpur Police", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Sub-Inspector, Bhagalpur Police" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Sub-Inspector", "unit": "Bhagalpur Police", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Sub-Inspector, Bhagalpur Police" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Assistant Sub-Inspector", "unit": "Bhagalpur Police", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Assistant Sub-Inspector, Bhagalpur Police" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Station House Officer", "unit": "Harijan Police Station, Bhagalpur", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Station House Officer, Harijan Police Station, Bhagalpur" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Sergeant Major", "unit": "Bhagalpur Police", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Sergeant Major, Bhagalpur Police" } ], "officer_count": 9, "victims": [ { "age": null, "gender": "male", "name": null, "descriptor": "Bhagalpur man" }, { "age": null, "gender": "male", "name": null, "descriptor": "Bhagalpur man" }, { "age": null, "gender": "male", "name": null, "descriptor": "Bhagalpur man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 3, "sentence_type": "imprisonment", "sentence_max_years": 0.25, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1205548/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/747908/bk-pandey-vth-additional-district-and-sessions-judge-and/" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Patna High Court records the following account. On 18 November 1997, aggrieved by the arrest of a fellow Sub-Inspector, a group of Bhagalpur policemen attacked the 1st Additional District Judge inside his courtroom and chambers. The Patna High Court held that nine identified police officials, led by ringleader [name withheld], were guilty of criminal contempt on the affidavits, identification evidence and the DGP's inquiry report. The court rejected their apologies as undeserved given the gravity of assaulting a judge, sentencing Choudhary to three months' simple imprisonment and the other eight to two months each. It directed the State to secure the civil courts and left departmental, commission and criminal proceedings unaffected. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "On 18 November 1997, aggrieved by the arrest of a fellow Sub-Inspector, a group of Bhagalpur policemen attacked the 1st Additional District Judge inside his courtroom and chambers. The Patna High Court held that nine identified police officials, led by ringleader [name withheld], were guilty of criminal contempt on the affidavits, identification evidence and the DGP's inquiry report. The court rejected their apologies as undeserved given the gravity of assaulting a judge, sentencing Choudhary to three months' simple imprisonment and the other eight to two months each. It directed the State to secure the civil courts and left departmental, commission and criminal proceedings unaffected.", "court_quote": "Since Shri [name withheld] (opposite party No. 3) has acted as 'ring leader' of the contemners in the entire incident and planned the episode with a view to humiliate and assault the A.D.J. 1st (a Bhagalpur man), he deserves a severe punishment.", "court_quote_para": "46", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Patna HC convicted 9 Bhagalpur policemen of criminal contempt for the 18.11.1997 courtroom attack on the ADJ.", "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": "1998-02-10", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Patna High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Patna High Court entered convictions against police personnel in this judgment.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation", "source": "1998(1) PLJR 650; 1998(2) BLJR 1125", "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": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1205548/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/747908/bk-pandey-vth-additional-district-and-sessions-judge-and/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-72" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP2-45-003", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-1998-0003", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0041", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Barachatti Police Sub-Inspector vs State of Bihar", "display_title_redacted": "Barachatti Police Sub-Inspector vs State of Bihar", "state": "Bihar", "district": "Gaya", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Barachatti", "police_station_or_unit": "Barachatti Police Station", "court": "Supreme Court of India", "court_as_verified": "Supreme Court of India", "bench": null, "case_title": "Barachatti Police Sub-Inspector vs State of Bihar", "case_number": "Criminal Appeal Nos. 149, 218, 279, 280-282 of 1998", "citation": "AIR 1998 SC 2443, (1998) 5 SCC 699", "judges": [ "M.K. Mukherjee", "G.B. Pattanaik" ], "judgment_date": "1998-07-13", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 1998, "incident_date": "1993-12-05", "incident_year": 1993, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "fake_encounter_extrajudicial_killing", "subcategory": "fake_encounter_extrajudicial_killing", "subcategory_display": "fake encounter extrajudicial killing", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "conviction_upheld", "sections": [ "IPC 302", "IPC 34", "IPC 201" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Sub-Inspector", "unit": "Barachatti Police Station", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2_gemapi:unclear", "key2_gpt:unclear" ], "ledger_role": "convicted", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": "unclear", "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.04, "jev_p_culpable": 0.96, "key2_gpt": "unclear", "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Sub-Inspector, Barachatti Police Station" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Sub-Inspector", "unit": "Barachatti Police Station", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2_gemapi:unclear", "key2_gpt:unclear" ], "ledger_role": "convicted", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": "unclear", "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.05, "jev_p_culpable": 0.96, "key2_gpt": "unclear", "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Sub-Inspector, Barachatti Police Station" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "unit": "Barachatti Police Station", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2_gemapi:unclear", "key2_gpt:unclear" ], "ledger_role": "convicted", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": "unclear", "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.08, "jev_p_culpable": 0.91, "key2_gpt": "unclear", "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Constable, Barachatti Police Station" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "unit": "Barachatti Police Station", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2_gemapi:unclear", "key2_gpt:unclear" ], "ledger_role": "convicted", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": "unclear", "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.07, "jev_p_culpable": 0.92, "key2_gpt": "unclear", "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Constable, Barachatti Police Station" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "unit": "Barachatti Police Station", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2_gemapi:unclear", "key2_gpt:unclear" ], "ledger_role": "convicted", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": "unclear", "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.07, "jev_p_culpable": 0.93, "key2_gpt": "unclear", "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Constable, Barachatti Police Station" } ], "officer_count": 5, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Barachatti man" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Barachatti man" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Barachatti man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 3, "sentence_type": "imprisonment", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1087618/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1172785/" ], "summary": "The Supreme Court of India upheld the convictions under Section 302 read with Section 34 IPC of five police personnel attached to Barachatti Police Station in Gaya district for the staged encounter murder of three persons on December 5, 1993. The police party had chased and fired upon a Maruti van on the Grand Trunk Road, killing businessman [name withheld], attendant a Barachatti man, and driver [name withheld], and subsequently registered a fabricated encounter FIR. While acquitting appellant [name withheld] on benefit of doubt, the Court affirmed the life imprisonment of constables, [name withheld], and [name withheld], and commuted the death sentences of Sub-Inspectors and [name withheld] to life imprisonment, holding the case did not meet the rarest-of-rare threshold. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Supreme Court of India upheld the convictions under Section 302 read with Section 34 IPC of five police personnel attached to Barachatti Police Station in Gaya district for the staged encounter murder of three persons on December 5, 1993. The police party had chased and fired upon a Maruti van on the Grand Trunk Road, killing businessman [name withheld], attendant a Barachatti man, and driver [name withheld], and subsequently registered a fabricated encounter FIR. While acquitting appellant [name withheld] on benefit of doubt, the Court affirmed the life imprisonment of constables, [name withheld], and [name withheld], and commuted the death sentences of Sub-Inspectors and [name withheld] to life imprisonment, holding the case did not meet the rarest-of-rare threshold.", "court_quote": "In this view of the matter, while we uphold the conviction of accused [name withheld] and [name withheld] under Section 302/34 I.P.C., we set aside the sentence of death awarded against them and commute the same to imprisonment for life.", "court_quote_para": "n/a", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Supreme Court upheld murder convictions under IPC 302/34 of 5 Barachatti police officials for staged encounter killing, commuting death sentences to life.", "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": null, "action_type": "Conviction", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Trial court (as recorded in the Supreme Court of India judgment)", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Supreme Court of India judgment.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation", "source": "AIR 1998 SC 2443, (1998) 5 SCC 699", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." }, { "date": "1998-07-13", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Supreme Court of India", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Supreme Court of India dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)", "source": "AIR 1998 SC 2443, (1998) 5 SCC 699", "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": "wrong_facts", "corrections_applied": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1087618/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1172785/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-02" ], "merged_case_id": "BIHAR1-004", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-1999-0011", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0874", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Rail Police Constable vs The State of Bihar and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Rail Police Constable vs The State of Bihar and Others", "state": "Bihar", "district": "Patna", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Patna", "police_station_or_unit": "Rail Police Centre, Patna (Patna Junction)", "court": "Patna High Court", "court_as_verified": "Patna High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Rail Police Constable vs The State of Bihar and Others", "case_number": "C.W.J.C. No. 5120 of 1998", "citation": "(2000) 1 PLJR 32; (1999) 09 PAT CK 0069", "judges": [ "S. J. Mukhopadhaya" ], "judgment_date": "1999-09-30", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 1999, "incident_date": "1996-07-30", "incident_year": 1996, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "corruption", "admin_subcategory": "extortion", "subcategory": "extortion", "subcategory_display": "extortion", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "unit": "Rail Police Centre, Patna", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Constable, Rail Police Centre, Patna" } ], "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.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/739586/sudhir-kumar-singh-vs-the-state-of-bihar-and-others/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The judgment of the Patna High Court records the following account. On 30 July 1996 a Rail Police constable shown as sick was caught by the Dy.S.P. (Rail) checking passengers' tickets in plain clothes on Patna Junction platform, in violation of standing orders, and fled across the tracks. An ex parte inquiry held him guilty of doubtful integrity and dereliction of duty, and the S.P. (Rail) dismissed him from service. The Patna High Court held the inquiry was lawful with full opportunity which the petitioner himself spurned, declined writ discretion given the grave and repeated charges, and dismissed the petition with the dismissal operating prospectively from 23 September 1997. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "On 30 July 1996 a Rail Police constable shown as sick was caught by the Dy.S.P. (Rail) checking passengers' tickets in plain clothes on Patna Junction platform, in violation of standing orders, and fled across the tracks. An ex parte inquiry held him guilty of doubtful integrity and dereliction of duty, and the S.P. (Rail) dismissed him from service. The Patna High Court held the inquiry was lawful with full opportunity which the petitioner himself spurned, declined writ discretion given the grave and repeated charges, and dismissed the petition with the dismissal operating prospectively from 23 September 1997.", "court_quote": "In the aforesaid circumstances, the charges being grave and as it appears that for similar charge, another departmental proceeding has been initiated, enquiry officer has submitted report holding the petitioner guilty for other similar charge, even if there remains any technical defect in the order of dismissal, I am not inclined to exercise my discretion under writ jurisdiction, except that the order of dismissal should be treated to be prospective i.e. w.e.f. 23.9.1997. The writ petition is, accordingly, dismissed, with the aforesaid observations.", "court_quote_para": "10", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Rail Police constable's dismissal for extortionate ticket-checking upheld; writ dismissed.", "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": "1999-09-30", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Patna High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Patna High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "(2000) 1 PLJR 32; (1999) 09 PAT CK 0069", "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": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/739586/sudhir-kumar-singh-vs-the-state-of-bihar-and-others/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-72" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP2-45-004", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2000-0010", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0978", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Bihar Police Constable vs State of Bihar and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Bihar Police Constable vs State of Bihar and Others", "state": "Bihar", "district": "Patna", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Patna", "police_station_or_unit": "Bihar Police, Patna Junction", "court": "Patna High Court", "court_as_verified": "Patna High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Bihar Police Constable vs State of Bihar and Others", "case_number": "C.W.J.C. No. 8566 of 1998", "citation": "2000(2)BLJR846", "judges": [ "S.J. Mukhopadhaya" ], "judgment_date": "2000-01-11", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2000, "incident_date": "1992-07-04", "incident_year": 1992, "category": "Custodial torture", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "custodial_rape_sexual_assault", "subcategory": "custodial_rape_sexual_assault", "subcategory_display": "custodial rape sexual assault", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "IPC 363", "IPC 366", "IPC 376", "IPC 376/34" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "Bihar Police", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Constable, Bihar Police" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "female", "descriptor": "Patna woman" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "dismissal", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/764184/bishram-tete-appellant-hash-state-of-bihar-and-others-respondent/", "secondary_sources": [ "(2000) 01 PAT CK 0112", "2000(2)PLJR303" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Patna High Court records the following account. On 4 July 1992 at about 11.30 p.m. at Patna Junction, constable with other constables allegedly kidnapped and raped a woman, leading to G.R. No. 8231/92 under Sections 363, 366, 376 and 376/34 IPC; he was acquitted in Sessions Trial No. 95/92 on 15 January 1994 after the key witness turned hostile. Departmentally he was proceeded against on the rape charge plus dereliction of duty, unauthorised absence and insubordination, and dismissed on 5 December 1994 after a supplementary inquiry, with his appeal rejected on 28 June 1995. The Patna High Court (S.J. Mukhopadhaya, J.) held the inquiry findings were not perverse, that police witnesses including identification evidence supported the charges, and that criminal acquittal on hostile and formal witnesses confers no benefit in departmental proceedings. The writ petition was dismissed on 11 January 2000. The 2000 judgment names the victim; her name is withheld here under BNS s.72 (IPC s.228A). Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "On 4 July 1992 at about 11.30 p.m. at Patna Junction, constable with other constables allegedly kidnapped and raped a woman, leading to G.R. No. 8231/92 under Sections 363, 366, 376 and 376/34 IPC; he was acquitted in Sessions Trial No. 95/92 on 15 January 1994 after the key witness turned hostile. Departmentally he was proceeded against on the rape charge plus dereliction of duty, unauthorised absence and insubordination, and dismissed on 5 December 1994 after a supplementary inquiry, with his appeal rejected on 28 June 1995. The Patna High Court (S.J. Mukhopadhaya, J.) held the inquiry findings were not perverse, that police witnesses including identification evidence supported the charges, and that criminal acquittal on hostile and formal witnesses confers no benefit in departmental proceedings. The writ petition was dismissed on 11 January 2000. The 2000 judgment names the victim; her name is withheld here under BNS s.72 (IPC s.228A).", "court_quote": "In absence of witnesses/evidences, if the petitioner was acquitted in the criminal proceeding, he cannot derive any benefit of the same in the departmental proceeding, wherein the named witnesses appeared and supported the case of prosecution.", "court_quote_para": "11", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Judgment verified; dismissal for kidnapping/rape and dereliction upheld on departmental evidence despite criminal acquittal.", "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": "Custodial torture", "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": "2000-01-11", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Patna High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Patna High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "2000(2)BLJR846", "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": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/764184/bishram-tete-appellant-hash-state-of-bihar-and-others-respondent/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "(2000) 01 PAT CK 0112", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "2000(2)PLJR303", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-81" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-101-008", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2002-0022", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0972", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "In re: Suo Motu Action by the High Court (Senari police excesses)", "display_title_redacted": "In re: Suo Motu Action by the High Court (Senari police excesses)", "state": "Bihar", "district": "Jehanabad", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Senari village", "police_station_or_unit": "Police raiding party, Jehanabad (Mianpur carnage search operation)", "court": "Patna High Court", "court_as_verified": "Patna High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "In re: Suo Motu Action by the High Court (Senari police excesses)", "case_number": null, "citation": "2003 CriLJ 1067", "judges": [ "Ravi S. 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"descriptor": "Senari village woman" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "female", "descriptor": "Senari village woman" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "female", "descriptor": "Senari village woman" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "female", "descriptor": "Senari village woman" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "female", "descriptor": "Senari village woman" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "female", "descriptor": "Senari village woman" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "female", "descriptor": "Senari village woman" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "female", "descriptor": "Senari village woman" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "female", "descriptor": "Senari village woman" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "female", "descriptor": "Senari village woman" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "female", "descriptor": "Senari village woman" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "female", "descriptor": "Senari village woman" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "female", "descriptor": "Senari village woman" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "female", "descriptor": "Senari village woman" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Senari village man" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "female", "descriptor": "Senari village woman" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": null, "descriptor": "Senari village resident" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "female", "descriptor": "Senari village woman" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "female", "descriptor": "Senari village woman" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "female", "descriptor": "Senari village woman" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "female", "descriptor": "Senari village woman" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "female", "descriptor": "Senari village woman" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "female", "descriptor": "Senari village woman" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "female", "descriptor": "Senari village woman" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "female", "descriptor": "Senari village woman" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Senari village man" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Senari village man" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Senari village man" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "female", "descriptor": "Senari village woman" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "female", "descriptor": "Senari village woman" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "female", "descriptor": "Senari village woman" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "female", "descriptor": "Senari village woman" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 42, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 265000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1456228/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Patna High Court took suo-motu notice of a Dainik Jagran report that a police party searching for Mianpur-carnage accused had beaten villagers at Senari, Jehanabad, on 28 July 2000. On the District Judge's two inquiry reports, State doctors' injury reports and sealed photographs, the court held it established that police had indiscriminately beaten women with rifles, batons and lathis, rejecting the self-defence claim as a clear human-rights violation. It ordered Rs 10,000 each to the 11 victims with grievous hurt and Rs 5,000 each to the 31 with simple injuries (Rs 2,65,000 total), payable via the District Magistrate after verification by a DM-District Judge board. The court sent the entire record to the Human Rights Commission. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Patna High Court took suo-motu notice of a Dainik Jagran report that a police party searching for Mianpur-carnage accused had beaten villagers at Senari, Jehanabad, on 28 July 2000. On the District Judge's two inquiry reports, State doctors' injury reports and sealed photographs, the court held it established that police had indiscriminately beaten women with rifles, batons and lathis, rejecting the self-defence claim as a clear human-rights violation. It ordered Rs 10,000 each to the 11 victims with grievous hurt and Rs 5,000 each to the 31 with simple injuries (Rs 2,65,000 total), payable via the District Magistrate after verification by a DM-District Judge board. The court sent the entire record to the Human Rights Commission.", "court_quote": "It was violence at the hands of the police wherein the women were beaten.", "court_quote_para": "10", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Suo-motu writ; graded compensation to 42 villagers for established police beating of women during search.", "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": "2002-05-10", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Patna High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Patna High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 265,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "2003 CriLJ 1067", "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": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1456228/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-80" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-101-002", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2002-0004", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0045", "alias_merged_ids": [ "CWC-1455" ], "display_title": "Govindpur Man v. State of Bihar and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Govindpur Man v. State of Bihar and Others", "state": "Bihar", "district": "Nawada", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Govindpur", "police_station_or_unit": "Govindpur Police Station", "court": "Patna High Court", "court_as_verified": "Patna High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Govindpur Man v. State of Bihar and Others", "case_number": "Criminal Writ Jurisdiction Case No. 192 of 2001", "citation": "(2002) 3 PLJR 637", "judges": [ "R.S. Garg" ], "judgment_date": "2002-08-06", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2002, "incident_date": "2000-10-27", "incident_year": 2000, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "illegal_detention_false_imprisonment", "subcategory": "illegal_detention_false_imprisonment", "subcategory_display": "illegal detention false imprisonment", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation", "sections": [ "IPC 76", "Constitution of India Art. 226" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Officer-in-Charge", "unit": "Govindpur PS, Nawada", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2_gemapi:unclear" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": "unclear", "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.26, "jev_p_culpable": 0.77, "key2_gpt": "yes", "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Officer-in-Charge, Govindpur PS, Nawada" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Govindpur man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 50000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/763132/raj-kumar-choudhary-appellant-hash-state-of-bihar-and-others-respondent/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://sooperkanoon.com/case/125183/raj-kumar-choudhary-vs-state-bihar-ors", "https://www.the-laws.com/Encyclopedia/browse/Case?caseId=711002806000&title=raj-kumar-chaudhary-vs-state-of-bihar" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Patna High Court records the following account. Justice R.S. Garg held that Officer-in-[name withheld] of Govindpur police station wrongly arrested a Govindpur man on 27 October 2000 in execution of a non-bailable warrant issued in Excise Case 24/99 against Rajo Choudhary (the nickname of his brother [name withheld]), despite protests by family, neighbours and the chowkidar, leading to 120+ days in jail till the JMFC Nawada ordered release on 28 February 2001. The Court rejected the Section 76 IPC bona-fide-mistake defence, noting the officer persisted with a false stand instead of seeking a second opinion. It awarded Rs 50,000 compensation (Rs 40,000 by the State plus Rs 10,000 personally by the officer) payable within two months, leaving prosecution of the officer to the State authorities. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "Justice R.S. Garg held that Officer-in-[name withheld] of Govindpur police station wrongly arrested a Govindpur man on 27 October 2000 in execution of a non-bailable warrant issued in Excise Case 24/99 against Rajo Choudhary (the nickname of his brother [name withheld]), despite protests by family, neighbours and the chowkidar, leading to 120+ days in jail till the JMFC Nawada ordered release on 28 February 2001. The Court rejected the Section 76 IPC bona-fide-mistake defence, noting the officer persisted with a false stand instead of seeking a second opinion. It awarded Rs 50,000 compensation (Rs 40,000 by the State plus Rs 10,000 personally by the officer) payable within two months, leaving prosecution of the officer to the State authorities.", "court_quote": "We live in the rule of law and not under the police rule where whatever is done by the police is taken to be absolutely correct.", "court_quote_para": "15", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Patna HC held wrong-person arrest, 120+ days jail; Rs 50K (Rs 40K State + Rs 10K officer personally).", "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": "2002-08-06", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Patna High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Patna High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 50,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "(2002) 3 PLJR 637", "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": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/763132/raj-kumar-choudhary-appellant-hash-state-of-bihar-and-others-respondent/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://sooperkanoon.com/case/125183/raj-kumar-choudhary-vs-state-bihar-ors", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.the-laws.com/Encyclopedia/browse/Case?caseId=711002806000&title=raj-kumar-chaudhary-vs-state-of-bihar", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-27", "chunk-47" ], "merged_case_id": "EAST---NORTHEAST-002", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2003-0014", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0872", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "In Re: Superintendent of Police and Others (Sasaram court incident dated 19.01.2002)", "display_title_redacted": "In Re: Superintendent of Police and Others (Sasaram court incident dated 19.01.2002)", "state": "Bihar", "district": "Rohtas", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Sasaram", "police_station_or_unit": "Bikramganj Police Station", "court": "Patna High Court", "court_as_verified": "Patna High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "In Re: Superintendent of Police and Others (Sasaram court incident dated 19.01.2002)", "case_number": "C.W.J.C. No. 1220 of 2002", "citation": "(2003) 03 PAT CK 0015", "judges": [ "S. N. Jha", "Narayan Roy", "R. S. Garg" ], "judgment_date": "2003-03-05", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2003, "incident_date": "2002-01-19", "incident_year": 2002, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "conviction_by_hc", "sections": [ "Contempt of Courts Act 1971 s.2(c)", "Contempt of Courts Act 1971 s.12", "CrPC s.349" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Sub-Inspector", "unit": "Rohtas Police, Bihar", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Sub-Inspector, Rohtas Police, Bihar" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Sub-Inspector", "unit": "Rohtas Police, Bihar", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Sub-Inspector, Rohtas Police, Bihar" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Sub-Inspector", "unit": "Bikramganj Police Station, Rohtas", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Sub-Inspector, Bikramganj Police Station, Rohtas" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Deputy Superintendent of Police", "unit": "Sasaram, Rohtas", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Deputy Superintendent of Police, Sasaram, Rohtas" } ], "officer_count": 4, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Sasaram man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "mixed", "sentence_max_years": 0.167, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/735793/in-re-superintendent-of-police-and-others/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The judgment of the Patna High Court records the following account. Delete tore-the-uniform-of-a Sasaram man clause. Correct final sentence to: Twelve other officers were exonerated (para 34) along with the SP (paras 16-19). Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "Delete tore-the-uniform-of-a Sasaram man clause. Correct final sentence to: Twelve other officers were exonerated (para 34) along with the SP (paras 16-19).", "court_quote": "I would accordingly hold that SI [name withheld] too guilty of contempt.", "court_quote_para": "27", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Patna HC convicted 4 Rohtas police officers of criminal contempt for mob attack on Sasaram court; 3 SIs jailed 2 months, DySP fined.", "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": "2003-03-05", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Patna High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Patna High Court entered convictions against police personnel in this judgment.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation", "source": "(2003) 03 PAT CK 0015", "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": "wrong_facts", "corrections_applied": [ "summary" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/735793/in-re-superintendent-of-police-and-others/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-71" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP2-45-002", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2003-0020", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0975", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Sindhaul Man vs State of Bihar and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Sindhaul Man vs State of Bihar and Others", "state": "Bihar", "district": "Begusarai", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Sindhaul", "police_station_or_unit": "Sindhaul Police Station, Begusarai", "court": "Patna High Court", "court_as_verified": "Patna High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Sindhaul Man vs State of Bihar and Others", "case_number": "C.W.J.C. No. 10329 of 2001", "citation": "2004 (2) PLJR 541", "judges": [ "Chandramauli Kumar Prasad" ], "judgment_date": "2003-09-17", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2003, "incident_date": "2001-04-08", "incident_year": 2001, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "dereliction_evidence_tampering", "subcategory": "dereliction_evidence_tampering", "subcategory_display": "dereliction evidence tampering", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation", "sections": [], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Officer-in-charge", "role": "named_only", "unit": "Sindhaul Police Station, Begusarai", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Officer-in-charge, Sindhaul Police Station, Begusarai" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Sub-Inspector", "role": "named_only", "unit": "Sindhaul Police Station, Begusarai", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Sub-Inspector, Sindhaul Police Station, Begusarai" } ], "officer_count": 2, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Sindhaul man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 75000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/737850/heera-lal-yadav-appellant-hash-state-of-bihar-and-others-respondent/", "secondary_sources": [ "(2003) 09 PAT CK 0042" ], "summary": "A tractor (BR-08-0855) with thrasher seized by the District Transport Officer was handed to Sindhaul Police Station, Begusarai, for safe custody on 29 March 2001; after the owner deposited tax and fine and obtained a release order, the tractor was found stolen from the station on 8 April 2001, with the FIR lodged only months later. The petitioner also alleged the officer-in-charge demanded illegal gratification for release, which the court did not need to decide. The Patna High Court (Chandramauli Kumar Prasad, J.) rejected the State's sovereign-immunity defence, held the theft occurred on account of the failure, negligence and dereliction of duty of police-station staff, and directed the State to pay Rs 75,000 plus Rs 5,500 costs within eight weeks, with liberty to recover from the erring person. The court observed that withholding two increments for such dereliction was grossly inadequate, while declining to fix individual responsibility. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "A tractor (BR-08-0855) with thrasher seized by the District Transport Officer was handed to Sindhaul Police Station, Begusarai, for safe custody on 29 March 2001; after the owner deposited tax and fine and obtained a release order, the tractor was found stolen from the station on 8 April 2001, with the FIR lodged only months later. The petitioner also alleged the officer-in-charge demanded illegal gratification for release, which the court did not need to decide. The Patna High Court (Chandramauli Kumar Prasad, J.) rejected the State's sovereign-immunity defence, held the theft occurred on account of the failure, negligence and dereliction of duty of police-station staff, and directed the State to pay Rs 75,000 plus Rs 5,500 costs within eight weeks, with liberty to recover from the erring person. The court observed that withholding two increments for such dereliction was grossly inadequate, while declining to fix individual responsibility.", "court_quote": "It is on account of the failure, negligence and dereliction of duty of the employees of the State posted in the police station that the theft had taken place.", "court_quote_para": "18", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Judgment verified; police-station negligence caused loss of seized tractor, Rs 75,000 compensation ordered.", "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": "2003-09-17", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Patna High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Patna High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 75,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "2004 (2) PLJR 541", "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": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/737850/heera-lal-yadav-appellant-hash-state-of-bihar-and-others-respondent/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "(2003) 09 PAT CK 0042", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-81" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-101-005", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2003-0021", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0871", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Bihar Police Constable v. The State of Bihar and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Bihar Police Constable v. The State of Bihar and Others", "state": "Bihar", "district": "Bhagalpur", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Bhagalpur", "police_station_or_unit": "Kotwali Police Station", "court": "Patna High Court", "court_as_verified": "Patna High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Bihar Police Constable v. The State of Bihar and Others", "case_number": "L.P.A. No. 869 of 2003", "citation": "(2004) 1 PLJR 35", "judges": [ "Ravi S. Dhavan", "Shashank Kumar Singh" ], "judgment_date": "2003-09-23", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2003, "incident_date": "1991-02-26", "incident_year": 1991, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "IPC 147", "IPC 148", "IPC 149", "IPC 354", "IPC 448", "IPC 323", "Arms Act 1959 s.35" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "unit": "Bihar Police, Bhagalpur", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Constable, Bihar Police, Bhagalpur" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "female", "descriptor": "Bhagalpur woman" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "dismissal", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/738498/jitendra-singh-vs-the-state-of-bihar-and-others/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Patna High Court Division Bench dismissed the Letters Patent Appeal of police constable, upholding his dismissal from service. The Court recorded that on 26 February 1991 he was caught on the spot with 10-12 armed associates during a forcible house invasion and assault on the survivor at Bhagalpur (Kotwali P.S. Case No. 110/91), and was thereafter departmentally tried, found guilty and dismissed by the S.P. Bhagalpur on 30 May 1995, confirmed by the DIG and the Zonal IG. It held the record showed he received the show-cause notice, replied to it, faced inquiry and preferred a departmental appeal, and that his criminal acquittal on benefit of doubt did not vitiate the departmental action. Having regard to his assault on a woman, the Court declined to interfere. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Patna High Court Division Bench dismissed the Letters Patent Appeal of police constable, upholding his dismissal from service. The Court recorded that on 26 February 1991 he was caught on the spot with 10-12 armed associates during a forcible house invasion and assault on the survivor at Bhagalpur (Kotwali P.S. Case No. 110/91), and was thereafter departmentally tried, found guilty and dismissed by the S.P. Bhagalpur on 30 May 1995, confirmed by the DIG and the Zonal IG. It held the record showed he received the show-cause notice, replied to it, faced inquiry and preferred a departmental appeal, and that his criminal acquittal on benefit of doubt did not vitiate the departmental action. Having regard to his assault on a woman, the Court declined to interfere.", "court_quote": "Regard being had to the circumstances that the Petitioner had assaulted a woman, this Court ought not to interfere in this appeal.", "court_quote_para": "8", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Patna HC Division Bench dismissed constable's LPA, upholding dismissal for armed house invasion and assault on a woman.", "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": "2003-09-23", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Patna High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Patna High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "(2004) 1 PLJR 35", "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": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/738498/jitendra-singh-vs-the-state-of-bihar-and-others/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-71" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP2-45-001", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2003-0011", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0352", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Chakardah village Police Constable (Black Commando trained) v. State of Bihar", "display_title_redacted": "Chakardah village Police Constable (Black Commando trained) v. State of Bihar", "state": "Bihar", "district": "Bhojpur", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Chakardah village", "police_station_or_unit": "Narhi police camp", "court": "Supreme Court of India", "court_as_verified": "Supreme Court of India", "bench": null, "case_title": "Chakardah village Police Constable (Black Commando trained) v. State of Bihar", "case_number": "Criminal Appeal No. 190 of 2002", "citation": "(2003) 12 SCC 516; AIR 2004 SC 210", "judges": [ "S. Rajendra Babu", "P. Venkatarama Reddi" ], "judgment_date": "2003-11-07", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2003, "incident_date": "1996-04-09", "incident_year": 1996, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "conviction_upheld", "sections": [ "IPC 302", "Arms Act 1959 s.27 (conviction set aside by SC)" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable (Black Commando trained)", "unit": "Narhi police camp, Bhojpur", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2_gemapi:unclear", "key2_gpt:unclear" ], "ledger_role": "convicted", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": "unclear", "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.07, "jev_p_culpable": 0.95, "key2_gpt": "unclear", "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Constable (Black Commando trained), Narhi police camp, Bhojpur" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Chakardah village man" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Chakardah village man" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Chakardah village man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 3, "sentence_type": "mixed", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/153691/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/5609adcae4b0149711412475" ], "summary": "The Supreme Court maintained the murder conviction of Bihar Police constable for shooting dead three colleagues at the Narhi police camp in Bhojpur on 9 April 1996, after seizing a Hawaldar's sten-gun. The Court found that the killing of Hawaldar a Chakardah village man, who had reprimanded him, was driven by anger and panic, and the killing of the other two policemen was done in a state of frenzy without premeditation. It held the indiscriminate killing of fellow policemen by a disciplined-force member aggravating but offset by mitigating circumstances, and therefore set aside the death sentence while sentencing him to life imprisonment with a fine of Rs. 1,000. The Court also set aside his conviction under Section 27 of the Arms Act for want of proof that the sten-gun was a prohibited arm. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Supreme Court maintained the murder conviction of Bihar Police constable for shooting dead three colleagues at the Narhi police camp in Bhojpur on 9 April 1996, after seizing a Hawaldar's sten-gun. The Court found that the killing of Hawaldar a Chakardah village man, who had reprimanded him, was driven by anger and panic, and the killing of the other two policemen was done in a state of frenzy without premeditation. It held the indiscriminate killing of fellow policemen by a disciplined-force member aggravating but offset by mitigating circumstances, and therefore set aside the death sentence while sentencing him to life imprisonment with a fine of Rs. 1,000. The Court also set aside his conviction under Section 27 of the Arms Act for want of proof that the sten-gun was a prohibited arm.", "court_quote": "We, therefore, set aside the judgment under appeal insofar as it has confirmed the sentence of death while maintaining the conviction under Section 302 IPC.", "court_quote_para": "n/a", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "SC judgment verified on Indian Kanoon; constable's s.302 conviction maintained, death commuted to life.", "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": null, "action_type": "Conviction", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Trial court (as recorded in the Supreme Court of India judgment)", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Supreme Court of India judgment.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation", "source": "(2003) 12 SCC 516; AIR 2004 SC 210", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." }, { "date": "2003-11-07", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Supreme Court of India", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Supreme Court of India dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)", "source": "(2003) 12 SCC 516; AIR 2004 SC 210", "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": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/153691/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/5609adcae4b0149711412475", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-38" ], "merged_case_id": "SUPREM-039", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2004-0009", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1111", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Bhagalpur Man and Others vs B.K. Pandey", "display_title_redacted": "Bhagalpur Man and Others vs B.K. Pandey", "state": "Bihar", "district": "Bhagalpur", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Bhagalpur", "police_station_or_unit": "Kotwali PS / Harijan PS / Police Line, Bhagalpur", "court": "Supreme Court of India", "court_as_verified": "Supreme Court of India", "bench": null, "case_title": "Bhagalpur Man and Others vs B.K. Pandey", "case_number": "Criminal Appeal Nos. 316-318, 332 and 396 of 1998", "citation": "(2004) 5 SCC 26; AIR 2004 SC 2579", "judges": [ "R. C. 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"Sub-Inspector", "role": "convicted", "unit": "Bhagalpur Police", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Sub-Inspector, Bhagalpur Police" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Sub-Inspector", "role": "convicted", "unit": "Bhagalpur Police", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Sub-Inspector, Bhagalpur Police" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Sub-Inspector", "role": "convicted", "unit": "Bhagalpur Police", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Sub-Inspector, Bhagalpur Police" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Sub-Inspector", "role": "convicted", "unit": "Bhagalpur Police", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Sub-Inspector, Bhagalpur Police" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Sub-Inspector", "role": "convicted", "unit": "Bhagalpur Police", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Sub-Inspector, Bhagalpur Police" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Assistant Sub-Inspector", "role": "convicted", "unit": "Bhagalpur Police", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Assistant Sub-Inspector, Bhagalpur Police" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Officer-in-charge", "role": "convicted", "unit": "Harijan Police Station, Bhagalpur", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Officer-in-charge, Harijan Police Station, Bhagalpur" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Sergeant Major", "role": "convicted", "unit": "Police Line, Bhagalpur", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Sergeant Major, Police Line, Bhagalpur" } ], "officer_count": 9, "victims": [ { "age": null, "gender": "male", "name": null, "descriptor": "Bhagalpur man" }, { "age": null, "gender": null, "name": null, "descriptor": "Bhagalpur resident" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 2, "sentence_type": "imprisonment", "sentence_max_years": 0.25, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/985284/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Supreme Court dismissed the appeals of nine Bihar police personnel convicted of criminal contempt for a pre-planned attack on the 1st Additional District and Sessions Judge, Bhagalpur, in his courtroom and chambers on 18 November 1997. The Court held the assault, triggered by contempt proceedings against an IO who had repeatedly disobeyed court process, was proved against the appellants and rejected their pleas on cognizance, proof and natural justice. It sustained the Patna High Court's sentences of three months' simple imprisonment for ring leader Inspector and two months each for the other eight. The appellants on bail were ordered to surrender forthwith, with the DGP Bihar directed to secure compliance. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Supreme Court dismissed the appeals of nine Bihar police personnel convicted of criminal contempt for a pre-planned attack on the 1st Additional District and Sessions Judge, Bhagalpur, in his courtroom and chambers on 18 November 1997. The Court held the assault, triggered by contempt proceedings against an IO who had repeatedly disobeyed court process, was proved against the appellants and rejected their pleas on cognizance, proof and natural justice. It sustained the Patna High Court's sentences of three months' simple imprisonment for ring leader Inspector and two months each for the other eight. The appellants on bail were ordered to surrender forthwith, with the DGP Bihar directed to secure compliance.", "court_quote": "The instant criminal appeals arising from a common judgment relating to the same incident, depict a rare, unfortunate and condemnable act of the police officials who contrary to the duty enjoined upon them to protect and maintain law and order, indulged in the act of attacking in a pre-planned and calculated manner a Bhagalpur man, Ist Additional District and Sessions Judge, in his court room and Chambers on 18th November, 1997 at Bhagalpur in the State of Bihar.", "court_quote_para": "n/a", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "SC upheld criminal-contempt convictions of 9 policemen for pre-planned courtroom attack on sitting judge; 2-3 months SI.", "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": null, "action_type": "Conviction", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Trial court (as recorded in the Supreme Court of India judgment)", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Supreme Court of India judgment.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation", "source": "(2004) 5 SCC 26; AIR 2004 SC 2579", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." }, { "date": "2004-04-13", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Supreme Court of India", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Supreme Court of India dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)", "source": "(2004) 5 SCC 26; AIR 2004 SC 2579", "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": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/985284/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-99" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-128-002", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2004-0014", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0973", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Railway Police personnel vs State of Bihar and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Railway Police personnel vs State of Bihar and Others", "state": "Bihar", "district": "Patna", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Bakhtiarpur", "police_station_or_unit": "Railway Police, Bakhtiarpur Railway Station", "court": "Patna High Court", "court_as_verified": "Patna High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Railway Police personnel vs State of Bihar and Others", "case_number": "C.W.J.C. No. 2013 of 1999", "citation": "(2004) 4 PLJR 374", "judges": [ "Narayan Roy" ], "judgment_date": "2004-09-08", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2004, "incident_date": "1996-12-21", "incident_year": 1996, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "corruption", "admin_subcategory": "extortion", "subcategory": "extortion", "subcategory_display": "extortion", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": null, "role": "held_liable", "unit": "Railway Police, Bihar", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Police personnel, Railway Police, Bihar" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": null, "sentence_type": "dismissal", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "railway", "primary_source_url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/772103/babu-lal-choudhary-vs-state-of-bihar-and-others/", "secondary_sources": [ "(2004) 09 PAT CK 0166" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Patna High Court records the following account. On 21 December 1996 the Superintendent of Railway Police, Patna, with a police force caught railway policeman at Bakhtiarpur Railway Station collecting money from Patna-Mokama train passengers. After a departmental inquiry found the charges proved he was dismissed; in appeal the dismissal was modified to compulsory retirement under Rule 854(A)(6) of the Bihar Police Manual. The Patna High Court (Narayan Roy, J.) held that the accompanying police party had proved the charges, that the authorities had applied the rules of law and observed natural justice, and that substituting compulsory retirement for dismissal was already a lenient view. Finding no ground to interfere, the court dismissed the writ petition on 8 September 2004. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "On 21 December 1996 the Superintendent of Railway Police, Patna, with a police force caught railway policeman at Bakhtiarpur Railway Station collecting money from Patna-Mokama train passengers. After a departmental inquiry found the charges proved he was dismissed; in appeal the dismissal was modified to compulsory retirement under Rule 854(A)(6) of the Bihar Police Manual. The Patna High Court (Narayan Roy, J.) held that the accompanying police party had proved the charges, that the authorities had applied the rules of law and observed natural justice, and that substituting compulsory retirement for dismissal was already a lenient view. Finding no ground to interfere, the court dismissed the writ petition on 8 September 2004.", "court_quote": "From the materials on record, it appears that the police party, who were accompanying the Superintendent of Railway Police, have proved the charges against the petitioner.", "court_quote_para": "6", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Judgment verified; railway policeman's extortion charge proved, compulsory retirement upheld, writ dismissed.", "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": "2004-09-08", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Patna High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Patna High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "(2004) 4 PLJR 374", "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": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/772103/babu-lal-choudhary-vs-state-of-bihar-and-others/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "(2004) 09 PAT CK 0166", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-81" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-101-003", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2004-0015", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0974", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Bihar Police Constable vs State of Bihar and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Bihar Police Constable vs State of Bihar and Others", "state": "Bihar", "district": null, "district_at_time": null, "city_town": null, "police_station_or_unit": null, "court": "Patna High Court", "court_as_verified": "Patna High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Bihar Police Constable vs State of Bihar and Others", "case_number": "C.W.J.C. No. 6917 of 2000", "citation": "(2005) 1 PLJR 271", "judges": [ "Narayan Roy" ], "judgment_date": "2004-11-08", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2004, "incident_date": null, "incident_year": null, "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": "Constable", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "Bihar Police", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Constable, Bihar Police" } ], "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.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/767457/thakur-sudhir-kumar-singh-appellant-hash-state-of-bihar-and-others-respondent/", "secondary_sources": [ "(2004) 11 PAT CK 0055" ], "summary": "Bihar police constable was dismissed after a departmental proceeding found charges of repeated unauthorised absence, dating from his training period, proved; his appeal and memorial were rejected. He alleged denial of natural justice, claiming witnesses were examined behind his back. The Patna High Court (Narayan Roy, J.) held on the record that full opportunities were given, that he absented throughout after filing his written statement and produced no witness or paper showing appearance, and that the absence charges amounted to misconduct for which dismissal was not disproportionate. The court dismissed the writ petition on 8 November 2004, leaving the dismissal undisturbed. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "Bihar police constable was dismissed after a departmental proceeding found charges of repeated unauthorised absence, dating from his training period, proved; his appeal and memorial were rejected. He alleged denial of natural justice, claiming witnesses were examined behind his back. The Patna High Court (Narayan Roy, J.) held on the record that full opportunities were given, that he absented throughout after filing his written statement and produced no witness or paper showing appearance, and that the absence charges amounted to misconduct for which dismissal was not disproportionate. The court dismissed the writ petition on 8 November 2004, leaving the dismissal undisturbed.", "court_quote": "The charges leveled against the petitioner amounted to misconduct, and, therefore, the order of punishment of dismissal cannot be said to be disproportionate to the guilt.", "court_quote_para": "6", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Judgment verified; dismissal for repeated unauthorised absence upheld — pure service matter, no civilian victim.", "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": "2004-11-08", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Patna High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Patna High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "(2005) 1 PLJR 271", "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": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/767457/thakur-sudhir-kumar-singh-appellant-hash-state-of-bihar-and-others-respondent/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "(2004) 11 PAT CK 0055", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-81" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-101-004", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2006-0004", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0460", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Danapur Man v. State of Bihar & Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "Danapur Man v. State of Bihar & Ors.", "state": "Bihar", "district": "Patna", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Danapur", "police_station_or_unit": "Danapur", "court": "Patna High Court", "court_as_verified": "Patna High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Danapur Man v. State of Bihar & Ors.", "case_number": "CWJC No. 2148 of 2001", "citation": "(2006) 3 PLJR 336", "judges": [ "Barin Ghosh" ], "judgment_date": "2006-03-31", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2006, "incident_date": "1998-06-01", "incident_year": 1998, "category": "Custodial death", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "custodial_death", "subcategory": "custodial_death", "subcategory_display": "custodial death", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation", "sections": [], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Investigating Officer", "role": "named_only", "unit": "Bihar Police, Danapur", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:named_only", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": "named_only", "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Investigating Officer, Bihar Police, Danapur" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "age": null, "gender": "male", "name": null, "descriptor": "Danapur man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 500000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/764692/rama-awtar-swarnkar-ram-awtar-pd-swarankar-appellant-hash-the-state-of-bihar-and-others-responde/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Patna High Court held the State liable for the homicidal custodial death of a Danapur man, whose injured dead body came out of police custody in June 1998 after he was kept overnight at Danapur and then remanded to jail. The Court found the post-mortem showed injuries that would cause homicidal death, and that the Investigating Officer deliberately delayed forwarding viscera to the FSL by 18 months so the cause of death could never be known, while superiors stood by silently. It assessed Rs 5 lakh nominal damages payable within three months. The State was directed to recover the sum from the person or persons at fault. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Patna High Court held the State liable for the homicidal custodial death of a Danapur man, whose injured dead body came out of police custody in June 1998 after he was kept overnight at Danapur and then remanded to jail. The Court found the post-mortem showed injuries that would cause homicidal death, and that the Investigating Officer deliberately delayed forwarding viscera to the FSL by 18 months so the cause of death could never be known, while superiors stood by silently. It assessed Rs 5 lakh nominal damages payable within three months. The State was directed to recover the sum from the person or persons at fault.", "court_quote": "The post mortem report depicts marks of injuries, which if inflicted upon a living soul, may cause his death. Such death will be homicidal in nature.", "court_quote_para": "1", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC awarded Rs 5L nominal damages with recovery from officers at fault.", "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": "Custodial death", "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": "2006-03-31", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Patna High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Patna High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 500,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "(2006) 3 PLJR 336", "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": "wrong_facts", "corrections_applied": [ "court_quote_para" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/764692/rama-awtar-swarnkar-ram-awtar-pd-swarankar-appellant-hash-the-state-of-bihar-and-others-responde/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-42" ], "merged_case_id": "SWCUSTOD-034", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2007-0002", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0043", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Aurangabad Police Constable vs The State Of Bihar And Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "Aurangabad Police Constable vs The State Of Bihar And Ors.", "state": "Bihar", "district": "Aurangabad", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Aurangabad", "police_station_or_unit": "Aurangabad Police Lines, Bihar Police", "court": "Patna High Court", "court_as_verified": "Patna High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Aurangabad Police Constable vs The State Of Bihar And Ors.", "case_number": null, "citation": "2007 (2) BLJR 1508", "judges": [ "S.K. Katriar" ], "judgment_date": "2007-04-04", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2007, "incident_date": "1997-02-04", "incident_year": 1997, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "Bihar Police Manual Rule 824", "Constitution of India Art. 226" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "unit": "Aurangabad Police Lines", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2_gemapi:unclear" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": "yes", "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": "unclear", "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": "yes", "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.06, "jev_p_culpable": 0.95, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Constable, Aurangabad Police Lines" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Aurangabad man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "dismissal", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/907962/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Patna High Court upheld the departmental dismissal of Bihar Police constable, confirming orders passed by the Superintendent of Police, Aurangabad and the DIG Magadh Range. The departmental inquiry established all five charges against him, including being drunk on duty on February 4, 1997, assaulting a homeguard by throwing a dog at him and biting his nose, appearing intoxicated before the Sergeant Major, and continuous unauthorized absence for 144 days. Rejecting the petitioner's plea for leniency, the Court held that in view of grave indiscipline and habitual misconduct, dismissal from service under Rule 824 of the Bihar Police Manual was the only fit punishment. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Patna High Court upheld the departmental dismissal of Bihar Police constable, confirming orders passed by the Superintendent of Police, Aurangabad and the DIG Magadh Range. The departmental inquiry established all five charges against him, including being drunk on duty on February 4, 1997, assaulting a homeguard by throwing a dog at him and biting his nose, appearing intoxicated before the Sergeant Major, and continuous unauthorized absence for 144 days. Rejecting the petitioner's plea for leniency, the Court held that in view of grave indiscipline and habitual misconduct, dismissal from service under Rule 824 of the Bihar Police Manual was the only fit punishment.", "court_quote": "In view of the facts and circumstances of the case, and the foregoing discussion, I am of the view that the order of dismissal from service is the only punishment fit to be inflicted on the petitioner. In the result, this writ petition is dismissed.", "court_quote_para": "20-21", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Patna HC upheld dismissal of constable for drunken violence, assault on homeguard, and habitual unauthorized absence.", "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": "2007-04-04", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Patna High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Patna High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "2007 (2) BLJR 1508", "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": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/907962/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-02" ], "merged_case_id": "BIHAR1-006", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2008-0017", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0980", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Bihar Police Constable vs Director General-cum-Inspector General and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Bihar Police Constable vs Director General-cum-Inspector General and Others", "state": "Bihar", "district": null, "district_at_time": null, "city_town": null, "police_station_or_unit": null, "court": "Patna High Court", "court_as_verified": "Patna High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Bihar Police Constable vs Director General-cum-Inspector General and Others", "case_number": null, "citation": "2008 Lab IC 3169", "judges": [ "Navin Sinha" ], "judgment_date": "2008-02-14", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2008, "incident_date": "1983-01-09", "incident_year": 1983, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "Bihar Police Manual Rule 843", "Bihar Police Manual Rule 824" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "Bihar Police", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Constable, Bihar Police" } ], "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/1190326/", "secondary_sources": [ "2008 LAB. I. C. 3169", "2008 (3) AIR JHAR R 703", "(2009) 2 SERVLR 540" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Patna High Court records the following account. Police constable proceeded on 40 days' earned leave expiring 8 January 1983, had his extension request rejected, and reported for duty only on 9 April 1983, after which a departmental proceeding for 90 days' unauthorised absence ended in dismissal on 3 July 1985; his appeal and memorial were rejected. He pleaded illness supported by a medical certificate and argued dismissal was disproportionate. The Patna High Court (Navin Sinha, J.) held he led no evidence for the illness plea, the enquiry finding was not perverse, the 90-day overstay counted as unauthorised absence for a member of a uniformed disciplined force, and the non-speaking appellate order caused no prejudice since the memorial order was reasoned. The writ application was dismissed on 14 February 2008, leaving the dismissal undisturbed; the incident date above is the start of the 90-day absence spell (9 January - 9 April 1983), and the writ number is not stated in the retrieved text.", "summary_verified": "Police constable proceeded on 40 days' earned leave expiring 8 January 1983, had his extension request rejected, and reported for duty only on 9 April 1983, after which a departmental proceeding for 90 days' unauthorised absence ended in dismissal on 3 July 1985; his appeal and memorial were rejected. He pleaded illness supported by a medical certificate and argued dismissal was disproportionate. The Patna High Court (Navin Sinha, J.) held he led no evidence for the illness plea, the enquiry finding was not perverse, the 90-day overstay counted as unauthorised absence for a member of a uniformed disciplined force, and the non-speaking appellate order caused no prejudice since the memorial order was reasoned. The writ application was dismissed on 14 February 2008, leaving the dismissal undisturbed; the incident date above is the start of the 90-day absence spell (9 January - 9 April 1983), and the writ number is not stated in the retrieved text.", "court_quote": "He has overstayed on leave for 90 days which has been reckoned as unauthorized absence for a member of uniformed disciplined force.", "court_quote_para": "13", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Judgment verified; dismissal for 90 days' unauthorised absence upheld — pure service matter, no civilian victim.", "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": "2008-02-14", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Patna High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Patna High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "2008 Lab IC 3169", "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": "wrong_facts", "corrections_applied": [ "subcategory", "sections" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1190326/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "2008 LAB. I. C. 3169", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "2008 (3) AIR JHAR R 703", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "(2009) 2 SERVLR 540", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-81" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-102-002", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2008-0004", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0048", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Rail Police Constable vs The State of Bihar and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Rail Police Constable vs The State of Bihar and Others", "state": "Bihar", "district": "Patna", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Patna", "police_station_or_unit": "Rail Police Centre, Patna", "court": "Patna High Court", "court_as_verified": "Patna High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Rail Police Constable vs The State of Bihar and Others", "case_number": "Letters Patent Appeal arising out of CWJC No. 5120 of 1998", "citation": "2008 LAB IC 3035; (2008) 7 Serv LR 278", "judges": [ "S. K. Katriar", "Kishore K. Mandal" ], "judgment_date": "2008-02-28", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2008, "incident_date": "1996-07-30", "incident_year": 1996, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "corruption", "admin_subcategory": "extortion", "subcategory": "extortion", "subcategory_display": "extortion", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "Bihar Police Manual Rule 826" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "unit": "Rail Police Centre, Patna (Bihar Police)", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2_gemapi:unclear" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": "yes", "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": "unclear", "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": "yes", "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.07, "jev_p_culpable": 0.95, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Constable, Rail Police Centre, Patna (Bihar Police)" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "age": null, "gender": null, "name": null, "descriptor": "Patna resident" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "dismissal", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1922123/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/739586/sudhir-kumar-singh-vs-the-state-of-bihar-and-others/" ], "summary": "A Division Bench of the Patna High Court upheld the dismissal of Bihar Police constable of the Rail Police Centre, Patna, caught by the DSP (Rail) on 30 July 1996 checking tickets from passengers on platform No. 1 at Patna Junction in plain clothes and extorting money, then fleeing across the tracks. Found guilty after enquiry, he was dismissed in 1997, affirmed in appeal and memorial, and his writ was dismissed by a Single Judge in 1999. The Division Bench rejected pleas of denial of cross-examination, parity with a co-delinquent, and disproportionality, noting a second identical proceeding against him, and dismissed the LPA. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "A Division Bench of the Patna High Court upheld the dismissal of Bihar Police constable of the Rail Police Centre, Patna, caught by the DSP (Rail) on 30 July 1996 checking tickets from passengers on platform No. 1 at Patna Junction in plain clothes and extorting money, then fleeing across the tracks. Found guilty after enquiry, he was dismissed in 1997, affirmed in appeal and memorial, and his writ was dismissed by a Single Judge in 1999. The Division Bench rejected pleas of denial of cross-examination, parity with a co-delinquent, and disproportionality, noting a second identical proceeding against him, and dismissed the LPA.", "court_quote": "He found the petitioner checking the railway ticket of a passenger on platform no. 1. On being questioned, the petitioner had kept quiet.", "court_quote_para": "2", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "LPA dismissed; dismissal for extorting railway passengers in plain clothes upheld.", "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": "2008-02-28", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Patna High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Patna High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "2008 LAB IC 3035; (2008) 7 Serv LR 278", "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": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1922123/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/739586/sudhir-kumar-singh-vs-the-state-of-bihar-and-others/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-36" ], "merged_case_id": "BIHAR1-012", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2008-0005", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0052", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Jadia Police Constable vs State Of Bihar And Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "Jadia Police Constable vs State Of Bihar And Ors.", "state": "Bihar", "district": "Supaul", "district_at_time": "Saharsa", "city_town": "Jadia", "police_station_or_unit": "Jadia Police Station", "court": "Patna High Court", "court_as_verified": "Patna High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Jadia Police Constable vs State Of Bihar And Ors.", "case_number": "CWJC No. 11019 of 1993", "citation": "(2008) 3 PLJR 285", "judges": [ "S.N. Hussain" ], "judgment_date": "2008-02-29", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2008, "incident_date": "1986-07-31", "incident_year": 1986, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "Constitution of India Art. 226" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "unit": "Jadia Police Station", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2_gemapi:unclear" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": "yes", "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": "unclear", "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": "yes", "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.05, "jev_p_culpable": 0.96, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Constable, Jadia Police Station" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Jadia man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "dismissal", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/737812/paras-nath-singh-appellant-hash-state-and-others-respondent/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Patna High Court dismissed a writ petition filed by dismissed constable, upholding the order of dismissal passed by the Superintendent of Police, Saharsa with effect from November 1, 1987. A departmental inquiry established that on the night of July 31, 1986, the petitioner brought alcohol into Jadia Police Station, drank there, assaulted civilian a Jadia man inside the station, and hurled abusive language at the Inspector and Sub-Inspector when restrained. Holding that the inquiry was conducted properly with full opportunity given to the delinquent officer and that severe indiscipline in a uniformed police force cannot be tolerated, the Court found the dismissal penalty fully commensurate with the misconduct. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Patna High Court dismissed a writ petition filed by dismissed constable, upholding the order of dismissal passed by the Superintendent of Police, Saharsa with effect from November 1, 1987. A departmental inquiry established that on the night of July 31, 1986, the petitioner brought alcohol into Jadia Police Station, drank there, assaulted civilian a Jadia man inside the station, and hurled abusive language at the Inspector and Sub-Inspector when restrained. Holding that the inquiry was conducted properly with full opportunity given to the delinquent officer and that severe indiscipline in a uniformed police force cannot be tolerated, the Court found the dismissal penalty fully commensurate with the misconduct.", "court_quote": "The charges levelled against the petitioner and the materials on record, which were fully discussed in the impugned orders, clearly show that the petitioner had committed acts of gross misconduct, negligence and indiscipline not befitting a Police personnel and hence the punishment given to him was quite commensurate with the acts committed by the petitioner. For the reason aforementioned, I do not see any illegality or irregularity in the impugned orders of the authorities concerned and, accordingly, this writ petition is dismissed.", "court_quote_para": "8", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Patna HC upheld dismissal of constable for drinking in police station, assaulting a civilian, and abusing superior officers.", "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": "2008-02-29", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Patna High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Patna High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "(2008) 3 PLJR 285", "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": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/737812/paras-nath-singh-appellant-hash-state-and-others-respondent/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-02" ], "merged_case_id": "BIHAR2-004", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2011-0027", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1116", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Bihar Military Police Constable (under training) v. State of Bihar & Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "Bihar Military Police Constable (under training) v. State of Bihar & Ors.", "state": "Bihar", "district": "Palamu", "district_at_time": "Palamu (undivided Bihar; now in Jharkhand)", "city_town": null, "police_station_or_unit": "BMP-1, Ranchi", "court": "Supreme Court of India", "court_as_verified": "Supreme Court of India", "bench": null, "case_title": "Bihar Military Police Constable (under training) v. State of Bihar & Ors.", "case_number": "Civil Appeal No. 3131 of 2011", "citation": "(2011) 13 SCC 118; AIR 2011 SC 1790", "judges": [ "Anil R. Dave", "Mukundakam Sharma" ], "judgment_date": "2011-04-08", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2011, "incident_date": "1977-01-01", "incident_year": 1977, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "Bihar Pension Rules 1950 Rule 46", "Bihar Pension Rules 1950 Rule 107" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable (under training)", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "Bihar Military Police", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Constable (under training), Bihar Military Police" } ], "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/638434/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The appellant, appointed as a constable, absconded from the Commandant Training Centre, BMP-1, Ranchi while under suspension and remained unauthorisedly absent for 105 days; after a departmental inquiry the Superintendent of Police, Palamu ended his service by order dated 14 September 1977, and his departmental appeal to the DIG was dismissed. Years later he claimed pension, contending the order said discharge rather than dismissal. The Supreme Court held the order was in substance a dismissal for misconduct, that discharge is not a punishment known to the Bihar Police Manual, and that as a dismissed employee he was entitled to no pension under Rule 46 of the Bihar Pension Rules, 1950. The appeal was dismissed with no order as to costs; this is an internal service-discipline matter with no citizen victim.", "summary_verified": "The appellant, appointed as a constable, absconded from the Commandant Training Centre, BMP-1, Ranchi while under suspension and remained unauthorisedly absent for 105 days; after a departmental inquiry the Superintendent of Police, Palamu ended his service by order dated 14 September 1977, and his departmental appeal to the DIG was dismissed. Years later he claimed pension, contending the order said discharge rather than dismissal. The Supreme Court held the order was in substance a dismissal for misconduct, that discharge is not a punishment known to the Bihar Police Manual, and that as a dismissed employee he was entitled to no pension under Rule 46 of the Bihar Pension Rules, 1950. The appeal was dismissed with no order as to costs; this is an internal service-discipline matter with no citizen victim.", "court_quote": "In our opinion, the authorities and the High Court were right in coming to the conclusion that as the appellant was removed from service by way of dismissal on account of his misconduct, the appellant was not entitled to get any pension as per Rule 46 of the Rules.", "court_quote_para": "14", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "SC dismissed appeal; dismissal of constable for 105 days absence upheld, pension denied.", "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": "2011-04-08", "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": "(2011) 13 SCC 118; AIR 2011 SC 1790", "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": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/638434/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-100" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-130-001", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2011-0006", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0051", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "The Matter Of State (Through SPE/CBI/Patna) vs [name withheld] And Ors", "display_title_redacted": "The Matter Of State (Through SPE/CBI/Patna) vs [name withheld] And Ors", "state": "Bihar", "district": "Bhagalpur", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Sabour", "police_station_or_unit": "Sabour Police Station", "court": "Patna High Court", "court_as_verified": "Patna High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "The Matter Of State (Through SPE/CBI/Patna) vs [name withheld] And Ors", "case_number": "Govt. Appeal (SJ) No. 65 of 1990", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Dharnidhar Jha" ], "judgment_date": "2011-05-02", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2011, "incident_date": "1980-07-25", "incident_year": 1980, "category": "Custodial torture", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "custodial_torture", "subcategory": "custodial_torture", "subcategory_display": "custodial torture", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "conviction_by_hc", "sections": [ "IPC 326", "IPC 120B", "IPC 220" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Officer-in-Charge", "unit": "Sabour Police Station", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2_gemapi:unclear" ], "ledger_role": "convicted", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": "unclear", "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": "yes", "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.08, "jev_p_culpable": 0.96, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Officer-in-Charge, Sabour Police Station" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Police Personnel", "unit": "Sabour Police Station", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2_gemapi:unclear" ], "ledger_role": "convicted", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": "unclear", "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": "yes", "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.08, "jev_p_culpable": 0.96, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Police Personnel, Sabour Police Station" } ], "officer_count": 2, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Sabour man" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Sabour man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 2, "sentence_type": "imprisonment", "sentence_max_years": 3, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1688817/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/767158/pdf/?view=inline", "https://www.bhaskarenglish.in/amp/bihar-election/news/bhagalpur-blindings-case-operation-gangajal-congress-bjp-136220354.html" ], "summary": "In the infamous Bhagalpur blindings case, the Patna High Court allowed the CBI's appeal against the judgment of acquittal passed by the 14th Additional Sessions Judge, Patna, and restored the conviction and sentence against police Officer-in-[name withheld] and police personnel [name withheld]. The accused policemen had rounded up victims a Sabour man and a Sabour man from villages under Sabour Police Station on July 25, 1980, confined them in a school and the police station, and pierced their eyes with a sharp takua before pouring corrosive acid. Holding the lower appellate court's acquittal perverse and unsupported by evidence, the High Court convicted both policemen under Sections 326, 120B, and 220 IPC and directed them to surrender to serve their sentences of rigorous imprisonment. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "In the infamous Bhagalpur blindings case, the Patna High Court allowed the CBI's appeal against the judgment of acquittal passed by the 14th Additional Sessions Judge, Patna, and restored the conviction and sentence against police Officer-in-[name withheld] and police personnel [name withheld]. The accused policemen had rounded up victims a Sabour man and a Sabour man from villages under Sabour Police Station on July 25, 1980, confined them in a school and the police station, and pierced their eyes with a sharp takua before pouring corrosive acid. Holding the lower appellate court's acquittal perverse and unsupported by evidence, the High Court convicted both policemen under Sections 326, 120B, and 220 IPC and directed them to surrender to serve their sentences of rigorous imprisonment.", "court_quote": "The acquittal of respondent [name withheld] and Sri [name withheld] is hereby set aside. The judgment of conviction and the order of sentence passed upon [name withheld] and [name withheld] by the trial Magistrate is restored.", "court_quote_para": "42", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Patna HC set aside acquittal and convicted police officers and [name withheld] for Bhagalpur blinding of undertrials.", "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": "Custodial torture", "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": "2011-05-02", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Patna High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Patna High Court entered convictions against police personnel in this judgment.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation", "source": "Govt. 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The interim stay order had already been communicated by the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Gaya to the Superintendent of Police and forwarded to the Officer-in-Charge prior to the arrest. Rejecting the State's defence that the arrest was made in good faith in a cognizable dowry case, the Court found an egregious violation of Article 21 and awarded Rs. 1,00,000 compensation to the petitioner payable by the State, with liberty to realize the amount from the negligent employee. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Patna High Court held that the arrest of petitioner [name withheld] on July 19, 2005 by Magadh Medical Police in Gaya constituted illegal detention because the High Court had specifically ordered on June 24, 2005 that no coercive steps be taken against him. The interim stay order had already been communicated by the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Gaya to the Superintendent of Police and forwarded to the Officer-in-Charge prior to the arrest. Rejecting the State's defence that the arrest was made in good faith in a cognizable dowry case, the Court found an egregious violation of Article 21 and awarded Rs. 1,00,000 compensation to the petitioner payable by the State, with liberty to realize the amount from the negligent employee.", "court_quote": "As such, the detention of petitioner during the course of having the shield prescribed by the judicial order passed by this Court certainly covers the terms 'illegal detention' and because of the fact that it has been on the part of the State machinery, hence State is liable to compensate. Accordingly, Rs. 1 Lac is granted by way of compensation to be paid to the petitioner by the State within three months from the date of order.", "court_quote_para": "20", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Patna HC held arrest in violation of interim protection order constituted illegal detention and awarded Rs. 1,00,000 compensation.", "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": "2011-11-23", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Patna High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Patna High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 100,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "Criminal Writ No. 239 of 2006", "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": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1156405/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-02" ], "merged_case_id": "BIHAR1-002", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2012-0022", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0988", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Motihari District Police Constable vs The State of Bihar and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Motihari District Police Constable vs The State of Bihar and Others", "state": "Bihar", "district": "East Champaran", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Raxaul", "police_station_or_unit": "Motihari District Police, East Champaran", "court": "Patna High Court", "court_as_verified": "Patna High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Motihari District Police Constable vs The State of Bihar and Others", "case_number": "C.W.J.C. No. 7410 of 2007", "citation": "(2012) 2 PLJR 843", "judges": [ "V.N. Sinha" ], "judgment_date": "2012-01-06", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2012, "incident_date": "2002-02-13", "incident_year": 2002, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "IPC 364A", "IPC 120B", "IPC 34" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "unit": "Motihari District Police", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Constable, Motihari District Police" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": null, "descriptor": "Raxaul resident" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "dismissal", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/732778/arbind-kumar-singh-appellant-hash-the-state-of-bihar-and-others-respondent/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/775257/arbind-kumar-singh-appellant-hash-the-state-of-bihar-and-others-respondent-1/" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Patna High Court records the following account. Constable of the Motihari District Police was departmentally proceeded for complicity in Raxaul P.S. Case No. 20 of 2002, the abduction of a Raxaul resident for ransom, in which his home telephone was used for ransom demands and the victim was confined at his house. The Superintendent of Police initially withheld three increments, but the Director General-cum-Inspector General enhanced the penalty to dismissal under Rule 853A of the Bihar Police Manual. The Patna High Court found that the constable had accepted the guilt finding, declined opportunities to cross-examine witnesses, and was named by a co-accused as an active participant. The Court held the enhancement was made within reasonable time and that he did not deserve retention in the police force, and dismissed the writ petition. His Letters Patent Appeal and review were also dismissed, making the dismissal final.", "summary_verified": "Constable of the Motihari District Police was departmentally proceeded for complicity in Raxaul P.S. Case No. 20 of 2002, the abduction of a Raxaul resident for ransom, in which his home telephone was used for ransom demands and the victim was confined at his house. The Superintendent of Police initially withheld three increments, but the Director General-cum-Inspector General enhanced the penalty to dismissal under Rule 853A of the Bihar Police Manual. The Patna High Court found that the constable had accepted the guilt finding, declined opportunities to cross-examine witnesses, and was named by a co-accused as an active participant. The Court held the enhancement was made within reasonable time and that he did not deserve retention in the police force, and dismissed the writ petition. His Letters Patent Appeal and review were also dismissed, making the dismissal final.", "court_quote": "Petitioner having not questioned his complicity in the crime of abduction in the initial punishment order, in my opinion, he is not well advised to question his complicity in the same crime when punishment has been enhanced. In any view of the matter, petitioner having been named by one of the co-accused as active participant in the occurrence and named as suspect in the charge-sheet (sic) not deserve to be retained in the police force.", "court_quote_para": "6", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Patna HC dismissed writ; DGP's enhanced dismissal of kidnapping-complicit constable upheld (LPA/review also dismissed).", "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": "2012-01-06", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Patna High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Patna High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "(2012) 2 PLJR 843", "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": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/732778/arbind-kumar-singh-appellant-hash-the-state-of-bihar-and-others-respondent/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/775257/arbind-kumar-singh-appellant-hash-the-state-of-bihar-and-others-respondent-1/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-83" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-104-003", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2012-0002", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0053", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Narhan Bazar, Bibhutipur Police Constable vs The State Of Bihar & Ors", "display_title_redacted": "Narhan Bazar, Bibhutipur Police Constable vs The State Of Bihar & Ors", "state": "Bihar", "district": "Samastipur", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Narhan Bazar, Bibhutipur", "police_station_or_unit": "Narhan Bazar police post / Bibhutipur Police Station", "court": "Patna High Court", "court_as_verified": "Patna High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Narhan Bazar, Bibhutipur Police Constable vs The State Of Bihar & Ors", "case_number": "Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case No. 9314 of 1998", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Shivaji Pandey" ], "judgment_date": "2012-02-06", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2012, "incident_date": "1989-03-06", "incident_year": 1989, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "disproportionate_force", "subcategory": "disproportionate_force", "subcategory_display": "disproportionate force", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "IPC 307", "IPC 34", "Arms Act 1959 s.27" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "unit": "Narhan Bazar, Samastipur", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2_gemapi:unclear" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": "unclear", "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.06, "jev_p_culpable": 0.93, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Constable, Narhan Bazar, Samastipur" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "female", "descriptor": "Narhan Bazar, Bibhutipur woman" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Narhan Bazar, Bibhutipur man" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": null, "descriptor": "Narhan Bazar, Bibhutipur resident" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": null, "descriptor": "Narhan Bazar, Bibhutipur resident" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": null, "descriptor": "Narhan Bazar, Bibhutipur resident" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": null, "descriptor": "Narhan Bazar, Bibhutipur resident" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": null, "descriptor": "Narhan Bazar, Bibhutipur resident" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 7, "sentence_type": "dismissal", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/102197345/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Patna High Court upheld the dismissal of Bihar Police constable, posted at Narhan Bazar in Samastipur for law-and-order duty, who quarrelled with vegetable vendor a Narhan Bazar, Bibhutipur woman over 25 paise on March 6, 1989, assaulted her and her husband, then returned with his service rifle and an associate and fired twice, killing one person and injuring four (Bibhutipur PS Case No. 34 of 1989). A departmental enquiry proved the charges, leading to dismissal by the SP Samastipur on September 28, 1995, affirmed on appeal and memorial; the constable was also criminally convicted and sentenced to 5 years RI under Sections 307/34 IPC and 2 years RI under the Arms Act, upheld on criminal appeal. Holding the misconduct of the highest degree and a barbaric crime, the Court found dismissal not disproportionate and dismissed the writ petition. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Patna High Court upheld the dismissal of Bihar Police constable, posted at Narhan Bazar in Samastipur for law-and-order duty, who quarrelled with vegetable vendor a Narhan Bazar, Bibhutipur woman over 25 paise on March 6, 1989, assaulted her and her husband, then returned with his service rifle and an associate and fired twice, killing one person and injuring four (Bibhutipur PS Case No. 34 of 1989). A departmental enquiry proved the charges, leading to dismissal by the SP Samastipur on September 28, 1995, affirmed on appeal and memorial; the constable was also criminally convicted and sentenced to 5 years RI under Sections 307/34 IPC and 2 years RI under the Arms Act, upheld on criminal appeal. Holding the misconduct of the highest degree and a barbaric crime, the Court found dismissal not disproportionate and dismissed the writ petition.", "court_quote": "for a petty matter, petitioner used his service rifle and killed one person and injured others without any provocation and, as such, he does not deserve any sympathy from this Court. This act is not only highest degree of misconduct but at same time a barbaric and heinous crime against the society.", "court_quote_para": "9", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Patna HC upheld dismissal of constable for firing service rifle in market over petty dispute, killing one and injuring four.", "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": "2012-02-06", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Patna High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Patna High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case No. 9314 of 1998", "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" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/102197345/", "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": [ "chunk-02", "chunk-r01" ], "merged_case_id": "BIHAR2-005", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2014-0021", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0877", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Bausi Police Assistant Sub-Inspector vs State of Bihar", "display_title_redacted": "Bausi Police Assistant Sub-Inspector vs State of Bihar", "state": "Bihar", "district": "Banka", "district_at_time": "Bhagalpur", "city_town": "Bausi", "police_station_or_unit": "Bausi Police Station", "court": "Patna High Court", "court_as_verified": "Patna High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Bausi Police Assistant Sub-Inspector vs State of Bihar", "case_number": "Criminal Appeal (SJ) No. 347 of 1993", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Dharnidhar Jha" ], "judgment_date": "2014-03-07", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2014, "incident_date": "1978-07-07", "incident_year": 1978, "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": "conviction_upheld", "sections": [ "IPC 161", "PC Act 1947 s.5(1)(d)" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Assistant Sub-Inspector", "role": "convicted", "unit": "Bausi Police Station", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Assistant Sub-Inspector, Bausi Police Station" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "age": null, "gender": "male", "name": null, "descriptor": "Bausi man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "mixed", "sentence_max_years": 1.5, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/112755403/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The judgment of the Patna High Court records the following account. ASI, investigating a theft case at Bausi police station, demanded Rs. 200 from the accused to file a final report in his favour, and was caught in a vigilance trap with the marked notes. The Special Judge (Vigilance) convicted him under section 161 IPC and section 5(1)(d) of the Prevention of Corruption Act 1947, sentencing him to 1.5 years' rigorous imprisonment plus Rs. 1,000 fine on each count. The Patna High Court held the demand and acceptance proved through trap witnesses, rejected attacks on the non-examination of the deceased complainant, and dismissed the appeal without reducing the sentence.", "summary_verified": "ASI, investigating a theft case at Bausi police station, demanded Rs. 200 from the accused to file a final report in his favour, and was caught in a vigilance trap with the marked notes. The Special Judge (Vigilance) convicted him under section 161 IPC and section 5(1)(d) of the Prevention of Corruption Act 1947, sentencing him to 1.5 years' rigorous imprisonment plus Rs. 1,000 fine on each count. The Patna High Court held the demand and acceptance proved through trap witnesses, rejected attacks on the non-examination of the deceased complainant, and dismissed the appeal without reducing the sentence.", "court_quote": "The witnesses who have come forward have stated to the fact that the demand of bribe were made and the same was paid and accepted. The offence under Section 5 (1) (d), that is, of criminal misconduct on account of abusing the official position which was held by the appellant in obtaining the pecuniary advantage in the sum of Rs.200/- appears clearly established from the facts and in that view of the matter I do not find any reason to interfere with the findings of guilty.", "court_quote_para": "18", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "ASI's Rs.200 bribe-trap conviction (1.5 years RI + fine) sustained on appeal.", "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": null, "action_type": "Conviction", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Trial court (as recorded in the Patna High Court judgment)", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Patna High Court judgment.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation", "source": "Criminal Appeal (SJ) No. 347 of 1993", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." }, { "date": "2014-03-07", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Patna High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Patna High Court dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)", "source": "Criminal Appeal (SJ) No. 347 of 1993", "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": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/112755403/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-72" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP2-47-001", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2015-0022", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1012", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Madhubani District Police Constable vs The State of Bihar and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Madhubani District Police Constable vs The State of Bihar and Others", "state": "Bihar", "district": "Madhubani", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": null, "police_station_or_unit": "Madhubani District Police", "court": "Patna High Court", "court_as_verified": "Patna High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Madhubani District Police Constable vs The State of Bihar and Others", "case_number": "Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case No. 2408 of 2014", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Ajay Kumar Tripathi" ], "judgment_date": "2015-02-16", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2015, "incident_date": "1981-09-20", "incident_year": 1981, "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": "Constable", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "Madhubani District Police, Bihar Police", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Constable, Madhubani District Police, Bihar Police" } ], "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/76468627/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The judgment of the Patna High Court records the following account. [name withheld], appointed as a constable in Purnea in September 1981, challenged his May 2012 dismissal by the Superintendent of Police, Madhubani, for securing the job with a forged school certificate. The court found he had produced an Arwal school certificate showing a 1956 birth date while records of Maheshwari Academy, Katihar showed a 1949 birth date and an intermediate pass in 1967, making him over-age at appointment. The court held a regular departmental proceeding had proved the forgery, the appellate authority had rightly refused interference, and no mercy was due to one who cheated the State to join the police. The writ petition was dismissed and the dismissal stands. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "[name withheld], appointed as a constable in Purnea in September 1981, challenged his May 2012 dismissal by the Superintendent of Police, Madhubani, for securing the job with a forged school certificate. The court found he had produced an Arwal school certificate showing a 1956 birth date while records of Maheshwari Academy, Katihar showed a 1949 birth date and an intermediate pass in 1967, making him over-age at appointment. The court held a regular departmental proceeding had proved the forgery, the appellate authority had rightly refused interference, and no mercy was due to one who cheated the State to join the police. The writ petition was dismissed and the dismissal stands.", "court_quote": "He had procured the employment after committing forgery and had cheated the State for getting the employment.", "court_quote_para": "n/a", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Patna HC dismissed the writ; dismissal of constable for securing appointment by forged certificate upheld.", "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": "2015-02-16", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Patna High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Patna High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case No. 2408 of 2014", "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": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/76468627/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-86" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-105-013", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2015-0023", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1010", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Railway Protection Force Constable vs The Union of India and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Railway Protection Force Constable vs The Union of India and Others", "state": "Bihar", "district": "Katihar", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Katihar", "police_station_or_unit": "RPF Post Kumedpur, Katihar Division, N.F. Railway", "court": "Patna High Court", "court_as_verified": "Patna High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Railway Protection Force Constable vs The Union of India and Others", "case_number": "C.W.J.C. No. 7390 of 2014", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Shivaji Pandey" ], "judgment_date": "2015-02-18", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2015, "incident_date": "1993-01-01", "incident_year": 1993, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "IPC 363", "IPC 366A", "IPC 376", "IPC 422/34", "Arms Act s.25A", "Arms Act s.26" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "role": "convicted", "unit": "Railway Protection Force, Katihar Division", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Constable, Railway Protection Force, Katihar Division" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "female", "descriptor": "Katihar woman" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "dismissal", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "railway", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/90075879/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Patna High Court sustained the dismissal of RPF Constable, imposed on account of his conviction for kidnapping and raping a minor girl and Arms Act offences for which he served ten years imprisonment. The court held that though the order dispensing with an enquiry lacked foundation, a remand would be a useless formality given the admitted heinous conviction involving moral turpitude. It declared the dismissal illegal with retrospective effect but kept it in operation prospectively from 15 September 2011, with back salary for 1993-2011. The dismissal therefore stands. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Patna High Court sustained the dismissal of RPF Constable, imposed on account of his conviction for kidnapping and raping a minor girl and Arms Act offences for which he served ten years imprisonment. The court held that though the order dispensing with an enquiry lacked foundation, a remand would be a useless formality given the admitted heinous conviction involving moral turpitude. It declared the dismissal illegal with retrospective effect but kept it in operation prospectively from 15 September 2011, with back salary for 1993-2011. The dismissal therefore stands.", "court_quote": "the order of dismissal with retrospective effect is illegal, but will remain in operation prospectively.", "court_quote_para": "n/a", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Dismissal of rape-convict RPF constable sustained prospectively; writ partly allowed only on retrospectivity.", "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": "2015-02-18", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Patna High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Patna High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "C.W.J.C. No. 7390 of 2014", "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": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/90075879/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-85" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-105-011", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2015-0004", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0049", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Sono Man vs The State Of Bihar & Ors", "display_title_redacted": "Sono Man vs The State Of Bihar & Ors", "state": "Bihar", "district": "Jamui", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Sono", "police_station_or_unit": "Sono Police Station / Jamui District Jail", "court": "Patna High Court", "court_as_verified": "Patna High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Sono Man vs The State Of Bihar & Ors", "case_number": "Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case No. 13577 of 2010", "citation": "AIR 2015 PATNA 141, (2015) 4 PAT LJR 277", "judges": [ "Hemant Kumar Srivastava" ], "judgment_date": "2015-03-20", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2015, "incident_date": "2010-04-11", "incident_year": 2010, "category": "Custodial death", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "custodial_death", "subcategory": "custodial_death", "subcategory_display": "custodial death", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation", "sections": [ "Constitution of India Art. 21", "Constitution of India Art. 226" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Officer-in-Charge", "unit": "Sono Police Station", "role": "named_only", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:named_only", "key2:no", "key2_agy:no", "key2_union:unclear", "key2_gemapi:unclear", "key2_openrouter:no" ], "ledger_role": "named_only", "key2": "no", "key2_agy": "no", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "unclear", "key2_gemapi": "unclear", "key2_openrouter": "no", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.92, "jev_p_culpable": 0.05, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Officer-in-Charge, Sono Police Station" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": 28, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Sono man, age 28" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 2000000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/105046068/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Patna High Court allowed a writ petition filed by Sunaina Devi seeking compensation for the custodial death of her husband, a Sono man, who died on April 11, 2010 after being arrested by Sono police and lodged in Jamui District Jail. The inquiry records and medical evidence revealed that the deceased was brought to jail with severe external injury marks, and the post-mortem doctor confirmed excessive hemorrhage from assault leading to cardiorespiratory failure. Holding that the fundamental right to life under Article 21 was violated by State officials while the deceased was in custody, the Court directed the State of Bihar to pay Rs. 20,00,000 compensation to the petitioner and the victim's family, with liberty to initiate disciplinary proceedings against responsible officials. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Patna High Court allowed a writ petition filed by Sunaina Devi seeking compensation for the custodial death of her husband, a Sono man, who died on April 11, 2010 after being arrested by Sono police and lodged in Jamui District Jail. The inquiry records and medical evidence revealed that the deceased was brought to jail with severe external injury marks, and the post-mortem doctor confirmed excessive hemorrhage from assault leading to cardiorespiratory failure. Holding that the fundamental right to life under Article 21 was violated by State officials while the deceased was in custody, the Court directed the State of Bihar to pay Rs. 20,00,000 compensation to the petitioner and the victim's family, with liberty to initiate disciplinary proceedings against responsible officials.", "court_quote": "In the present case, it is prima facie established that fundamental right of the deceased was violated by the officials of State Government while he was lodged in jail custody and, therefore, in my view, the State cannot escape from the liabilities of making payment of compensation to the legal heirs of the deceased.", "court_quote_para": "13", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Patna HC found custodial death due to assault in custody and awarded Rs. 20,00,000 compensation to deceased widow and family.", "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": "Custodial death", "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": "2015-03-20", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Patna High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Patna High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 2,000,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "AIR 2015 PATNA 141, (2015) 4 PAT LJR 277", "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": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/105046068/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-02" ], "merged_case_id": "BIHAR2-001", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2015-0036", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1013", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Motihari District Police Constable vs The State of Bihar and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Motihari District Police Constable vs The State of Bihar and Others", "state": "Bihar", "district": "East Champaran", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Raxaul", "police_station_or_unit": "Motihari District Police (Raxaul P.S. Case No. 20 of 2002)", "court": "Patna High Court", "court_as_verified": "Patna High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Motihari District Police Constable vs The State of Bihar and Others", "case_number": "Civil Review No. 124 of 2014 in L.P.A. No. 227 of 2012", "citation": null, "judges": [ "I. A. Ansari", "Ashwani Kumar Singh" ], "judgment_date": "2015-11-27", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2015, "incident_date": "2002-02-13", "incident_year": 2002, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "IPC 364A", "IPC 34", "IPC 120B", "CPC Order XLVII Rule 1" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "Motihari District Police, Bihar Police", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Constable, Motihari District Police, Bihar Police" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "age": null, "gender": null, "name": null, "descriptor": "Raxaul resident" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "dismissal", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/2275886/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The judgment of the Patna High Court records the following account. [name withheld], a 1999-recruited Bihar Police constable posted at Motihari, sought review of the dismissal of his appeal against the termination of his service for complicity in the February 2002 kidnapping of a Raxaul resident for ransom. The court recorded that a departmental enquiry had found his home telephone was used in the crime, the victim was kept at his house, and he associated with a known criminal, leading the DGP to enhance an initial minor penalty to dismissal in January 2006. The court held the review was merely an attempt at a re-hearing on merits beyond Order XLVII Rule 1 CPC and disclosed no error apparent. The review application was dismissed as devoid of merit, and the dismissal stands. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "[name withheld], a 1999-recruited Bihar Police constable posted at Motihari, sought review of the dismissal of his appeal against the termination of his service for complicity in the February 2002 kidnapping of a Raxaul resident for ransom. The court recorded that a departmental enquiry had found his home telephone was used in the crime, the victim was kept at his house, and he associated with a known criminal, leading the DGP to enhance an initial minor penalty to dismissal in January 2006. The court held the review was merely an attempt at a re-hearing on merits beyond Order XLVII Rule 1 CPC and disclosed no error apparent. The review application was dismissed as devoid of merit, and the dismissal stands.", "court_quote": "The application, being devoid of any merit, is dismissed.", "court_quote_para": "15", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Patna HC dismissed the review; dismissal of constable for complicity in kidnapping for ransom stands.", "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": "2015-11-27", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Patna High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Patna High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "Civil Review No. 124 of 2014 in L.P.A. No. 227 of 2012", "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": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/2275886/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-86" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-105-014", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2016-0018", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1019", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Railway Police Constable vs The State of Bihar and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Railway Police Constable vs The State of Bihar and Others", "state": "Bihar", "district": "Bhagalpur", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Kharik", "police_station_or_unit": "Rail Police, Katihar (Kharik Railway Station post)", "court": "Patna High Court", "court_as_verified": "Patna High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Railway Police Constable vs The State of Bihar and Others", "case_number": "Letters Patent Appeal No. 1620 of 2012", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Hemant Gupta", "Navaniti Prasad Singh" ], "judgment_date": "2016-03-01", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2016, "incident_date": "2000-01-24", "incident_year": 2000, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "IPC 395", "IPC 397", "IPC 120B", "CrPC s.164" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "unit": "Railway Police, Katihar", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Constable, Railway Police, Katihar" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": null, "sentence_type": "dismissal", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/64059240/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "[name withheld], a Katihar Rail Police constable posted at Kharik station, was dismissed in May 2001 for complicity in the January 2000 armed attack on his own police post in which personnel were injured and arms looted. The court held the co-accused Section 164 statement was relevant departmental evidence, the Evidence Act does not strictly govern departmental enquiries, and no prejudice from procedural lapses had been proved. The court found no error in the Single Bench order upholding the punishment. The appeal was dismissed and the dismissal stands.", "summary_verified": "[name withheld], a Katihar Rail Police constable posted at Kharik station, was dismissed in May 2001 for complicity in the January 2000 armed attack on his own police post in which personnel were injured and arms looted. The court held the co-accused Section 164 statement was relevant departmental evidence, the Evidence Act does not strictly govern departmental enquiries, and no prejudice from procedural lapses had been proved. The court found no error in the Single Bench order upholding the punishment. The appeal was dismissed and the dismissal stands.", "court_quote": "In view of the above, we do not find any error in the order passed by the learned Single Bench of this Court which may warrant interference in the present Letters Patent Appeal.", "court_quote_para": "15", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Patna HC Division Bench dismissed the LPA; dismissal of Rail Police constable for complicity in armed dacoity stands.", "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": "2016-03-01", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Patna High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Patna High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "Letters Patent Appeal No. 1620 of 2012", "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": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/64059240/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-86" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-105-020", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2016-0021", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1015", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "The State of Bihar and Others vs Government Railway Police Constable", "display_title_redacted": "The State of Bihar and Others vs Government Railway Police Constable", "state": "Bihar", "district": "Saran", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Chapra", "police_station_or_unit": "Government Railway Police, Railway P.S. Chapra", "court": "Patna High Court", "court_as_verified": "Patna High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "The State of Bihar and Others vs Government Railway Police Constable", "case_number": "Letters Patent Appeal No. 1790 of 2012", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Navaniti Prasad Singh", "Nilu Agrawal" ], "judgment_date": "2016-03-29", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2016, "incident_date": null, "incident_year": null, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "corruption", "admin_subcategory": "extortion", "subcategory": "extortion", "subcategory_display": "extortion", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "unit": "Government Railway Police, Chapra", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Constable, Government Railway Police, Chapra" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": null, "sentence_type": "dismissal", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/136354547/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "[name withheld], a Government Railway Police constable attached to Railway Police Station Chapra, was dismissed in November 2005 after an enquiry found he had boarded a running train in uniform and extorted money from passengers. A Single Bench upheld the guilt finding but set aside the dismissal on hardship grounds, and the State appealed. The Division Bench held that dismissal for such grave misconduct by one meant to protect citizens could not be called disproportionate. The appeal was allowed, the Single Bench relief set aside, and the dismissal restored.", "summary_verified": "[name withheld], a Government Railway Police constable attached to Railway Police Station Chapra, was dismissed in November 2005 after an enquiry found he had boarded a running train in uniform and extorted money from passengers. A Single Bench upheld the guilt finding but set aside the dismissal on hardship grounds, and the State appealed. The Division Bench held that dismissal for such grave misconduct by one meant to protect citizens could not be called disproportionate. The appeal was allowed, the Single Bench relief set aside, and the dismissal restored.", "court_quote": "When we look to the facts of the present case, the delinquency is grave. An Officer of Uniformed Service(Constable) gets into a running Train and starts extorting money from the passengers and is apprehended there itself.", "court_quote_para": "5", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Patna HC Division Bench allowed the State appeal and restored the GRP constable dismissal for extorting passengers.", "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": "2016-03-29", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Patna High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Patna High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "Letters Patent Appeal No. 1790 of 2012", "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": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/136354547/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-86" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-105-016", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2016-0022", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1005", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Bihar Military Police Constable vs State of Bihar", "display_title_redacted": "Bihar Military Police Constable vs State of Bihar", "state": "Bihar", "district": "Munger", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Jamalpur", "police_station_or_unit": "Bihar Military Police-X, Jamalpur", "court": "Patna High Court", "court_as_verified": "Patna High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Bihar Military Police Constable vs State of Bihar", "case_number": "L.P.A. No. 99 of 2014", "citation": "(2016) 2 BBCJ 465; (2016) 3 PLJR 108", "judges": [ "Hemant Gupta", "Ahsanuddin Amanullah" ], "judgment_date": "2016-04-06", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2016, "incident_date": null, "incident_year": null, "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": "Constable", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "Bihar Military Police-X, Jamalpur", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Constable, Bihar Military Police-X, Jamalpur" } ], "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.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/777490/diwan-firoj-khan-appellant-hash-state-of-bihar-respondent/", "secondary_sources": [ "(2016) 2 BBCJ 465", "(2016) 3 PLJR 108" ], "summary": "The Patna High Court Division Bench dismissed the letters patent appeal of BMP Constable against his dismissal dated 22 November 2006 for 340 days of unauthorised absence. The court held that adequate opportunity had been afforded at every stage, with notices served through his father, post and special messenger, and that he had evaded participation and refused cross-examination. It found no procedural irregularity in the enquiry and declined to interfere with the penalty. The dismissal, already affirmed in departmental appeal and writ, therefore stands.", "summary_verified": "The Patna High Court Division Bench dismissed the letters patent appeal of BMP Constable against his dismissal dated 22 November 2006 for 340 days of unauthorised absence. The court held that adequate opportunity had been afforded at every stage, with notices served through his father, post and special messenger, and that he had evaded participation and refused cross-examination. It found no procedural irregularity in the enquiry and declined to interfere with the penalty. The dismissal, already affirmed in departmental appeal and writ, therefore stands.", "court_quote": "There is no procedural irregularity in the conduct of the proceedings. Since there is no procedural irregularity or illegality, we do not find any error in the order of the disciplinary authority which may warrant any interference in the present appeal.", "court_quote_para": "6", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "LPA against dismissal for 340 days unauthorised absence dismissed; dismissal stands.", "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": "2016-04-06", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Patna High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Patna High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "(2016) 2 BBCJ 465; (2016) 3 PLJR 108", "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": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/777490/diwan-firoj-khan-appellant-hash-state-of-bihar-respondent/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "(2016) 2 BBCJ 465", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "(2016) 3 PLJR 108", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-85" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-105-006", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2016-0025", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1007", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Union of India vs Patna Police Constable", "display_title_redacted": "Union of India vs Patna Police Constable", "state": "Bihar", "district": "Patna", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Patna", "police_station_or_unit": "CISF Company 613 (Shatabdi Bhawan Strong Room election duty, Patna)", "court": "Jharkhand High Court", "court_as_verified": "Jharkhand High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Union of India vs Patna Police Constable", "case_number": "L.P.A. No. 267 of 2013", "citation": "(2016) 4 AIR Jhar R 696; (2017) 1 JLJR 337", "judges": [ "D. N. Patel", "Ananda Sen" ], "judgment_date": "2016-04-27", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2016, "incident_date": "1999-10-07", "incident_year": 1999, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "dereliction_evidence_tampering", "subcategory": "dereliction_evidence_tampering", "subcategory_display": "dereliction evidence tampering", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "CISF Act 1968 s.8" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "Central Industrial Security Force", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Constable, Central Industrial Security Force" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 0, "sentence_type": "dismissal", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "central_armed", "primary_source_url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/484032/union-of-india-appellant-hash-harendra-singh-respondent/", "secondary_sources": [ "(2016) 4 AIR Jhar R 696", "(2017) 1 JLJR 337" ], "summary": "The Jharkhand High Court Division Bench allowed the Union of India appeal and restored the dismissal of CISF Constable, setting aside the Single Bench order of 8 March 2013. The court held that his admitted abandonment of the Shatabdi Bhawan strong-room post during the 1999 Lok Sabha elections, leaving a 7.62mm rifle and 50 rounds unguarded, amounted to dereliction, negligence, indiscipline and wilful disobedience. It disbelieved the illness defence and held dismissal was not disproportionate for a member of a disciplined force. The dismissal of 25 September 2000, already affirmed in appeal and revision, therefore stands.", "summary_verified": "The Jharkhand High Court Division Bench allowed the Union of India appeal and restored the dismissal of CISF Constable, setting aside the Single Bench order of 8 March 2013. The court held that his admitted abandonment of the Shatabdi Bhawan strong-room post during the 1999 Lok Sabha elections, leaving a 7.62mm rifle and 50 rounds unguarded, amounted to dereliction, negligence, indiscipline and wilful disobedience. It disbelieved the illness defence and held dismissal was not disproportionate for a member of a disciplined force. The dismissal of 25 September 2000, already affirmed in appeal and revision, therefore stands.", "court_quote": "As a cumulative effect of the aforesaid facts, reasons and judicial pronouncements, the judgment and order delivered by the learned Single Judge in W.P. (S) No. 864 of 2002 dated 8th March, 2013 is, hereby, quashed and set aside and we, hereby, uphold the order passed by the disciplinary authority dated 25th September, 2000 (Annexure-3) as well as the order passed by the appellate authority dated 08th January, 2001 (Annexure-4) and the order passed by the revisional authority dated 25th July, 2001(Annexure- 5).", "court_quote_para": "8", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Union appeal allowed; Single Bench order set aside and CISF dismissal restored.", "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": "2016-04-27", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Jharkhand High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Jharkhand High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "(2016) 4 AIR Jhar R 696; (2017) 1 JLJR 337", "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": "wrong_facts", "corrections_applied": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/484032/union-of-india-appellant-hash-harendra-singh-respondent/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "(2016) 4 AIR Jhar R 696", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "(2017) 1 JLJR 337", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-85" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-105-008", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2016-0031", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1016", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "The Union of India and Others vs BSF Constable", "display_title_redacted": "The Union of India and Others vs BSF Constable", "state": "Bihar", "district": "Madhubani", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Phulparas", "police_station_or_unit": "113 Battalion, BSF", "court": "Patna High Court", "court_as_verified": "Patna High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "The Union of India and Others vs BSF Constable", "case_number": "Letters Patent Appeal No. 451 of 2014", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Hemant Gupta", "Ahsanuddin Amanullah" ], "judgment_date": "2016-08-11", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2016, "incident_date": "2007-03-02", "incident_year": 2007, "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": "Constable", "unit": "113 Battalion, BSF", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Constable, 113 Battalion, BSF" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 0, "sentence_type": "dismissal", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "central_armed", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/30374558/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "[name withheld], a BSF constable of 113 Battalion enrolled in 1990, was dismissed in May 2007 after pleading guilty before the Security Force Court to a 33-day overstay of leave. The court recorded that he was a habitual offender with 11 summary trials and 21 overstays in about 17 years including a 2006 conviction, and that due process with opportunities to defend had been afforded. The court held the Single Bench had erred in setting aside the dismissal. The Union appeal was allowed, the Single Bench order set aside, and the dismissal restored.", "summary_verified": "[name withheld], a BSF constable of 113 Battalion enrolled in 1990, was dismissed in May 2007 after pleading guilty before the Security Force Court to a 33-day overstay of leave. The court recorded that he was a habitual offender with 11 summary trials and 21 overstays in about 17 years including a 2006 conviction, and that due process with opportunities to defend had been afforded. The court held the Single Bench had erred in setting aside the dismissal. The Union appeal was allowed, the Single Bench order set aside, and the dismissal restored.", "court_quote": "Therefore, we find that the order of the learned Single Bench cannot be sustained. The same is, thus, set aside. Consequently, the writ application is dismissed.", "court_quote_para": "16", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Patna HC Division Bench allowed the Union appeal and restored the BSF constable dismissal for habitual overstay.", "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": "2016-08-11", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Patna High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Patna High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "Letters Patent Appeal No. 451 of 2014", "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": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/30374558/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-86" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-105-017", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2016-0008", "status": "overturned", "merged_id": "CWC-0046", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "The State of Bihar and Others vs Patna Police Constable and others", "display_title_redacted": "The State of Bihar and Others vs Patna Police Constable and others", "state": "Bihar", "district": "Patna", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Patna", "police_station_or_unit": "Dog Squad, CID, Bihar, Patna", "court": "Patna High Court", "court_as_verified": "Patna High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "The State of Bihar and Others vs Patna Police Constable and others", "case_number": "Letters Patent Appeal No. 516 of 2014 (arising out of CWJC No. 471 of 2004)", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Hemant Gupta", "Ahsanuddin Amanullah" ], "judgment_date": "2016-11-16", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2016, "incident_date": "1988-08-08", "incident_year": 1988, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "corruption", "admin_subcategory": "extortion", "subcategory": "extortion", "subcategory_display": "extortion", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "unit": "Dog Squad, Crime Investigation Department (CID), Bihar, Patna", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2_gemapi:unclear", "history:conviction_set_aside" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": "unclear", "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.93, "jev_p_culpable": 0.85, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "conviction_set_aside", "name_public": null, "display": "Constable, Dog Squad, Crime Investigation Department (CID), Bihar, Patna" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "age": null, "gender": null, "name": null, "descriptor": "Patna resident" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "dismissal", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/96641301/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "A Division Bench of the Patna High Court restored the dismissal of CID Dog Squad constable [name withheld], caught red-handed with Rs 40,000 blackmail money by a raiding party on 8 August 1988. Though convicted in the criminal case in 1994 and acquitted on appeal in 1996, he was dismissed after a departmental enquiry, a penalty affirmed in appeal and memorial but set aside by a Single Judge in 2013. The Division Bench held the Single Judge had impermissibly re-appreciated evidence, found no procedural infirmity on perusing the original file, and held criminal acquittal does not conclude departmental proceedings. The LPA was allowed and the writ dismissed. Later proceedings: on 23 April 2025, the Supreme Court of India set aside the order recorded in this judgment (concerning [name withheld] [name withheld]); the outcome recorded here therefore does not stand. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "A Division Bench of the Patna High Court restored the dismissal of CID Dog Squad constable [name withheld], caught red-handed with Rs 40,000 blackmail money by a raiding party on 8 August 1988. Though convicted in the criminal case in 1994 and acquitted on appeal in 1996, he was dismissed after a departmental enquiry, a penalty affirmed in appeal and memorial but set aside by a Single Judge in 2013. The Division Bench held the Single Judge had impermissibly re-appreciated evidence, found no procedural infirmity on perusing the original file, and held criminal acquittal does not conclude departmental proceedings. The LPA was allowed and the writ dismissed.", "court_quote": "The respondent was caught with Rs. 40,000/- by the raiding party and taken into custody", "court_quote_para": "2", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "LPA allowed; dismissal for Rs 40,000 blackmail restored, criminal acquittal held no bar.", "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": "2016-11-16", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Patna High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Patna High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "Letters Patent Appeal No. 516 of 2014 (arising out of CWJC No. 471 of 2004)", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." }, { "date": "2025-04-23", "action_type": "Order set aside", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Supreme Court of India", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "Later proceedings: on 23 April 2025, the Supreme Court of India set aside the order recorded in this judgment (concerning [name withheld] [name withheld]); the outcome recorded here therefore does not stand.", "disposition": "Later proceeding · Conviction not standing", "source": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/120966011/", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." } ], "later_proceedings": [ { "court": "Supreme Court of India", "date": "2025-04-23", "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/120966011/", "outcome": "conviction_set_aside" } ], "final_outcome_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/120966011/", "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": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/96641301/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-36" ], "merged_case_id": "BIHAR1-009", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2017-0001", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0038", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Alipur Man vs The State of Bihar", "display_title_redacted": "Alipur Man vs The State of Bihar", "state": "Bihar", "district": "Gaya", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Alipur", "police_station_or_unit": "Alipur Police Station", "court": "Patna High Court", "court_as_verified": "Patna High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Alipur Man vs The State of Bihar", "case_number": "Criminal Miscellaneous No. 33693 of 2016", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Aditya Kumar Trivedi" ], "judgment_date": "2017-01-11", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2017, "incident_date": "2016-06-08", "incident_year": 2016, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "illegal_detention_false_imprisonment", "subcategory": "illegal_detention_false_imprisonment", "subcategory_display": "illegal detention false imprisonment", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation", "sections": [ "Constitution of India Art. 21", "Constitution of India Art. 22(2)", "CrPC s.57" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Sub-Inspector", "unit": "Alipur Police Station", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2:no", "key2_agy:no", "key2_gemapi:unclear", "key2_openrouter:no" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "no", "key2_agy": "no", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": "unclear", "key2_openrouter": "no", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.4, "jev_p_culpable": 0.4, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Sub-Inspector, Alipur Police Station" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Assistant Sub-Inspector", "unit": "Alipur Police Station", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2:no", "key2_agy:no", "key2_gemapi:unclear", "key2_openrouter:no" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "no", "key2_agy": "no", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": "unclear", "key2_openrouter": "no", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.32, "jev_p_culpable": 0.37, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Assistant Sub-Inspector, Alipur Police Station" } ], "officer_count": 2, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Alipur man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 50000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/134093468/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Patna High Court held that police officers at Alipur Police Station, Gaya illegally detained accused [name withheld] in police lockup from June 8 to June 13, 2016 without producing him before a magistrate within 24 hours. A departmental inquiry ordered by the High Court and completed by the SSP Gaya confirmed the violation and recommended suspension and departmental proceedings against SHO and IO ASI. The Court ruled that the police violated Article 22(2) of the Constitution and Section 57 of the CrPC, awarding Rs. 50,000 compensation against the State with liberty to recover the sum from the responsible officers. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Patna High Court held that police officers at Alipur Police Station, Gaya illegally detained accused [name withheld] in police lockup from June 8 to June 13, 2016 without producing him before a magistrate within 24 hours. A departmental inquiry ordered by the High Court and completed by the SSP Gaya confirmed the violation and recommended suspension and departmental proceedings against SHO and IO ASI. The Court ruled that the police violated Article 22(2) of the Constitution and Section 57 of the CrPC, awarding Rs. 50,000 compensation against the State with liberty to recover the sum from the responsible officers.", "court_quote": "Furthermore, though petitioner being an accused was liable to be confined, but such confinement at the end of police officials was not permissible beyond period of 24 hours (excluding time consumed in production before nearest Court), and so, they have had illegally encroached upon fundamental right of the petitioner whereupon, petitioner is entitled to get compensation and is accordingly awarded.", "court_quote_para": "18", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Patna HC awarded Rs. 50,000 compensation for illegal police lockup detention beyond 24 hours in violation of Art. 22.", "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": "2017-01-11", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Patna High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Patna High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 50,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "Criminal Miscellaneous No. 33693 of 2016", "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": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/134093468/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-02" ], "merged_case_id": "BIHAR1-001", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2017-0015", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1024", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Bihar Military Police Constable vs The State of Bihar and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Bihar Military Police Constable vs The State of Bihar and Others", "state": "Bihar", "district": "Gaya", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Bodh Gaya", "police_station_or_unit": "Bihar Military Police-18, Bodh Gaya", "court": "Patna High Court", "court_as_verified": "Patna High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Bihar Military Police Constable vs The State of Bihar and Others", "case_number": "Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case No. 15626 of 2008", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Prabhat Kumar Jha" ], "judgment_date": "2017-01-28", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2017, "incident_date": "2000-05-07", "incident_year": 2000, "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": "Constable", "unit": "Bihar Military Police-18, Bodh Gaya", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Constable, Bihar Military Police-18, Bodh Gaya" } ], "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/76016717/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The judgment of the Patna High Court records the following account. [name withheld], a constable in Bihar Military Police-18 at Bodh Gaya, took four days leave from 07.05.2000, ignored recall notices dated 24.06.2000 and 12.09.2000, and rejoined only on 16.04.2001 with a sciatica certificate. The Commandant dismissed him on 04.01.2002 after enquiry; his appeal (DIG, 04.03.2003) and memorial (DG, 05.08.2004) were rejected. After his death, his widow [name withheld] challenged the dismissal under Article 226. The Court examined the service record, finding fifteen willful absences totalling 931 days overstay and six desertions in 14 years, and held the habitual-absence punishment required no interference. The writ petition was dismissed and the dismissal from service stands. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "[name withheld], a constable in Bihar Military Police-18 at Bodh Gaya, took four days leave from 07.05.2000, ignored recall notices dated 24.06.2000 and 12.09.2000, and rejoined only on 16.04.2001 with a sciatica certificate. The Commandant dismissed him on 04.01.2002 after enquiry; his appeal (DIG, 04.03.2003) and memorial (DG, 05.08.2004) were rejected. After his death, his widow [name withheld] challenged the dismissal under Article 226. The Court examined the service record, finding fifteen willful absences totalling 931 days overstay and six desertions in 14 years, and held the habitual-absence punishment required no interference. The writ petition was dismissed and the dismissal from service stands.", "court_quote": "Therefore, I find that the order of punishment inflicted on the husband of the petitioner does not require any interference and accordingly the writ petition is dismissed.", "court_quote_para": "6", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Primary source read; HC dismissed widow's writ, sustaining BMP constable's dismissal for habitual absence.", "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": "2017-01-28", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Patna High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Patna High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case No. 15626 of 2008", "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": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/76016717/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-87" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-105-025", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2017-0023", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1026", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "CRPF Constable vs The Union of India and Others", "display_title_redacted": "CRPF Constable vs The Union of India and Others", "state": "Bihar", "district": "Bhojpur", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Jagdishpur", "police_station_or_unit": "147 Battalion, CRPF, Kashipur Silchar", "court": "Patna High Court", "court_as_verified": "Patna High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "CRPF Constable vs The Union of India and Others", "case_number": "Letters Patent Appeal No. 1345 of 2014 (arising out of C.W.J.C. No. 11660 of 2008)", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Ajay Kumar Tripathi", "Nilu Agrawal" ], "judgment_date": "2017-04-28", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2017, "incident_date": "2007-01-01", "incident_year": 2007, "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": "Constable", "unit": "147 Battalion, CRPF (Kashipur, Silchar)", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Constable, 147 Battalion, CRPF (Kashipur, Silchar)" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 0, "sentence_type": "dismissal", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "central_armed", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/123739320/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The judgment of the Patna High Court records the following account. [name withheld] was appointed as a CRPF constable in 147 Battalion at Kashipur, Silchar on his declaration of Scheduled Tribe status. Verification by the Sub-Divisional Magistrate, Jagdishpur found the caste certificate forged and fake and the appellant outside the ST category, and the Commandant dismissed him on 25.10.2007. A Single Bench dismissed his writ (CWJC 11660/2008) on 07.05.2014 after traversing the enquiry. On appeal, the Division Bench held services obtained by foul method cannot be protected by any court and the direct beneficiary cannot be rewarded for his own wrong. The appeal was dismissed and the dismissal from service stands.", "summary_verified": "[name withheld] was appointed as a CRPF constable in 147 Battalion at Kashipur, Silchar on his declaration of Scheduled Tribe status. Verification by the Sub-Divisional Magistrate, Jagdishpur found the caste certificate forged and fake and the appellant outside the ST category, and the Commandant dismissed him on 25.10.2007. A Single Bench dismissed his writ (CWJC 11660/2008) on 07.05.2014 after traversing the enquiry. On appeal, the Division Bench held services obtained by foul method cannot be protected by any court and the direct beneficiary cannot be rewarded for his own wrong. The appeal was dismissed and the dismissal from service stands.", "court_quote": "After due examination of the order impugned and the materials, we come to the finding that the learned single Judge has committed no error in dismissing the writ application because the appellant cannot be rewarded for a wrong committed by him and him alone as he was the direct beneficiary. Appeal is dismissed.", "court_quote_para": "n/a", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Primary source read; Division Bench dismissed LPA, upholding dismissal for forged ST certificate.", "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": "2017-04-28", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Patna High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Patna High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "Letters Patent Appeal No. 1345 of 2014 (arising out of C.W.J.C. No. 11660 of 2008)", "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": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/123739320/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-87" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-105-027", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2017-0024", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1025", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Bihar Police Assistant Sub-Inspector vs The State of Bihar and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Bihar Police Assistant Sub-Inspector vs The State of Bihar and Others", "state": "Bihar", "district": "Aurangabad", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Daudnagar", "police_station_or_unit": "Daudnagar Police Station, Aurangabad", "court": "Patna High Court", "court_as_verified": "Patna High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Bihar Police Assistant Sub-Inspector vs The State of Bihar and Others", "case_number": "Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case No. 12262 of 2010", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Rakesh Kumar" ], "judgment_date": "2017-05-16", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2017, "incident_date": "1994-01-24", "incident_year": 1994, "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": "Assistant Sub-Inspector", "unit": "Bihar Police (Daudnagar Police Station, Aurangabad)", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Assistant Sub-Inspector, Bihar Police (Daudnagar Police Station, Aurangabad)" } ], "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/152515629/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "[name withheld], an Assistant Sub-Inspector posted at Daudnagar Police Station, Aurangabad, left for court work to Aurangabad on 24.01.1994 and absconded for about 630 days, reappearing only on 16.10.1995 at Police Centre Aurangabad. The DIG Magadh Range dismissed him on 14.02.2002 after a departmental proceeding in which he did not participate despite personal service of the charge memo; his memorial to the DGP was rejected on 26.08.2008. He challenged the dismissal under Article 226 alleging natural-justice violations. The Court examined the entire departmental record, found two witnesses had proved the charge with full opportunity given, and held 630-day absconsion rightly draws dismissal lest Force discipline suffer. The writ petition was dismissed and the dismissal from service stands. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "[name withheld], an Assistant Sub-Inspector posted at Daudnagar Police Station, Aurangabad, left for court work to Aurangabad on 24.01.1994 and absconded for about 630 days, reappearing only on 16.10.1995 at Police Centre Aurangabad. The DIG Magadh Range dismissed him on 14.02.2002 after a departmental proceeding in which he did not participate despite personal service of the charge memo; his memorial to the DGP was rejected on 26.08.2008. He challenged the dismissal under Article 226 alleging natural-justice violations. The Court examined the entire departmental record, found two witnesses had proved the charge with full opportunity given, and held 630-day absconsion rightly draws dismissal lest Force discipline suffer. The writ petition was dismissed and the dismissal from service stands.", "court_quote": "Considering the judgment of the Hon'ble Apex Court in Ashok Kumar Singh Case (Supra), the Court is of the opinion that since the petitioner remained absconding for about 630 days, the disciplinary authority has rightly passed order of dismissal of the petitioner. In such case there was no reason to take any lenient view, otherwise it would have hampered the discipline of the Armed Forces.", "court_quote_para": "6", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Primary source read; HC dismissed writ, upholding ASI's dismissal for 630-day absconsion.", "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": "2017-05-16", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Patna High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Patna High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case No. 12262 of 2010", "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": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/152515629/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-87" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-105-026", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2017-0030", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1020", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "CRPF Constable vs The Union of India and Others", "display_title_redacted": "CRPF Constable vs The Union of India and Others", "state": "Bihar", "district": "Gaya", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Barachatti", "police_station_or_unit": "205 COBRA Battalion, CRPF, Barachatti", "court": "Patna High Court", "court_as_verified": "Patna High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "CRPF Constable vs The Union of India and Others", "case_number": "Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case No. 9039 of 2014 (with I.A. No. 6023 of 2017)", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Prabhat Kumar Jha" ], "judgment_date": "2017-09-04", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2017, "incident_date": "2010-03-13", "incident_year": 2010, "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": "Constable", "unit": "205 COBRA Battalion, CRPF", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Constable, 205 COBRA Battalion, CRPF" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 0, "sentence_type": "dismissal", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "central_armed", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/27796296/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "[name withheld], a constable in the 205 COBRA Battalion of the CRPF at Barachatti, Gaya, was dismissed on 18.01.2012 after a departmental proceeding found he had remained unauthorizedly absent from 13.03.2010 to 22.09.2010 (194 days) and had fled from PMCH Patna while under treatment. His appeal before the DIG (09.10.2012) and revision before the IG (04.09.2013) were rejected. He challenged the dismissal and appellate orders before the Patna High Court under Article 226. The Court found the absence was knowing and without sanctioned leave or justified reason, held that overstay by members of a disciplined force must be dealt with sternly, and found the punishment not disproportionate. The writ petition was dismissed and the dismissal from service stands. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "[name withheld], a constable in the 205 COBRA Battalion of the CRPF at Barachatti, Gaya, was dismissed on 18.01.2012 after a departmental proceeding found he had remained unauthorizedly absent from 13.03.2010 to 22.09.2010 (194 days) and had fled from PMCH Patna while under treatment. His appeal before the DIG (09.10.2012) and revision before the IG (04.09.2013) were rejected. He challenged the dismissal and appellate orders before the Patna High Court under Article 226. The Court found the absence was knowing and without sanctioned leave or justified reason, held that overstay by members of a disciplined force must be dealt with sternly, and found the punishment not disproportionate. The writ petition was dismissed and the dismissal from service stands.", "court_quote": "The petitioner has committed gross misconduct for remaining absent from duty for 194 days without any sanctioned leave and without any justified reason. Over stayal or remaining absent unauthorizedly by a member of disciplined force requires to be dealt with sternly.", "court_quote_para": "n/a", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Primary source read; HC dismissed writ, upholding CRPF constable's dismissal for 194-day unauthorized absence.", "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": "2017-09-04", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Patna High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Patna High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case No. 9039 of 2014 (with I.A. No. 6023 of 2017)", "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": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/27796296/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-87" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-105-021", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2017-0031", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1028", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Central Reserve Police Constable (GD) vs The Union of India and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Central Reserve Police Constable (GD) vs The Union of India and Others", "state": "Bihar", "district": "Patna", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Athmalgola", "police_station_or_unit": "265 Battalion (COBRA), Central Reserve Police Force", "court": "Patna High Court", "court_as_verified": "Patna High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Central Reserve Police Constable (GD) vs The Union of India and Others", "case_number": "Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case No. 10516 of 2015", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Prabhat Kumar Jha" ], "judgment_date": "2017-09-06", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2017, "incident_date": "2013-06-05", "incident_year": 2013, "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": "Constable (GD)", "unit": "265 Battalion (COBRA), Central Reserve Police Force", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Constable (GD), 265 Battalion (COBRA), Central Reserve Police Force" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 0, "sentence_type": "dismissal", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "central_armed", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/83655197/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Patna High Court (Prabhat Kumar Jha J.) dismissed a CRPF constable's writ challenging his removal from service dated 21 March 2014. The court found three 2013 unauthorized-absence charges proved against a nine-year record of 17 absences that had previously drawn only minor confinement punishments. It held that such frequent yearly overstay by a member of a disciplined paramilitary force amounts to gross misconduct for which dismissal is the liability. The court rejected the disproportionality plea, noting the authorities' prior unexplained leniency, and left standing the removal already affirmed in appeal on 2 June 2015.", "summary_verified": "The Patna High Court (Prabhat Kumar Jha J.) dismissed a CRPF constable's writ challenging his removal from service dated 21 March 2014. The court found three 2013 unauthorized-absence charges proved against a nine-year record of 17 absences that had previously drawn only minor confinement punishments. It held that such frequent yearly overstay by a member of a disciplined paramilitary force amounts to gross misconduct for which dismissal is the liability. The court rejected the disproportionality plea, noting the authorities' prior unexplained leniency, and left standing the removal already affirmed in appeal on 2 June 2015.", "court_quote": "The petitioner is a member of para military disciplined force and such frequent over-stayal of the petitioner in each and every year amounts to gross misconduct on which the petitioner is liable to be dismissed from service.", "court_quote_para": "10", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Writ dismissed; CRPF removal for habitual unauthorized absence upheld.", "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": "2017-09-06", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Patna High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Patna High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case No. 10516 of 2015", "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": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/83655197/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-88" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-105-029", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2017-0035", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1021", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Bihar Police Constable vs The State of Bihar and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Bihar Police Constable vs The State of Bihar and Others", "state": "Bihar", "district": "Patna", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Patna", "police_station_or_unit": "Patna district constabulary, Bihar Police", "court": "Patna High Court", "court_as_verified": "Patna High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Bihar Police Constable vs The State of Bihar and Others", "case_number": "Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case No. 5459 of 2014", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Prabhat Kumar Jha" ], "judgment_date": "2017-10-12", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2017, "incident_date": "1999-05-16", "incident_year": 1999, "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": "Constable", "unit": "Bihar Police (Patna district constabulary; appointed Muzaffarpur)", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Constable, Bihar Police (Patna district constabulary; appointed Muzaffarpur)" } ], "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/23417562/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The judgment of the Patna High Court records the following account. [name withheld] was selected as a Bihar Police constable on 16.05.1999 under Advertisement 1/1998, where height was the sole criterion, after declaring 186 cm height in his application. A later verification ordered by the High Court found his height had been wrongly recorded and he did not meet the criterion, and the Senior Superintendent of Police, Patna dismissed him on 25.11.2013 following a departmental proceeding; his appeal (DIG, 25.07.2014) and memorial (DGP, 10.02.2015) were rejected. He challenged the dismissal under Article 226. The Court found the appointment had been secured through fraud and manipulation, held that similarly-placed wrongly measured selectees had likewise been denied appointment and illegality cannot be perpetuated, and found no merit in the writ. The writ petition was dismissed and the dismissal from service stands. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "[name withheld] was selected as a Bihar Police constable on 16.05.1999 under Advertisement 1/1998, where height was the sole criterion, after declaring 186 cm height in his application. A later verification ordered by the High Court found his height had been wrongly recorded and he did not meet the criterion, and the Senior Superintendent of Police, Patna dismissed him on 25.11.2013 following a departmental proceeding; his appeal (DIG, 25.07.2014) and memorial (DGP, 10.02.2015) were rejected. He challenged the dismissal under Article 226. The Court found the appointment had been secured through fraud and manipulation, held that similarly-placed wrongly measured selectees had likewise been denied appointment and illegality cannot be perpetuated, and found no merit in the writ. The writ petition was dismissed and the dismissal from service stands.", "court_quote": "Therefore, in my view, the illegality should not be allowed to be perpetuated any more and the petitioner, who got his appointment through fraud and manipulation, does not deserve any leniency.", "court_quote_para": "21", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Primary source read; HC dismissed writ, upholding constable's dismissal for appointment secured by height fraud.", "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": "2017-10-12", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Patna High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Patna High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case No. 5459 of 2014", "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": "wrong_facts", "corrections_applied": [ "court_quote", "court_quote_para" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/23417562/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-87" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-105-022", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2017-0012", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0047", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Manjhaul Police Constable vs The State of Bihar and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Manjhaul Police Constable vs The State of Bihar and Others", "state": "Bihar", "district": "Begusarai", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Manjhaul", "police_station_or_unit": "Quick Mobile, Patliputra Police Station, Patna", "court": "Patna High Court", "court_as_verified": "Patna High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Manjhaul Police Constable vs The State of Bihar and Others", "case_number": "Letters Patent Appeal No. 736 of 2014 (arising out of CWJC No. 20311 of 2011)", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Ajay Kumar Tripathi", "Rajeev Ranjan Prasad" ], "judgment_date": "2017-11-13", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2017, "incident_date": "2009-09-30", "incident_year": 2009, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "IPC 307", "IPC 34", "Arms Act s.27", "IPC 302", "Constitution Art. 311(2)(b)" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "unit": "Quick Mobile, Patliputra Police Station, Patna (earlier Pandarak PS)", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2_gemapi:unclear", "key2_gpt56:no" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": "yes", "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": "unclear", "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": "no", "grok": "no", "jev_risk": 0.12, "jev_p_culpable": 0.92, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Constable, Quick Mobile, Patliputra Police Station, Patna (earlier Pandarak PS)" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "age": null, "gender": null, "name": null, "descriptor": "Manjhaul resident" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "dismissal", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/163362002/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "A Division Bench of the Patna High Court upheld the dismissal of Patna constable, arrested on 2 October 2009 in Manjhaul PS Case No. 160/2009 under Sections 307/34 IPC and the Arms Act, later converted to murder under Section 302 IPC. The SSP Patna dismissed him without enquiry under Article 311(2)(b), recording that holding an enquiry was not reasonably practicable; the DIG Magadh and then a Single Judge affirmed. The Court held that his subsequent criminal acquittal, secured after all prosecution witnesses turned hostile, did not vitiate the dismissal and that dispensing with the enquiry was justified. The LPA was dismissed. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "A Division Bench of the Patna High Court upheld the dismissal of Patna constable, arrested on 2 October 2009 in Manjhaul PS Case No. 160/2009 under Sections 307/34 IPC and the Arms Act, later converted to murder under Section 302 IPC. The SSP Patna dismissed him without enquiry under Article 311(2)(b), recording that holding an enquiry was not reasonably practicable; the DIG Magadh and then a Single Judge affirmed. The Court held that his subsequent criminal acquittal, secured after all prosecution witnesses turned hostile, did not vitiate the dismissal and that dispensing with the enquiry was justified. The LPA was dismissed.", "court_quote": "We are of the considered opinion that in the facts and circumstances of the present case and the materials available on the records in form of the admission of the petitioner-appellant, seizure of his service revolver with the fired cartridge and the remaining 34 live cartridges, the fact that the deceased [name withheld] was killed by the bullet fired from the said service revolver of the appellant as found by the supervising authority in the rank of Sr.S.P. are the convincing factors on the basis of which the Sr.S.P., Patna has reached to a conclusion and dispensed with the departmental enquiry as it was not reasonably practicable to hold the same because any further delay in throwing out the appellant could have shaken the public confidence.", "court_quote_para": "29", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "LPA dismissed; 311(2)(b) dismissal over murder arrest upheld despite hostile-witness acquittal.", "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": "2017-11-13", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Patna High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Patna High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "Letters Patent Appeal No. 736 of 2014 (arising out of CWJC No. 20311 of 2011)", "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": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/163362002/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-36" ], "merged_case_id": "BIHAR1-010", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2017-0037", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1001", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Union of India and Others vs CRPF Constable", "display_title_redacted": "Union of India and Others vs CRPF Constable", "state": "Bihar", "district": null, "district_at_time": null, "city_town": null, "police_station_or_unit": "4th Battalion, CRPF", "court": "Patna High Court", "court_as_verified": "Patna High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Union of India and Others vs CRPF Constable", "case_number": "L.P.A. No. 1502 of 2013", "citation": "(2018) 2 PLJR 790", "judges": [ "Rajendra Menon", "Anil Kumar Upadhyay" ], "judgment_date": "2017-11-23", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2017, "incident_date": null, "incident_year": null, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "CRPF Act 1949 s.11", "CRPF Rules 1955 r.15" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "4th Battalion, CRPF", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Constable, 4th Battalion, CRPF" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 0, "sentence_type": "dismissal", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "central_armed", "primary_source_url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/1032014/union-of-india-and-ors-appellant-hash-sanjay-kumar-ojha-respondent/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "Delete 'already affirmed in appeal, revision and memorial'; judgment records only writ (CWJC 3390/2009) and LPA 1502/2013.", "summary_verified": "Delete 'already affirmed in appeal, revision and memorial'; judgment records only writ (CWJC 3390/2009) and LPA 1502/2013.", "court_quote": "In view of the aforesaid enunciation of law by the learned Division Benches of this Court, we find that once the employee is found to have committed a misconduct which falls under Rule 15 of the Rules of 1955 the action taken for dismissal cannot be interfered with by this Court.", "court_quote_para": "n/a (unnumbered LPA judgment dated 23.11.2017)", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "DB restored dismissal of CRPF constable for plural-marriage misconduct.", "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": "2017-11-23", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Patna High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Patna High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "(2018) 2 PLJR 790", "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": "wrong_facts", "corrections_applied": [ "summary" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/1032014/union-of-india-and-ors-appellant-hash-sanjay-kumar-ojha-respondent/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-84" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-105-002", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2017-0040", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1022", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Munger District Police Constable vs The State of Bihar and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Munger District Police Constable vs The State of Bihar and Others", "state": "Bihar", "district": "Patna", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Patna", "police_station_or_unit": "Munger District Police (escort party, Munger Jail to PMCH Patna)", "court": "Patna High Court", "court_as_verified": "Patna High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Munger District Police Constable vs The State of Bihar and Others", "case_number": "Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case No. 10321 of 2014", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Madhuresh Prasad" ], "judgment_date": "2017-12-13", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2017, "incident_date": "2011-06-06", "incident_year": 2011, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "dereliction_evidence_tampering", "subcategory": "dereliction_evidence_tampering", "subcategory_display": "dereliction evidence tampering", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "unit": "Munger District Police, Bihar Police", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Constable, Munger District Police, Bihar Police" } ], "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/9416790/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The judgment of the Patna High Court records the following account. [name withheld], a Munger District Police constable, was detailed on escort command 547412 dated 06.06.2011 to escort undertrial Amit Mandal from Munger Jail to PMCH Patna with four constables and a Hawaldar. He reported 35 hours late, lodged the prisoner with his mother and wife in Janta Hotel rooms on Govind Mitra Road, Patna from 08 to 16.06.2011 instead of the prisoner ward, and the prisoner absconded on 16.06.2011 with the loss reported a day late. After an earlier dismissal was remanded by the DGP for service of the enquiry report, the SP Munger dismissed him again on 12.01.2013; his appeal (DIG, 30.06.2013) and memorial (DGP, 12.12.2013) were rejected. The Court found the charges stood admitted, identical punishment had been imposed on the five other escort-party members, and the procedure complied with natural justice and fair play. The writ petition was dismissed and the dismissal from service stands. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "[name withheld], a Munger District Police constable, was detailed on escort command 547412 dated 06.06.2011 to escort undertrial Amit Mandal from Munger Jail to PMCH Patna with four constables and a Hawaldar. He reported 35 hours late, lodged the prisoner with his mother and wife in Janta Hotel rooms on Govind Mitra Road, Patna from 08 to 16.06.2011 instead of the prisoner ward, and the prisoner absconded on 16.06.2011 with the loss reported a day late. After an earlier dismissal was remanded by the DGP for service of the enquiry report, the SP Munger dismissed him again on 12.01.2013; his appeal (DIG, 30.06.2013) and memorial (DGP, 12.12.2013) were rejected. The Court found the charges stood admitted, identical punishment had been imposed on the five other escort-party members, and the procedure complied with natural justice and fair play. The writ petition was dismissed and the dismissal from service stands.", "court_quote": "Such gross dereliction of duty and the act of indiscipline cannot be countenanced by member of the police service where duty is to protect the public safety with discipline.", "court_quote_para": "10", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Primary source read; HC dismissed writ, upholding dismissal for escort dereliction letting undertrial abscond.", "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": "2017-12-13", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Patna High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Patna High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case No. 10321 of 2014", "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": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/9416790/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-87" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-105-023", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2018-0021", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1050", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Bihar Police Constable v. State of Bihar and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Bihar Police Constable v. State of Bihar and Others", "state": "Bihar", "district": "Buxar", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Buxar", "police_station_or_unit": "Buxar district police", "court": "Patna High Court", "court_as_verified": "Patna High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Bihar Police Constable v. State of Bihar and Others", "case_number": "CWJC No. 3524 of 2011", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Rajeev Ranjan Prasad" ], "judgment_date": "2018-01-04", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2018, "incident_date": null, "incident_year": 2006, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "dereliction_evidence_tampering", "subcategory": "dereliction_evidence_tampering", "subcategory_display": "dereliction evidence tampering", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "Constitution Art. 226" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "unit": "Bihar Police, Buxar", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Constable, Bihar Police, Buxar" } ], "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/176523706/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "Constable, appointed on compassionate ground in Buxar, was dismissed on 16.01.2007 (with effect from 12.01.2007) for repeated prolonged unauthorised absence, about 128 days during basic training and 82 days on Durga Puja duty in 2006; his appeal was rejected in 2009. He pleaded violation of natural justice and produced jaundice certificates only with the writ. The Court held natural justice is not a strait-jacket formula, police discipline and larger public interest outweighed the individual interest of an unconfirmed absconder, and no illegality or infirmity vitiated the impugned orders. The writ application was dismissed. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "Constable, appointed on compassionate ground in Buxar, was dismissed on 16.01.2007 (with effect from 12.01.2007) for repeated prolonged unauthorised absence, about 128 days during basic training and 82 days on Durga Puja duty in 2006; his appeal was rejected in 2009. He pleaded violation of natural justice and produced jaundice certificates only with the writ. The Court held natural justice is not a strait-jacket formula, police discipline and larger public interest outweighed the individual interest of an unconfirmed absconder, and no illegality or infirmity vitiated the impugned orders. The writ application was dismissed.", "court_quote": "The facts would show that the petitioner not only remained absconding for about 128 days while he was sent for basic training, he repeated the same conduct by remaining absent unauthorizedly for 82 days when he was sent to perform his duty during Durga Puja festival. During all this period he did not take trouble to inform his employer about his whereabouts and the reasons for his absconding from duty.", "court_quote_para": "n/a", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Judgment verified on Indian Kanoon; writ dismissed, dismissal for absence upheld.", "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": "2018-01-04", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Patna High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Patna High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "CWJC No. 3524 of 2011", "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": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/176523706/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-90" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-106-006", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2018-0012", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0664", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Bihar Police Constable v. State of Bihar & Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "Bihar Police Constable v. State of Bihar & Ors.", "state": "Bihar", "district": "Samastipur", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": null, "police_station_or_unit": null, "court": "Patna High Court", "court_as_verified": "Patna High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Bihar Police Constable v. State of Bihar & Ors.", "case_number": "Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case No. 20236 of 2010", "citation": "2018 SCC OnLine Pat 1703", "judges": [ "Mohit Kumar Shah" ], "judgment_date": "2018-09-11", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2018, "incident_date": "2008-01-09", "incident_year": 2008, "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": "Constable", "unit": "Bihar Police", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2_gemapi:unclear" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": "yes", "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": "unclear", "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": "yes", "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.05, "jev_p_culpable": 0.95, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Constable, Bihar Police" } ], "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/187888229/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.scconline.com/blog/post/2018/09/15/high-level-of-discipline-imperative-in-the-police-forces-absconding-on-various-occasions-cannot-be-accepted-patna-hc/" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Patna High Court records the following account. Constable, appointed on compassionate ground in July 1998, absconded from duty without information on several occasions, including during training at BMP-5 Patna from January 2008. After an enquiry proved the charges and a second show-cause notice, the SP Samastipur dismissed him on 22 December 2009, and his departmental appeal was rejected on 8 June 2010. The Patna High Court held ample evidence proved the guilt, past punishments for unauthorised absence could be considered, and a high level of discipline is imperative in police forces, and dismissed the writ petition as without merit. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "Constable, appointed on compassionate ground in July 1998, absconded from duty without information on several occasions, including during training at BMP-5 Patna from January 2008. After an enquiry proved the charges and a second show-cause notice, the SP Samastipur dismissed him on 22 December 2009, and his departmental appeal was rejected on 8 June 2010. The Patna High Court held ample evidence proved the guilt, past punishments for unauthorised absence could be considered, and a high level of discipline is imperative in police forces, and dismissed the writ petition as without merit.", "court_quote": "Moreover, this Court also finds that a high level of discipline is imperative in the Police and Armed Forces and even one isolated incident of discipline is enough to take the most harsh step against the delinquent. However, in the instant case, the petitioner is a habitual offender and had absconded on several occasions from his duties without any information to the respondents, hence no mercy is required to be shown with the petitioner especially in view of his proved misconduct.", "court_quote_para": "n/a", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Patna HC dismissed writ, upheld dismissal of habitually absconding constable; no merit found.", "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": "2018-09-11", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Patna High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Patna High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "2018 SCC OnLine Pat 1703", "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": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/187888229/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.scconline.com/blog/post/2018/09/15/high-level-of-discipline-imperative-in-the-police-forces-absconding-on-various-occasions-cannot-be-accepted-patna-hc/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-46" ], "merged_case_id": "SWOTHERM-028", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2019-0027", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1045", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Bihar Police Constable v. State of Bihar and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Bihar Police Constable v. State of Bihar and Others", "state": "Bihar", "district": "Bhojpur", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Ara", "police_station_or_unit": "Bhojpur district police", "court": "Patna High Court", "court_as_verified": "Patna High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Bihar Police Constable v. State of Bihar and Others", "case_number": "Letters Patent Appeal No. 1485 of 2018 (in CWJC No. 12182 of 2012)", "citation": "2019 (2) PLJR 908", "judges": [ "Amreshwar Pratap Sahi", "Anjana Mishra" ], "judgment_date": "2019-04-16", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2019, "incident_date": null, "incident_year": 2004, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "dereliction_evidence_tampering", "subcategory": "dereliction_evidence_tampering", "subcategory_display": "dereliction evidence tampering", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "unit": "Bihar Police, Bhojpur", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Constable, Bihar Police, Bhojpur" } ], "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://patnahighcourt.gov.in/viewjudgment/MyMxNDg1IzIwMTgjMSNO-cLx5oZEdFhA=", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/964685/ramesh-ram-appellant-hash-state-of-bihar-ors-respondent/" ], "summary": "Constable, appointed in Kaimur in 1999 and transferred to Bhojpur in 2004, absented himself from duty from March 2004 to March 2005 and was dismissed on 13.10.2007 after a departmental inquiry. His appeal, memorial and writ petition (CWJC No. 12182 of 2012, dismissed 06.09.2018 by Nilu Agrawal J.) all failed. The Division Bench held the inquiry finding of unauthorised absence was supported by evidence, the ailment defence was unproved, and the penalty was not disproportionate for a member of a disciplined force. The Court found no perversity or procedural error and rejected the Letters Patent Appeal.", "summary_verified": "Constable, appointed in Kaimur in 1999 and transferred to Bhojpur in 2004, absented himself from duty from March 2004 to March 2005 and was dismissed on 13.10.2007 after a departmental inquiry. His appeal, memorial and writ petition (CWJC No. 12182 of 2012, dismissed 06.09.2018 by Nilu Agrawal J.) all failed. The Division Bench held the inquiry finding of unauthorised absence was supported by evidence, the ailment defence was unproved, and the penalty was not disproportionate for a member of a disciplined force. The Court found no perversity or procedural error and rejected the Letters Patent Appeal.", "court_quote": "The appellant having not chosen to join his duties on his own volition, therefore, did not deserve to be a member of the disciplined Force.", "court_quote_para": "9", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "LPA verified on Patna HC site (PDF) plus Single Judge order; appeal rejected, dismissal upheld.", "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": "2019-04-16", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Patna High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Patna High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "2019 (2) PLJR 908", "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": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://patnahighcourt.gov.in/viewjudgment/MyMxNDg1IzIwMTgjMSNO-cLx5oZEdFhA=", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/964685/ramesh-ram-appellant-hash-state-of-bihar-ors-respondent/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-90" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-106-001", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2019-0036", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0881", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Gaya Police Constable vs The State of Bihar and Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "Gaya Police Constable vs The State of Bihar and Ors.", "state": "Bihar", "district": "Gaya", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": null, "police_station_or_unit": "Pretshila Parwat police picket, Gaya", "court": "Patna High Court", "court_as_verified": "Patna High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Gaya Police Constable vs The State of Bihar and Ors.", "case_number": "Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case No. 19188 of 2019", "citation": "2020 (1) PLJR 184", "judges": [ "Chakradhari Sharan Singh" ], "judgment_date": "2019-11-04", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2019, "incident_date": "1998-09-17", "incident_year": 1998, "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": "Constable", "unit": "Pretshila Parwat police picket, Gaya", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Constable, Pretshila Parwat police picket, Gaya" } ], "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://patnahighcourt.gov.in/viewjudgment/MTUjMTkxODgjMjAxOSMxI04=-Mkk2Y0J2e2Y=", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.samvidalaw.com/patna-high-court-dismissal-after-acquittal-en/", "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/1017190/pdf/" ], "summary": "The Patna High Court dismissed a writ petition by constable seeking reconsideration of his 1999 dismissal in light of his 2019 criminal acquittal. The court noted he had been dismissed after Departmental Proceeding No. 62 of 1998 proved he abandoned his post and arms during the 17-09-1998 Naxalite attack on the Pretshila Parwat picket in Gaya, in which two constables were killed and rifles looted. It held departmental findings rest on evidence different from criminal trials and the dismissal had attained finality with the dismissal of his earlier writ in 2012. The dismissal from service was therefore left undisturbed. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Patna High Court dismissed a writ petition by constable seeking reconsideration of his 1999 dismissal in light of his 2019 criminal acquittal. The court noted he had been dismissed after Departmental Proceeding No. 62 of 1998 proved he abandoned his post and arms during the 17-09-1998 Naxalite attack on the Pretshila Parwat picket in Gaya, in which two constables were killed and rifles looted. It held departmental findings rest on evidence different from criminal trials and the dismissal had attained finality with the dismissal of his earlier writ in 2012. The dismissal from service was therefore left undisturbed.", "court_quote": "In the departmental proceeding, the allegation against the petitioner was of having abandoned his Post and his Arms without any due permission from the superior authority.", "court_quote_para": "6", "confidence": "medium", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC refused to reopen 1999 dismissal of constable who deserted post and arms in 1998 Naxalite attack; criminal acquittal immaterial.", "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": "2019-11-04", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Patna High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Patna High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "2020 (1) PLJR 184", "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": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://patnahighcourt.gov.in/viewjudgment/MTUjMTkxODgjMjAxOSMxI04=-Mkk2Y0J2e2Y=", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.samvidalaw.com/patna-high-court-dismissal-after-acquittal-en/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/1017190/pdf/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-73" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP2-48-004", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2020-0014", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0074", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Patna Man vs The State of Bihar and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Patna Man vs The State of Bihar and Others", "state": "Bihar", "district": "Patna", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Patna", "police_station_or_unit": "Agamkuan Police Station, Patna", "court": "Patna High Court", "court_as_verified": "Patna High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Patna Man vs The State of Bihar and Others", "case_number": "CWJC No. 609 of 2016", "citation": "2020(11) eILR(PAT) HC 1426", "judges": [ "Mohit Kumar Shah" ], "judgment_date": "2020-11-13", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2020, "incident_date": "2000-12-28", "incident_year": 2000, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "disproportionate_force", "subcategory": "disproportionate_force", "subcategory_display": "disproportionate force", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation", "sections": [], "officers": [], "officer_count": 0, "victims": [ { "age": null, "gender": "male", "name": null, "descriptor": "Patna man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 1000000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://patnahighcourt.gov.in/ILR/viewpdf.aspx?T=HI&ID=NDg5MQ%3d%3d-SLcQ1q493uE%3d", "secondary_sources": [ "https://indialegallive.com/constitutional-law-news/courts-news/patna-hc-bihar-government-police-encounter-compensation/" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Patna High Court records the following account. On 28 December 2000, a Patna man was shot dead near Kumhar police post while on his way to Sandalpur Hostel, during an exchange of fire between police and criminals; official reports admitted an innocent passerby died in the shootout. His father moved the DM, the NHRC and an earlier writ without relief before filing this petition. The court held the State strictly liable in public law for the Article 21 violation, ruling negligence need not be proved and operational compulsions cannot justify loss of innocent life, and awarded Rs.10,00,000 compensation with 24% interest on delayed payment while declining compassionate appointment. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "On 28 December 2000, a Patna man was shot dead near Kumhar police post while on his way to Sandalpur Hostel, during an exchange of fire between police and criminals; official reports admitted an innocent passerby died in the shootout. His father moved the DM, the NHRC and an earlier writ without relief before filing this petition. The court held the State strictly liable in public law for the Article 21 violation, ruling negligence need not be proved and operational compulsions cannot justify loss of innocent life, and awarded Rs.10,00,000 compensation with 24% interest on delayed payment while declining compassionate appointment.", "court_quote": "मुआवजे के रूप में 1000000 रुपये (के वल दस लाख रुपये) प्राप्त करने का उत्तरदायी है।", "court_quote_para": "29", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Single-judge Hindi judgment verified; Rs 10L for passerby killed in police shootout.", "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": "2020-11-13", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Patna High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Patna High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 1,000,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "2020(11) eILR(PAT) HC 1426", "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" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://patnahighcourt.gov.in/ILR/viewpdf.aspx?T=HI&ID=NDg5MQ%3d%3d-SLcQ1q493uE%3d", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://indialegallive.com/constitutional-law-news/courts-news/patna-hc-bihar-government-police-encounter-compensation/", "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": [ "chunk-52" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP14-002", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2020-0013", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0042", "alias_merged_ids": [ "CWC-1453" ], "display_title": "Parsa Man vs The State Of Bihar, Through The Director General Of Police & Ors", "display_title_redacted": "Parsa Man vs The State Of Bihar, Through The Director General Of Police & Ors", "state": "Bihar", "district": "Saran", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Parsa", "police_station_or_unit": "Parsa Police Station / Dariapur Police Station", "court": "Patna High Court", "court_as_verified": "Patna High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Parsa Man vs The State Of Bihar, Through The Director General Of Police & Ors", "case_number": "Criminal Writ Jurisdiction Case No. 333 of 2020", "citation": "AIRONLINE 2020 PAT 901", "judges": [ "Sanjay Karol", "S. Kumar" ], "judgment_date": "2020-12-22", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2020, "incident_date": "2020-04-29", "incident_year": 2020, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "illegal_detention_false_imprisonment", "subcategory": "illegal_detention_false_imprisonment", "subcategory_display": "illegal detention false imprisonment", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation", "sections": [ "Constitution of India Art. 21", "Constitution of India Art. 226", "CrPC s.56", "CrPC s.154" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Station House Officer", "unit": "Parsa Police Station", "role": "named_only", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Station House Officer, Parsa Police Station" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Police Officers", "unit": "Dariapur Police Station", "role": "named_only", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Police Officers, Dariapur Police Station" } ], "officer_count": 2, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Parsa man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 500000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/51306147/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/pdf_upload-386294.pdf", "https://www.livelaw.in/amp/news-updates/patna-high-court-5-lakh-compensation-truck-drivers-police-excess-illegal-detention-fundamental-rights-article-21-167568", "https://www.barandbench.com/news/litigation/patna-high-court-rs-5-lakhs-compensation-for-truck-driver-illegal-detention" ], "summary": "The Patna High Court held that milk-van driver [name withheld] and his vehicle were illegally detained by Saran district police from April 29 to May 15, 2020 without registration of an FIR, which was lodged only after a habeas corpus petition was filed. The Court rejected the police's concocted explanation regarding an untraceable injured pedestrian as an afterthought to justify prolonged unauthorized detention. Finding a grave violation of Article 21 and statutory detention safeguards, the Court awarded Rs. 5,00,000 in compensation to the driver payable by the State of Bihar and directed the Director General of Police to initiate criminal proceedings and conclude disciplinary actions against the erring police officers. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Patna High Court held that milk-van driver [name withheld] and his vehicle were illegally detained by Saran district police from April 29 to May 15, 2020 without registration of an FIR, which was lodged only after a habeas corpus petition was filed. The Court rejected the police's concocted explanation regarding an untraceable injured pedestrian as an afterthought to justify prolonged unauthorized detention. Finding a grave violation of Article 21 and statutory detention safeguards, the Court awarded Rs. 5,00,000 in compensation to the driver payable by the State of Bihar and directed the Director General of Police to initiate criminal proceedings and conclude disciplinary actions against the erring police officers.", "court_quote": "The State of Bihar shall pay compensation to the detenue, namely, Mr. A Parsa man @ a Parsa man, an amount of Rs.5,00,000/- (Rupees Five lac) for the violation of his fundamental right under Article 21 of the Constitution of India.", "court_quote_para": "63", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Patna HC found illegal detention of milk van driver and vehicle, ordered Rs. 5,00,000 compensation and criminal/disciplinary proceedings against police.", "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": "2020-12-22", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Patna High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Patna High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 500,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "AIRONLINE 2020 PAT 901", "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": "wrong_facts", "corrections_applied": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/51306147/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/pdf_upload-386294.pdf", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/amp/news-updates/patna-high-court-5-lakh-compensation-truck-drivers-police-excess-illegal-detention-fundamental-rights-article-21-167568", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.barandbench.com/news/litigation/patna-high-court-rs-5-lakhs-compensation-for-truck-driver-illegal-detention", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-02", "chunk-44" ], "merged_case_id": "SWILLEGA-026", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2021-0015", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0885", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Munger Man vs The State of Bihar and Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "Munger Man vs The State of Bihar and Ors.", "state": "Bihar", "district": "Munger", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Munger", "police_station_or_unit": "Munger Police (Durga immersion duty), Kotwali P.S. area", "court": "Patna High Court", "court_as_verified": "Patna High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Munger Man vs The State of Bihar and Ors.", "case_number": "Criminal Writ Jurisdiction Case No. 68 of 2021", "citation": "AIRONLINE 2021 PAT 267", "judges": [ "Rajeev Ranjan Prasad" ], "judgment_date": "2021-04-07", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2021, "incident_date": "2020-10-26", "incident_year": 2020, "category": "Protest policing", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "disproportionate_force", "subcategory": "disproportionate_force", "subcategory_display": "disproportionate force", "protest_override_heuristic": true, "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation", "sections": [ "Constitution Art. 21", "Constitution Art. 226" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Superintendent of Police", "unit": "Munger", "role": "named_only", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Superintendent of Police, Munger" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Various", "unit": "Munger Police (immersion duty)", "role": "named_only", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Various, Munger Police (immersion duty)" } ], "officer_count": 2, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": 18, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Munger man, age 18" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 1000000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/patna-hc-compensation-in-munger-durga-pooja-firing-incident-state-bound-to-protect-citizens-lives-391627.pdf", "secondary_sources": [ "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/40421264/", "https://livelaw-cnlu.refread.com/pdf_upload/munger-firing-incident-supreme-court-upholds-patna-hc-order-granting-10l-compensation-to-bereaved-family-pending-investigation-394531.pdf" ], "summary": "The Patna High Court awarded Rs 10,00,000 compensation to the father of 18-year-old a Munger man, an unarmed bystander killed in police firing on a Durga idol immersion procession at Munger on 26-10-2020. The court held the State strictly liable for safeguarding life, noting the petitioner's son was uninvolved in any violence and the probe had languished with the alleged firing arms never examined. It continued court-monitored CID investigation and left private-law remedies open; the Supreme Court dismissed the State's SLP on 04-06-2021, making the award final. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Patna High Court awarded Rs 10,00,000 compensation to the father of 18-year-old a Munger man, an unarmed bystander killed in police firing on a Durga idol immersion procession at Munger on 26-10-2020. The court held the State strictly liable for safeguarding life, noting the petitioner's son was uninvolved in any violence and the probe had languished with the alleged firing arms never examined. It continued court-monitored CID investigation and left private-law remedies open; the Supreme Court dismissed the State's SLP on 04-06-2021, making the award final.", "court_quote": "In the present case, there is no allegation that the petitioner's son was involved in any act of violence. Thus, in the light of the aforementioned discussions, this Court directs the State respondents to pay a sum of Rs.10 laks towards compensation to the petitioner who being the father of the deceased has remained in mental pains and sufferings and has to further remain in mental pain as also deprivation in his life on several counts because of the death of his young son.", "court_quote_para": "n/a", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC awarded Rs 10L for 18-year-old bystander killed in Munger police firing on immersion procession; SLP dismissed 04-06-2021.", "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": "Protest policing", "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": "2021-04-07", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Patna High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Patna High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 1,000,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "AIRONLINE 2021 PAT 267", "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 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"record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2023-0034", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1053", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Railway Police Constable vs The State of Bihar and Ors", "display_title_redacted": "Railway Police Constable vs The State of Bihar and Ors", "state": "Bihar", "district": "Munger", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Jamalpur", "police_station_or_unit": "Railway Police, Jamalpur (Jamalpur-Howrah Super Express escort party)", "court": "Patna High Court", "court_as_verified": "Patna High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Railway Police Constable vs The State of Bihar and Ors", "case_number": "Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case No.11616 of 2013", "citation": "2023 (1) PLJR 552", "judges": [ "Sanjeev Prakash Sharma" ], "judgment_date": "2023-01-09", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2023, "incident_date": "2000-01-01", "incident_year": 2000, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "disproportionate_force", "subcategory": "disproportionate_force", "subcategory_display": "disproportionate force", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "IPC 302", "Constitution Art. 311" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "unit": "Railway Police, Jamalpur", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Constable, Railway Police, Jamalpur" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "age": null, "gender": null, "name": null, "descriptor": "Jamalpur resident" }, { "age": null, "gender": null, "name": null, "descriptor": "Jamalpur resident" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 2, "sentence_type": "dismissal", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "railway", "primary_source_url": "https://patnahighcourt.gov.in/viewjudgment/MTUjMTE2MTYjMjAxMyMxI04=-txaKkEeLycU=", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.samvidalaw.com/patna-high-court-article-311-dismissal-without-inquiry-en/" ], "summary": "The Patna High Court dismissed the writ petition of Railway Police constable, a member of the Jamalpur-Howrah Super Express escort party who allegedly extorted passengers and then shot dead two persons during an altercation in 2000. The court held the Superintendent of Police (Rail), Jamalpur had recorded cogent reasons for dispensing with the departmental inquiry under Article 311(2)(b) and Rule 20(ii) of the Bihar CCA Rules, 2005, since the petitioner had absconded after service of the charge-sheet. It sustained the dismissal order dated 6 September 2000 along with the appellate and memorial rejections. The court further noted the charges stood proved in the criminal trial with a conviction under s.302 IPC, which independently bars reinstatement under Article 311(2)(a). Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Patna High Court dismissed the writ petition of Railway Police constable, a member of the Jamalpur-Howrah Super Express escort party who allegedly extorted passengers and then shot dead two persons during an altercation in 2000. The court held the Superintendent of Police (Rail), Jamalpur had recorded cogent reasons for dispensing with the departmental inquiry under Article 311(2)(b) and Rule 20(ii) of the Bihar CCA Rules, 2005, since the petitioner had absconded after service of the charge-sheet. It sustained the dismissal order dated 6 September 2000 along with the appellate and memorial rejections. The court further noted the charges stood proved in the criminal trial with a conviction under s.302 IPC, which independently bars reinstatement under Article 311(2)(a).", "court_quote": "The charges levelled against the petitioner have been ultimately proved in the criminal trial and he has already been convicted of offense under 302.", "court_quote_para": "9", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Judgment verified on Patna HC portal; writ dismissed, dismissal of railway constable upheld; s.302 conviction recorded by the court.", "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": "2023-01-09", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Patna High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Patna High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "2023 (1) PLJR 552", "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": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://patnahighcourt.gov.in/viewjudgment/MTUjMTE2MTYjMjAxMyMxI04=-txaKkEeLycU=", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.samvidalaw.com/patna-high-court-article-311-dismissal-without-inquiry-en/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-91" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-107-002", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2024-0031", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0884", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Bajitpur Man and Anr. vs The State of Bihar and Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "Bajitpur Man and Anr. vs The State of Bihar and Ors.", "state": "Bihar", "district": "Nalanda", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Bajitpur", "police_station_or_unit": "Chiksaura Police Station", "court": "Patna High Court", "court_as_verified": "Patna High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Bajitpur Man and Anr. vs The State of Bihar and Ors.", "case_number": "Criminal Writ Jurisdiction Case No. 455 of 2017", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Bibek Chaudhuri" ], "judgment_date": "2024-02-12", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2024, "incident_date": "2017-02-07", "incident_year": 2017, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "illegal_detention_false_imprisonment", "subcategory": "illegal_detention_false_imprisonment", "subcategory_display": "illegal detention false imprisonment", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation", "sections": [ "CrPC s.41", "CrPC s.41A", "Constitution Art. 21" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Investigating Officer", "unit": "Chiksaura Police Station, Nalanda", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Investigating Officer, Chiksaura Police Station, Nalanda" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Bajitpur man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 200000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/133235252/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Patna High Court held that the investigating officer of Chiksaura police station illegally rearrested a Bajitpur man after Section 41-A CrPC protection, without recalling the bail bond through a magisterial order and without filing the Section 41 checklist or recording arrest grounds. The court held this violated the petitioner's fundamental right under Article 21, while merely cautioning the magistrate who had passed the remand order in haste. It directed the State to pay Rs 2,00,000 compensation within 60 days, recoverable from the salary (or pension) of the erring officer. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Patna High Court held that the investigating officer of Chiksaura police station illegally rearrested a Bajitpur man after Section 41-A CrPC protection, without recalling the bail bond through a magisterial order and without filing the Section 41 checklist or recording arrest grounds. The court held this violated the petitioner's fundamental right under Article 21, while merely cautioning the magistrate who had passed the remand order in haste. It directed the State to pay Rs 2,00,000 compensation within 60 days, recoverable from the salary (or pension) of the erring officer.", "court_quote": "At the same time, this Court is of the view that the Investigating Officer committed a substantial error by arresting the petitioner no.1 after he was released on bail bond without recalling the bond through a Magestrial order. For such wrong, petitioner's valuable fundamental right was violated.", "court_quote_para": "24", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC held rearrest after s.41-A protection without checklist violated Art.21; Rs 2L compensation recoverable from IO's salary.", "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": "2024-02-12", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Patna High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Patna High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 200,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "Criminal Writ Jurisdiction Case No. 455 of 2017", "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": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/133235252/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-73" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP2-48-007", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2024-0006", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0750", "alias_merged_ids": [ "CWC-0040" ], "display_title": "Siwan Man v. The State of Bihar and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Siwan Man v. The State of Bihar and Others", "state": "Bihar", "district": "Siwan", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Siwan", "police_station_or_unit": "Siwan Muffasil Police Station", "court": "Patna High Court", "court_as_verified": "Patna High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Siwan Man v. The State of Bihar and Others", "case_number": "Criminal Writ Jurisdiction Case No. 2525 of 2017", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Bibek Chaudhuri" ], "judgment_date": "2024-04-23", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2024, "incident_date": "2017-07-04", "incident_year": 2017, "category": "Custodial torture", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "custodial_torture", "subcategory": "custodial_torture", "subcategory_display": "custodial torture", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation", "sections": [ "Constitution of India Art. 21", "Constitution of India Art. 226", "Indian Evidence Act 1872 s.106", "CrPC s.167(5)" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Officer-in-Charge", "unit": "Muffasil Police Station, Siwan", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Officer-in-Charge, Muffasil Police Station, Siwan" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Officer-in-Charge", "unit": "Town Police Station, Siwan", "role": "named_only", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Officer-in-Charge, Town Police Station, Siwan" } ], "officer_count": 4, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Siwan man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 200000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://www.verdictum.in/pdf_upload/dinesh-kumar-singh-v-the-state-of-bihar-ors-1612466.pdf", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.verdictum.in/court-updates/high-courts/dinesh-kumar-singh-v-the-state-of-bihar-ors-criminal-writ-jurisdiction-case-no2525-of-2017-patna-high-court-1532711", "https://www.scconline.com/blog/post/2024/04/29/pathc-orders-department-of-police-to-pay-rs2lakh-compensation-to-man-subjected-to-custodial-violence-police-atrocity-legal-news/", "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/149912002/", "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/patna-high-court/patna-high-court-2lakh-compensation-severe-torture-assault-police-custody-violence-256269" ], "summary": "The Patna High Court held the Officer-in-Charge, lock-up in-charge and all personnel on duty at Siwan Muffasil Police Station lock-up on 4 July 2017 responsible for explaining how a Siwan man was assaulted with lathis in custody, failing which they are liable to be prosecuted. A Siwan man had been arrested on 4 July 2017 and produced before the magistrate only on 8 July 2017, after being beaten, kicked and punched in the lock-up. Applying Section 106 of the Evidence Act, the Court held the custodial facts were within the special knowledge of the police. The Court directed the Police Department to pay Rs 2,00,000 compensation to the victim and ordered the Superintendent of Police, Siwan, to lodge a criminal complaint against the implicated personnel. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Patna High Court held the Officer-in-Charge, lock-up in-charge and all personnel on duty at Siwan Muffasil Police Station lock-up on 4 July 2017 responsible for explaining how a Siwan man was assaulted with lathis in custody, failing which they are liable to be prosecuted. A Siwan man had been arrested on 4 July 2017 and produced before the magistrate only on 8 July 2017, after being beaten, kicked and punched in the lock-up. Applying Section 106 of the Evidence Act, the Court held the custodial facts were within the special knowledge of the police. The Court directed the Police Department to pay Rs 2,00,000 compensation to the victim and ordered the Superintendent of Police, Siwan, to lodge a criminal complaint against the implicated personnel.", "court_quote": "Thus, applying the provision of Section 106 of the Indian Evidence Act, this Court comes to the conclusion that the Officer-in-charge, lock up in-charge and all other police officers and personnel who were on duty on 4th of July, 2017 from 2 P.M to 5 P.M. are responsible to state how and by whom the son of the petitioner was assaulted in the police lock up of Siwan Muffasil Police Station.", "court_quote_para": "16", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Patna HC held Siwan Muffasil PS lock-up personnel responsible for custodial assault on a Siwan man, awarding Rs 2,00,000 compensation and directing SP Siwan to lodge a criminal complaint.", "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": "Custodial torture", "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": "2024-04-23", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Patna High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Patna High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 200,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "Criminal Writ Jurisdiction Case No. 2525 of 2017", "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": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://www.verdictum.in/pdf_upload/dinesh-kumar-singh-v-the-state-of-bihar-ors-1612466.pdf", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.verdictum.in/court-updates/high-courts/dinesh-kumar-singh-v-the-state-of-bihar-ors-criminal-writ-jurisdiction-case-no2525-of-2017-patna-high-court-1532711", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.scconline.com/blog/post/2024/04/29/pathc-orders-department-of-police-to-pay-rs2lakh-compensation-to-man-subjected-to-custodial-violence-police-atrocity-legal-news/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/149912002/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/patna-high-court/patna-high-court-2lakh-compensation-severe-torture-assault-police-custody-violence-256269", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-02", "chunk-16", "chunk-r09" ], "merged_case_id": "SWCUSTOD-004", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2024-0038", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0879", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Bhagalpur Police Inspector vs The State of Jharkhand and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Bhagalpur Police Inspector vs The State of Jharkhand and Others", "state": "Bihar", "district": "Bhagalpur", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Bhagalpur", "police_station_or_unit": "Kotwali Police Station, Bhagalpur (at time of misconduct)", "court": "Jharkhand High Court", "court_as_verified": "Jharkhand High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Bhagalpur Police Inspector vs The State of Jharkhand and Others", "case_number": "L.P.A. No. 385 of 2023", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Sujit Narayan Prasad", "Arun Kumar Rai" ], "judgment_date": "2024-06-12", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2024, "incident_date": "1997-11-18", "incident_year": 1997, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "Constitution Art. 311(2)(a)" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Inspector", "unit": "Kotwali Police Station, Bhagalpur", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Inspector, Kotwali Police Station, Bhagalpur" } ], "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/94038206/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The appellant, Inspector-in-Charge of Kotwali police station at the time, was convicted of criminal contempt with eight other policemen for the November 1997 Bhagalpur court-premises disruption, a conviction affirmed by the Supreme Court, and was dismissed from service by Jharkhand in 2004 after bifurcation. His departmental appeal failed and the Single Judge dismissed his writ; he sought parity with co-delinquents whose dismissals had been reduced. The Division Bench held that a public servant whose criminal conviction stands to the final forum cannot be retained under Article 311(2)(a), that parity cannot be claimed from illegal relief given to others, and dismissed the appeal, sustaining the dismissal.", "summary_verified": "The appellant, Inspector-in-Charge of Kotwali police station at the time, was convicted of criminal contempt with eight other policemen for the November 1997 Bhagalpur court-premises disruption, a conviction affirmed by the Supreme Court, and was dismissed from service by Jharkhand in 2004 after bifurcation. His departmental appeal failed and the Single Judge dismissed his writ; he sought parity with co-delinquents whose dismissals had been reduced. The Division Bench held that a public servant whose criminal conviction stands to the final forum cannot be retained under Article 311(2)(a), that parity cannot be claimed from illegal relief given to others, and dismissed the appeal, sustaining the dismissal.", "court_quote": "This Court, considering the fact that once the public servant has been convicted and the said conviction order has sustained upto the final adjudicatory forum, i.e., the Hon'ble Apex Court, therefore, is of the view that such public servant cannot be allowed to retain on the post, otherwise, the same will hit the constitutional mandate as under Article 311 (2)(a) of the Constitution of India.", "court_quote_para": "53", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Dismissal over Supreme Court-affirmed Bhagalpur contempt conviction sustained; no parity with co-delinquents.", "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": "2024-06-12", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Jharkhand High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Jharkhand High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "L.P.A. No. 385 of 2023", "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": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/94038206/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-72" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP2-48-002", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2025-0017", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0044", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Jehanabad Woman vs The State of Bihar & Ors", "display_title_redacted": "Jehanabad Woman vs The State of Bihar & Ors", "state": "Bihar", "district": "Jehanabad", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Jehanabad", "police_station_or_unit": "Makhdumpur Police Station and Town Police Station, Jehanabad", "court": "Patna High Court", "court_as_verified": "Patna High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Jehanabad Woman vs The State of Bihar & Ors", "case_number": "Criminal Writ Jurisdiction Case No. 989 of 2025", "citation": "2025(4) PLJR 230; 2025 (6) BLJ 52", "judges": [ "Rajeev Ranjan Prasad", "Sourendra Pandey" ], "judgment_date": "2025-09-01", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2025, "incident_date": "2025-04-29", "incident_year": 2025, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "illegal_detention_false_imprisonment", "subcategory": "illegal_detention_false_imprisonment", "subcategory_display": "illegal detention false imprisonment", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation", "sections": [ "Constitution Art. 226", "BNSS s.35", "BNSS s.48", "BNSS s.187(1)" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Station House Officer", "unit": "Makhdumpur PS, Jehanabad", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:unclear", "key2_agy:no", "key2_gemapi:unclear", "key2_openrouter:unclear" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": "unclear", "key2_agy": "no", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": "unclear", "key2_openrouter": "unclear", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Station House Officer, Makhdumpur PS, Jehanabad" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Station House Officer", "unit": "Town PS, Jehanabad", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:unclear", "key2_agy:no", "key2_gemapi:unclear", "key2_openrouter:unclear" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": "unclear", "key2_agy": "no", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": "unclear", "key2_openrouter": "unclear", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Station House Officer, Town PS, Jehanabad" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Investigating Officer", "unit": "Jehanabad Town PS Case No. 337 of 2025", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2_gemapi:unclear", "key2_openrouter:unclear" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": "unclear", "key2_openrouter": "unclear", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.23, "jev_p_culpable": 0.73, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Investigating Officer, Jehanabad Town PS Case No. 337 of 2025" } ], "officer_count": 3, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "female", "descriptor": "Jehanabad woman" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Jehanabad man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 2, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 200000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://patnahighcourt.gov.in/ILR/viewpdf.aspx?T=EN&ID=MzQ5MQ%3d%3d-5ya4Hpd9X8E%3d", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.samvidalaw.com/illegal-police-detention-and-compensation-ordered-patna-high-court-2025/" ], "summary": "The Patna High Court held that Jehanabad police illegally detained a Jehanabad woman, picked up from her home on 29 April 2025 and lodged in a shelter home for about five days, and a Jehanabad man, picked up as a suspect on 1 May 2025, without arrest memos, family intimation or production before a Magistrate. The Court found the detentions without any sanction of law and in violation of BNSS procedure and the D.K. Basu safeguards, with the State conceding it had no convincing defence. It awarded Rs 1,00,000 to each victim payable by the State within thirty days, recoverable from the salaries of the three erring officers, and directed the DGP to issue arrest and detention guidelines. A third detenue already in lawful judicial custody was excluded from relief. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Patna High Court held that Jehanabad police illegally detained a Jehanabad woman, picked up from her home on 29 April 2025 and lodged in a shelter home for about five days, and a Jehanabad man, picked up as a suspect on 1 May 2025, without arrest memos, family intimation or production before a Magistrate. The Court found the detentions without any sanction of law and in violation of BNSS procedure and the D.K. Basu safeguards, with the State conceding it had no convincing defence. It awarded Rs 1,00,000 to each victim payable by the State within thirty days, recoverable from the salaries of the three erring officers, and directed the DGP to issue arrest and detention guidelines. A third detenue already in lawful judicial custody was excluded from relief.", "court_quote": "Picking someone from his/her house in the name of interrogation without informing his/her family member/relatives/friend the reason and the place of detention and then keeping him/her in detention without obtaining an order from the Jurisdictional Magistrate is completely unlawful", "court_quote_para": "31", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Illegal detention of two; Rs 1L each verified via citations + secondary (PDF fetch failed).", "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": "2025-09-01", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Patna High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Patna High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 200,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "2025(4) PLJR 230; 2025 (6) BLJ 52", "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", "sections" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://patnahighcourt.gov.in/ILR/viewpdf.aspx?T=EN&ID=MzQ5MQ%3d%3d-5ya4Hpd9X8E%3d", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.samvidalaw.com/illegal-police-detention-and-compensation-ordered-patna-high-court-2025/", "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": [ "chunk-27" ], "merged_case_id": "EAST---NORTHEAST-001", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2025-0067", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1355", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Gaya Man @ [name withheld] vs State of Bihar through Principal Secretary (Home)", "display_title_redacted": "Gaya Man @ [name withheld] vs State of Bihar through Principal Secretary (Home)", "state": "Bihar", "district": "Gaya", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": null, "police_station_or_unit": "Central Jail, Gaya; Sarbahda Police Station", "court": "Patna High Court", "court_as_verified": "Patna High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Gaya Man @ [name withheld] vs State of Bihar through Principal Secretary (Home)", "case_number": "CR. WJC No. 2761 of 2025", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Rajeev Ranjan Prasad", "Sourendra Pandey" ], "judgment_date": "2025-11-13", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2025, "incident_date": "2025-09-29", "incident_year": 2025, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "illegal_detention_false_imprisonment", "subcategory": "illegal_detention_false_imprisonment", "subcategory_display": "illegal detention false imprisonment", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation", "sections": [ "Article 21 Constitution of India" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Jail Superintendent", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "Central Jail, Gaya", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "name_public": null, "display": "Jail Superintendent, Central Jail, Gaya" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Deputy Jailor", "role": "named_in_finding", "unit": "Central Jail, Gaya", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "name_public": null, "display": "Deputy Jailor, Central Jail, Gaya" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Senior Superintendent of Police", "role": "named_in_finding", "unit": "Gaya", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "name_public": null, "display": "Senior Superintendent of Police, Gaya" } ], "officer_count": 3, "victims": [ { "name": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Gaya man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 200000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/189081861/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.sabrangindia.in/six-days-behind-bars-after-bail-patna-high-court-orders-%E2%82%B92-lakh-relief-flags-state-wide-pattern-of-illegal-detention" ], "summary": "The Patna High Court awarded Rs 2 lakh compensation to [name withheld] for illegal detention of 5-18 days after his bail release on 29 September 2025. The Jail Superintendent kept him confined without any authorized detention order after a production warrant had expired. The IG Prisons admitted 'illegal detention for at least five days'. The Court held the detention violated Article 21, directed recovery of compensation from the erring official, and ordered the IG Prisons to issue state-wide guidelines to all Jail Superintendents within two weeks.", "summary_verified": "The Patna High Court awarded Rs 2 lakh compensation to [name withheld] for illegal detention of 5-18 days after his bail release on 29 September 2025. The Jail Superintendent kept him confined without any authorized detention order after a production warrant had expired. The IG Prisons admitted 'illegal detention for at least five days'. The Court held the detention violated Article 21, directed recovery of compensation from the erring official, and ordered the IG Prisons to issue state-wide guidelines to all Jail Superintendents within two weeks.", "court_quote": "This Court has no iota of doubt that in this case, the life and liberty of the petitioner has been curtailed to a great extent by keeping him in confinement for 18 days without any authorized detention order from a competent court of law. This Court is further disturbed from the fact that perhaps the same thing is happening as a matter of practice in the State of Bihar.", "court_quote_para": "Paragraph 5", "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": "2025-11-13", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Patna High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Patna High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel.", "disposition": "adverse finding compensation", "source": "CR. 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Acting solely on a DIG Koshi Range supervision note without collecting fresh material or seeking court permission for further investigation, the IO described the boy as 19 and he spent over two and a half months incarcerated; the Juvenile later confirmed he was about 15 years 6 months at the time of occurrence. Holding his Right to Life and Liberty violated by misuse of police power, the Court ordered his forthwith release, awarded Rs. 5,00,000 compensation plus Rs. 15,000 costs payable by the State within one month, and directed the DGP Bihar to hold an administrative inquiry and recover the sum from the erring officials within six months. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Patna High Court (Division Bench) allowed a habeas corpus writ for minor, arrested on October 23, 2025 by IO of Puraini Police Station in Puraini PS Case No. 128 of 2025 even though the boy had been shown as not-chargesheeted in Chargesheet No. 235 dated September 1, 2025. Acting solely on a DIG Koshi Range supervision note without collecting fresh material or seeking court permission for further investigation, the IO described the boy as 19 and he spent over two and a half months incarcerated; the Juvenile later confirmed he was about 15 years 6 months at the time of occurrence. Holding his Right to Life and Liberty violated by misuse of police power, the Court ordered his forthwith release, awarded Rs. 5,00,000 compensation plus Rs. 15,000 costs payable by the State within one month, and directed the DGP Bihar to hold an administrative inquiry and recover the sum from the erring officials within six months.", "court_quote": "In the entire facts and circumstances and the materials which have been brought before this Court, this Court is fully satisfied that the liberty of the petitioner in the present case has been curtailed and his Right to Life and Liberty has been violated by the act of the police officials.", "court_quote_para": "18", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Patna HC (DB) held arrest of 15-year-old Md. Jahid unlawful, ordered release and Rs. 5 lakh compensation plus Rs. 15,000 costs.", "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": "2026-01-09", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Patna High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Patna High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 500,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "2026 (1) PLJR 611", "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": [ "compensation_inr" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/md-jahid-minor-vs-state-of-bihar-patna-high-court-645963.pdf", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/patna-high-court/patna-high-court-slams-saharsa-police-25-month-illegal-detention-juvenile-5-lakh-compensation-518452", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.verdictum.in/court-updates/high-courts/patna-high-court/md-jahid-minor-v-the-state-of-bihar-right-to-life-liberty-erring-officials-rs-5-lakh-unlawful-arrest-1604379", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.barandbench.com/news/litigation/patna-high-court-orders-5-lakh-compensation-for-illegally-jailing-teen-for-25-months", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-02", "chunk-33", "chunk-r01" ], "merged_case_id": "BIHAR2-006", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2026-0077", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1354", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Buxar Man vs State of Bihar through Director General of Police", "display_title_redacted": "Buxar Man vs State of Bihar through Director General of Police", "state": "Bihar", "district": "Buxar", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": null, "police_station_or_unit": "Murar Police Station", "court": "Patna High Court", "court_as_verified": "Patna High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Buxar Man vs State of Bihar through Director General of Police", "case_number": "CR. 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The Court held that a brutal assault by a police officer on a citizen is not part of official duty, so no prior sanction under Section 197 CrPC is required. The Court rejected the police claim that the victim slipped in rain, relying on X-ray reports. The investigation was ordered to be transferred to CID, and the DGP was directed to submit a compliance report within 30 days.", "summary_verified": "The Patna High Court directed registration of FIR against the former SHO of Murar Police Station for brutally assaulting [name withheld] and breaking both his legs on 4 July 2024. The Court held that a brutal assault by a police officer on a citizen is not part of official duty, so no prior sanction under Section 197 CrPC is required. The Court rejected the police claim that the victim slipped in rain, relying on X-ray reports. The investigation was ordered to be transferred to CID, and the DGP was directed to submit a compliance report within 30 days.", "court_quote": "Moreover, for prosecution of the accused, who happened to be a police officer, does not require even sanction under Section 197 Cr.PC/ 218 B.N.S.S. because such brutal act on the part of the police officer against a poor man is not a part of his official duty.", "court_quote_para": "Paragraph 6", "confidence": "medium", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Summary names an individual police officer ([name withheld]); the register must not name officers in any field (officers are tracked by rank/unit/role only) - name removed; All other facts verified correct: CR. WJC 2515/2024, Justice Jitendra Kumar, 16-06-2026, Murar PS Buxar, 04.07.2024 assault, no sanction under 197 CrPC/218 BNSS, X-ray relied on, CID investigation, DGP compliance report within 30 days, quote verbatim", "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": "Custodial torture", "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": "2026-06-16", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Patna High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Patna High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel.", "disposition": "adverse finding compensation", "source": "CR. 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