{ "state": "Jharkhand", "slug": "jharkhand", "count": 83, "url": "https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/state/jharkhand", "cases": [ { "record_id": "CW-1954-0003", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0073", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Kandra Police Assistant Sub-Inspector and others vs The State", "display_title_redacted": "Kandra Police Assistant Sub-Inspector and others vs The State", "state": "Jharkhand", "district": "Seraikela-Kharsawan", "district_at_time": "Singhbhum", "city_town": "Kandra", "police_station_or_unit": "Kandra Police Outpost, Singhbhum", "court": "Patna High Court", "court_as_verified": "Patna High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Kandra Police Assistant Sub-Inspector and others vs The State", "case_number": "Criminal Appeal Nos. 365 and 376 of 1953", "citation": "AIR 1955 Pat 317", "judges": [ "Kamla Sahai" ], "judgment_date": "1954-08-12", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 1954, "incident_date": "1952-10-10", "incident_year": 1952, "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", "IPC 161/109" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Assistant Sub-Inspector", "unit": "Kandra Police Outpost, Singhbhum", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "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, Kandra Police Outpost, Singhbhum" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "unit": "Kandra Police Outpost, Singhbhum", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "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, Kandra Police Outpost, Singhbhum" } ], "officer_count": 2, "victims": [], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 28, "sentence_type": "imprisonment", "sentence_max_years": 1, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/173056/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/746831/nil-madhab-patnaik-and-another-vs-the-state/" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Patna High Court records the following account. On 10 October 1952, the ASI and constable of Kandra outpost threatened about 28 villagers of Bikaneepur with prosecution over a witchcraft-related sacrifice and extracted illegal gratification at Rs.2/8 per head, settled after haggling down from Rs.500. The court believed the prosecution witnesses and held [name withheld] received illegal gratification from several persons, rejecting sanction and evidentiary objections. It dismissed [name withheld]'s appeal (1 year RI under Section 161 IPC) and dismissed Yasin Khan's appeal with his conviction altered to abetment under Section 161/109 IPC, maintaining his 6-month sentence.", "summary_verified": "On 10 October 1952, the ASI and constable of Kandra outpost threatened about 28 villagers of Bikaneepur with prosecution over a witchcraft-related sacrifice and extracted illegal gratification at Rs.2/8 per head, settled after haggling down from Rs.500. The court believed the prosecution witnesses and held [name withheld] received illegal gratification from several persons, rejecting sanction and evidentiary objections. It dismissed [name withheld]'s appeal (1 year RI under Section 161 IPC) and dismissed Yasin Khan's appeal with his conviction altered to abetment under Section 161/109 IPC, maintaining his 6-month sentence.", "court_quote": "The result is that Criminal Appeal No. 365 filed by appellant [name withheld] is dismissed and Criminal Appeal No. 376 filed by appellant Yasin Khan is dismissed with the modification that his conviction is altered to one u/s 161/109, Penal Code.", "court_quote_para": "13", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Single-judge judgment verified; ASI + constable bribery convictions sustained (1 yr / 6 mo RI).", "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": "AIR 1955 Pat 317", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." }, { "date": "1954-08-12", "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": "AIR 1955 Pat 317", "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", "court_quote_para" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/173056/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/746831/nil-madhab-patnaik-and-another-vs-the-state/", "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": "GAP14-001", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-1991-0004", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0970", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Jamshedpur Man and Another v. State of Bihar and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Jamshedpur Man and Another v. State of Bihar and Others", "state": "Jharkhand", "district": "Purbi Singhbhum", "district_at_time": "Singhbhum, Bihar", "city_town": "Jamshedpur", "police_station_or_unit": "Sidhgora Police Station, Jamshedpur", "court": "Patna High Court", "court_as_verified": "Patna High Court", "bench": "Ranchi", "case_title": "Jamshedpur Man and Another v. State of Bihar and Others", "case_number": "Criminal W.J.C. No. 87 of 1990 (R)", "citation": "1992(1) BLJR 60", "judges": [ "Satyabrata Sinha" ], "judgment_date": "1991-03-18", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 1991, "incident_date": "1990-05-25", "incident_year": 1990, "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. 21", "Bihar Police Manual r.241", "CrPC (arrest/handcuffing safeguards incl. duty to inform grounds of arrest)", "IPC 380", "IPC 307 (as recorded in Sidhgora P.S. Case Nos. 40-41 of 1990)" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": null, "role": "held_liable", "unit": "Sidhgora Police Station, Jamshedpur (Respondent No. 3)", "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, Sidhgora Police Station, Jamshedpur (Respondent No. 3)" }, { "name": null, "rank": null, "role": "held_liable", "unit": "Sidhgora Police Station, Jamshedpur (Respondent No. 4)", "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, Sidhgora Police Station, Jamshedpur (Respondent No. 4)" } ], "officer_count": 2, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": 35, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Jamshedpur man, age 35" }, { "name": null, "age": 47, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Jamshedpur man, age 47" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 2, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 20000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1296325/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.the-laws.com/Encyclopedia/Browse/Case?CaseId=711991470000&Title=ANJANI-KUMAR-SINHA-Vs.-STATE-OF-BIHAR" ], "summary": "The Patna High Court (Ranchi bench) partly allowed the writ of two TISCO Assistant Security Officers detained at Sidhgora police station on 25 May 1990. The court held there was no reasonable cause for their detention, for refusing them bail, or for handcuffing and roping them in public view outside the magistrate's court, finding respondent No. 4's action smacked of malice. It condemned the officers' conduct as a gross violation of fundamental rights. The court directed the State to pay Rs 20,000 as exemplary costs and to hold an inquiry fixing individual liability of respondent Nos. 3 and 4 (or others), with recovery from those found liable. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Patna High Court (Ranchi bench) partly allowed the writ of two TISCO Assistant Security Officers detained at Sidhgora police station on 25 May 1990. The court held there was no reasonable cause for their detention, for refusing them bail, or for handcuffing and roping them in public view outside the magistrate's court, finding respondent No. 4's action smacked of malice. It condemned the officers' conduct as a gross violation of fundamental rights. The court directed the State to pay Rs 20,000 as exemplary costs and to hold an inquiry fixing individual liability of respondent Nos. 3 and 4 (or others), with recovery from those found liable.", "court_quote": "there was no reasonable cause for the petitioners being detained in police custody nor as there [sic] any cause for handcuffing of the petitioners and roping either by Respondent No. 4 or by the escorting party", "court_quote_para": "54", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Writ allowed; Rs 20,000 exemplary costs for illegal detention and handcuffing/roping without cause.", "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": "1991-03-18", "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 20,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "1992(1) BLJR 60", "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" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1296325/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.the-laws.com/Encyclopedia/Browse/Case?CaseId=711991470000&Title=ANJANI-KUMAR-SINHA-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-80" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-100-003", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-1999-0013", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0968", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Palamu Man v. Union of India and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Palamu Man v. Union of India and Others", "state": "Jharkhand", "district": "Palamu", "district_at_time": "Palamau, Bihar", "city_town": null, "police_station_or_unit": "Panki Police Station (Pipratand outpost), Sadar B Circle, Daltonganj", "court": "Patna High Court", "court_as_verified": "Patna High Court", "bench": "Ranchi", "case_title": "Palamu Man v. Union of India and Others", "case_number": "C.W.J.C. No. 2437 of 1998 (R)", "citation": "(2000) 1 PLJR 672", "judges": [ "M.Y. Eqbal" ], "judgment_date": "1999-11-11", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 1999, "incident_date": "1998-07-18", "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": [ "Constitution Art. 21", "Constitution Art. 22(1)", "IPC 220", "IPC 330", "IPC 331", "CrPC 82", "CrPC 83" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Deputy Superintendent of Police", "role": "named_only", "unit": "Sadar B Circle, Daltonganj, 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": "Deputy Superintendent of Police, Sadar B Circle, Daltonganj, Bihar Police" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Inspector", "role": "named_only", "unit": "Bihar Police (Panki P.S.)", "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, Bihar Police (Panki P.S.)" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Sub-Inspector", "role": "named_only", "unit": "Bihar Police (Panki P.S.)", "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, Bihar Police (Panki P.S.)" }, { "name": null, "rank": null, "role": "named_only", "unit": "CRPF personnel with Assistant Commandant (raid party)", "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, CRPF personnel with Assistant Commandant (raid party)" } ], "officer_count": null, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Palamu 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.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/772163/mostt-ahulash-devi-vs-union-of-india-and-others/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/56e12e4e607dba3896622fb7" ], "summary": "The Patna High Court (Ranchi bench) allowed the widow's writ, holding that her husband [name withheld] died in custody on 18 July 1998 from a brutal assault by a police party led by DySP [name withheld]. The court found that the joint Bihar police-BMP-CRPF party had raided the house without warrant, beaten the deceased with dandas and rifle butts, and failed to follow the D.K. Basu safeguards, rejecting the police claim that he was a wanted MCC activist injured while fleeing. It directed the CBI to hold a thorough enquiry and institute criminal prosecution against the officers involved in causing the death by torture. The court ordered Rs 2 lakh compensation to the widow, to be paid equally by the Central and State Governments within two months. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Patna High Court (Ranchi bench) allowed the widow's writ, holding that her husband [name withheld] died in custody on 18 July 1998 from a brutal assault by a police party led by DySP [name withheld]. The court found that the joint Bihar police-BMP-CRPF party had raided the house without warrant, beaten the deceased with dandas and rifle butts, and failed to follow the D.K. Basu safeguards, rejecting the police claim that he was a wanted MCC activist injured while fleeing. It directed the CBI to hold a thorough enquiry and institute criminal prosecution against the officers involved in causing the death by torture. The court ordered Rs 2 lakh compensation to the widow, to be paid equally by the Central and State Governments within two months.", "court_quote": "It is prima facie evident that the brutal and inhuman act of the police personnels has resulted in the death of the deceased.", "court_quote_para": "13", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Writ allowed; Rs 2 lakh compensation plus CBI enquiry and prosecution for custodial death by police torture.", "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": "1999-11-11", "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": "(2000) 1 PLJR 672", "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/772163/mostt-ahulash-devi-vs-union-of-india-and-others/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/56e12e4e607dba3896622fb7", "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": "GAP3-100-001", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2003-0005", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0171", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Ranchi Man vs State of Bihar and Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "Ranchi Man vs State of Bihar and Ors.", "state": "Jharkhand", "district": "Ranchi", "district_at_time": "Ranchi", "city_town": "Ranchi", "police_station_or_unit": "Jagannathpur Police Station, Ranchi", "court": "Jharkhand High Court", "court_as_verified": "Jharkhand High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Ranchi Man vs State of Bihar and Ors.", "case_number": "C.W.J.C. No. 3088 of 1996(R)", "citation": "2003 CriLJ 3803", "judges": [ "Tapen Sen" ], "judgment_date": "2003-06-02", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2003, "incident_date": "1990-07-27", "incident_year": 1990, "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. 21", "Constitution Art. 226", "IPC 395", "IPC 412", "Arms Act" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": null, "unit": "Jagannathpur Police Station, Ranchi", "role": "convicted", "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": "Police personnel, Jagannathpur Police Station, Ranchi" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": 28, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Ranchi man, age 28" } ], "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://indiankanoon.org/doc/520221/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/122009310/" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Jharkhand High Court records the following account. A Ranchi man @ a Ranchi man was apprehended along with two others by Jagannathpur police on 27 July 1990 following an alleged dacoity, and was brutally assaulted with rifle butts and iron rods in a police jeep, resulting in his custodial death. The trial court convicted the accused police personnel in Sessions Trial No. 551 of 1993. On a writ petition by the deceased's widow, the Jharkhand High Court held that the factum of brutal custodial killing in violation of Article 21 was shocking beyond words and directed the State to pay Rs. 10,00,000 in compensation to the widow and three minor children. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "A Ranchi man @ a Ranchi man was apprehended along with two others by Jagannathpur police on 27 July 1990 following an alleged dacoity, and was brutally assaulted with rifle butts and iron rods in a police jeep, resulting in his custodial death. The trial court convicted the accused police personnel in Sessions Trial No. 551 of 1993. On a writ petition by the deceased's widow, the Jharkhand High Court held that the factum of brutal custodial killing in violation of Article 21 was shocking beyond words and directed the State to pay Rs. 10,00,000 in compensation to the widow and three minor children.", "court_quote": "Consequently, it was held that the charges levelled against all the nine police personnels were proved and they were held guilty and keeping in view the facts and circumstances of the case, the learned Court sentenced them to undergo rigorous imprisonment for a period of ten years and also to pay a fine of Rs. 20,000/-.", "court_quote_para": "4", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "High Court awarded Rs 10 lakh compensation to widow and children for brutal custodial death of a Ranchi man @ a Ranchi man by Jagannathpur 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": "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": "2003-06-02", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Jharkhand High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Jharkhand 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": "2003 CriLJ 3803", "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/520221/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/122009310/", "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-05" ], "merged_case_id": "JHARKH-001", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2003-0019", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0971", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Daltonganj Man v. State of Jharkhand and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Daltonganj Man v. State of Jharkhand and Others", "state": "Jharkhand", "district": "Palamu", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Daltonganj", "police_station_or_unit": "Daltonganj Police Station", "court": "Jharkhand High Court", "court_as_verified": "Jharkhand High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Daltonganj Man v. State of Jharkhand and Others", "case_number": "W.P.(S) No. 4640 of 2002", "citation": "AIR 2004 Jhar 66", "judges": [ "Tapen Sen" ], "judgment_date": "2003-08-12", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2003, "incident_date": "2001-12-07", "incident_year": 2001, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation", "sections": [ "Constitution Art. 226" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Inspector", "role": "named_only", "unit": "Daltonganj Police Station patrolling party, Palamu", "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, Daltonganj Police Station patrolling party, Palamu" } ], "officer_count": null, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Daltonganj man" } ], "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/478595/dwarika-prasad-appellant-hash-state-of-jharkhand-and-others-respondent-1/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Jharkhand High Court allowed the father's writ after his son [name withheld] was killed on 7 December 2001 when a suspected parcel bomb exploded at Daltonganj. The court found the Daltonganj police patrolling party negligent: instead of summoning explosive experts, the Inspector had the civilian open the lunch-box device, killing him on the spot and injuring police personnel. It held this was not gross negligence but a carefree attitude, distinguishing the custodial-death award in Bahlen Balmuchu. The court ordered Rs 1 lakh compensation plus transposition of the deceased's STD booth licence to one brother and employment for the other. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Jharkhand High Court allowed the father's writ after his son [name withheld] was killed on 7 December 2001 when a suspected parcel bomb exploded at Daltonganj. The court found the Daltonganj police patrolling party negligent: instead of summoning explosive experts, the Inspector had the civilian open the lunch-box device, killing him on the spot and injuring police personnel. It held this was not gross negligence but a carefree attitude, distinguishing the custodial-death award in Bahlen Balmuchu. The court ordered Rs 1 lakh compensation plus transposition of the deceased's STD booth licence to one brother and employment for the other.", "court_quote": "even if it is not a case of gross negligence, it can at best termed to be a case of a carefree and/or non chalant attitude on the part of the members of the police.", "court_quote_para": "15", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Writ allowed; Rs 1 lakh plus licence transposition and employment for police negligence causing blast death.", "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": "2003-08-12", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Jharkhand High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Jharkhand High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 100,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "AIR 2004 Jhar 66", "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/478595/dwarika-prasad-appellant-hash-state-of-jharkhand-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-80" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-101-001", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2004-0011", "status": "overturned", "merged_id": "CWC-0976", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Jharkhand Police Constable vs State of Jharkhand and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Jharkhand Police Constable vs State of Jharkhand and Others", "state": "Jharkhand", "district": "East Singhbhum", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Jamshedpur", "police_station_or_unit": "Jamshedpur Sadar Court escort", "court": "Jharkhand High Court", "court_as_verified": "Jharkhand High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Jharkhand Police Constable vs State of Jharkhand and Others", "case_number": "Writ Petition (S) No. 6666 of 2002", "citation": "(2004) 3 JCR 130", "judges": [ "Tapen Sen" ], "judgment_date": "2004-04-29", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2004, "incident_date": "2002-01-18", "incident_year": 2002, "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": [ "IPC 224", "IPC 225", "IPC 120B" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "Jharkhand Police, Jamshedpur Sadar Court", "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, Jharkhand Police, Jamshedpur Sadar Court" } ], "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/472104/umeshwar-upadhyay-appellant-hash-state-of-jharkhand-and-others-respondent/", "secondary_sources": [ "(2004) 04 JH CK 0039" ], "summary": "On 18 January 2002 constable, escorting three accused including murder-accused [name withheld] from jail to the Jamshedpur Sadar Court, left Singh untied and unhandcuffed, allowing him to remove his handcuffs and escape; Bistupur P.S. Case No. 19/2002 under Sections 224, 225 and 120B IPC followed. Departmental Proceeding No. 31 of 2002 ended in his discharge/dismissal on 21 June 2002, confirmed on appeal on 5 November 2002. The Jharkhand High Court (Tapen Sen, J.) held the inquiry evidence established gross negligence in escort duty, that a writ court cannot substitute findings of fact, and that dismissal for letting a serious offender escape was not disproportionate. The writ petition was dismissed on 29 April 2004. Later proceedings: on 13 February 2007, the Jharkhand High Court set aside the order recorded in this judgment (concerning [name withheld]); the outcome recorded here therefore does not stand. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "On 18 January 2002 constable, escorting three accused including murder-accused [name withheld] from jail to the Jamshedpur Sadar Court, left Singh untied and unhandcuffed, allowing him to remove his handcuffs and escape; Bistupur P.S. Case No. 19/2002 under Sections 224, 225 and 120B IPC followed. Departmental Proceeding No. 31 of 2002 ended in his discharge/dismissal on 21 June 2002, confirmed on appeal on 5 November 2002. The Jharkhand High Court (Tapen Sen, J.) held the inquiry evidence established gross negligence in escort duty, that a writ court cannot substitute findings of fact, and that dismissal for letting a serious offender escape was not disproportionate. The writ petition was dismissed on 29 April 2004.", "court_quote": "In this case it was the duty and responsibility of the Constable to safely bring back a serious offender to the Court Lockup but because of his negligence and carelessness, which amounts to gross dereliction of duty, the said criminal managed to escape from the clutches of law.", "court_quote_para": "10", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Judgment verified; dismissal for letting undertrial escape from escort upheld as gross dereliction.", "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": "2004-04-29", "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": "(2004) 3 JCR 130", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." }, { "date": "2007-02-13", "action_type": "Order set aside", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Jharkhand High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "Later proceedings: on 13 February 2007, the Jharkhand High Court set aside the order recorded in this judgment (concerning [name withheld]); the outcome recorded here therefore does not stand.", "disposition": "Later proceeding · Conviction not standing", "source": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/533404/", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." } ], "later_proceedings": [ { "court": "Jharkhand High Court", "date": "2007-02-13", "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/533404/", "outcome": "conviction_set_aside" } ], "final_outcome_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/533404/", "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/472104/umeshwar-upadhyay-appellant-hash-state-of-jharkhand-and-others-respondent/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "(2004) 04 JH CK 0039", "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": "GAP3-101-006", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2004-0012", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0977", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Bihar Military Police Constable vs State of Bihar and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Bihar Military Police Constable vs State of Bihar and Others", "state": "Jharkhand", "district": "Hazaribagh", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Hazaribagh", "police_station_or_unit": "Bihar Military Police-3, Govindpur, Dhanbad (on deputation at D.A.V. School, Hazaribagh)", "court": "Jharkhand High Court", "court_as_verified": "Jharkhand High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Bihar Military Police Constable vs State of Bihar and Others", "case_number": "C.W.J.C. No. 1844 of 2000 (P)", "citation": "2004 (3) JCR 511 Jhr", "judges": [ "Amareshwar Sahay" ], "judgment_date": "2004-05-18", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2004, "incident_date": "1996-05-08", "incident_year": 1996, "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-3, Govindpur, Dhanbad", "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-3, Govindpur, Dhanbad" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Hazaribagh 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.legalindia.com/judgments/bijendra-singh-vs-state-of-bihar-through-home-on-18-may-2004", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The judgment of the Jharkhand High Court records the following account. On 8 May 1996, while on deputation at D.A.V. School, Hazaribagh, during the Lok Sabha elections, BMP constable abused and pushed down constable and later that night assaulted the sleeping constable on the chest with boots, hospitalising him till 13 May 1996 (station diary No. 290/96, Sadar Police Station). The enquiry officer gave benefit of doubt, but the Commandant disagreed and dismissed him on 7 April 1998; the appellate authority confirmed guilt while reducing dismissal to compulsory retirement on 3 November 1998. The Jharkhand High Court (Amareshwar Sahay, J.) held the disciplinary authority had stated reasons for disagreement in the show-cause notice with opportunity to reply, had carefully considered the record including eyewitness evidence, and that a writ court cannot substitute findings of fact. The writ application was dismissed on 18 May 2004, leaving compulsory retirement undisturbed; the 1996 incident pre-dates Jharkhand's formation, hence the State of Bihar respondent. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "On 8 May 1996, while on deputation at D.A.V. School, Hazaribagh, during the Lok Sabha elections, BMP constable abused and pushed down constable and later that night assaulted the sleeping constable on the chest with boots, hospitalising him till 13 May 1996 (station diary No. 290/96, Sadar Police Station). The enquiry officer gave benefit of doubt, but the Commandant disagreed and dismissed him on 7 April 1998; the appellate authority confirmed guilt while reducing dismissal to compulsory retirement on 3 November 1998. The Jharkhand High Court (Amareshwar Sahay, J.) held the disciplinary authority had stated reasons for disagreement in the show-cause notice with opportunity to reply, had carefully considered the record including eyewitness evidence, and that a writ court cannot substitute findings of fact. The writ application was dismissed on 18 May 2004, leaving compulsory retirement undisturbed; the 1996 incident pre-dates Jharkhand's formation, hence the State of Bihar respondent.", "court_quote": "The disciplinary authority has very carefully considered the materials on the record then had come to a definite finding of fact holding the petitioner guilty.", "court_quote_para": "13", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Judgment verified; compulsory retirement for assault on fellow constable upheld (Bihar-era incident, Jharkhand HC decision).", "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": "2004-05-18", "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": "2004 (3) JCR 511 Jhr", "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.legalindia.com/judgments/bijendra-singh-vs-state-of-bihar-through-home-on-18-may-2004", "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": "GAP3-101-007", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2005-0015", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0986", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "CISF Constable vs Union of India and Others", "display_title_redacted": "CISF Constable vs Union of India and Others", "state": "Jharkhand", "district": null, "district_at_time": null, "city_town": null, "police_station_or_unit": "CISF ('B' Plant, Watch Tower No. III)", "court": "Jharkhand High Court", "court_as_verified": "Jharkhand High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "CISF Constable vs Union of India and Others", "case_number": "Writ petition against IG CISF (Eastern Sector) revision order (number not stated in judgment text)", "citation": "[2005(3) JCR 381 (JHR)]; 2005 AIR Jhar HCR 2426; (2005) 3 JLJR 697", "judges": [ "M.Y. Eqbal" ], "judgment_date": "2005-07-25", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2005, "incident_date": "1992-02-11", "incident_year": 1992, "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.18" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "CISF", "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, CISF" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": null, "descriptor": "Jharkhand resident" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "dismissal", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "central_armed", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1240312/", "secondary_sources": [ "[2005(3)JCR381(JHR)]", "2005 AIR-Jhar HCR 2426", "(2005) 3 JLJR 697" ], "summary": "The Jharkhand High Court (M.Y. Eqbal J.) on 25 July 2005 dismissed the writ petition of CISF constable (No. 8017761) against the rejection of his revision by the Inspector General, CISF Eastern Sector. The court recorded the same history as the later appeal round: dozing on watch-tower duty on 11/12 February 1992 and assaulting Inspector, both charges proved, dismissal on 12 October 1992, and the Division Bench in LPA No. 646 of 2002 restoring dismissal while allowing a revision on quantum only. The court held that dismissal on proved misconduct cannot be interfered with on sympathetic grounds unless illogical, procedurally improper or shocking to conscience. Declining to interfere, it dismissed the writ petition; a further appeal in the same matter was dismissed on 8 March 2006 (recorded as CWC-0993).", "summary_verified": "The Jharkhand High Court (M.Y. Eqbal J.) on 25 July 2005 dismissed the writ petition of CISF constable (No. 8017761) against the rejection of his revision by the Inspector General, CISF Eastern Sector. The court recorded the same history as the later appeal round: dozing on watch-tower duty on 11/12 February 1992 and assaulting Inspector, both charges proved, dismissal on 12 October 1992, and the Division Bench in LPA No. 646 of 2002 restoring dismissal while allowing a revision on quantum only. The court held that dismissal on proved misconduct cannot be interfered with on sympathetic grounds unless illogical, procedurally improper or shocking to conscience. Declining to interfere, it dismissed the writ petition; a further appeal in the same matter was dismissed on 8 March 2006 (recorded as CWC-0993).", "court_quote": "I am not inclined to interfere with the order of punishment imposed upon the petitioner.", "court_quote_para": "8", "confidence": "medium", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Writ against revision dismissed; same [name withheld] dismissal as CWC-0993 (earlier round) 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": "2005-07-25", "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": "[2005(3) JCR 381 (JHR)]; 2005 AIR Jhar HCR 2426; (2005) 3 JLJR 697", "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/1240312/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "[2005(3)JCR381(JHR)]", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "2005 AIR-Jhar HCR 2426", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "(2005) 3 JLJR 697", "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-82" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-102-008", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2005-0020", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0985", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Pratappur Police Constable vs State of Jharkhand and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Pratappur Police Constable vs State of Jharkhand and Others", "state": "Jharkhand", "district": "Chatra", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Pratappur", "police_station_or_unit": "JAP-7, Hazaribagh (posted Pratappur, Chatra)", "court": "Jharkhand High Court", "court_as_verified": "Jharkhand High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Pratappur Police Constable vs State of Jharkhand and Others", "case_number": "W.P.(S) No. 6077 of 2005", "citation": "[2006(1) JCR 309 (JHR)]", "judges": [ "M.Y. Eqbal" ], "judgment_date": "2005-12-23", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2005, "incident_date": "2002-04-18", "incident_year": 2002, "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", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "JAP-7, Hazaribagh", "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, JAP-7, Hazaribagh" } ], "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/524457/", "secondary_sources": [ "[2006(1)JCR309(JHR)]" ], "summary": "The Jharkhand High Court (M.Y. Eqbal J.) on 23 December 2005 dismissed the writ petition of JAP-7 constable against his dismissal for habitual unauthorised absence. The court recorded that he absconded from 18 April to 29 July 2002 (102 days), covering it with a story of kidnapping by Naxalites that neither his superior officers nor the Chatra police had reported, supported by a private practitioner's certificate of mental-illness treatment, and that he had three earlier major punishments for absconding for up to 186 days before absconding again in December 2002. The court held the kidnapping story was hatched to cover wilful absence and that he was not fit to be retained in police service. It declared the dismissal order perfectly legal and valid and dismissed the writ petition, so the dismissal stands. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Jharkhand High Court (M.Y. Eqbal J.) on 23 December 2005 dismissed the writ petition of JAP-7 constable against his dismissal for habitual unauthorised absence. The court recorded that he absconded from 18 April to 29 July 2002 (102 days), covering it with a story of kidnapping by Naxalites that neither his superior officers nor the Chatra police had reported, supported by a private practitioner's certificate of mental-illness treatment, and that he had three earlier major punishments for absconding for up to 186 days before absconding again in December 2002. The court held the kidnapping story was hatched to cover wilful absence and that he was not fit to be retained in police service. It declared the dismissal order perfectly legal and valid and dismissed the writ petition, so the dismissal stands.", "court_quote": "the petitioner is not at all fit to be retained in the police service. The impugned order of dismissal from service is perfectly legal and valid which needs no interference.", "court_quote_para": "7", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Writ dismissed; JAP constable's dismissal for habitual absence with fabricated kidnapping story 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": "2005-12-23", "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": "[2006(1) JCR 309 (JHR)]", "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/524457/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "[2006(1)JCR309(JHR)]", "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-82" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-102-007", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2006-0022", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0984", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "CISF Constable vs Union of India and Others", "display_title_redacted": "CISF Constable vs Union of India and Others", "state": "Jharkhand", "district": null, "district_at_time": null, "city_town": null, "police_station_or_unit": "CISF ('B' Plant, Watch Tower No. III)", "court": "Jharkhand High Court", "court_as_verified": "Jharkhand High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "CISF Constable vs Union of India and Others", "case_number": "Appeal against revisional rejection (number not stated); see CWJC No. 11947 of 1997 (R), LPA No. 646 of 2002", "citation": "[2007(3) JCR 449 (JHR)]", "judges": [ "S.J. Mukhopadhaya" ], "judgment_date": "2006-03-08", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2006, "incident_date": "1992-02-11", "incident_year": 1992, "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", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "CISF", "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, CISF" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": null, "descriptor": "Jharkhand resident" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "dismissal", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "central_armed", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1656513/", "secondary_sources": [ "[2007(3)JCR449(JHR)]" ], "summary": "The Jharkhand High Court (S.J. Mukhopadhaya J.) on 8 March 2006 dismissed the appeal of CISF constable against his dismissal from service. The court recorded that he was found sitting and dozing before a small fire while on 'C'-shift watch-tower duty on the night of 11/12 February 1992 and assaulted Inspector when caught, that both charges were proved in a departmental enquiry, and that he was dismissed on 12 October 1992. The court noted the Division Bench had already upheld the punishment in LPA No. 646 of 2002, remitting only the question of quantum to the revisional authority, which found dismissal proportionate. Agreeing that the order was appropriate and proportionate to the gravity of the charges, the court dismissed the appeal, so the dismissal stands.", "summary_verified": "The Jharkhand High Court (S.J. Mukhopadhaya J.) on 8 March 2006 dismissed the appeal of CISF constable against his dismissal from service. The court recorded that he was found sitting and dozing before a small fire while on 'C'-shift watch-tower duty on the night of 11/12 February 1992 and assaulted Inspector when caught, that both charges were proved in a departmental enquiry, and that he was dismissed on 12 October 1992. The court noted the Division Bench had already upheld the punishment in LPA No. 646 of 2002, remitting only the question of quantum to the revisional authority, which found dismissal proportionate. Agreeing that the order was appropriate and proportionate to the gravity of the charges, the court dismissed the appeal, so the dismissal stands.", "court_quote": "the respondents have passed appropriate order, proportionate to the gravity of charges and thus called for no interference. The appeal is, accordingly, dismissed.", "court_quote_para": "3", "confidence": "medium", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Appeal dismissed; CISF constable's dismissal for sleeping on duty and assaulting superior upheld (posting plant not stated).", "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": "2006-03-08", "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": "[2007(3) JCR 449 (JHR)]", "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/1656513/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "[2007(3)JCR449(JHR)]", "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-82" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-102-006", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2006-0024", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0982", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Dhanbad Police Constable vs The State of Jharkhand and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Dhanbad Police Constable vs The State of Jharkhand and Others", "state": "Jharkhand", "district": "Dhanbad", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Dhanbad", "police_station_or_unit": "Sadar Court, Dhanbad", "court": "Jharkhand High Court", "court_as_verified": "Jharkhand High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Dhanbad Police Constable vs The State of Jharkhand and Others", "case_number": "LPA against order dated 12.07.2005 in W.P.(S) No. 3220 of 2005 (LPA number not stated in judgment text)", "citation": "[2006(4) JCR 301 (JHR)]", "judges": [ "S.J. Mukhopadhaya", "Permod Kohli" ], "judgment_date": "2006-05-19", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2006, "incident_date": "2000-11-01", "incident_year": 2000, "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", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "Sadar Court, Dhanbad", "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, Sadar Court, Dhanbad" } ], "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/747511/", "secondary_sources": [ "[2006(4)JCR301(JHR)]" ], "summary": "The Jharkhand High Court Division Bench (S.J. Mukhopadhaya and Permod Kohli JJ.) on 19 May 2006 dismissed the Letters Patent Appeal of constable of Sadar Court, Dhanbad, against his dismissal for habitual absconding from duty since November 2000. The court recorded that an ex parte departmental enquiry had held him guilty after he failed to participate, and that the Superintendent of Police, Dhanbad had dismissed him on 27 July 2003 considering his reply, the enquiry report and about eleven prior instances of absconding. The court held the dismissal was not contrary to Rule 826 of the Bihar Police Manual Vol. 1 nor disproportionate, and that no subsistence-allowance illegality occurred since he never stayed at headquarters during suspension. It found no ground to interfere with the dismissal or the Single Judge's order dismissing his writ petition, and dismissed the appeal.", "summary_verified": "The Jharkhand High Court Division Bench (S.J. Mukhopadhaya and Permod Kohli JJ.) on 19 May 2006 dismissed the Letters Patent Appeal of constable of Sadar Court, Dhanbad, against his dismissal for habitual absconding from duty since November 2000. The court recorded that an ex parte departmental enquiry had held him guilty after he failed to participate, and that the Superintendent of Police, Dhanbad had dismissed him on 27 July 2003 considering his reply, the enquiry report and about eleven prior instances of absconding. The court held the dismissal was not contrary to Rule 826 of the Bihar Police Manual Vol. 1 nor disproportionate, and that no subsistence-allowance illegality occurred since he never stayed at headquarters during suspension. It found no ground to interfere with the dismissal or the Single Judge's order dismissing his writ petition, and dismissed the appeal.", "court_quote": "We find no ground to be made out to interfere with the order of dismissal nor any ground has been made out to interfere with the order, passed by the learned Single Judge. There being no merit, this appeal is hereby dismissed.", "court_quote_para": "13", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "LPA dismissed; constable's dismissal for habitual absconding 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": "2006-05-19", "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": "[2006(4) JCR 301 (JHR)]", "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/747511/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "[2006(4)JCR301(JHR)]", "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-82" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-102-004", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2006-0025", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0981", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "CISF Constable vs Union of India and Others", "display_title_redacted": "CISF Constable vs Union of India and Others", "state": "Jharkhand", "district": "Bokaro", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Bokaro", "police_station_or_unit": "CISF Unit, Bokaro Steel Plant", "court": "Jharkhand High Court", "court_as_verified": "Jharkhand High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "CISF Constable vs Union of India and Others", "case_number": "CWJC No. 2094 of 1997 (R)", "citation": "2007(1) BLJR 354; [2006(4) JCR 419 (JHR)]", "judges": [ "R.K. Merathia" ], "judgment_date": "2006-07-25", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2006, "incident_date": "1995-04-29", "incident_year": 1995, "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": "CISF Unit, Bokaro Steel Plant", "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, CISF Unit, Bokaro Steel Plant" } ], "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/592174/", "secondary_sources": [ "2007(1)BLJR354", "[2006(4)JCR419(JHR)]" ], "summary": "The Jharkhand High Court (R.K. Merathia J.) on 25 July 2006 dismissed the writ petition of CISF constable of the Bokaro Steel Plant unit, challenging his dismissal from service. The court recorded that he had been found guilty in a departmental enquiry of conspiring to commit theft inside the plant on 29 April 1995, absenting himself from the 'G' Coy barracks in the early hours of 30 April 1995, and attempting to steal undertaking property from Shed No. C-22. The court found that he was caught red-handed in civil dress outside the perimeter wall at about 1:30 a.m., that documents had been duly furnished to him, and that the disciplinary authority had rejected his pleas by a well-reasoned order. It held the punishment of dismissal was not harsh for a man whose duty was to protect the company from theft, and dismissed the writ petition, so the dismissal stands. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Jharkhand High Court (R.K. Merathia J.) on 25 July 2006 dismissed the writ petition of CISF constable of the Bokaro Steel Plant unit, challenging his dismissal from service. The court recorded that he had been found guilty in a departmental enquiry of conspiring to commit theft inside the plant on 29 April 1995, absenting himself from the 'G' Coy barracks in the early hours of 30 April 1995, and attempting to steal undertaking property from Shed No. C-22. The court found that he was caught red-handed in civil dress outside the perimeter wall at about 1:30 a.m., that documents had been duly furnished to him, and that the disciplinary authority had rejected his pleas by a well-reasoned order. It held the punishment of dismissal was not harsh for a man whose duty was to protect the company from theft, and dismissed the writ petition, so the dismissal stands.", "court_quote": "The punishment also cannot be said to be harsh in view of the aforesaid charges proved against the petitioner whose duty was to protect the company from theft.", "court_quote_para": "5", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC dismissed writ; CISF constable's dismissal for theft conspiracy and dereliction 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": "2006-07-25", "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": "2007(1) BLJR 354; [2006(4) JCR 419 (JHR)]", "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/592174/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "2007(1)BLJR354", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "[2006(4)JCR419(JHR)]", "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-82" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-102-003", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2006-0028", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0983", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "CISF Constable and others vs Union of India and Others", "display_title_redacted": "CISF Constable and others vs Union of India and Others", "state": "Jharkhand", "district": "Bokaro", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Kargali", "police_station_or_unit": "CISF check post, Kargali colliery", "court": "Jharkhand High Court", "court_as_verified": "Jharkhand High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "CISF Constable and others vs Union of India and Others", "case_number": "LPAs against CWJC Nos. 1707 and 1715 of 1998 (LPA numbers not stated in judgment text)", "citation": "(2007) 1 JCR 248 (JHA); 2007 Lab IC (NOC) 558; 2007 (2) AIR Jhar R 536", "judges": [ "M.Y. Eqbal" ], "judgment_date": "2006-11-14", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2006, "incident_date": "1997-11-21", "incident_year": 1997, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "corruption", "admin_subcategory": "bribery_pc_act", "subcategory": "bribery_pc_act", "subcategory_display": "bribery pc act", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "CISF, Kargali colliery", "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, CISF, Kargali colliery" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Naik", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "CISF, Kargali colliery", "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": "Naik, CISF, Kargali colliery" } ], "officer_count": 2, "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/1998654/", "secondary_sources": [ "(2007) 1 JCR 248 (JHA)", "2007 LAB. I. C. (NOC) 558", "2007 (2) AIR JHAR R 536" ], "summary": "The Jharkhand High Court (M.Y. Eqbal J.) on 14 November 2006 dismissed the appeals of CISF constables and Naik of the Kargali colliery check post against their dismissal from service. The court recorded that surprise checks on 21 and 24 November 1997 found them collecting Rs. 50 and Rs. 65 respectively as illegal gratification from unidentified truck drivers and khalasis, for which they were charge-sheeted for gross misconduct, indiscipline and dereliction of duty and dismissed after a departmental inquiry. The court agreed with the Single Judge that the small sums recovered did not make the proved allegations any less grave for CISF constables, and that courts must not lightly interfere with punishments imposed after a properly conducted enquiry in disciplined services. It held the penalty of dismissal commensurate with the charges and dismissed both appeals, so the dismissals stand.", "summary_verified": "The Jharkhand High Court (M.Y. Eqbal J.) on 14 November 2006 dismissed the appeals of CISF constables and Naik of the Kargali colliery check post against their dismissal from service. The court recorded that surprise checks on 21 and 24 November 1997 found them collecting Rs. 50 and Rs. 65 respectively as illegal gratification from unidentified truck drivers and khalasis, for which they were charge-sheeted for gross misconduct, indiscipline and dereliction of duty and dismissed after a departmental inquiry. The court agreed with the Single Judge that the small sums recovered did not make the proved allegations any less grave for CISF constables, and that courts must not lightly interfere with punishments imposed after a properly conducted enquiry in disciplined services. It held the penalty of dismissal commensurate with the charges and dismissed both appeals, so the dismissals stand.", "court_quote": "Admittedly the appellants are constables in CISF and they were duty bound to maintain honesty and integrity in the discharge of their duty. The charge against the appellants regarding collecting money at the Check Post has been sufficiently proved.", "court_quote_para": "5", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "LPAs dismissed; both CISF constables' dismissals for illegal gratification 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": "2006-11-14", "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": "(2007) 1 JCR 248 (JHA); 2007 Lab IC (NOC) 558; 2007 (2) AIR Jhar R 536", "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/1998654/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "(2007) 1 JCR 248 (JHA)", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "2007 LAB. I. C. (NOC) 558", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "2007 (2) AIR JHAR R 536", "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-82" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-102-005", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2007-0022", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0876", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Ranchi Woman and Another vs The State of Jharkhand and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Ranchi Woman and Another vs The State of Jharkhand and Others", "state": "Jharkhand", "district": "Ranchi", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Ranchi", "police_station_or_unit": "Traffic Police, Ranchi (Jail Chowk)", "court": "Jharkhand High Court", "court_as_verified": "Jharkhand High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Ranchi Woman and Another vs The State of Jharkhand and Others", "case_number": "Writ petition filed September 2005 (number not stated in report)", "citation": "(2007) 3 JLJR 367; 2007 (3) AIR Jhar R 794", "judges": [ "Narendra Nath Tiwari" ], "judgment_date": "2007-04-09", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2007, "incident_date": "2005-08-12", "incident_year": 2005, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "false_implication_fabrication", "subcategory": "false_implication_fabrication", "subcategory_display": "false implication fabrication", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation", "sections": [ "MV Act 1988 s.122", "MV Act 1988 s.130", "MV Act 1988 s.177", "MV Act 1988 s.66(ii)", "MV Act 1988 s.196", "MV Act 1988 s.56/192", "MV Act 1988 s.119/177", "Taxation Act s.28", "MV Act 1988 s.129A", "MV Act 1988 s.207" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Officer-in-Charge (Traffic)", "role": "named_only", "unit": "Traffic Police, Ranchi", "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 (Traffic), Traffic Police, Ranchi" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "age": null, "gender": "female", "name": null, "descriptor": "Ranchi woman" }, { "age": null, "gender": null, "name": null, "descriptor": "Ranchi resident" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 2, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 20000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/600391/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The judgment of the Jharkhand High Court records the following account. On 12 August 2005 Ranchi traffic police seized trekker JH-01-E-9057 at Jail Chowk, which the petitioners alleged followed their refusal to pay illegal gratification, and falsely implicated an advocate who took up the matter in a Motor Vehicles Act case. The Jharkhand High Court held the respondents could neither legally nor factually justify the seizure, the year-long detention of the vehicle, or the prosecution of a man who was neither owner nor driver. The court quashed the seizure and criminal proceedings as sheer abuse of process, ordered the vehicle released forthwith, and awarded Rs. 20,000 compensation payable within one month. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "On 12 August 2005 Ranchi traffic police seized trekker JH-01-E-9057 at Jail Chowk, which the petitioners alleged followed their refusal to pay illegal gratification, and falsely implicated an advocate who took up the matter in a Motor Vehicles Act case. The Jharkhand High Court held the respondents could neither legally nor factually justify the seizure, the year-long detention of the vehicle, or the prosecution of a man who was neither owner nor driver. The court quashed the seizure and criminal proceedings as sheer abuse of process, ordered the vehicle released forthwith, and awarded Rs. 20,000 compensation payable within one month.", "court_quote": "The said seizure and the criminal proceeding is, thus, sheer abuse of process of the Court and is not sustainable in the eye of law and are, hereby, quashed.", "court_quote_para": "27", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Unjustified vehicle seizure and false prosecution quashed as abuse of process; Rs.20,000 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": "2007-04-09", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Jharkhand High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Jharkhand High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 20,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "(2007) 3 JLJR 367; 2007 (3) AIR Jhar R 794", "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/600391/", "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": "GAP2-46-002", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2007-0016", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0184", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Akhilesh Kumar Singh vs State of Jharkhand and Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "Akhilesh Kumar Singh vs State of Jharkhand and Ors.", "state": "Jharkhand", "district": "Bokaro", "district_at_time": "Dhanbad", "city_town": "Bokaro Steel City", "police_station_or_unit": "Bihar Military Police, 'C' Company", "court": "Supreme Court of India", "court_as_verified": "Supreme Court of India", "bench": null, "case_title": "Akhilesh Kumar Singh vs State of Jharkhand and Ors.", "case_number": "Civil Appeal No. 5943 of 2007", "citation": "(2008) 2 SCC 74", "judges": [ "S.B. Sinha", "Harjit Singh Bedi" ], "judgment_date": "2007-12-14", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2007, "incident_date": "1984-01-01", "incident_year": 1984, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "corruption", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [], "officers": [ { "name": "Akhilesh Kumar Singh", "rank": "Writer Constable", "unit": "Bihar Military Police, 'C' Company", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "named_safe", "gate_reasons": [], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": null, "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": "Akhilesh Kumar Singh", "display": "Akhilesh Kumar Singh (Writer Constable)" } ], "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/893586/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://api.sci.gov.in/jonew/judis/30036.pdf" ], "summary": "The Supreme Court dismissed the appeal of Bihar Military Police writer constable Akhilesh Kumar Singh and upheld his 1987 dismissal for tampering with the general diary, making double and false entries, and misappropriating food allowance by claiming presence while absent, one charge of which he admitted. Rejecting his parity plea with co-delinquent, whose charges were less grave, the Court held that courts in judicial review do not ordinarily interfere with the quantum of punishment. The appeal was dismissed with no order as to costs.", "summary_verified": "The Supreme Court dismissed the appeal of Bihar Military Police writer constable Akhilesh Kumar Singh and upheld his 1987 dismissal for tampering with the general diary, making double and false entries, and misappropriating food allowance by claiming presence while absent, one charge of which he admitted. Rejecting his parity plea with co-delinquent, whose charges were less grave, the Court held that courts in judicial review do not ordinarily interfere with the quantum of punishment. The appeal was dismissed with no order as to costs.", "court_quote": "Appellant has, thus, been found guilty of tampering with records and committing forgery. He misappropriated food allowance.", "court_quote_para": "13", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "SC judgment verified on Indian Kanoon; writer constable's dismissal for forgery/misappropriation 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": "2007-12-14", "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": "(2008) 2 SCC 74", "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/893586/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://api.sci.gov.in/jonew/judis/30036.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-28" ], "merged_case_id": "JHARKH-014", "officers_named_public": 1, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2008-0007", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0185", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Ratnesh Kumar Singh vs State of Jharkhand and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Ratnesh Kumar Singh vs State of Jharkhand and Others", "state": "Jharkhand", "district": "East Singhbhum", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Tatanagar, Jamshedpur", "police_station_or_unit": "Railway Police, Tatanagar", "court": "Jharkhand High Court", "court_as_verified": "Jharkhand High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Ratnesh Kumar Singh vs State of Jharkhand and Others", "case_number": "W.P.(S) (vs Memo No. 648(A) dated 20.09.2007)", "citation": "(2008) 03 JH CK 0024", "judges": [ "Amareshwar Sahay" ], "judgment_date": "2008-03-04", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2008, "incident_date": "2004-01-01", "incident_year": 2004, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "IPC 385", "IPC 352", "IPC 506", "IPC 323", "IPC 427", "SC/ST Act 1989 s.3" ], "officers": [ { "name": "Ratnesh Kumar Singh", "rank": "Police Constable", "unit": "Railway Police, Tatanagar", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "named_safe", "gate_reasons": [], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.09, "jev_p_culpable": 0.93, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": "Ratnesh Kumar Singh", "display": "Ratnesh Kumar Singh (Police Constable)" } ], "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/469414/ratnesh-kumar-singh-appellant-hash-state-of-jharkhand-and-others-respondent/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/56092d72e4b01497111fc064" ], "summary": "The Jharkhand High Court dismissed police constable Ratnesh Kumar Singh's writ petition and upheld his dismissal for gross station-house misconduct at Tatanagar Railway Police, where in civil dress he abused the ASI with a caste slur, tried to tear the station diary and threw the telephone set down, leading to an FIR under Sections 385/352/506/323/427 IPC and the SC/ST Act plus departmental proceedings. Though the criminal trial (S.T. No. 315 of 2004) acquitted him after witnesses turned hostile, the Court held the departmental evidence, where witnesses supported the charges, stood independently and the G.M. Tank parity did not apply. The dismissal affirmed by Memo No. 648(A) dated 20 September 2007 was sustained. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Jharkhand High Court dismissed police constable Ratnesh Kumar Singh's writ petition and upheld his dismissal for gross station-house misconduct at Tatanagar Railway Police, where in civil dress he abused the ASI with a caste slur, tried to tear the station diary and threw the telephone set down, leading to an FIR under Sections 385/352/506/323/427 IPC and the SC/ST Act plus departmental proceedings. Though the criminal trial (S.T. No. 315 of 2004) acquitted him after witnesses turned hostile, the Court held the departmental evidence, where witnesses supported the charges, stood independently and the G.M. Tank parity did not apply. The dismissal affirmed by Memo No. 648(A) dated 20 September 2007 was sustained.", "court_quote": "But in the present case, we find that the evidence in the departmental proceedings and in the criminal trial were not the same. As a matter of fact, in the criminal trial, the witnesses did not support the prosecution case and were declared hostile whereas, in the departmental proceedings, the witnesses supported the charge and thereby, the charges were established against the petitioner.", "court_quote_para": "10", "confidence": "medium", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Jharkhand HC order verified on CourtKutchehry; constable's dismissal for station-house misconduct 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": "2008-03-04", "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": "(2008) 03 JH CK 0024", "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/469414/ratnesh-kumar-singh-appellant-hash-state-of-jharkhand-and-others-respondent/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/56092d72e4b01497111fc064", "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-28" ], "merged_case_id": "JHARKH-015", "officers_named_public": 1, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2008-0031", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0979", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Railway Police Constable vs State of Jharkhand and Others (Railway Police personnel vs State of Jharkhand and Others; [name withheld] vs State of Jharkhand and Others)", "display_title_redacted": "Railway Police Constable vs State of Jharkhand and Others (Railway Police personnel vs State of Jharkhand and Others; [name withheld] vs State of Jharkhand and Others)", "state": "Jharkhand", "district": "East Singhbhum", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Jamshedpur", "police_station_or_unit": "Railway Police Station, Jamshedpur", "court": "Jharkhand High Court", "court_as_verified": "Jharkhand High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Railway Police Constable vs State of Jharkhand and Others (Railway Police personnel vs State of Jharkhand and Others; [name withheld] vs State of Jharkhand and Others)", "case_number": "W.P.(S) Nos. 3861 of 2003, 1778 of 2003, 3905 of 2003", "citation": "(2009) 1 JCR 549 (JHA)", "judges": [ "Ajit Kumar Sinha" ], "judgment_date": "2008-12-17", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2008, "incident_date": "2001-05-26", "incident_year": 2001, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "corruption", "admin_subcategory": "extortion", "subcategory": "extortion", "subcategory_display": "extortion", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "IPC 386/34" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "Railway Police, Jamshedpur", "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, Jamshedpur" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "Railway 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, Railway Police" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "Railway 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, Railway Police" } ], "officer_count": 3, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": null, "descriptor": "Jamshedpur resident" } ], "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/1050376/", "secondary_sources": [ "2009 LAB. I. C. (NOC) 614 (JHAR.)", "2009 (1) AIR JHAR R 910" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Jharkhand High Court records the following account. On 26 May 2001 Railway Police constables, [name withheld] and [name withheld], while on duty at the Jamshedpur railway platform, extorted Rs 500 from a Gitanjali Express passenger; G.R.P. Case No. 31/2000 (as stated in the judgment) under Section 386/34 IPC was lodged. All three participated in departmental enquiries, were held guilty, were dismissed by the Superintendent of Police, Railway, in July-August 2002, and their appeals were rejected by the DIG, Railway, in June-July 2003. The Jharkhand High Court (Ajit Kumar Sinha, J.) held full opportunity was given, natural justice was followed, and the court could not reappreciate concurrent findings of fact under Article 226. All three writ petitions were dismissed on 17 December 2008, so the dismissals stand; the court made no finding on the criminal charge itself.", "summary_verified": "On 26 May 2001 Railway Police constables, [name withheld] and [name withheld], while on duty at the Jamshedpur railway platform, extorted Rs 500 from a Gitanjali Express passenger; G.R.P. Case No. 31/2000 (as stated in the judgment) under Section 386/34 IPC was lodged. All three participated in departmental enquiries, were held guilty, were dismissed by the Superintendent of Police, Railway, in July-August 2002, and their appeals were rejected by the DIG, Railway, in June-July 2003. The Jharkhand High Court (Ajit Kumar Sinha, J.) held full opportunity was given, natural justice was followed, and the court could not reappreciate concurrent findings of fact under Article 226. All three writ petitions were dismissed on 17 December 2008, so the dismissals stand; the court made no finding on the criminal charge itself.", "court_quote": "Under these facts and circumstances of the case all the three writ petitions, being devoid of any merit, are accordingly dismissed.", "court_quote_para": "16", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Judgment verified; dismissal of three railway constables for passenger extortion upheld, writs 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": "2008-12-17", "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": "(2009) 1 JCR 549 (JHA)", "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/1050376/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "2009 LAB. 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(NOC) 614 (JHAR.)", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "2009 (1) AIR JHAR R 910", "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": "GAP3-102-001", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2012-0024", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0993", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Jharkhand Armed Police Constable vs The State of Jharkhand and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Jharkhand Armed Police Constable vs The State of Jharkhand and Others", "state": "Jharkhand", "district": "Bokaro", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Bokaro", "police_station_or_unit": "Jharkhand Armed Police-4, Bokaro", "court": "Jharkhand High Court", "court_as_verified": "Jharkhand High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Jharkhand Armed Police Constable vs The State of Jharkhand and Others", "case_number": "W.P.(S) No. 5628 of 2009", "citation": "(2012) 02 JH CK 0108", "judges": [ "Dhirubhai Naranbhai Patel" ], "judgment_date": "2012-02-01", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2012, "incident_date": "2000-07-23", "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": "Jharkhand Armed Police-4, Bokaro", "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, Jharkhand Armed Police-4, Bokaro" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "female", "descriptor": "Bokaro 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/474226/lalan-kumar-singh-appellant-hash-the-state-of-jharkhand-and-others-respondent-1/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The judgment of the Jharkhand High Court records the following account. Constable of Jharkhand Armed Police-4, Bokaro, was charged after being caught by a night patrol on 23 July 2000 leaving the quarters of a fellow constable in the same campus, with grave allegations of misconduct concerning the household. An enquiry with multiple witnesses found him guilty, and he was dismissed in February 2002, a penalty re-affirmed on reconsideration after an earlier writ remanded only the quantum question. The Jharkhand High Court found the enquiry procedurally sound with adequate hearing and held dismissal was not shockingly disproportionate for a member of a disciplined force. The Court dismissed the writ petition. (The private woman's name, stated in the judgment, is withheld here for privacy.). Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "Constable of Jharkhand Armed Police-4, Bokaro, was charged after being caught by a night patrol on 23 July 2000 leaving the quarters of a fellow constable in the same campus, with grave allegations of misconduct concerning the household. An enquiry with multiple witnesses found him guilty, and he was dismissed in February 2002, a penalty re-affirmed on reconsideration after an earlier writ remanded only the quantum question. The Jharkhand High Court found the enquiry procedurally sound with adequate hearing and held dismissal was not shockingly disproportionate for a member of a disciplined force. The Court dismissed the writ petition. (The private woman's name, stated in the judgment, is withheld here for privacy.)", "court_quote": "The petitioner was working in a discipline force. He ought not to have behaved in such a manner. Therefore, the quantum of punishment of dismissal from service cannot be said to be shockingly disproportionate or grossly disproportionate to the nature of misconduct.", "court_quote_para": "3.1(iv)", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Jharkhand HC dismissed writ; JAP constable's dismissal for grave off-duty misconduct re-affirmed and 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": "2012-02-01", "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": "(2012) 02 JH CK 0108", "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/474226/lalan-kumar-singh-appellant-hash-the-state-of-jharkhand-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": "GAP3-104-008", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2012-0030", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0998", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "District Police Havildar vs State of Jharkhand and Others", "display_title_redacted": "District Police Havildar vs State of Jharkhand and Others", "state": "Jharkhand", "district": "Pakur", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Pakur", "police_station_or_unit": "District Police Force, Pakur", "court": "Jharkhand High Court", "court_as_verified": "Jharkhand High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "District Police Havildar vs State of Jharkhand and Others", "case_number": "W.P.(S) No. 1800 of 2002", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Narendra Nath Tiwari" ], "judgment_date": "2012-04-26", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2012, "incident_date": "1999-10-01", "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": "Havildar", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "District Police Force, Pakur", "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": "Havildar, District Police Force, Pakur" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "age": null, "gender": null, "name": null, "descriptor": "Pakur 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/69888581/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Jharkhand High Court (Narendra Nath Tiwari J.) on 26 April 2012 dismissed the writ petition of Pakur Havildar [name withheld] and upheld his discharge from service. The court recorded that he slapped Havildar twice, abused him, chased him into the office and assaulted him with a chair, fomented a caste-line disturbance and humiliated the Sergeant and Day Officer. The court held the charges were framed in plain terms, the disciplinary, appellate and revisional authorities had passed concurrent well-reasoned orders with no infirmity, and discharge was already a sympathetically reduced quantum in place of dismissal. The discharge was consequently sustained. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Jharkhand High Court (Narendra Nath Tiwari J.) on 26 April 2012 dismissed the writ petition of Pakur Havildar [name withheld] and upheld his discharge from service. The court recorded that he slapped Havildar twice, abused him, chased him into the office and assaulted him with a chair, fomented a caste-line disturbance and humiliated the Sergeant and Day Officer. The court held the charges were framed in plain terms, the disciplinary, appellate and revisional authorities had passed concurrent well-reasoned orders with no infirmity, and discharge was already a sympathetically reduced quantum in place of dismissal. The discharge was consequently sustained.", "court_quote": "The appellate authority as well as the revisional authority have concurred with the said conclusion of the disciplinary authority. The orders passed by the said authorities are thoroughly discussed and well reasoned. I find no infirmity or illegality in the orders.", "court_quote_para": "19-20", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC upheld discharge of havildar for proved assault and indiscipline.", "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": "2012-04-26", "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": "W.P.(S) No. 1800 of 2002", "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/69888581/", "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": "GAP3-104-013", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2012-0011", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0172", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Ranchi Woman vs State of Jharkhand & Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "Ranchi Woman vs State of Jharkhand & Ors.", "state": "Jharkhand", "district": "Ranchi", "district_at_time": "Ranchi", "city_town": "Ranchi", "police_station_or_unit": "Jagannathpur Police Station, Ranchi", "court": "Jharkhand High Court", "court_as_verified": "Jharkhand High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Ranchi Woman vs State of Jharkhand & Ors.", "case_number": "W.P.(C) No. 538 of 2007", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Aparesh Kumar Singh" ], "judgment_date": "2012-07-18", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2012, "incident_date": "1990-07-27", "incident_year": 1990, "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. 21", "IPC 304", "IPC 34" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": null, "unit": "Jagannathpur Police Station, Ranchi", "role": "convicted", "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": "Police personnel, Jagannathpur Police Station, Ranchi" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": 24, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Ranchi man, age 24" } ], "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://indiankanoon.org/doc/122009310/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The judgment of the Jharkhand High Court records the following account. The petitioner sought compensation for the custodial death of her 24-year-old son, a Ranchi man @ a Ranchi man, who died after being subjected to brutal physical assault by Jagannathpur police personnel on 27 July 1990. The trial court in Sessions Trial No. 551 of 1993 had previously convicted the accused police officers under Section 304/34 IPC and sentenced them to 10 years rigorous imprisonment. Relying on the coordinate bench decision in Bahlen Balmuchu, the Jharkhand High Court held that the custodial killing was a stark violation of Article 21 and directed the State of Jharkhand to pay Rs. 10,00,000 in compensation to the mother, granting liberty to recover the amount from the guilty police personnel. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The petitioner sought compensation for the custodial death of her 24-year-old son, a Ranchi man @ a Ranchi man, who died after being subjected to brutal physical assault by Jagannathpur police personnel on 27 July 1990. The trial court in Sessions Trial No. 551 of 1993 had previously convicted the accused police officers under Section 304/34 IPC and sentenced them to 10 years rigorous imprisonment. Relying on the coordinate bench decision in Bahlen Balmuchu, the Jharkhand High Court held that the custodial killing was a stark violation of Article 21 and directed the State of Jharkhand to pay Rs. 10,00,000 in compensation to the mother, granting liberty to recover the amount from the guilty police personnel.", "court_quote": "The facts of the present case are more stark and repulsive as the Trial court has convicted the police officials accused of causing death of the petitioner's son [name withheld] and two others and sentenced them to undergo R.I. for a period of 10 years and also to pay a fine of Rs. 20,000/-, in default of payment of fine to undergo S.I. for two years vide judgment dated 27th March, 1996 and order of sentence dated 29th March, 1996.", "court_quote_para": "n/a (order p.7, para beginning 'The facts of the present case are more stark...')", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "High Court awarded Rs 10 lakh compensation to mother of a Ranchi man for custodial death caused by brutal assault by Jagannathpur 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": "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": "2012-07-18", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Jharkhand High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Jharkhand 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": "W.P.(C) No. 538 of 2007", "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/122009310/", "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-05" ], "merged_case_id": "JHARKH-002", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2012-0033", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0995", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Daltonganj Railway Police Constable vs State of Jharkhand and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Daltonganj Railway Police Constable vs State of Jharkhand and Others", "state": "Jharkhand", "district": "Palamu", "district_at_time": "Palamau", "city_town": "Daltonganj (Medininagar)", "police_station_or_unit": "Daltonganj Railway Police", "court": "Jharkhand High Court", "court_as_verified": "Jharkhand High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Daltonganj Railway Police Constable vs State of Jharkhand and Others", "case_number": "W.P.(S) No. 417 of 2011", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Alok Singh" ], "judgment_date": "2012-08-28", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2012, "incident_date": "2004-02-05", "incident_year": 2004, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "IPC 307", "IPC 353", "IPC 504", "IPC 506", "Arms Act s.27" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "Daltonganj Railway 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, Daltonganj Railway Police" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": null, "descriptor": "Daltonganj resident" } ], "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/94809999/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The judgment of the Jharkhand High Court records the following account. Railway policeman, on duty with Daltonganj Railway Police on 5 February 2004, allegedly abused Inspector while drunk, then fired a round from Government Rifle No. 1309438 before colleagues overpowered him; medical examination found him drunk and ballistic opinion matched the cartridge to his rifle. He was dismissed in April 2006 and his appeal rejected, though a criminal court acquitted him under the Arms Act as no witness appeared. The Jharkhand High Court found the departmental charges of unauthorised firing and on-duty drunkenness proved on ballistic and medical evidence, distinguishing them from the criminal charge. The Court held acquittal alone was no ground to set aside the dismissal and dismissed the writ petition in limine. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "Railway policeman, on duty with Daltonganj Railway Police on 5 February 2004, allegedly abused Inspector while drunk, then fired a round from Government Rifle No. 1309438 before colleagues overpowered him; medical examination found him drunk and ballistic opinion matched the cartridge to his rifle. He was dismissed in April 2006 and his appeal rejected, though a criminal court acquitted him under the Arms Act as no witness appeared. The Jharkhand High Court found the departmental charges of unauthorised firing and on-duty drunkenness proved on ballistic and medical evidence, distinguishing them from the criminal charge. The Court held acquittal alone was no ground to set aside the dismissal and dismissed the writ petition in limine.", "court_quote": "Charge of firing from the Government rifle stands proved in view of the Ballistic report. Charge regarding consuming liquor while on duty is also proved by the medical report. Therefore, simply because the petitioner has been acquitted in the criminal trial is not a ground to set aside the order of dismissal.", "court_quote_para": "n/a", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Jharkhand HC dismissed writ in limine; dismissal for drunken unauthorised firing upheld 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": "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": "2012-08-28", "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": "W.P.(S) No. 417 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": [ "officers" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/94809999/", "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": "GAP3-104-010", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2012-0035", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0994", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Bihar Military Police Sepoy vs State of Bihar and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Bihar Military Police Sepoy vs State of Bihar and Others", "state": "Jharkhand", "district": "East Singhbhum", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Jamshedpur", "police_station_or_unit": "Bihar Military Police-II, Jamshedpur", "court": "Jharkhand High Court", "court_as_verified": "Jharkhand High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Bihar Military Police Sepoy vs State of Bihar and Others", "case_number": "C.W.J.C. No. 1750 of 1995 (R)", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Alok Singh" ], "judgment_date": "2012-09-13", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2012, "incident_date": "1979-01-05", "incident_year": 1979, "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": "Sepoy", "unit": "Bihar Military Police-II, Jamshedpur", "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": "Sepoy, Bihar Military Police-II, Jamshedpur" } ], "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/182669774/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "Sepoy of BMP-II, Jamshedpur, was caught stealing an iron angle from the Lalbabu Tube Company on the night of 4/5 January 1979 (then undivided Bihar) and dismissed after a departmental enquiry, but the Ranchi Bench quashed that dismissal in 1991 for non-supply of documents and ordered a fresh enquiry. A de novo enquiry again proved the charge, leading to dismissal in May 1994 and rejection of his appeal. The Jharkhand High Court found all documents and the enquiry report had been served with the 1994 show-cause and rejected the non-supply plea. The Court held a sepoy caught red-handed stealing amply justified dismissal and dismissed the writ petition. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "Sepoy of BMP-II, Jamshedpur, was caught stealing an iron angle from the Lalbabu Tube Company on the night of 4/5 January 1979 (then undivided Bihar) and dismissed after a departmental enquiry, but the Ranchi Bench quashed that dismissal in 1991 for non-supply of documents and ordered a fresh enquiry. A de novo enquiry again proved the charge, leading to dismissal in May 1994 and rejection of his appeal. The Jharkhand High Court found all documents and the enquiry report had been served with the 1994 show-cause and rejected the non-supply plea. The Court held a sepoy caught red-handed stealing amply justified dismissal and dismissed the writ petition.", "court_quote": "Petitioner, who was sepoy in the Bihar Military Police, was caught red handed stealing the iron angle. It is the sufficient ground to dismiss the petitioner from the police service. No interference is called for.", "court_quote_para": "n/a", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Jharkhand HC dismissed writ; de novo dismissal for red-handed factory theft (1979) 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": "2012-09-13", "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": "C.W.J.C. No. 1750 of 1995 (R)", "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/182669774/", "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": "GAP3-104-009", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2012-0036", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0997", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Godda District Police Constable vs State of Jharkhand and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Godda District Police Constable vs State of Jharkhand and Others", "state": "Jharkhand", "district": "Godda", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Godda", "police_station_or_unit": "Godda District Police", "court": "Jharkhand High Court", "court_as_verified": "Jharkhand High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Godda District Police Constable vs State of Jharkhand and Others", "case_number": "W.P.(S) No. 4321 of 2012", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Alok Singh" ], "judgment_date": "2012-10-09", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2012, "incident_date": "2001-01-01", "incident_year": 2001, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "IPC 364" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "Godda District 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, Godda District Police" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "age": null, "gender": null, "name": null, "descriptor": "Godda 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/190588531/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Jharkhand High Court (Alok Singh J.) on 9 October 2012 dismissed the writ petition of Godda police Constable and upheld his termination from service. The court recorded as undisputed that he had been convicted under Section 364 IPC in Sahebganj Muffassil P.S. Case No. 51 of 2001, that the conviction had attained finality, and that his absence from duty was spent serving the sentence in Central Jail. The court held that under Rule 828(b) of the Jharkhand Police Manual no notice or departmental enquiry is required where termination follows a criminal conviction. The termination was consequently sustained. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Jharkhand High Court (Alok Singh J.) on 9 October 2012 dismissed the writ petition of Godda police Constable and upheld his termination from service. The court recorded as undisputed that he had been convicted under Section 364 IPC in Sahebganj Muffassil P.S. Case No. 51 of 2001, that the conviction had attained finality, and that his absence from duty was spent serving the sentence in Central Jail. The court held that under Rule 828(b) of the Jharkhand Police Manual no notice or departmental enquiry is required where termination follows a criminal conviction. The termination was consequently sustained.", "court_quote": "The very fact that petitioner was named as the accused in the Sahebganj Muffassil P.S. Case No. 51 of 2001 and was held guilty and convicted by competent court for an offence under Section 364 I.P.C. and remained in jail, is not in dispute. It is also not in dispute that conviction order against the petitioner has attained finality.", "court_quote_para": "n/a (unnumbered order dated 09.10.2012)", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC upheld conviction-based termination of constable convicted under IPC 364.", "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": "2012-10-09", "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": "W.P.(S) No. 4321 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/190588531/", "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": "GAP3-104-012", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2013-0021", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0996", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "CISF Constable vs The Union of India and Others", "display_title_redacted": "CISF Constable vs The Union of India and Others", "state": "Jharkhand", "district": "Bokaro", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Bokaro", "police_station_or_unit": "CISF Unit, Bokaro Steel Plant", "court": "Jharkhand High Court", "court_as_verified": "Jharkhand High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "CISF Constable vs The Union of India and Others", "case_number": "C.W.J.C. No. 1882 of 1998 (R)", "citation": "(2013) 2 AJR 684; (2013) 2 JLJR 25", "judges": [ "Aparesh Kumar Singh" ], "judgment_date": "2013-02-28", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2013, "incident_date": "1997-01-09", "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": [], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "CISF Unit, Bokaro Steel Plant", "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, CISF Unit, Bokaro Steel Plant" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "age": null, "gender": null, "name": null, "descriptor": "Bokaro resident" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "dismissal", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "central_armed", "primary_source_url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/472533/hari-om-sharma-appellant-hash-the-union-of-india-and-others-respondent/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Jharkhand High Court (Aparesh Kumar Singh J.) on 28 February 2013 dismissed the writ petition of CISF Constable and upheld his removal from service. The court recorded that on 9 January 1997 he assaulted Sub-Inspector-Fire a Bokaro resident, who emerged bleeding from the side of his head, and that seven witnesses proved the charge in an ex-parte enquiry the petitioner boycotted despite four notices. The court held the plea for a higher-ranked enquiry officer was rightly rejected, that the petitioner had been given an opportunity to represent against the enquiry report, and that removal was not excessive or disproportionate to assaulting a superior. The appellate and revisional rejections were consequently sustained. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Jharkhand High Court (Aparesh Kumar Singh J.) on 28 February 2013 dismissed the writ petition of CISF Constable and upheld his removal from service. The court recorded that on 9 January 1997 he assaulted Sub-Inspector-Fire a Bokaro resident, who emerged bleeding from the side of his head, and that seven witnesses proved the charge in an ex-parte enquiry the petitioner boycotted despite four notices. The court held the plea for a higher-ranked enquiry officer was rightly rejected, that the petitioner had been given an opportunity to represent against the enquiry report, and that removal was not excessive or disproportionate to assaulting a superior. The appellate and revisional rejections were consequently sustained.", "court_quote": "For such major misconduct in the uniformed service like C.I.S.F., the punishment of removal from the service is not at all disproportionate to the charges levelled and established against the delinquent for assaulting a superior authority.", "court_quote_para": "5", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC upheld CISF constable's removal for proved assault on a superior officer.", "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": "2013-02-28", "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": "(2013) 2 AJR 684; (2013) 2 JLJR 25", "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/472533/hari-om-sharma-appellant-hash-the-union-of-india-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-84" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-104-011", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2013-0025", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0992", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Patmada Police Constable vs The State of Jharkhand and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Patmada Police Constable vs The State of Jharkhand and Others", "state": "Jharkhand", "district": "East Singhbhum", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Patmada", "police_station_or_unit": "Patmada Police Station, East Singhbhum", "court": "Jharkhand High Court", "court_as_verified": "Jharkhand High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Patmada Police Constable vs The State of Jharkhand and Others", "case_number": "W.P.(S) No. 704 of 2003", "citation": "(2013) 2 JLJR 628", "judges": [ "S. Chandrashekhar" ], "judgment_date": "2013-04-18", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2013, "incident_date": "2000-09-25", "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 461", "IPC 379", "IPC 411" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "unit": "Patmada Police Station, East Singhbhum", "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, Patmada Police Station, East Singhbhum" } ], "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/471686/barmeshwar-nath-singh-yadav-appellant-hash-the-state-of-jharkhand-and-others-respondent/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/482891/barmeshwar-nath-singh-yadav-appellant-hash-state-of-jharkhand-and-others-respondent/" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Jharkhand High Court records the following account. Constable of Patmada Police Station, East Singhbhum, was apprehended by villagers on the night of 24/25 September 2000 at the scene of a godown theft near the Swarnrekha river, leading to Patmada P.S. Case No. 66 of 2000 under IPC sections 461, 379 and 411. He was dismissed in August 2001 after a departmental enquiry in which villagers deposed against him, and his appeal was rejected. The Jharkhand High Court found the enquiry report had been supplied with the show-cause notice and no prejudice was shown, and held that theft involving moral turpitude warranted dismissal. The Court dismissed the writ petition, and the Division Bench later dismissed his appeal, holding departmental proof could stand despite his criminal acquittal on hostile witnesses.", "summary_verified": "Constable of Patmada Police Station, East Singhbhum, was apprehended by villagers on the night of 24/25 September 2000 at the scene of a godown theft near the Swarnrekha river, leading to Patmada P.S. Case No. 66 of 2000 under IPC sections 461, 379 and 411. He was dismissed in August 2001 after a departmental enquiry in which villagers deposed against him, and his appeal was rejected. The Jharkhand High Court found the enquiry report had been supplied with the show-cause notice and no prejudice was shown, and held that theft involving moral turpitude warranted dismissal. The Court dismissed the writ petition, and the Division Bench later dismissed his appeal, holding departmental proof could stand despite his criminal acquittal on hostile witnesses.", "court_quote": "A perusal of the enquiry report would disclose that the petitioner was apprehended on the spot by the villagers in the night of 24/25.9.2000 and a First Information Report was lodged against him. During the departmental enquiry, the villagers have deposed that the petitioner was apprehended on the spot and he along with the officer-in-charge of the police station and other two persons facilitated the theft of iron rods from the godown.", "court_quote_para": "5", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Jharkhand HC dismissed writ; dismissal for facilitating godown theft (moral turpitude) upheld 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": "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": "2013-04-18", "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": "(2013) 2 JLJR 628", "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": [ "secondary_sources" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/471686/barmeshwar-nath-singh-yadav-appellant-hash-the-state-of-jharkhand-and-others-respondent/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/482891/barmeshwar-nath-singh-yadav-appellant-hash-state-of-jharkhand-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-83" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-104-007", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2013-0039", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0987", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Rail Police Constable vs The State of Jharkhand and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Rail Police Constable vs The State of Jharkhand and Others", "state": "Jharkhand", "district": "Koderma", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Koderma", "police_station_or_unit": "Rail Police, Dhanbad", "court": "Jharkhand High Court", "court_as_verified": "Jharkhand High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Rail Police Constable vs The State of Jharkhand and Others", "case_number": "LPA No. 456 of 2012 (against W.P.(S) No. 2078 of 2012)", "citation": "(2014) 1 JLJR 291; (2013) 12 JH CK 0019", "judges": [ "R. Banumathi", "Aparesh Kumar Singh" ], "judgment_date": "2013-12-06", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2013, "incident_date": "2003-05-27", "incident_year": 2003, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "IPC 377" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "Rail Police, Dhanbad", "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, Dhanbad" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": 12, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Koderma boy, age 12" } ], "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/2776759/", "secondary_sources": [ "(2014) 1 JLJR 291", "(2013) 12 JH CK 0019" ], "summary": "delete parenthetical '(recorded as dismissal-type penalty)'. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "delete parenthetical '(recorded as dismissal-type penalty)'", "court_quote": "The charges against the petitioner was found established and are so serious in nature that any employer is justified in losing confidence in such a delinquent employee.", "court_quote_para": "6", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "LPA dismissed; railway constable's compulsory retirement for sexual abuse of minor 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": "2013-12-06", "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": "(2014) 1 JLJR 291; (2013) 12 JH CK 0019", "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", "secondary_sources", "summary" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/2776759/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "(2014) 1 JLJR 291", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "(2013) 12 JH CK 0019", "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-82" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-104-002", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2014-0032", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0989", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Bihar Military Police Constable vs The State of Jharkhand and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Bihar Military Police Constable vs The State of Jharkhand and Others", "state": "Jharkhand", "district": "Dhanbad", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Govindpur", "police_station_or_unit": "Bihar Military Police-3, Govindpur / District Police", "court": "Jharkhand High Court", "court_as_verified": "Jharkhand High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Bihar Military Police Constable vs The State of Jharkhand and Others", "case_number": "W.P.(S) No. 6056 of 2007", "citation": "(2015) 2 JLJR 38", "judges": [ "Sujit Narayan Prasad" ], "judgment_date": "2014-11-10", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2014, "incident_date": "1994-03-09", "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": "Constable", "unit": "Bihar Military Police-3, Govindpur, Dhanbad", "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-3, Govindpur, Dhanbad" } ], "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/482513/vinod-kumar-yadav-appellant-hash-the-state-of-jharkhand-and-others-respondent/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "Constable, first dismissed in 1979 for fleeing patrol duty at Ara railway station — a dismissal that attained finality up to the Supreme Court in 1981 — was reinstated in 1993-94 and posted with BMP-3 at Govindpur, Dhanbad. A later enquiry found that the reinstatement rested on a forged Home Department letter, leading to his dismissal in October 2005 and rejection of his appeal. The Jharkhand High Court held that fraud vitiates everything, so no fresh regular departmental proceeding was required before cancelling an appointment obtained by forgery. The Court found the impugned orders warranted no interference and dismissed the writ petition as devoid of merit. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "Constable, first dismissed in 1979 for fleeing patrol duty at Ara railway station — a dismissal that attained finality up to the Supreme Court in 1981 — was reinstated in 1993-94 and posted with BMP-3 at Govindpur, Dhanbad. A later enquiry found that the reinstatement rested on a forged Home Department letter, leading to his dismissal in October 2005 and rejection of his appeal. The Jharkhand High Court held that fraud vitiates everything, so no fresh regular departmental proceeding was required before cancelling an appointment obtained by forgery. The Court found the impugned orders warranted no interference and dismissed the writ petition as devoid of merit.", "court_quote": "Hence applying the principles laid down by Hon'ble Court in the case referred herein above the impugned order does not warrant any interference. Hence, I find no reason to interfere with the impugned order.", "court_quote_para": "22-23", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Jharkhand HC dismissed writ; dismissal over forged-letter reinstatement upheld — fraud vitiates appointment.", "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": "2014-11-10", "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": "(2015) 2 JLJR 38", "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/482513/vinod-kumar-yadav-appellant-hash-the-state-of-jharkhand-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-83" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-104-004", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2014-0034", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0999", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Barora Police Assistant Sub-Inspector vs State of Jharkhand and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Barora Police Assistant Sub-Inspector vs State of Jharkhand and Others", "state": "Jharkhand", "district": "Dhanbad", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Barora", "police_station_or_unit": "Barora Police Station, Dhanbad", "court": "Jharkhand High Court", "court_as_verified": "Jharkhand High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Barora Police Assistant Sub-Inspector vs State of Jharkhand and Others", "case_number": "W.P.(S) No. 4675 of 2005", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Aparesh Kumar Singh" ], "judgment_date": "2014-11-14", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2014, "incident_date": "1993-10-31", "incident_year": 1993, "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": [], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Assistant Sub-Inspector", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "Barora Police Station, Dhanbad", "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, Barora Police Station, Dhanbad" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "age": null, "gender": null, "name": null, "descriptor": "Barora 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/37084102/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The judgment of the Jharkhand High Court records the following account. replace victim name 'a minor' with role noun (e.g. 'a man'/'a boy'). Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "replace victim name 'a minor' with role noun (e.g. 'a man'/'a boy')", "court_quote": "The enquiry officer found the charges against the petitioner fully established on consideration of materials produced during the course of enquiry. Perusal of the enquiry report shows that the statement of the witness, officer in-charge and the Sanjeet Kumar Mishra, who was informant, have been taken into account for coming to such a finding.", "court_quote_para": "7", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC upheld compulsory retirement of ASI for fatal unprovoked shooting despite 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": "2014-11-14", "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": "W.P.(S) No. 4675 of 2005", "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", "summary" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/37084102/", "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": "GAP3-104-014", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2014-0037", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0990", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Gomoh Police Constable vs The State of Jharkhand", "display_title_redacted": "Gomoh Police Constable vs The State of Jharkhand", "state": "Jharkhand", "district": "Dhanbad", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Gomoh", "police_station_or_unit": "Gomoh Railway Police Station", "court": "Jharkhand High Court", "court_as_verified": "Jharkhand High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Gomoh Police Constable vs The State of Jharkhand", "case_number": "W.P.(S) No. 104 of 2006", "citation": "(2015) 3 JLJR 78", "judges": [ "Aparesh Kumar Singh" ], "judgment_date": "2014-12-12", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2014, "incident_date": "2000-12-24", "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": [], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "unit": "Gomoh Railway Police Station", "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, Gomoh Railway Police Station" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": null, "descriptor": "Gomoh resident" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": null, "descriptor": "Gomoh 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://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/481717/mahesh-singh-appellant-hash-the-state-of-jharkhand-respondent/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The judgment of the Jharkhand High Court records the following account. Constable of Gomoh Railway Police Station faced 11 charges arising from incidents including 24 December 2000, when he allegedly loaded his service rifle, threatened the Officer Incharge and reader, aimed the rifle at the Officer Incharge with intent to shoot, and chased the reader onto a crowded platform. Three of four departmental witnesses supported the charges, and he was dismissed in June 2003, with his appeal and memorial rejected. The Jharkhand High Court found the charges established after due compliance with natural justice and held that threatening a superior with official arms amounts to serious indiscipline no uniformed force must condone. The Court rejected the pleas of provocation and disproportionality and dismissed the writ petition. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "Constable of Gomoh Railway Police Station faced 11 charges arising from incidents including 24 December 2000, when he allegedly loaded his service rifle, threatened the Officer Incharge and reader, aimed the rifle at the Officer Incharge with intent to shoot, and chased the reader onto a crowded platform. Three of four departmental witnesses supported the charges, and he was dismissed in June 2003, with his appeal and memorial rejected. The Jharkhand High Court found the charges established after due compliance with natural justice and held that threatening a superior with official arms amounts to serious indiscipline no uniformed force must condone. The Court rejected the pleas of provocation and disproportionality and dismissed the writ petition.", "court_quote": "He actually appears to have threatened by misuse of his official arms his own superior i.e. Officer Incharge with an intention to kill and it further appears that such an instance took place in the busy place which is adjacent to the platform. In such circumstances, it cannot also be said that the petitioner has been imposed with a disproportionate punishment as such acts of indiscipline in uniform police force should not be condoned.", "court_quote_para": "11-12", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Jharkhand HC dismissed writ; dismissal for aiming service rifle at superior with intent to shoot 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": "2014-12-12", "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": "(2015) 3 JLJR 78", "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/481717/mahesh-singh-appellant-hash-the-state-of-jharkhand-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-83" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-104-005", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2014-0038", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0991", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Chirkunda Police Constable vs State of Jharkhand and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Chirkunda Police Constable vs State of Jharkhand and Others", "state": "Jharkhand", "district": "Dhanbad", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Chirkunda", "police_station_or_unit": "Chirkunda Police Station, Dhanbad", "court": "Jharkhand High Court", "court_as_verified": "Jharkhand High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Chirkunda Police Constable vs State of Jharkhand and Others", "case_number": "W.P.(S) No. 2486 of 2013", "citation": "(2014) 12 JH CK 0117", "judges": [ "Sujit Narayan Prasad" ], "judgment_date": "2014-12-17", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2014, "incident_date": "2009-01-01", "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": [ "Bihar Jharkhand Servant Conduct Rules 1976 Rule 3", "Bihar Jharkhand Servant Conduct Rules 1976 Rule 4" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "unit": "Chirkunda Police Station, Dhanbad", "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, Chirkunda Police Station, Dhanbad" } ], "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/1027220/peter-barla-appellant-hash-state-of-jharkhand-and-ors-respondent/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The judgment of the Jharkhand High Court records the following account. Constable, appointed in the Gumla District Police in 1999 and posted at Chirkunda Police Station, Dhanbad, was charged with reporting for and remaining on duty in a drunken state and abusing colleagues and the public during 2009-2010. A regular departmental enquiry, supported by the Officer Incharge's evidence and four prior punishments for similar conduct, proved the charges, and he was dismissed in April 2010 with his appeal rejected. The Jharkhand High Court found he had been given repeated opportunities but chose not to appear, and held his conduct unfit for a government servant under the Conduct Rules. The Court declined to reappraise concurrent findings under Article 226 and dismissed the writ petition. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "Constable, appointed in the Gumla District Police in 1999 and posted at Chirkunda Police Station, Dhanbad, was charged with reporting for and remaining on duty in a drunken state and abusing colleagues and the public during 2009-2010. A regular departmental enquiry, supported by the Officer Incharge's evidence and four prior punishments for similar conduct, proved the charges, and he was dismissed in April 2010 with his appeal rejected. The Jharkhand High Court found he had been given repeated opportunities but chose not to appear, and held his conduct unfit for a government servant under the Conduct Rules. The Court declined to reappraise concurrent findings under Article 226 and dismissed the writ petition.", "court_quote": "Considering the nature of allegation it can be safely said that the conduct of the petitioner is not fit to be a government servant. On perusal of record it appears that sufficient opportunity of being heard had been given to the petitioner but, it was the petitioner who himself chosen not to appear before the inquiry officer, in spite of several notices given to him which reflects his adamant attitude.", "court_quote_para": "n/a", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Jharkhand HC dismissed writ; dismissal for habitual on-duty drunkenness and abuse 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": "2014-12-17", "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": "(2014) 12 JH CK 0117", "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/1027220/peter-barla-appellant-hash-state-of-jharkhand-and-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-83" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-104-006", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2015-0017", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1030", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Koyla Nagar Police Constable vs The Union of India and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Koyla Nagar Police Constable vs The Union of India and Others", "state": "Jharkhand", "district": "Dhanbad", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Koyla Nagar", "police_station_or_unit": "Central Industrial Security Force, Koyla Nagar, Dhanbad", "court": "Jharkhand High Court", "court_as_verified": "Jharkhand High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Koyla Nagar Police Constable vs The Union of India and Others", "case_number": "W.P.(S) No. 4822 of 2011", "citation": "2015 LAB. I. C. 3838; 2015 (3) AJR 806", "judges": [ "Sujit Narayan Prasad" ], "judgment_date": "2015-01-15", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2015, "incident_date": "2009-04-06", "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": [ "Constitution Art. 226", "CISF Rules 2001 Rule 32(1)", "CISF Rules 2001 Rule 34" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "unit": "Central Industrial Security Force, Koyla Nagar, Dhanbad", "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, Central Industrial Security Force, Koyla Nagar, Dhanbad" } ], "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/28784180/", "secondary_sources": [ "2015 LAB. I. C. 3838", "2015 (3) AJR 806" ], "summary": "The Jharkhand High Court (Sujit Narayan Prasad J.) dismissed a CISF constable's writ challenging his removal dated 21 October 2009. The court found proved three charges: absence from main-gate duty at Koyla Nagar on 6-7 April 2009, abusing higher officials with bullet threats on 7 April 2009, and five prior punishments for indiscipline. It held that concurrent findings of three authorities on record material cannot be reappreciated in writ review and that the removal was not shockingly disproportionate. The removal, already affirmed in revision on 31 March 2010, therefore stands. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Jharkhand High Court (Sujit Narayan Prasad J.) dismissed a CISF constable's writ challenging his removal dated 21 October 2009. The court found proved three charges: absence from main-gate duty at Koyla Nagar on 6-7 April 2009, abusing higher officials with bullet threats on 7 April 2009, and five prior punishments for indiscipline. It held that concurrent findings of three authorities on record material cannot be reappreciated in writ review and that the removal was not shockingly disproportionate. The removal, already affirmed in revision on 31 March 2010, therefore stands.", "court_quote": "Other allegation of using abusive language against the higher authorities and the members of the Office of the Inspector is also serious. The witnesses have corroborated the said allegation in their deposition.", "court_quote_para": "14", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Writ dismissed; CISF removal for absence and threats to superiors 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": "2015-01-15", "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": "2015 LAB. I. C. 3838; 2015 (3) AJR 806", "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/28784180/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "2015 LAB. I. C. 3838", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "2015 (3) AJR 806", "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": "GAP3-105-031", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2015-0018", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1029", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Jharkhand Police Constable vs The State of Jharkhand and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Jharkhand Police Constable vs The State of Jharkhand and Others", "state": "Jharkhand", "district": "East Singhbhum", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Jamshedpur", "police_station_or_unit": "Patmada Police Station, Jharkhand Police", "court": "Jharkhand High Court", "court_as_verified": "Jharkhand High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Jharkhand Police Constable vs The State of Jharkhand and Others", "case_number": "L.P.A. No. 233 of 2013", "citation": "2015 (2) AJR 214", "judges": [ "D. N. Patel", "Pramath Patnaik" ], "judgment_date": "2015-01-28", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2015, "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": [ "IPC 379", "IPC 411", "IPC 461" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "unit": "Patmada Police Station, Jharkhand 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, Patmada Police Station, Jharkhand 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/113206176/", "secondary_sources": [ "2015 (2) AJR 214" ], "summary": "The Jharkhand High Court Division Bench (D. N. Patel and Pramath Patnaik JJ.) dismissed a constable's Letters Patent Appeal against the Single Judge order dated 18 April 2013 upholding his dismissal for theft. The court noted the trial court had convicted and sentenced him to two years' simple imprisonment, and held the later criminal appellate acquittal on hostile witnesses did not erase the departmentally proved charges. It further held that unpleaded, undocumented prejudice from enquiry-report handling could not vitiate the punishment. Finding no error in the Single Judge's order, the court dismissed the appeal, leaving the dismissal standing.", "summary_verified": "The Jharkhand High Court Division Bench (D. N. Patel and Pramath Patnaik JJ.) dismissed a constable's Letters Patent Appeal against the Single Judge order dated 18 April 2013 upholding his dismissal for theft. The court noted the trial court had convicted and sentenced him to two years' simple imprisonment, and held the later criminal appellate acquittal on hostile witnesses did not erase the departmentally proved charges. It further held that unpleaded, undocumented prejudice from enquiry-report handling could not vitiate the punishment. Finding no error in the Single Judge's order, the court dismissed the appeal, leaving the dismissal standing.", "court_quote": "Looking to the nature of misconduct committed by this appellant, the punishment of dismissal awarded to this appellant is absolutely just, proper and adequate.", "court_quote_para": "5(x)", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "LPA dismissed; theft dismissal upheld despite criminal appellate 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": "2015-01-28", "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": "2015 (2) AJR 214", "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/113206176/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "2015 (2) AJR 214", "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": "GAP3-105-030", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2015-0021", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1031", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Jharkhand Police Hawaldar vs The State of Jharkhand and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Jharkhand Police Hawaldar vs The State of Jharkhand and Others", "state": "Jharkhand", "district": "Hazaribagh", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Hazaribagh", "police_station_or_unit": "Jharkhand Police (posted Chaibasa)", "court": "Jharkhand High Court", "court_as_verified": "Jharkhand High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Jharkhand Police Hawaldar vs The State of Jharkhand and Others", "case_number": "W.P.(S) No. 6176 of 2009", "citation": "2015 (3) AJR 675", "judges": [ "Sujit Narayan Prasad" ], "judgment_date": "2015-02-04", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2015, "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": "Hawaldar", "unit": "Jharkhand Police (posted Chaibasa)", "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": "Hawaldar, Jharkhand Police (posted Chaibasa)" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "age": null, "gender": "female", "name": null, "descriptor": "Hazaribagh 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://indiankanoon.org/doc/128263266/", "secondary_sources": [ "2015 (3) AJR 675" ], "summary": "The Jharkhand High Court (Sujit Narayan Prasad J.) dismissed a Hawaldar's writ against his dismissal dated 31 March 2004. The court found the enquiry had proved, on witness depositions and documents, that he stalked a Hazaribagh woman under a false identity, misused his service pistol, threatened adverse newspaper publicity, and demanded Rs. 3 lakhs. It held that writ review examines only whether the disciplinary conclusion rests on evidence, and that the petitioner had been heard at every stage. The dismissal, already affirmed in appeal and memorial, therefore stands.", "summary_verified": "The Jharkhand High Court (Sujit Narayan Prasad J.) dismissed a Hawaldar's writ against his dismissal dated 31 March 2004. The court found the enquiry had proved, on witness depositions and documents, that he stalked a Hazaribagh woman under a false identity, misused his service pistol, threatened adverse newspaper publicity, and demanded Rs. 3 lakhs. It held that writ review examines only whether the disciplinary conclusion rests on evidence, and that the petitioner had been heard at every stage. The dismissal, already affirmed in appeal and memorial, therefore stands.", "court_quote": "The Enquiry Officer has come to a definite finding in its opinion part of the inquiry report that the petitioner has misused his official position and fell in love with a girl and wanted to marry her.", "court_quote_para": "12", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Writ dismissed; dismissal for stalking, pistol misuse and extortion 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": "2015-02-04", "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": "2015 (3) AJR 675", "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/128263266/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "2015 (3) AJR 675", "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": "GAP3-105-032", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2015-0028", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1032", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Jharkhand Armed Police Constable vs The State of Jharkhand and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Jharkhand Armed Police Constable vs The State of Jharkhand and Others", "state": "Jharkhand", "district": "Palamu", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": null, "police_station_or_unit": "Jharkhand Armed Police-8, Palamau", "court": "Jharkhand High Court", "court_as_verified": "Jharkhand High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Jharkhand Armed Police Constable vs The State of Jharkhand and Others", "case_number": "W.P.(S) No. 873 of 2008", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Pramath Patnaik" ], "judgment_date": "2015-07-10", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2015, "incident_date": "2005-08-05", "incident_year": 2005, "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": "Jharkhand Armed Police-8, Palamau", "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, Jharkhand Armed Police-8, Palamau" } ], "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/63247379/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Jharkhand High Court (Pramath Patnaik J.) dismissed a Jharkhand Armed Police constable's writ against his dismissal dated 30 October 2007. The court found he had concealed a previous criminal case and judicial custody at appointment, which it held amounts to grave misconduct, particularly in a disciplined service like the police. It held that unshown prejudice from enquiry-report handling could not vitiate the proceeding and that the major punishment was proportionate. The dismissal, confirmed in departmental appeal on 20 August 2008, therefore stands.", "summary_verified": "The Jharkhand High Court (Pramath Patnaik J.) dismissed a Jharkhand Armed Police constable's writ against his dismissal dated 30 October 2007. The court found he had concealed a previous criminal case and judicial custody at appointment, which it held amounts to grave misconduct, particularly in a disciplined service like the police. It held that unshown prejudice from enquiry-report handling could not vitiate the proceeding and that the major punishment was proportionate. The dismissal, confirmed in departmental appeal on 20 August 2008, therefore stands.", "court_quote": "Since the petitioner is guilty of concealment of information about his previous criminal case, it amounts to grave misconduct. Particularly in a disciplined service like police.", "court_quote_para": "14(i)", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Writ dismissed; dismissal for concealing criminal antecedents 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": "2015-07-10", "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": "W.P.(S) No. 873 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/63247379/", "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": "GAP3-105-033", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2015-0032", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1033", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "CISF Constable vs The Union of India and Others", "display_title_redacted": "CISF Constable vs The Union of India and Others", "state": "Jharkhand", "district": "Ranchi", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Ranchi", "police_station_or_unit": "CISF Unit, Heavy Engineering Corporation, Ranchi", "court": "Jharkhand High Court", "court_as_verified": "Jharkhand High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "CISF Constable vs The Union of India and Others", "case_number": "W.P.(S) No. 3911 of 2007", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Pramath Patnaik" ], "judgment_date": "2015-10-30", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2015, "incident_date": "2001-10-15", "incident_year": 2001, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "CISF Rules 1969 Rule 30", "CISF Rules 2001 Rule 36" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "unit": "CISF Unit, Heavy Engineering Corporation, Ranchi", "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, CISF Unit, Heavy Engineering Corporation, Ranchi" } ], "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/11324583/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Jharkhand High Court (Pramath Patnaik J.) dismissed a CISF constable's writ against his dismissal dated 29 July 2002. The court found he was drunk on firing-point duty at HEC Ranchi on 15 October 2001 and disobeyed a lawful order to deposit his rifle, against a record of one major and 18 minor prior punishments. It held that punishment choice lies exclusively with the competent authority and no interference on quantum was warranted. The dismissal, already affirmed in appeal and revision, therefore stands.", "summary_verified": "The Jharkhand High Court (Pramath Patnaik J.) dismissed a CISF constable's writ against his dismissal dated 29 July 2002. The court found he was drunk on firing-point duty at HEC Ranchi on 15 October 2001 and disobeyed a lawful order to deposit his rifle, against a record of one major and 18 minor prior punishments. It held that punishment choice lies exclusively with the competent authority and no interference on quantum was warranted. The dismissal, already affirmed in appeal and revision, therefore stands.", "court_quote": "Furthermore, the petitioner has been examined by Dr. S.K. Kisku and the medical report of Dr. Kisku finds corroboration in the inquiry conducted by the inquiry officer. Therefore, the conclusion is irresistible that the petitioner consumed alcohol.", "court_quote_para": "8(a)", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Writ dismissed; CISF dismissal for drunkenness and disobedience 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": "2015-10-30", "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": "W.P.(S) No. 3911 of 2007", "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/11324583/", "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": "GAP3-105-034", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2015-0033", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1035", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Jharkhand Police Constable vs The State of Jharkhand and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Jharkhand Police Constable vs The State of Jharkhand and Others", "state": "Jharkhand", "district": "Garhwa", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": null, "police_station_or_unit": "Jharkhand Police, Garhwa", "court": "Jharkhand High Court", "court_as_verified": "Jharkhand High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Jharkhand Police Constable vs The State of Jharkhand and Others", "case_number": "W.P.(S) No. 1128 of 2012", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Pramath Patnaik" ], "judgment_date": "2015-10-30", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2015, "incident_date": "2008-01-01", "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": "Jharkhand Police, Garhwa", "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, Jharkhand Police, Garhwa" } ], "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/8302120/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Jharkhand High Court (Pramath Patnaik J.) dismissed a Garhwa constable's writ against his dismissal dated 20 August 2010. The court found departmental evidence proved intentional forgery and fraud: two matriculation identities, simultaneous appointments in two states, and fraudulent salary draw, and not mere irregularity. It held the confirmed dismissal was neither evidence-free nor shockingly disproportionate. The dismissal, confirmed in appeal and memorial, therefore stands.", "summary_verified": "The Jharkhand High Court (Pramath Patnaik J.) dismissed a Garhwa constable's writ against his dismissal dated 20 August 2010. The court found departmental evidence proved intentional forgery and fraud: two matriculation identities, simultaneous appointments in two states, and fraudulent salary draw, and not mere irregularity. It held the confirmed dismissal was neither evidence-free nor shockingly disproportionate. The dismissal, confirmed in appeal and memorial, therefore stands.", "court_quote": "On careful consideration of the writ application, counter-affidavit, rejoinder to the counter-affidavit as well as the rivalised submissions, it appears that it has been found that the charges levelled against the petitioner has been proved by the evidence on record on the departmental proceeding and otherwise reports obtained from S.P., Patna and Jehanabad as well as the records of authority of Police of Garhwa that the petitioner has not committed only simple misconduct and irregularity rather he intentionally committed serious offence of forgery and fraud for illegal benefits of obtaining the amount of salary from the government fund.", "court_quote_para": "10(I)", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Writ dismissed; dismissal for dual-identity recruitment fraud 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": "2015-10-30", "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": "W.P.(S) No. 1128 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/8302120/", "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": "GAP3-105-036", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2015-0035", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1000", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Dhanbad Police Constable vs The State of Jharkhand and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Dhanbad Police Constable vs The State of Jharkhand and Others", "state": "Jharkhand", "district": "Dhanbad", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Dhanbad", "police_station_or_unit": "Dhanbad Police, Computer/Confidential Section", "court": "Jharkhand High Court", "court_as_verified": "Jharkhand High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Dhanbad Police Constable vs The State of Jharkhand and Others", "case_number": "W.P.(S) No. 5406 of 2012", "citation": "(2016) 1 JLJR 45; (2016) 1 AJR 304", "judges": [ "Pramath Patnaik" ], "judgment_date": "2015-11-06", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2015, "incident_date": null, "incident_year": 2009, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "corruption", "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": "Dhanbad Police, Computer/Confidential Section", "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, Dhanbad Police, Computer/Confidential Section" } ], "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/481470/manoj-kumar-sinha-vs-the-state-of-jharkhand-and-others/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/117416325/" ], "summary": "The Jharkhand High Court (Pramath Patnaik J.) on 6 November 2015 dismissed the writ petition of police Constable and upheld his dismissal from service. The court recorded that he dishonestly drew Rs. 11,630 as house rent allowance for March, September, October and November 2009 and January 2010 while retaining official accommodation at Dhanbad, and was dismissed after Departmental Proceeding No. 169 of 2010. The court held the enquiry was properly constituted, guilt rested on material on record, judicial review could not reappreciate evidence, and dismissal was not disproportionate. The dismissal, already affirmed in appeal and memorial, was consequently sustained.", "summary_verified": "The Jharkhand High Court (Pramath Patnaik J.) on 6 November 2015 dismissed the writ petition of police Constable and upheld his dismissal from service. The court recorded that he dishonestly drew Rs. 11,630 as house rent allowance for March, September, October and November 2009 and January 2010 while retaining official accommodation at Dhanbad, and was dismissed after Departmental Proceeding No. 169 of 2010. The court held the enquiry was properly constituted, guilt rested on material on record, judicial review could not reappreciate evidence, and dismissal was not disproportionate. The dismissal, already affirmed in appeal and memorial, was consequently sustained.", "court_quote": "Admittedly, on the basis of allegations, charges has been framed and the enquiry has been conducted in which the petitioner has been found guilty by the enquiry officer.", "court_quote_para": "7(I)", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC upheld dismissal of constable for dishonest HRA withdrawals of Rs. 11,630.", "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": "2015-11-06", "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) 1 JLJR 45; (2016) 1 AJR 304", "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/481470/manoj-kumar-sinha-vs-the-state-of-jharkhand-and-others/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/117416325/", "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": "GAP3-105-001", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2015-0037", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1034", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Jharkhand Police Constable vs The State of Jharkhand and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Jharkhand Police Constable vs The State of Jharkhand and Others", "state": "Jharkhand", "district": "Dhanbad", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Dhanbad", "police_station_or_unit": "Jharkhand Police, Dhanbad (PMCH prisoner-ward guard)", "court": "Jharkhand High Court", "court_as_verified": "Jharkhand High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Jharkhand Police Constable vs The State of Jharkhand and Others", "case_number": "W.P.(S) No. 7671 of 2011", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Pramath Patnaik" ], "judgment_date": "2015-12-04", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2015, "incident_date": "2008-09-22", "incident_year": 2008, "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": "Jharkhand Police, Dhanbad (PMCH prisoner-ward guard)", "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, Jharkhand Police, Dhanbad (PMCH prisoner-ward guard)" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "age": null, "gender": null, "name": null, "descriptor": "Dhanbad 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/158631019/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Jharkhand High Court (Pramath Patnaik J.) dismissed a Dhanbad constable writ against his dismissal dated 6 March 2010. The court found proved gross negligence on prisoner-ward guard duty at PMCH, where an undertrial suffered burn injuries on 22 September 2008 and an inspection later found no uniformed guard at the ward. It held three concurrent evidence-based findings cannot be reappraised under Article 226 given the serious misconduct. The dismissal, affirmed in appeal and revision, therefore stands.", "summary_verified": "The Jharkhand High Court (Pramath Patnaik J.) dismissed a Dhanbad constable writ against his dismissal dated 6 March 2010. The court found proved gross negligence on prisoner-ward guard duty at PMCH, where an undertrial suffered burn injuries on 22 September 2008 and an inspection later found no uniformed guard at the ward. It held three concurrent evidence-based findings cannot be reappraised under Article 226 given the serious misconduct. The dismissal, affirmed in appeal and revision, therefore stands.", "court_quote": "As per the statement of the accused, there was candles and matches in the prisoner ward, the fire incident took place due to absence of the petitioner and others on the spot the fire engulfed.", "court_quote_para": "7(i)", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Writ dismissed; dismissal for negligence on undertrial guard duty 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": "2015-12-04", "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": "W.P.(S) No. 7671 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": "wrong_facts", "corrections_applied": [ "summary" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/158631019/", "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": "GAP3-105-035", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2016-0012", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1040", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Jharkhand Police Constable vs The State of Jharkhand and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Jharkhand Police Constable vs The State of Jharkhand and Others", "state": "Jharkhand", "district": "Dhanbad", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Dhanbad", "police_station_or_unit": "Tiger Mobile, Dhanbad", "court": "Jharkhand High Court", "court_as_verified": "Jharkhand High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Jharkhand Police Constable vs The State of Jharkhand and Others", "case_number": "L.P.A. No. 82 of 2015", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Virender Singh", "P. P. Bhatt" ], "judgment_date": "2016-01-12", "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": "Jharkhand Police, Tiger Mobile, Dhanbad", "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, Jharkhand Police, Tiger Mobile, Dhanbad" } ], "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/104442173/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Jharkhand High Court Division Bench, condoning 17 days delay, dismissed the Letters Patent Appeal of Tiger Mobile constable against his dismissal dated 31 March 2010. The court found a regular departmental enquiry with medical evidence proved he consumed liquor on duty and, in a drunken state, pointed the government revolver at a fellow constable, constituting gross indiscipline on its face. The court held the writ court order of 12 December 2014 suffered from no infirmity on facts or law, with two authorities concurrently affirming the dismissal. The dismissal therefore stands. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Jharkhand High Court Division Bench, condoning 17 days delay, dismissed the Letters Patent Appeal of Tiger Mobile constable against his dismissal dated 31 March 2010. The court found a regular departmental enquiry with medical evidence proved he consumed liquor on duty and, in a drunken state, pointed the government revolver at a fellow constable, constituting gross indiscipline on its face. The court held the writ court order of 12 December 2014 suffered from no infirmity on facts or law, with two authorities concurrently affirming the dismissal. The dismissal therefore stands.", "court_quote": "Viewed thus, the appeal on hand merits dismissal being devoid of any merit in it.", "court_quote_para": "5", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Division Bench dismissed LPA; dismissal for on-duty drunkenness and pointing service revolver 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": "2016-01-12", "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. 82 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/104442173/", "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-89" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-105-041", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2016-0013", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1036", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "The State of Jharkhand and Others vs Jharkhand Police Constable and others", "display_title_redacted": "The State of Jharkhand and Others vs Jharkhand Police Constable and others", "state": "Jharkhand", "district": "Seraikela-Kharsawan", "district_at_time": "Saraikela Kharsawan", "city_town": null, "police_station_or_unit": "Superintendent of Police, Seraikela-Kharsawan", "court": "Jharkhand High Court", "court_as_verified": "Jharkhand High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "The State of Jharkhand and Others vs Jharkhand Police Constable and others", "case_number": "L.P.A. No. 329 of 2014", "citation": "2016 (3) AJR 763; (2016) 4 JCR 415", "judges": [ "D. N. Patel", "Amitav K. Gupta" ], "judgment_date": "2016-01-27", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2016, "incident_date": "2004-01-01", "incident_year": 2004, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "Jharkhand Police Manual Rule 663", "Police Act 1861 s.7", "Police Act 1861 s.12" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "Jharkhand Police, Seraikela-Kharsawan", "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, Jharkhand Police, Seraikela-Kharsawan" } ], "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/99650765/", "secondary_sources": [ "2016 (3) AJR 763", "(2016) 4 JCR 415" ], "summary": "The Jharkhand High Court Division Bench allowed the State appeal and restored the dismissal of constable, setting aside the Single Judge order of 13 November 2013 that had reinstated him with full back wages. The court found he had secured appointment under the 50 percent trained Home Guard quota by annexing only an identity card though his 45-day training was incomplete on the closing date, a misrepresentation exposed on verification. The court held the enquiry, with charge sheet, hearing and second show cause, adequate and the dismissal by the SP, affirmed by the DIG Kolhan Range, proportionate for grave indiscipline in a disciplined force. The dismissal therefore stands. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Jharkhand High Court Division Bench allowed the State appeal and restored the dismissal of constable, setting aside the Single Judge order of 13 November 2013 that had reinstated him with full back wages. The court found he had secured appointment under the 50 percent trained Home Guard quota by annexing only an identity card though his 45-day training was incomplete on the closing date, a misrepresentation exposed on verification. The court held the enquiry, with charge sheet, hearing and second show cause, adequate and the dismissal by the SP, affirmed by the DIG Kolhan Range, proportionate for grave indiscipline in a disciplined force. The dismissal therefore stands.", "court_quote": "we hereby, quash and set aside the judgment and order, passed by the learned Single Judge in W.P.(S) No. 3433 of 2013 dated 13th November, 2013. This Letters Patent Appeal is allowed and disposed of.", "court_quote_para": "6", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Division Bench allowed State appeal and restored dismissal for Home Guard-quota appointment fraud; disciplinary action 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": "2016-01-27", "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 (3) AJR 763; (2016) 4 JCR 415", "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": [ "sections" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/99650765/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "2016 (3) AJR 763", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "(2016) 4 JCR 415", "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-89" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-105-037", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2016-0014", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1037", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "The State of Jharkhand and Others vs Jharkhand Police Constable and others", "display_title_redacted": "The State of Jharkhand and Others vs Jharkhand Police Constable and others", "state": "Jharkhand", "district": "Seraikela-Kharsawan", "district_at_time": "Saraikela Kharsawan", "city_town": null, "police_station_or_unit": "Superintendent of Police, Seraikela-Kharsawan", "court": "Jharkhand High Court", "court_as_verified": "Jharkhand High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "The State of Jharkhand and Others vs Jharkhand Police Constable and others", "case_number": "L.P.A. No. 328 of 2014", "citation": null, "judges": [ "D. N. Patel", "Amitav K. Gupta" ], "judgment_date": "2016-01-27", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2016, "incident_date": "2004-01-01", "incident_year": 2004, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "Jharkhand Police Manual Rule 663(x)", "Police Act 1861 s.7", "Police Act 1861 s.12" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "Jharkhand Police, Seraikela-Kharsawan", "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, Jharkhand Police, Seraikela-Kharsawan" } ], "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/88958401/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Jharkhand High Court Division Bench allowed the State appeal and restored the dismissal dated 14 October 2012 of constable, setting aside the Single Judge order of 13 November 2013 that had reinstated him with full back wages. Decided the same day on the identical pattern as the companion appeals, the court found he had secured appointment under the trained Home Guard quota without completed training, a misrepresentation exposed on verification. The court held the enquiry and departmental appeal observed and the dismissal, affirmed by the DIG Kolhan Range on 7 April 2013, proportionate. The dismissal therefore stands. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Jharkhand High Court Division Bench allowed the State appeal and restored the dismissal dated 14 October 2012 of constable, setting aside the Single Judge order of 13 November 2013 that had reinstated him with full back wages. Decided the same day on the identical pattern as the companion appeals, the court found he had secured appointment under the trained Home Guard quota without completed training, a misrepresentation exposed on verification. The court held the enquiry and departmental appeal observed and the dismissal, affirmed by the DIG Kolhan Range on 7 April 2013, proportionate. The dismissal therefore stands.", "court_quote": "we hereby, quash and set aside the judgment and order, passed by the learned Single Judge in W.P.(S) No. 3277 of 2013 dated 13th November, 2013. This Letters Patent Appeal is allowed and disposed of.", "court_quote_para": "6", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Division Bench allowed State appeal and restored dismissal for Home Guard-quota appointment fraud; disciplinary action 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": "2016-01-27", "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": "L.P.A. No. 328 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/88958401/", "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-89" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-105-038", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2016-0015", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1038", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "The State of Jharkhand and Others vs Jharkhand Police Constable and others", "display_title_redacted": "The State of Jharkhand and Others vs Jharkhand Police Constable and others", "state": "Jharkhand", "district": "Seraikela-Kharsawan", "district_at_time": "Saraikela Kharsawan", "city_town": null, "police_station_or_unit": "Superintendent of Police, Seraikela-Kharsawan", "court": "Jharkhand High Court", "court_as_verified": "Jharkhand High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "The State of Jharkhand and Others vs Jharkhand Police Constable and others", "case_number": "L.P.A. No. 327 of 2014", "citation": null, "judges": [ "D. N. Patel", "Amitav K. Gupta" ], "judgment_date": "2016-01-27", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2016, "incident_date": "2004-01-01", "incident_year": 2004, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "Jharkhand Police Manual Rule 663(x)", "Police Act 1861 s.7", "Police Act 1861 s.12" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "Jharkhand Police, Seraikela-Kharsawan", "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, Jharkhand Police, Seraikela-Kharsawan" } ], "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/12736229/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Jharkhand High Court Division Bench allowed the State appeal and restored the dismissal dated 14 October 2012 of constable, setting aside the Single Judge order of 18 January 2014 that had reinstated him. Decided the same day on the identical pattern as the companion appeals, the court found he had secured appointment under the trained Home Guard quota without completed training, a misrepresentation exposed on verification. The court held the enquiry and departmental appeal observed and the dismissal, affirmed by the DIG Kolhan Range on 14 April 2013, proportionate. The dismissal therefore stands. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Jharkhand High Court Division Bench allowed the State appeal and restored the dismissal dated 14 October 2012 of constable, setting aside the Single Judge order of 18 January 2014 that had reinstated him. Decided the same day on the identical pattern as the companion appeals, the court found he had secured appointment under the trained Home Guard quota without completed training, a misrepresentation exposed on verification. The court held the enquiry and departmental appeal observed and the dismissal, affirmed by the DIG Kolhan Range on 14 April 2013, proportionate. The dismissal therefore stands.", "court_quote": "we hereby, quash and set aside the judgment and order, passed by the learned Single Judge in W.P.(S) No. 3364 of 2013 dated 18th January, 2014. This Letters Patent Appeal is allowed and disposed of.", "court_quote_para": "6", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Division Bench allowed State appeal and restored dismissal for Home Guard-quota appointment fraud; disciplinary action 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": "2016-01-27", "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": "L.P.A. No. 327 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/12736229/", "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-89" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-105-039", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2016-0016", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1003", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Govindpur Police Constable vs The State of Jharkhand", "display_title_redacted": "Govindpur Police Constable vs The State of Jharkhand", "state": "Jharkhand", "district": "Dhanbad", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Govindpur", "police_station_or_unit": "Baliapur Police Station, Dhanbad", "court": "Jharkhand High Court", "court_as_verified": "Jharkhand High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Govindpur Police Constable vs The State of Jharkhand", "case_number": "L.P.A. No. 77 of 2015", "citation": "2016 LAB. I. C. (NOC) 382 (JHAR.); (2016) 2 JLJR 365; (2016) 2 JCR 504", "judges": [ "Virender Singh", "Shree Chandrashekhar" ], "judgment_date": "2016-02-16", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2016, "incident_date": "2010-08-20", "incident_year": 2010, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "corruption", "admin_subcategory": "extortion", "subcategory": "extortion", "subcategory_display": "extortion", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "IPC 420", "IPC 491" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "Baliapur Police Station, Dhanbad", "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, Baliapur Police Station, Dhanbad" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "age": null, "gender": null, "name": null, "descriptor": "Govindpur resident" }, { "age": null, "gender": null, "name": null, "descriptor": "Govindpur resident" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 2, "sentence_type": "dismissal", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/106999058/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Jharkhand High Court Division Bench (Virender Singh CJ, Shree Chandrashekhar J.) on 16 February 2016 dismissed the LPA of Dhanbad Constable and upheld his dismissal from service. The court recorded that on 20-21 August 2010 he impersonated the Superintendent of Police bodyguard, demanded Rs. 12,000 from truck driver [name withheld] for releasing his truck and accepted Rs. 5,000, besides absconding from duty. The court held the jail-recorded enquiry was fair, the compromise-based criminal acquittal did not touch the departmental findings, and the appellate order showed proper application of mind. The dismissal, already affirmed in appeal, memorial and writ, was consequently sustained.", "summary_verified": "The Jharkhand High Court Division Bench (Virender Singh CJ, Shree Chandrashekhar J.) on 16 February 2016 dismissed the LPA of Dhanbad Constable and upheld his dismissal from service. The court recorded that on 20-21 August 2010 he impersonated the Superintendent of Police bodyguard, demanded Rs. 12,000 from truck driver [name withheld] for releasing his truck and accepted Rs. 5,000, besides absconding from duty. The court held the jail-recorded enquiry was fair, the compromise-based criminal acquittal did not touch the departmental findings, and the appellate order showed proper application of mind. The dismissal, already affirmed in appeal, memorial and writ, was consequently sustained.", "court_quote": "The criminal case registered against the appellant ended in acquittal of the appellant on the basis of the compromise between the informant and the appellant. The order of acquittal dated 17.11.2011 in criminal case bearing G.R. No. 2876/2010 (T.R. No. 1692/2011) is not on merits of the case. Even otherwise also, acquittal in the criminal case would not affect the merits of the findings recorded during the departmental enquiry which are based on the evidence led during the enquiry.", "court_quote_para": "7", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "DB upheld dismissal of constable for extorting truck driver by impersonation.", "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": "2016-02-16", "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 LAB. I. C. (NOC) 382 (JHAR.); (2016) 2 JLJR 365; (2016) 2 JCR 504", "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/106999058/", "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": "GAP3-105-004", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2016-0017", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1009", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Jharkhand Armed Police Constable vs The State of Jharkhand and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Jharkhand Armed Police Constable vs The State of Jharkhand and Others", "state": "Jharkhand", "district": "Palamu", "district_at_time": "Palamau", "city_town": "Ramgarh", "police_station_or_unit": "Jharkhand Armed Police-3, Govindpur, Dhanbad (posted Ramgarh PS, Palamu)", "court": "Jharkhand High Court", "court_as_verified": "Jharkhand High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Jharkhand Armed Police Constable vs The State of Jharkhand and Others", "case_number": "W.P.(S) No. 4147 of 2015", "citation": "(2016) 2 JCR 482", "judges": [ "Pramath Patnaik" ], "judgment_date": "2016-02-19", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2016, "incident_date": "2013-07-02", "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", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "Jharkhand Armed Police-3, Govindpur, Dhanbad", "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, Jharkhand Armed Police-3, Govindpur, Dhanbad" } ], "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/483725/tufan-chandra-baski-appellant-hash-state-of-jharkhand-others-respondent/", "secondary_sources": [ "(2016) 2 JCR 482" ], "summary": "The Jharkhand High Court disposed of as devoid of merit the writ petition of JAP-3 Constable against his dismissal for ten days of leave without information and failure to rejoin duty despite repeated directions. The court held the enquiry rested on overwhelming material with no procedural infirmity and that judicial review does not permit reappreciation of enquiry evidence. It found no ground to interfere with the dismissal order of 24 January 2014. The dismissal therefore stands. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Jharkhand High Court disposed of as devoid of merit the writ petition of JAP-3 Constable against his dismissal for ten days of leave without information and failure to rejoin duty despite repeated directions. The court held the enquiry rested on overwhelming material with no procedural infirmity and that judicial review does not permit reappreciation of enquiry evidence. It found no ground to interfere with the dismissal order of 24 January 2014. The dismissal therefore stands.", "court_quote": "In view of the matter, I find no reason to interfere with the impugned order and applying the aforesaid principles of the Hon'ble Apex Court rendered herein above, the impugned order of punishment of dismissal dated 24.01.2014 passed by the Commandant, Jharkhand Armed Police-3 does not warrant any interference by this Court.", "court_quote_para": "9", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Writ against dismissal for unauthorised absence disposed of as devoid of merit.", "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": "2016-02-19", "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) 2 JCR 482", "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/483725/tufan-chandra-baski-appellant-hash-state-of-jharkhand-others-respondent/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "(2016) 2 JCR 482", "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": "GAP3-105-010", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2016-0023", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1039", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Police 728 [name withheld] [name withheld] vs The State of Jharkhand and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Police 728 [name withheld] [name withheld] vs The State of Jharkhand and Others", "state": "Jharkhand", "district": "Bokaro", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Bokaro", "police_station_or_unit": "Bokaro Police Line", "court": "Jharkhand High Court", "court_as_verified": "Jharkhand High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Police 728 [name withheld] [name withheld] vs The State of Jharkhand and Others", "case_number": "W.P.(S) No. 5239 of 2014", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Pramath Patnaik" ], "judgment_date": "2016-04-12", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2016, "incident_date": "2006-07-12", "incident_year": 2006, "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": "Jharkhand Police, Bokaro Police Line", "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, Jharkhand Police, Bokaro Police Line" } ], "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/27646742/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Jharkhand High Court Single Judge dismissed the writ petition of Bokaro constable, appointed on 12 July 2006 on compassionate ground, challenging his dismissal dated 31 July 2014. The court found he had suppressed a Hulasganj criminal case in his appointment declaration, exposed by letter dated 1 October 2011, and that his detailed show cause reply was considered before dismissal. The court held, following R. Radhakrishnan, that withholding material information about criminal antecedents is itself moral turpitude rendering him unsuitable, regardless of the criminal case outcome. The dismissal therefore stands. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Jharkhand High Court Single Judge dismissed the writ petition of Bokaro constable, appointed on 12 July 2006 on compassionate ground, challenging his dismissal dated 31 July 2014. The court found he had suppressed a Hulasganj criminal case in his appointment declaration, exposed by letter dated 1 October 2011, and that his detailed show cause reply was considered before dismissal. The court held, following R. Radhakrishnan, that withholding material information about criminal antecedents is itself moral turpitude rendering him unsuitable, regardless of the criminal case outcome. The dismissal therefore stands.", "court_quote": "the impugned order of dismissal dated 31.07.2014 passed by respondent no.3 pertaining to dismissal from service, does not warrant interference by this Court.", "court_quote_para": "9", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Single Judge dismissed writ; dismissal for suppressing criminal case at appointment upheld as moral turpitude.", "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": "2016-04-12", "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": "W.P.(S) No. 5239 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": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/27646742/", "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-89" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-105-040", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2016-0028", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1006", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Dhanbad Police Constable vs The State of Jharkhand and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Dhanbad Police Constable vs The State of Jharkhand and Others", "state": "Jharkhand", "district": "Dhanbad", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Dhanbad", "police_station_or_unit": "Dhanbad Police (Hariharpur Police Station)", "court": "Jharkhand High Court", "court_as_verified": "Jharkhand High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Dhanbad Police Constable vs The State of Jharkhand and Others", "case_number": "L.P.A. No. 2 of 2016", "citation": "(2016) 3 AIR Jhar R 861; (2016) 3 JCR 717", "judges": [ "Virender Singh", "Shree Chandrashekhar" ], "judgment_date": "2016-05-17", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2016, "incident_date": "2008-07-28", "incident_year": 2008, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "corruption", "admin_subcategory": "extortion", "subcategory": "extortion", "subcategory_display": "extortion", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "IPC 384" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "Dhanbad 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, Dhanbad Police" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": null, "descriptor": "Dhanbad 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/177078118/", "secondary_sources": [ "(2016) 3 AIR Jhar R 861", "(2016) 3 JCR 717" ], "summary": "The Jharkhand High Court Division Bench dismissed the appeal of Constable against his dismissal for snatching Rs. 17,000 from passenger a Dhanbad resident at Dhanbad Railway Station on 28 July 2008 and for unauthorised absence. The court held the ex parte enquiry was fair, with registered notice sent, local police alerted, the written defence considered and two witnesses examined, and that non-examination of the victim did not make it a no-evidence case. It found dismissal was not a disproportionate penalty. The dismissal, already affirmed in appeal, memorial and writ, therefore stands.", "summary_verified": "The Jharkhand High Court Division Bench dismissed the appeal of Constable against his dismissal for snatching Rs. 17,000 from passenger a Dhanbad resident at Dhanbad Railway Station on 28 July 2008 and for unauthorised absence. The court held the ex parte enquiry was fair, with registered notice sent, local police alerted, the written defence considered and two witnesses examined, and that non-examination of the victim did not make it a no-evidence case. It found dismissal was not a disproportionate penalty. The dismissal, already affirmed in appeal, memorial and writ, therefore stands.", "court_quote": "Having considered all aspects of the matter, we are of the considered opinion that the instant Letters Patent Appeal lacks merit and accordingly, it warrants dismissal. Ordered accordingly.", "court_quote_para": "15", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "LPA against dismissal for extortion from railway passenger 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": "2016-05-17", "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) 3 AIR Jhar R 861; (2016) 3 JCR 717", "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/177078118/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "(2016) 3 AIR Jhar R 861", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "(2016) 3 JCR 717", "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": "GAP3-105-007", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2016-0033", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1014", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "CRPF Constable and others vs The Union of India and Others", "display_title_redacted": "CRPF Constable and others vs The Union of India and Others", "state": "Jharkhand", "district": "Ranchi", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Dhurwa", "police_station_or_unit": "133 Battalion, CRPF, Dhurwa, Ranchi", "court": "Patna High Court", "court_as_verified": "Patna High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "CRPF Constable and others vs The Union of India and Others", "case_number": "Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case No. 378 of 2011", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Jyoti Saran" ], "judgment_date": "2016-09-14", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2016, "incident_date": "2009-02-18", "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": [], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "unit": "133 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, 133 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/190822956/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The judgment of the Patna High Court records the following account. [name withheld] [name withheld], a CRPF constable of 133 Battalion at Dhurwa, Ranchi, challenged his May 2010 dismissal for overstaying leave sanctioned from January to February 2009. The court found he had remained absent for hundreds of days without justifiable reason, rejecting his medical and bias pleas. The court held that overstay by members of a disciplined force is indiscipline to be dealt with sternly and that the punishment suffered no infirmity on merits or quantum. The writ petition was dismissed, and the dismissal, already affirmed in appeal and revision, stands.", "summary_verified": "[name withheld] [name withheld], a CRPF constable of 133 Battalion at Dhurwa, Ranchi, challenged his May 2010 dismissal for overstaying leave sanctioned from January to February 2009. The court found he had remained absent for hundreds of days without justifiable reason, rejecting his medical and bias pleas. The court held that overstay by members of a disciplined force is indiscipline to be dealt with sternly and that the punishment suffered no infirmity on merits or quantum. The writ petition was dismissed, and the dismissal, already affirmed in appeal and revision, stands.", "court_quote": "the order of punishment is not capable for being interfered with either on merits or on quantum.", "court_quote_para": "n/a", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Patna HC dismissed the writ; dismissal of CRPF constable for prolonged overstay of leave 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": "2016-09-14", "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": "Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case No. 378 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/190822956/", "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": "GAP3-105-015", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2016-0034", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1004", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Jharkhand Rail Police Constable vs State of Jharkhand", "display_title_redacted": "Jharkhand Rail Police Constable vs State of Jharkhand", "state": "Jharkhand", "district": "East Singhbhum", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Jamshedpur (Tatanagar)", "police_station_or_unit": "Tatanagar Government Railway Police Station", "court": "Jharkhand High Court", "court_as_verified": "Jharkhand High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Jharkhand Rail Police Constable vs State of Jharkhand", "case_number": "W.P.(S) No. 107 of 2010", "citation": "(2017) 1 AIR Jhar R 719; (2017) 1 JBCJ 357; (2016) 4 JLJR 620", "judges": [ "Pramath Patnaik" ], "judgment_date": "2016-09-23", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2016, "incident_date": "1997-03-20", "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": [ "IPC 302", "IPC 307", "IPC 379", "Arms Act s.25", "Arms Act s.27" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "Tatanagar GRPS, Jharkhand Rail 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, Tatanagar GRPS, Jharkhand Rail Police" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": null, "descriptor": "Jamshedpur resident" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "dismissal", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "railway", "primary_source_url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/483850/arvind-kumar-singh-appellant-hash-state-of-jharkhand-respondent/", "secondary_sources": [ "(2017) 1 AIR Jhar R 719", "(2017) 1 JBCJ 357", "(2016) 4 JLJR 620" ], "summary": "The Jharkhand High Court dismissed the writ petition of Constable challenging his dismissal for shooting dead the Officer-in-Charge of a Jamshedpur resident on 20 March 1997 after being refused leave. The court held that Departmental Proceeding No. 37/1998 had proved the charge, that Police Manual Rules 844/847 and natural justice were not breached, and that the proceeding was not held behind his back. It found neither the dismissal order of 13 April 2000 nor the appellate order of 12 October 2009 called for interference. The dismissal therefore stands; the criminal case (GRPS Case No. 32/97) proceeded separately. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Jharkhand High Court dismissed the writ petition of Constable challenging his dismissal for shooting dead the Officer-in-Charge of a Jamshedpur resident on 20 March 1997 after being refused leave. The court held that Departmental Proceeding No. 37/1998 had proved the charge, that Police Manual Rules 844/847 and natural justice were not breached, and that the proceeding was not held behind his back. It found neither the dismissal order of 13 April 2000 nor the appellate order of 12 October 2009 called for interference. The dismissal therefore stands; the criminal case (GRPS Case No. 32/97) proceeded separately.", "court_quote": "the impugned order dated 13.04.2000 at Annexure 5 and appellate order dated 12.10.2009 at Annexure 2 do not call for interference by this Court. Accordingly, the writ petition, sans merit is dismissed.", "court_quote_para": "8", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Writ against dismissal for murder of superior officer 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": "2016-09-23", "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": "(2017) 1 AIR Jhar R 719; (2017) 1 JBCJ 357; (2016) 4 JLJR 620", "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/483850/arvind-kumar-singh-appellant-hash-state-of-jharkhand-respondent/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "(2017) 1 AIR Jhar R 719", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "(2017) 1 JBCJ 357", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "(2016) 4 JLJR 620", "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": "GAP3-105-005", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2017-0026", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1042", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Jharkhand Police Trainee Constable vs The State of Jharkhand and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Jharkhand Police Trainee Constable vs The State of Jharkhand and Others", "state": "Jharkhand", "district": "West Singhbhum", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Chaibasa", "police_station_or_unit": "Superintendent of Police, West Singhbhum, Chaibasa", "court": "Jharkhand High Court", "court_as_verified": "Jharkhand High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Jharkhand Police Trainee Constable vs The State of Jharkhand and Others", "case_number": "W.P.(S) No. 3991 of 2016", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Shree Chandrashekhar" ], "judgment_date": "2017-06-16", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2017, "incident_date": "2009-09-24", "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 419", "IPC 420", "IPC 120B" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Trainee Constable", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "Jharkhand Police, West Singhbhum", "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": "Trainee Constable, Jharkhand Police, West Singhbhum" } ], "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/36614982/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Jharkhand High Court Single Judge dismissed the writ petition of trainee constable, appointed 24 September 2009, challenging his dismissal dated 30 May 2011. The court recorded he secured appointment with forged documents, absconded with another person attending duty in his place, and never appeared in the departmental proceeding despite registered-post show cause. The court held his criminal acquittal on 18 September 2015 in Sadar PS Case 69 of 2009, on different evidence four years after dismissal, is no ground to interfere with the departmental order. The dismissal therefore stands. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Jharkhand High Court Single Judge dismissed the writ petition of trainee constable, appointed 24 September 2009, challenging his dismissal dated 30 May 2011. The court recorded he secured appointment with forged documents, absconded with another person attending duty in his place, and never appeared in the departmental proceeding despite registered-post show cause. The court held his criminal acquittal on 18 September 2015 in Sadar PS Case 69 of 2009, on different evidence four years after dismissal, is no ground to interfere with the departmental order. The dismissal therefore stands.", "court_quote": "In the aforesaid facts, finding no merit in the writ petition, it is dismissed.", "court_quote_para": "5", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Single Judge dismissed writ; dismissal for forged-document appointment and absconding upheld despite later 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": "2017-06-16", "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": "W.P.(S) No. 3991 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/36614982/", "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-89" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-105-043", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2017-0027", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1041", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Jharkhand Armed Police Constable vs The State of Jharkhand and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Jharkhand Armed Police Constable vs The State of Jharkhand and Others", "state": "Jharkhand", "district": "Deoghar", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Deoghar", "police_station_or_unit": "Jharkhand Armed Police-5, Deoghar (Chanho Block Camp, Company A)", "court": "Jharkhand High Court", "court_as_verified": "Jharkhand High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Jharkhand Armed Police Constable vs The State of Jharkhand and Others", "case_number": "W.P.(S) No. 4430 of 2008", "citation": null, "judges": [ "S. N. Pathak" ], "judgment_date": "2017-07-14", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2017, "incident_date": "2004-04-23", "incident_year": 2004, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "Constitution Art. 226" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "Jharkhand Armed Police-5, Deoghar", "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, Jharkhand Armed Police-5, Deoghar" } ], "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/94307681/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Jharkhand High Court Single Judge dismissed the writ petition of JAP-5 constable challenging his dismissal dated 30 May 2008 for overstaying ten days leave from 12 to 22 April 2004 by about two years. The court found the enquiry officer rightly held the absence wilful and deliberate, since the mental-illness certificates were belatedly produced and no tuberculosis certificate or leave intimation ever reached the authorities. The court held Article 226 review permits interference only where punishment is shockingly disproportionate, which was not shown, distinguishing precedents on shorter absences. The dismissal therefore stands. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Jharkhand High Court Single Judge dismissed the writ petition of JAP-5 constable challenging his dismissal dated 30 May 2008 for overstaying ten days leave from 12 to 22 April 2004 by about two years. The court found the enquiry officer rightly held the absence wilful and deliberate, since the mental-illness certificates were belatedly produced and no tuberculosis certificate or leave intimation ever reached the authorities. The court held Article 226 review permits interference only where punishment is shockingly disproportionate, which was not shown, distinguishing precedents on shorter absences. The dismissal therefore stands.", "court_quote": "Resultantly, the impugned order warrants no interference and the writ petition fails and stands dismissed.", "court_quote_para": "13", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Single Judge dismissed writ; dismissal for two-year wilful absence upheld under limited Article 226 review.", "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": "2017-07-14", "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": "W.P.(S) No. 4430 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": "wrong_facts", "corrections_applied": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/94307681/", "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-89" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-105-042", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2017-0028", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1043", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "CISF Constable vs The Union of India and Others", "display_title_redacted": "CISF Constable vs The Union of India and Others", "state": "Jharkhand", "district": "Dhanbad", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Dhanbad", "police_station_or_unit": "CISF Unit, BCCL, Dhanbad", "court": "Jharkhand High Court", "court_as_verified": "Jharkhand High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "CISF Constable vs The Union of India and Others", "case_number": "L.P.A. No. 204 of 2016", "citation": "2018 (1) AJR 63; (2018) 1 JCR 668", "judges": [ "D. N. Patel", "Ratnaker Bhengra" ], "judgment_date": "2017-08-04", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2017, "incident_date": "2007-06-13", "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", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "CISF Unit, BCCL, Dhanbad", "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, CISF Unit, BCCL, Dhanbad" } ], "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/151883941/", "secondary_sources": [ "2018 (1) AJR 63", "(2018) 1 JCR 668" ], "summary": "The Jharkhand High Court Division Bench dismissed the Letters Patent Appeal of CISF constable of the BCCL Dhanbad unit against his removal dated 19 February 2008. The court found three charges proved through a multi-witness enquiry: intoxication on duty, outraging the modesty of a woman during duty hours on 13 June 2007, and incorrigibility from two prior intoxication and one absenteeism punishment. The court held there was no procedural lacuna, with charge sheet, enquiry, pre-penalty hearing and a heard departmental appeal dismissed 30 April 2008, and the Single Judge order of 16 March 2016 committed no error. The removal therefore stands. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Jharkhand High Court Division Bench dismissed the Letters Patent Appeal of CISF constable of the BCCL Dhanbad unit against his removal dated 19 February 2008. The court found three charges proved through a multi-witness enquiry: intoxication on duty, outraging the modesty of a woman during duty hours on 13 June 2007, and incorrigibility from two prior intoxication and one absenteeism punishment. The court held there was no procedural lacuna, with charge sheet, enquiry, pre-penalty hearing and a heard departmental appeal dismissed 30 April 2008, and the Single Judge order of 16 March 2016 committed no error. The removal therefore stands.", "court_quote": "Therefore, there is no substance in this Letters Patent Appeal and the same is, hereby, dismissed.", "court_quote_para": "14", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Division Bench dismissed LPA; CISF removal for on-duty intoxication and outraging modesty 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": "2017-08-04", "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": "2018 (1) AJR 63; (2018) 1 JCR 668", "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/151883941/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "2018 (1) AJR 63", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "(2018) 1 JCR 668", "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-89" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-105-044", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2017-0029", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1008", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Central Reserve Police Constable and others vs The State of Jharkhand and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Central Reserve Police Constable and others vs The State of Jharkhand and Others", "state": "Jharkhand", "district": "Ranchi", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Ranchi", "police_station_or_unit": "Central Reserve Police Force (posted Ranchi)", "court": "Jharkhand High Court", "court_as_verified": "Jharkhand High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Central Reserve Police Constable and others vs The State of Jharkhand and Others", "case_number": "L.P.A. No. 220 of 2009", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Aparesh Kumar Singh", "B. B. Mangalmurti" ], "judgment_date": "2017-08-29", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2017, "incident_date": "1996-06-30", "incident_year": 1996, "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(1)", "CRPF Rules 1955 r.27" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "Central Reserve Police 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 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://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/485426/niranjan-sharma-ors-appellant-hash-the-state-of-jharkhand-respondent/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Jharkhand High Court Division Bench dismissed the appeal of CRPF Constable against his removal for reporting for Quarter Guard duty in a drunken condition after consuming country-made liquor and for four days of unauthorised absence in 1996. The court held the charges stood proved after full opportunity, noting the petitioner had admitted guilt, and that removal under Section 11(1) read with Rule 27 needed no prosecution under Sections 9/10. It held the penalty was not shockingly disproportionate for a disciplined force. The removal, already affirmed in appeal, on quantum representation and in writ, therefore stands.", "summary_verified": "The Jharkhand High Court Division Bench dismissed the appeal of CRPF Constable against his removal for reporting for Quarter Guard duty in a drunken condition after consuming country-made liquor and for four days of unauthorised absence in 1996. The court held the charges stood proved after full opportunity, noting the petitioner had admitted guilt, and that removal under Section 11(1) read with Rule 27 needed no prosecution under Sections 9/10. It held the penalty was not shockingly disproportionate for a disciplined force. The removal, already affirmed in appeal, on quantum representation and in writ, therefore stands.", "court_quote": "It was also held that the punishment of removal from service was proportionate to the gravity of misconduct. Therefore in such circumstances, we find no occasion to interfere in the findings of the writ Court.", "court_quote_para": "8", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "LPA against CRPF removal for intoxication on duty dismissed; removal 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": "2017-08-29", "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. 220 of 2009", "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/485426/niranjan-sharma-ors-appellant-hash-the-state-of-jharkhand-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-85" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-105-009", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2017-0039", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1044", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Jharkhand Police Constable v. State of Jharkhand and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Jharkhand Police Constable v. State of Jharkhand and Others", "state": "Jharkhand", "district": "West Singhbhum", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Bara Jamda", "police_station_or_unit": "Bara Jamda Out Post (Reserve Guard)", "court": "Jharkhand High Court", "court_as_verified": "Jharkhand High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Jharkhand Police Constable v. State of Jharkhand and Others", "case_number": "W.P.(S) No. 3946 of 2009", "citation": "2018 (2) AJR 187", "judges": [ "Anil Kumar Choudhary" ], "judgment_date": "2017-12-08", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2017, "incident_date": "2004-03-31", "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": [ "Constitution Art. 226" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "unit": "Jharkhand Police, Bara Jamda Out Post (Reserve Guard), West Singhbhum", "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, Jharkhand Police, Bara Jamda Out Post (Reserve Guard), West Singhbhum" } ], "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/135345609/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "Constable, Reserve Guard at Bara Jamda Out Post, West Singhbhum, was dismissed on 24.09.2007 after a departmental enquiry found he was watching TV instead of reporting for his 2-4 pm duty when MCC militants attacked the post on 31.03.2004 and looted nine rifles, a revolver and cartridges. His departmental appeal was rejected on 13.06.2009. The Jharkhand High Court held the Superintendent of Police was competent to dismiss him on proved charges of indiscipline, dereliction and negligence, that the findings were not based on no evidence, and that the punishment was not shocking. The Court found no apparent illegality in the enquiry procedure and dismissed the writ application, so the dismissal stands. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "Constable, Reserve Guard at Bara Jamda Out Post, West Singhbhum, was dismissed on 24.09.2007 after a departmental enquiry found he was watching TV instead of reporting for his 2-4 pm duty when MCC militants attacked the post on 31.03.2004 and looted nine rifles, a revolver and cartridges. His departmental appeal was rejected on 13.06.2009. The Jharkhand High Court held the Superintendent of Police was competent to dismiss him on proved charges of indiscipline, dereliction and negligence, that the findings were not based on no evidence, and that the punishment was not shocking. The Court found no apparent illegality in the enquiry procedure and dismissed the writ application, so the dismissal stands.", "court_quote": "Certainly a police personnel who meekly surrenders fire arms of police to miscreants armed with simple weapons like knife, lathi(danda) and chain without any resistance is a liability to any police force and such a person is a burden which no efficient police can shoulder.", "court_quote_para": "11", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Judgment verified on Indian Kanoon; writ dismissed, dismissal for cowardice/negligence 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": "2017-12-08", "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": "2018 (2) AJR 187", "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/135345609/", "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": "GAP3-105-045", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2018-0027", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1051", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Jharkhand Police Constable v. State of Jharkhand and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Jharkhand Police Constable v. State of Jharkhand and Others", "state": "Jharkhand", "district": "Dumka", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Dumka", "police_station_or_unit": "Dumka district police (training at CISF RTC Arkonam)", "court": "Jharkhand High Court", "court_as_verified": "Jharkhand High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Jharkhand Police Constable v. State of Jharkhand and Others", "case_number": "W.P.(S) No. 1707 of 2018", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Aparesh Kumar Singh" ], "judgment_date": "2018-09-17", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2018, "incident_date": "2005-02-18", "incident_year": 2005, "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": "Jharkhand Police, Dumka", "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, Jharkhand Police, Dumka" } ], "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/32548032/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "Constable, appointed in Dumka in October 2004 and sent for training to CISF Regional Training Centre, Arkonam, absented himself from 18.02.2005, was suspended, and was dismissed on 16.12.2005 after a departmental proceeding found the absconding charge established; his appeal was rejected on 15.03.2011. His defences of his wife's illness and his own treatment did not avail. The Court found he never participated in the enquiry despite repeated notices, the 2011 appellate rejection was merited, and the writ suffered unexplained seven-year delay. Finding no ground for interference, the Court dismissed the writ petition. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "Constable, appointed in Dumka in October 2004 and sent for training to CISF Regional Training Centre, Arkonam, absented himself from 18.02.2005, was suspended, and was dismissed on 16.12.2005 after a departmental proceeding found the absconding charge established; his appeal was rejected on 15.03.2011. His defences of his wife's illness and his own treatment did not avail. The Court found he never participated in the enquiry despite repeated notices, the 2011 appellate rejection was merited, and the writ suffered unexplained seven-year delay. Finding no ground for interference, the Court dismissed the writ petition.", "court_quote": "The chronology of facts show that the petitioner was dismissed after a disciplinary proceeding on the charges that he had escaped from CISF, Regional Training Centre, Arkonam, Tamilnadu from 18th February 2005 where he was sent on 26th January 2005 only after two months after his appointment on 3rd October 2004. Though petitioner claims to have submitted his joining on 25th September 2005 at Dumka but he never participated in the departmental proceeding despite notices sent to him also at his residential address.", "court_quote_para": "n/a", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Judgment verified on Indian Kanoon; writ dismissed, dismissal for escaping training 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": "2018-09-17", "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": "W.P.(S) No. 1707 of 2018", "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/32548032/", "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": "GAP3-106-007", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2019-0022", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1048", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Bokaro Police personnel v. State of Jharkhand and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Bokaro Police personnel v. State of Jharkhand and Others", "state": "Jharkhand", "district": "Bokaro", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Bokaro", "police_station_or_unit": "Bokaro district police", "court": "Jharkhand High Court", "court_as_verified": "Jharkhand High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Bokaro Police personnel v. State of Jharkhand and Others", "case_number": "W.P.(S) No. 779 of 2016", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Ananda Sen" ], "judgment_date": "2019-01-07", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2019, "incident_date": null, "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, "unit": "Bokaro 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": "Police personnel, Bokaro district 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/33569271/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "Police official [name withheld] was dismissed on 14.09.1996 by the Superintendent of Police, Bokaro (then in undivided Bihar), after a departmental inquiry found he collected money from truck drivers and declared a false identity when caught red-handed; his appeal (1997) and memorial (1998) were rejected. He sought parity with three others exonerated in the same inquiry. The Court held he had repeatedly failed to appear despite opportunities, the punishment commensurated with the charge and was not disproportionate, and concurrent findings disclosed no illegality. The writ application was dismissed. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "Police official [name withheld] was dismissed on 14.09.1996 by the Superintendent of Police, Bokaro (then in undivided Bihar), after a departmental inquiry found he collected money from truck drivers and declared a false identity when caught red-handed; his appeal (1997) and memorial (1998) were rejected. He sought parity with three others exonerated in the same inquiry. The Court held he had repeatedly failed to appear despite opportunities, the punishment commensurated with the charge and was not disproportionate, and concurrent findings disclosed no illegality. The writ application was dismissed.", "court_quote": "The petitioner was charge sheeted on the ground that he, being a police official, was found collecting money from the truck drivers and when he was caught red-handed, he has declared his false identity and suppressed his actual identity. On this basis, a departmental proceeding was initiated against him.", "court_quote_para": "n/a", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Judgment verified on Indian Kanoon; writ dismissed, dismissal for extortion 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": "2019-01-07", "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": "W.P.(S) No. 779 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/33569271/", "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": "GAP3-106-004", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2019-0031", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1046", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Jharkhand Police Constable (probationer, No. 2029) v. State of Jharkhand and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Jharkhand Police Constable (probationer, No. 2029) v. State of Jharkhand and Others", "state": "Jharkhand", "district": "Ranchi", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Ranchi", "police_station_or_unit": "Ranchi district police (appointed by SSP Ranchi)", "court": "Jharkhand High Court", "court_as_verified": "Jharkhand High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Jharkhand Police Constable (probationer, No. 2029) v. State of Jharkhand and Others", "case_number": "W.P.(S) No. 5368 of 2018", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Ananda Sen" ], "judgment_date": "2019-05-01", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2019, "incident_date": null, "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": [ "Jharkhand Police Manual R. 668" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable (probationer, No. 2029)", "unit": "Jharkhand Police, Ranchi", "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 (probationer, No. 2029), Jharkhand Police, Ranchi" } ], "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/175572041/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The judgment of the Jharkhand High Court records the following account. Probationer-constable [name withheld] (No. 2029), appointed in Ranchi in 1999, was removed from service on 18.10.2005 under Rule 668 of the Jharkhand Police Manual after being chargesheeted as an absconder in Nawada Muffasil P.S. Case No. 40 of 1999 under Section 302/34 IPC read with Section 27, Arms Act. He sought reinstatement following his acquittal in the criminal case in 2011. The Court held a probationer could be removed without notice, that a benefit-of-doubt acquittal is not an honourable acquittal conferring any right to reinstatement, and that the 13-year delay barred relief. The writ petition was dismissed. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "Probationer-constable [name withheld] (No. 2029), appointed in Ranchi in 1999, was removed from service on 18.10.2005 under Rule 668 of the Jharkhand Police Manual after being chargesheeted as an absconder in Nawada Muffasil P.S. Case No. 40 of 1999 under Section 302/34 IPC read with Section 27, Arms Act. He sought reinstatement following his acquittal in the criminal case in 2011. The Court held a probationer could be removed without notice, that a benefit-of-doubt acquittal is not an honourable acquittal conferring any right to reinstatement, and that the 13-year delay barred relief. The writ petition was dismissed.", "court_quote": "The facts are admitted that he was an accused, an absconder and was facing trial under Section 302 and was taken into custody.", "court_quote_para": "9", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Judgment verified on Indian Kanoon; writ dismissed, Rule 668 removal 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": "2019-05-01", "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": "W.P.(S) No. 5368 of 2018", "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/175572041/", "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": "GAP3-106-002", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2019-0033", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1049", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "CRPF Constable (General Duty) v. Union of India and Others", "display_title_redacted": "CRPF Constable (General Duty) v. Union of India and Others", "state": "Jharkhand", "district": "Latehar", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Latehar", "police_station_or_unit": "11th Battalion, CRPF, Latehar", "court": "Patna High Court", "court_as_verified": "Patna High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "CRPF Constable (General Duty) v. Union of India and Others", "case_number": "CWJC No. 7092 of 2015", "citation": "AIRONLINE 2019 PAT 1295", "judges": [ "Madhuresh Prasad" ], "judgment_date": "2019-06-25", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2019, "incident_date": "2012-07-11", "incident_year": 2012, "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 (General Duty)", "unit": "CRPF, 11th Battalion, Latehar", "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 (General Duty), CRPF, 11th Battalion, Latehar" } ], "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/71444377/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "CRPF Constable (GD) [name withheld], 11th Battalion at Latehar, was dismissed on 10.08.2013 for leaving the campus without permission in a Naxal-affected area on 11.07.2012, consuming liquor, and brawling with fellow personnel, misconduct he admitted before the Enquiry Officer. The appellate authority converted dismissal into removal (17.10.2014) and the revision was rejected (17.12.2014). The Patna High Court held the findings rested on admitted facts proved through six witnesses by a confidence-inspiring procedure and required no interference. The writ petition was dismissed as devoid of merit. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "CRPF Constable (GD) [name withheld], 11th Battalion at Latehar, was dismissed on 10.08.2013 for leaving the campus without permission in a Naxal-affected area on 11.07.2012, consuming liquor, and brawling with fellow personnel, misconduct he admitted before the Enquiry Officer. The appellate authority converted dismissal into removal (17.10.2014) and the revision was rejected (17.12.2014). The Patna High Court held the findings rested on admitted facts proved through six witnesses by a confidence-inspiring procedure and required no interference. The writ petition was dismissed as devoid of merit.", "court_quote": "The findings of the Disciplinary Authority are based on admitted facts and circumstances, for reasons and by a procedure which inspires confidence. The same does not require any interference in the opinion of this Court.", "court_quote_para": "8", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Judgment verified on Indian Kanoon; writ dismissed, CRPF removal 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": "2019-06-25", "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": "AIRONLINE 2019 PAT 1295", "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/71444377/", "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": "GAP3-106-005", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2020-0021", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1047", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Jharkhand Armed Police Constable (Brass No. 759) v. State of Jharkhand and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Jharkhand Armed Police Constable (Brass No. 759) v. State of Jharkhand and Others", "state": "Jharkhand", "district": "East Singhbhum", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Jamshedpur", "police_station_or_unit": "TTS Jamshedpur (Golmuri P.S. Case 43 of 2005)", "court": "Jharkhand High Court", "court_as_verified": "Jharkhand High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Jharkhand Armed Police Constable (Brass No. 759) v. State of Jharkhand and Others", "case_number": "W.P.(S) No. 800 of 2016", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi" ], "judgment_date": "2020-12-02", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2020, "incident_date": "2005-03-26", "incident_year": 2005, "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 (Brass No. 759)", "unit": "Jharkhand Armed Police (JAP-1), on SOP training at TTS Jamshedpur", "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 (Brass No. 759), Jharkhand Armed Police (JAP-1), on SOP training at TTS Jamshedpur" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "age": null, "gender": "female", "name": null, "descriptor": "Jamshedpur 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://indiankanoon.org/doc/60886169/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The judgment of the Jharkhand High Court records the following account. JAP-1 Constable (Brass No. 759) was dismissed with effect from 31.08.2006 after a departmental enquiry into charges that, while on SOP training at TTS Jamshedpur, he evaded standby duty on Holi (26.03.2005), consumed alcohol, and attempted to rape and molest a village woman, leading to Golmuri P.S. Case 43 of 2005. The Jharkhand High Court held the enquiry gave him full opportunity of hearing, the findings rested on evidence including the Training School Principal's statement, and absence from duty coupled with molestation/attempted rape was serious misconduct. The Court held a person like the petitioner was unfit for a disciplined force and dismissed the writ petition. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "JAP-1 Constable (Brass No. 759) was dismissed with effect from 31.08.2006 after a departmental enquiry into charges that, while on SOP training at TTS Jamshedpur, he evaded standby duty on Holi (26.03.2005), consumed alcohol, and attempted to rape and molest a village woman, leading to Golmuri P.S. Case 43 of 2005. The Jharkhand High Court held the enquiry gave him full opportunity of hearing, the findings rested on evidence including the Training School Principal's statement, and absence from duty coupled with molestation/attempted rape was serious misconduct. The Court held a person like the petitioner was unfit for a disciplined force and dismissed the writ petition.", "court_quote": "The petitioner was working in a disciplined force and he was to follow the direction of his superiors. The allegation of absenting from duty without any intimation and molestation and trying to rape the girl in the village are serious in nature. The person like the petitioner is not fit to be continued in the disciplined force.", "court_quote_para": "n/a", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Judgment verified on Indian Kanoon; writ dismissed, dismissal for Holi-day misconduct 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": "2020-12-02", "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": "W.P.(S) No. 800 of 2016", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." }, { "date": null, "action_type": "Appeal pending", "status": "Pending", "authority": "Jharkhand High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "An appeal arising from this judgment was pending before the Jharkhand High Court (officers: [name withheld], listing date not recorded); the judgment's findings had not been set aside.", "disposition": "Later proceeding · Appeal pending", "source": "https://jharkhandhighcourt.nic.in/display_pdf/DAILY_CAUSELIST_22032023.pdf", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." } ], "later_proceedings": [ { "court": "Jharkhand High Court", "date": null, "url": "https://jharkhandhighcourt.nic.in/display_pdf/DAILY_CAUSELIST_22032023.pdf", "outcome": "pending_appeal" } ], "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/60886169/", "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": "GAP3-106-003", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2022-0003", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0181", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Satgawan Man vs State of Jharkhand", "display_title_redacted": "Satgawan Man vs State of Jharkhand", "state": "Jharkhand", "district": "Koderma", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Satgawan", "police_station_or_unit": "Satgawan Police Station, Koderma", "court": "Jharkhand High Court", "court_as_verified": "Jharkhand High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Satgawan Man vs State of Jharkhand", "case_number": "W.P.(Cr.) No. 287 of 2017", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi" ], "judgment_date": "2022-03-24", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2022, "incident_date": "2017-03-13", "incident_year": 2017, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "brutality", "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": [], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": null, "unit": "Satgawan Police Station, Koderma", "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": "Police personnel, Satgawan Police Station, Koderma" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Satgawan 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/9497780/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://sabrangindia.in/jharkhand-hc-awards-compensation-illegal-detention-not-custodial-death/" ], "summary": "The Jharkhand High Court held that a Satgawan man was wrongfully confined by Satgawan police for around 16 hours on 13-14 March 2017. The petitioner alleged he was also beaten after abir/gulal was put on a chowkidar during Holi festivities, but the court held the torture/death question not proved ('How the death has occurred, that has not been proved') and compensated only the Article 21 deprivation of personal liberty: Rs 50,000 within four weeks, recoverable from the erring officers, with civil and criminal remedies for the wrongful confinement expressly preserved. The State's version (UD case, death in hospital, one officer departmentally punished) is on record at para 4. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Jharkhand High Court held that a Satgawan man was wrongfully confined by Satgawan police for around 16 hours on 13-14 March 2017. The petitioner alleged he was also beaten after abir/gulal was put on a chowkidar during Holi festivities, but the court held the torture/death question not proved ('How the death has occurred, that has not been proved') and compensated only the Article 21 deprivation of personal liberty: Rs 50,000 within four weeks, recoverable from the erring officers, with civil and criminal remedies for the wrongful confinement expressly preserved. The State's version (UD case, death in hospital, one officer departmentally punished) is on record at para 4.", "court_quote": "the deceased was wrongfully deprived of the right of personal liberty by the police authority of the respondent-State for around 16 hours", "court_quote_para": "6", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Jharkhand HC held ~16-hour wrongful confinement by Satgawan police violated Art.21; Rs 50,000 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": "2022-03-24", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Jharkhand High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Jharkhand High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 50,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "W.P.(Cr.) No. 287 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": "wrong_facts", "corrections_applied": [ "court_quote_para", "summary" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/9497780/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://sabrangindia.in/jharkhand-hc-awards-compensation-illegal-detention-not-custodial-death/", "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-15", "chunk-r09" ], "merged_case_id": "EAST---NORTHEAST-003", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2022-0004", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0183", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Karmatand Man vs The State of Jharkhand", "display_title_redacted": "Karmatand Man vs The State of Jharkhand", "state": "Jharkhand", "district": "Jamtara", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Karmatand", "police_station_or_unit": "Karmatand Police Station", "court": "Jharkhand High Court", "court_as_verified": "Jharkhand High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Karmatand Man vs The State of Jharkhand", "case_number": "B.A. No. 1659 of 2022", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Ananda Sen" ], "judgment_date": "2022-04-06", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2022, "incident_date": "2021-07-01", "incident_year": 2021, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "false_implication_fabrication", "subcategory": "false_implication_fabrication", "subcategory_display": "false implication fabrication", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation", "sections": [ "IPC 302", "IPC 34", "IPC 306" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": null, "unit": "Karmatand Police Station", "role": "named_only", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no", "key2_openrouter:unclear" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": "no", "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "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": "Police personnel, Karmatand Police Station" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Karmatand 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/16294620/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.livelaw.in/news-updates/ensure-innocents-arent-harassed-whim-investigating-officers-jharkhand-high-court-directs-dgp-196117" ], "summary": "The Jharkhand High Court held that tribal neighbour a Karmatand man had been languishing in custody since 1 July 2021 for committing no offence whatsoever, having been chargesheeted in Karmatand P.S. Case No. 47 of 2021 solely because he sat beside Asha Devi's body after being called by her husband, with no overt act attributed to him in any witness statement. Observing the case shook the Court's faith in the investigating agency, the Court confirmed his interim bail, awarded Rs 50,000 compensation payable within four weeks through the Superintendent of Police, Jamtara, and directed the Director General of Police to sensitize investigating and supervising officers against harassing innocents. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Jharkhand High Court held that tribal neighbour a Karmatand man had been languishing in custody since 1 July 2021 for committing no offence whatsoever, having been chargesheeted in Karmatand P.S. Case No. 47 of 2021 solely because he sat beside Asha Devi's body after being called by her husband, with no overt act attributed to him in any witness statement. Observing the case shook the Court's faith in the investigating agency, the Court confirmed his interim bail, awarded Rs 50,000 compensation payable within four weeks through the Superintendent of Police, Jamtara, and directed the Director General of Police to sensitize investigating and supervising officers against harassing innocents.", "court_quote": "He has been made to suffer for answering a call of humanity. His liberty was not only threatened, but was taken away by the State, whimsically, without there being any material against him.", "court_quote_para": "9", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Jharkhand HC order verified on Indian Kanoon; innocent man jailed 9 months, Rs 50,000 + DGP sensitization.", "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": "2022-04-06", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Jharkhand High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Jharkhand High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 50,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "B.A. No. 1659 of 2022", "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/16294620/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/news-updates/ensure-innocents-arent-harassed-whim-investigating-officers-jharkhand-high-court-directs-dgp-196117", "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-28" ], "merged_case_id": "JHARKH-013", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2023-0010", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0176", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Rehla Man vs State of Jharkhand", "display_title_redacted": "Rehla Man vs State of Jharkhand", "state": "Jharkhand", "district": "Palamu", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Rehla", "police_station_or_unit": "Rehla Police Station, Palamu", "court": "Jharkhand High Court", "court_as_verified": "Jharkhand High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Rehla Man vs State of Jharkhand", "case_number": "W.P.(Cr.) No. 31 of 2013", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi" ], "judgment_date": "2023-04-24", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2023, "incident_date": "2006-09-10", "incident_year": 2006, "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. 21", "Arms Act" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": null, "unit": "Rehla Police Station, Palamu", "role": "named_only", "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": "Police personnel, Rehla Police Station, Palamu" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Rehla man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 250000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/75956446/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The judgment of the Jharkhand High Court records the following account. The petitioner's husband was arrested on 10 September 2006 by Rehla police and falsely implicated in an Arms Act case, and subsequently died unnaturally while in custody. Although jail authorities claimed death due to illness, the forensic science laboratory report detected pesticide (monocrotophos) in the viscera, and administrative inquiries confirmed the death occurred in custody. The Jharkhand High Court held that Article 21 was violated at the instance of concerned State officers and that the deceased was wrongfully deprived of his liberty, directing the State of Jharkhand to pay Rs. 2,50,000 compensation to the widow, recoverable from the erring officers. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The petitioner's husband was arrested on 10 September 2006 by Rehla police and falsely implicated in an Arms Act case, and subsequently died unnaturally while in custody. Although jail authorities claimed death due to illness, the forensic science laboratory report detected pesticide (monocrotophos) in the viscera, and administrative inquiries confirmed the death occurred in custody. The Jharkhand High Court held that Article 21 was violated at the instance of concerned State officers and that the deceased was wrongfully deprived of his liberty, directing the State of Jharkhand to pay Rs. 2,50,000 compensation to the widow, recoverable from the erring officers.", "court_quote": "In view of the above it transpires that Article-21 of the Constitution of India has been violated at the instance of concerned officer of the respondent-State and the deceased was wrongfully deprived of the right of personal liberty by the police authority.", "court_quote_para": "6", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "High Court awarded Rs 2.5 lakh compensation for custodial death of petitioner's husband falsely implicated under Arms Act by Rehla 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": "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": "2023-04-24", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Jharkhand High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Jharkhand High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 250,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "W.P.(Cr.) 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The OIC-led party had seized him from his home at Lukuwa on 9 September 2014 when his son was absent; photographs and the post-mortem showed multiple injuries, fortifying that death was due to police torture and highhandedness with a concocted suicide story in a perfunctory final form. The Court held Article 21 violated, awarded Rs. 5,00,000 compensation within four weeks recoverable from the erring officers (without precluding civil/criminal remedies), and directed the DGP Jharkhand to reopen and reinvestigate the case against the erring officials. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Jharkhand High Court (Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) held a Lesliganj man was a victim of custodial violence who died in police custody. The OIC-led party had seized him from his home at Lukuwa on 9 September 2014 when his son was absent; photographs and the post-mortem showed multiple injuries, fortifying that death was due to police torture and highhandedness with a concocted suicide story in a perfunctory final form. The Court held Article 21 violated, awarded Rs. 5,00,000 compensation within four weeks recoverable from the erring officers (without precluding civil/criminal remedies), and directed the DGP Jharkhand to reopen and reinvestigate the case against the erring officials.", "court_quote": "The death has occurred due to torture and highhandedness of the police and concocted story of suicide has been made out by the police.", "court_quote_para": "6", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Primary judgment verified: custodial death by torture found; Rs 5 lakh + DGP reinvestigation 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": "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": "2023-04-26", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Jharkhand High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Jharkhand High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 500,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "W.P.(Cr.) 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State of Jharkhand and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Ranchi Man v. State of Jharkhand and Others", "state": "Jharkhand", "district": "Ranchi", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Ranchi", "police_station_or_unit": "Chutia Police Station / Bundu Police Station, Ranchi", "court": "Jharkhand High Court", "court_as_verified": "Jharkhand High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Ranchi Man v. State of Jharkhand and Others", "case_number": "W.P.(Cr.) 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The Court noted the DGP had suspended three officers including the Investigating Officer and both Officers-in-Charge and ordered a CID probe and departmental proceedings. Holding the entire prosecution malicious and the Article 21 violation admitted, the Court awarded Rs 5,00,000 public-law compensation, open to recovery from the erring officers' salaries. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Jharkhand High Court held that student a Ranchi man was falsely implicated in a murder, gang-rape and burning case after a burnt female body near NH-33 was wrongly identified as the survivor, and remained in custody from 14 February to 27 July 2014 on a confessional statement alone. the survivor was later found alive and gave a Section 164 statement, following which police filed a final form recording mistake of fact and the petitioner was discharged. The Court noted the DGP had suspended three officers including the Investigating Officer and both Officers-in-Charge and ordered a CID probe and departmental proceedings. Holding the entire prosecution malicious and the Article 21 violation admitted, the Court awarded Rs 5,00,000 public-law compensation, open to recovery from the erring officers' salaries.", "court_quote": "In the case in hand, admittedly, the petitioner was illegally arrested and thereafter he has been discharged on the submission of final form by the police, accordingly, the case of compensation is made out.", "court_quote_para": "19", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Jharkhand HC held student a Ranchi man falsely implicated in murder/gang-rape case with ~4 months' illegal detention, awarding Rs 5,00,000 compensation recoverable from erring 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": "2023-06-21", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Jharkhand High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Jharkhand High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 500,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "2023 LiveLaw (Jha) 17", "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.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/5-lakhs-compensation-478422.pdf", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/jharkhand-high-court/jharkhand-high-court-compensation-wrongful-detention-police-misconduct-231359", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.verdictum.in/pdf_upload/ajit-kumar-v-state-of-jharkhandwatermark-1515355.pdf", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.barandbench.com/news/litigation/jharkhand-high-court-directs-state-pay-compensation-5-lakh-man-illegally-detained-police-in-false-case", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.verdictum.in/court-updates/high-courts/five-lakh-compensation-to-man-illegally-detained-for-four-months-1482368", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.scconline.com/blog/post/2023/06/27/jharkhand-high-court-directs-compensation-illegal-detention-by-police/", "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-05", "chunk-16", "chunk-39", "chunk-41", "chunk-r09" ], "merged_case_id": "SWILLEGA-013", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2023-0017", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0173", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Dhanbad Man and Ors. vs The State of Jharkhand and Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "Dhanbad Man and Ors. vs The State of Jharkhand and Ors.", "state": "Jharkhand", "district": "Dhanbad", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Dhanbad", "police_station_or_unit": "Ghanudih Outpost, Jharia Police Station, Dhanbad", "court": "Jharkhand High Court", "court_as_verified": "Jharkhand High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Dhanbad Man and Ors. vs The State of Jharkhand and Ors.", "case_number": "W.P.(Cr.) No. 48 of 2017", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi" ], "judgment_date": "2023-07-03", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2023, "incident_date": "2015-06-23", "incident_year": 2015, "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", "IPC 302", "IPC 201", "CrPC s.176(1A)" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Officer-in-Charge", "unit": "Ghanudih Outpost, Jharia PS, Dhanbad", "role": "named_only", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:named_only", "key2:no", "key2_agy:no", "key2_union:unclear", "key2_openrouter:no" ], "ledger_role": "named_only", "key2": "no", "key2_agy": "no", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "unclear", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "no", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.94, "jev_p_culpable": 0.05, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Officer-in-Charge, Ghanudih Outpost, Jharia PS, Dhanbad" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Munshi", "unit": "Ghanudih Outpost, Jharia PS, Dhanbad", "role": "named_only", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:named_only", "key2:no", "key2_agy:no", "key2_union:unclear", "key2_openrouter:no" ], "ledger_role": "named_only", "key2": "no", "key2_agy": "no", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "unclear", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "no", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.93, "jev_p_culpable": 0.04, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Munshi, Ghanudih Outpost, Jharia PS, Dhanbad" } ], "officer_count": 2, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Dhanbad 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/58705178/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/jharkhand-high-court/jharkhand-high-court-5-lakh-compensation-widow-custodial-death-victim-232025", "https://www.verdictum.in/court-updates/high-courts/state-bound-for-compensation-for-violation-of-human-rights-for-custodial-death-1484101" ], "summary": "A Dhanbad man was taken into custody on 23 June 2015 by the Munshi of Ghanudih Outpost at the instance of the Officer-in-Charge, and was found dead the following morning inside the police lockup bearing severe physical injuries. A judicial inquiry by the CJM Dhanbad confirmed that the victim died in police custody due to police torture, despite police claims of suicide by hanging. Exercising writ jurisdiction under Article 226, the Jharkhand High Court held the State liable for violation of human rights and awarded Rs. 5,00,000 compensation to the deceased's widow and children, directing the Director General of Police to initiate departmental proceedings against the erring police officials with liberty to recover the compensation from them. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "A Dhanbad man was taken into custody on 23 June 2015 by the Munshi of Ghanudih Outpost at the instance of the Officer-in-Charge, and was found dead the following morning inside the police lockup bearing severe physical injuries. A judicial inquiry by the CJM Dhanbad confirmed that the victim died in police custody due to police torture, despite police claims of suicide by hanging. Exercising writ jurisdiction under Article 226, the Jharkhand High Court held the State liable for violation of human rights and awarded Rs. 5,00,000 compensation to the deceased's widow and children, directing the Director General of Police to initiate departmental proceedings against the erring police officials with liberty to recover the compensation from them.", "court_quote": "State is bound for compensation for violation of human rights as death was occurred in police custody by the torture of the police officials.", "court_quote_para": "19", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "High Court awarded Rs 5 lakh compensation and directed departmental proceedings for custodial death of a Dhanbad man due to torture at Ghanudih police outpost.", "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": "2023-07-03", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Jharkhand High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Jharkhand High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 500,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "W.P.(Cr.) No. 48 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": "wrong_facts", "corrections_applied": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/58705178/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/jharkhand-high-court/jharkhand-high-court-5-lakh-compensation-widow-custodial-death-victim-232025", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.verdictum.in/court-updates/high-courts/state-bound-for-compensation-for-violation-of-human-rights-for-custodial-death-1484101", "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-05" ], "merged_case_id": "SWCUSTOD-014", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2023-0022", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0180", "alias_merged_ids": [ "CWC-1319" ], "display_title": "Piri Village Man v. State of Jharkhand & Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "Piri Village Man v. State of Jharkhand & Ors.", "state": "Jharkhand", "district": "Latehar", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Piri village", "police_station_or_unit": "Garu Police Station (Garu P.S. Case No. 11 of 2022)", "court": "Jharkhand High Court", "court_as_verified": "Jharkhand High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Piri Village Man v. State of Jharkhand & Ors.", "case_number": "W.P.(Cr.) No. 402 of 2021", "citation": "2023 LiveLaw (Jha) 29", "judges": [ "Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi" ], "judgment_date": "2023-08-14", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2023, "incident_date": "2021-06-12", "incident_year": 2021, "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": "adverse_finding_compensation", "sections": [ "IPC 304" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Police firing party", "unit": "Garu Police Station area, Latehar", "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 firing party, Garu Police Station area, Latehar" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "age": 24, "gender": "male", "name": null, "descriptor": "Piri village man, age 24" } ], "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.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/jiramani-final-judgment-487985.pdf", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/latehar-encounter-jharkhand-high-court-fresh-investigation-5-lakh-compensation-wife-of-deceased-tribal-man-235813", "https://www.barandbench.com/news/jharkhand-high-court-orders-fresh-probe-police-killing-tribal-youth-orders-5-lakh-compensation-wife", "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/144029226/" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Jharkhand High Court records the following account. On 12 June 2021, 24-year-old tribal villager was shot dead near Piri village, Latehar, while hunting with fellow villagers for the Nem Sarhul festival; the hunters pleaded they were villagers, not Maoists, but security forces fired without warning. The State admitted the death was caused by a police bullet, yet the CID closed the FIR against the named police officials as a mistake of fact. The High Court held the closure report lacked bona fide, set it aside, and ordered de novo investigation by a fresh team within three months. It directed the State to pay Rs 5,00,000 compensation to the widow within four weeks. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "On 12 June 2021, 24-year-old tribal villager B. S. was shot dead near Piri village, Latehar, while hunting with fellow villagers for the Nem Sarhul festival; the hunters pleaded they were villagers, not Maoists, but security forces fired without warning. The State admitted the death was caused by a police bullet, yet the CID closed the FIR against the named police officials as a mistake of fact. The High Court held the closure report lacked bona fide, set it aside, and ordered de novo investigation by a fresh team within three months. It directed the State to pay Rs 5,00,000 compensation to the widow within four weeks.", "court_quote": "Now it has been admitted that death has occurred due to the firing of the police that too innocent villager has been killed in the State of Jharkhand, where it has been claimed that the Tribals are being protected.", "court_quote_para": "17", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Admitted police-bullet killing of tribal hunter; closure set aside, de novo probe, Rs 5L to widow.", "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": "2023-08-14", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Jharkhand High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Jharkhand High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 500,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "2023 LiveLaw (Jha) 29", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." } ], "later_proceedings": [], "final_outcome_url": null, "followup_history": [ { "date": "2026-09-19", "scope": "Round-8 full re-verification: published record re-checked against the judgment text (outcome, officers, quote, key facts) plus methodology-compliance pass", "method": "skills-guided adversarial re-verification of the published record against the judgment text (reverify/t1-*/adversarial-8.jsonl)", "result": "holds", "corrections_applied": [ "court_quote_para" ] }, { "date": "2026-09-25", "scope": "Audit fix: duplicate record CW-2023-0049 (same court, case number and judgment date) merged into this record; its sources are kept here and its URL redirects here." } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-25", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/jiramani-final-judgment-487985.pdf", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/latehar-encounter-jharkhand-high-court-fresh-investigation-5-lakh-compensation-wife-of-deceased-tribal-man-235813", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.barandbench.com/news/jharkhand-high-court-orders-fresh-probe-police-killing-tribal-youth-orders-5-lakh-compensation-wife", "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-43" ], "merged_case_id": "SWFAKEEN-017", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2023-0048", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1317", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Garu Man v. State of Jharkhand", "display_title_redacted": "Garu Man v. State of Jharkhand", "state": "Jharkhand", "district": "Latehar", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Garu", "police_station_or_unit": "Garu Police Station area", "court": "Jharkhand High Court", "court_as_verified": "Jharkhand High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Garu Man v. State of Jharkhand", "case_number": null, "citation": "2023 LiveLaw (Jha) 29", "judges": [ "Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi" ], "judgment_date": "2023-08-14", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2023, "incident_date": "2021-06-12", "incident_year": 2021, "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": [ "IPC 304" ], "officers": [], "officer_count": 0, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Garu 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/144029226/ or the LiveLaw judgment PDF https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/jiramani-final-judgment-487985.pdf", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.barandbench.com/news/jharkhand-high-court-orders-fresh-probe-police-killing-tribal-youth-orders-5-lakh-compensation-wife" ], "summary": "The Jharkhand High Court held it established and admitted that tribal villager a Garu man died of police firing during a 12 June 2021 hunting expedition near Piri village, Latehar, where security personnel allegedly fired without warning, shot him again across the river and falsely implicated villagers. Finding the CID closure of the case against named police officials lacking in bona fide and at least section 304 IPC applicable, the Court set it aside and ordered a de novo investigation by a fresh untainted team. It awarded Rs 5 lakh compensation to widow [name withheld] while declining a CBI probe. Individual culpability awaits the fresh investigation. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Jharkhand High Court held it established and admitted that tribal villager a Garu man died of police firing during a 12 June 2021 hunting expedition near Piri village, Latehar, where security personnel allegedly fired without warning, shot him again across the river and falsely implicated villagers. Finding the CID closure of the case against named police officials lacking in bona fide and at least section 304 IPC applicable, the Court set it aside and ordered a de novo investigation by a fresh untainted team. It awarded Rs 5 lakh compensation to widow [name withheld] while declining a CBI probe. Individual culpability awaits the fresh investigation.", "court_quote": "In view of Annexure-D, it is an admitted fact that Bramhadeo Singh died due to bullet injury caused by the police. The FIR has already been registered against the erring police officials and the case has been closed saying the mistake of facts and in view of the admitted position, at least Section 304 IPC is made out, however, the CID has chosen to come to the conclusion to give a clean chit to the erring police officials.", "court_quote_para": "10", "confidence": "medium", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Jharkhand HC set aside closure, ordered de novo probe and Rs 5L; at least s.304 made out; CBI declined.", "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": "2023-08-14", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Jharkhand High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Jharkhand High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 500,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "2023 LiveLaw (Jha) 29", "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": [ "primary_source_url" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/144029226/ or the LiveLaw judgment PDF https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/jiramani-final-judgment-487985.pdf", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.barandbench.com/news/jharkhand-high-court-orders-fresh-probe-police-killing-tribal-youth-orders-5-lakh-compensation-wife", "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-40" ], "merged_case_id": "SWDISPRO-022", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2023-0052", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1052", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Ranchi Man vs Union of India through Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), Sub Zone, Ranchi", "display_title_redacted": "Ranchi Man vs Union of India through Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), Sub Zone, Ranchi", "state": "Jharkhand", "district": "Ranchi", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Ranchi", "police_station_or_unit": "NCB Sub Zone, Ranchi", "court": "Jharkhand High Court", "court_as_verified": "Jharkhand High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Ranchi Man vs Union of India through Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), Sub Zone, Ranchi", "case_number": "W.P.(Cr.) 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"jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Police personnel, NCB Sub Zone, Ranchi" }, { "name": null, "rank": null, "unit": "NCB Sub Zone, Ranchi", "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 personnel, NCB Sub Zone, Ranchi" }, { "name": null, "rank": null, "unit": "NCB Sub Zone, Ranchi", "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 personnel, NCB Sub Zone, Ranchi" } ], "officer_count": 7, "victims": [ { "age": null, "gender": "male", "name": null, "descriptor": "Ranchi man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 800000, "force": "central_armed", "primary_source_url": "https://www.verdictum.in/pdf_upload/displayphp-5-1540383.pdf", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/64ff8dc7f6fa7f68ca4a3b7f", "https://www.verdictum.in/court-updates/high-courts/ncb-directed-to-pay-8-lakhs-compensation-to-wrongful-detainee-jharkhand-high-court-orders-immediate-release-1493932", "https://lawtrend.in/jharkhand-hc-fines-ncb-for-putting-man-behind-bars-in-false-case/" ], "summary": "The Jharkhand High Court found that a Ranchi man, a dhaba waiter arrested at Barachatti (Gaya, [name withheld]) on 6 October 2015, spent about eight years in jail for a crime he did not commit after NCB officials falsely implicated him in an NDPS case. The court noted the NCB itself had twice sought withdrawal of the prosecution under s.321 CrPC, conceding the false implication, and that eight NCB officials had been charge-sheeted under s.58 of the NDPS Act. It quashed the FIR, cognizance order and trial proceedings, ordered the petitioner's forthwith release, and awarded Rs 8 lakh compensation payable through the ADG, NCB Sub Zone Ranchi, recoverable from the erring officials if found guilty. The court held the illegal confinement violated Article 21 and was a proved case of atrocity. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Jharkhand High Court found that a Ranchi man, a dhaba waiter arrested at Barachatti (Gaya, [name withheld]) on 6 October 2015, spent about eight years in jail for a crime he did not commit after NCB officials falsely implicated him in an NDPS case. The court noted the NCB itself had twice sought withdrawal of the prosecution under s.321 CrPC, conceding the false implication, and that eight NCB officials had been charge-sheeted under s.58 of the NDPS Act. It quashed the FIR, cognizance order and trial proceedings, ordered the petitioner's forthwith release, and awarded Rs 8 lakh compensation payable through the ADG, NCB Sub Zone Ranchi, recoverable from the erring officials if found guilty. The court held the illegal confinement violated Article 21 and was a proved case of atrocity.", "court_quote": "In view of the above facts and the submissions of the learned counsels appearing on behalf of the parties, it appears that the petitioner has falsely been made accused in the instant case which was found to be false by none other than the agency which has implicated the petitioner.", "court_quote_para": "7", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Judgment verified; HC quashed false NDPS case and ordered Rs 8L compensation; NCB is a central agency exercising police powers under the NDPS Act (force coded central_armed as closest value).", "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": "2023-09-06", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Jharkhand High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Jharkhand High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 800,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "2023 LiveLaw (Jha) 40", "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/displayphp-5-1540383.pdf", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/64ff8dc7f6fa7f68ca4a3b7f", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.verdictum.in/court-updates/high-courts/ncb-directed-to-pay-8-lakhs-compensation-to-wrongful-detainee-jharkhand-high-court-orders-immediate-release-1493932", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://lawtrend.in/jharkhand-hc-fines-ncb-for-putting-man-behind-bars-in-false-case/", "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": "GAP3-107-001", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2024-0039", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0880", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "X vs The State of Jharkhand and Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "X vs The State of Jharkhand and Ors.", "state": "Jharkhand", "district": "Hazaribagh", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Churchu", "police_station_or_unit": "Churchu Police Station", "court": "Jharkhand High Court", "court_as_verified": "Jharkhand High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "X vs The State of Jharkhand and Ors.", "case_number": "W.P.(S) No. 2250 of 2021", "citation": null, "judges": [ "S. N. Pathak" ], "judgment_date": "2024-06-19", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2024, "incident_date": "2017-07-10", "incident_year": 2017, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "Jharkhand Service Code Rule 23", "Jharkhand Police Manual Rule 707" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "unit": "Churchu Police Station, Hazaribagh", "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, Churchu Police Station, Hazaribagh" } ], "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.verdictum.in/pdf_upload/x-v-the-state-of-jharkhand-1637771.pdf", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.verdictum.in/court-updates/high-courts/x-v-the-state-of-jharkhand-wps-no-2250-of-2021-jharkhand-high-court-1543899" ], "summary": "The Jharkhand High Court dismissed a Hazaribagh constable's writ petition challenging his dismissal from service. The court held that his admitted live-in relationship with a woman other than his wife, while married with two children, violated Rule 23 of the Service Code read with Rule 707 of the Police Manual and was unbecoming of police personnel. It further held that his acquittal in the related criminal case (Daru P.S. Case No. 29 of 2016) could not unsettle the concurrent findings of the disciplinary, appellate and revisional authorities. Finding no procedural flaw, the court sustained the dismissal. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Jharkhand High Court dismissed a Hazaribagh constable's writ petition challenging his dismissal from service. The court held that his admitted live-in relationship with a woman other than his wife, while married with two children, violated Rule 23 of the Service Code read with Rule 707 of the Police Manual and was unbecoming of police personnel. It further held that his acquittal in the related criminal case (Daru P.S. Case No. 29 of 2016) could not unsettle the concurrent findings of the disciplinary, appellate and revisional authorities. Finding no procedural flaw, the court sustained the dismissal.", "court_quote": "It is unbecoming of a police personnel who was in live-in-relation with another lady other than wife and amounts to violation of rules whereby the service conditions of the petitioner are governed.", "court_quote_para": "7(iii)", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC upheld constable's dismissal for admitted live-in relationship violating service rules; 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": "2024-06-19", "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": "W.P.(S) No. 2250 of 2021", "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/x-v-the-state-of-jharkhand-1637771.pdf", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.verdictum.in/court-updates/high-courts/x-v-the-state-of-jharkhand-wps-no-2250-of-2021-jharkhand-high-court-1543899", "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": "GAP2-48-003", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2024-0010", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0762", "alias_merged_ids": [ "CWC-0179", "CWC-1463" ], "display_title": "Garu Man vs State of Jharkhand and Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "Garu Man vs State of Jharkhand and Ors.", "state": "Jharkhand", "district": "Latehar", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Garu", "police_station_or_unit": "Garu Police Station, Latehar", "court": "Jharkhand High Court", "court_as_verified": "Jharkhand High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Garu Man vs State of Jharkhand and Ors.", "case_number": "W.P.(Cr.) 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The police had submitted a chargesheet against the SI and other officials, and the State had sanctioned only Rs 50,000 as compensation. The High Court held that Rs 50,000 was inadequate for such arbitrary torture of a citizen against whom there was no material, enhanced compensation to Rs 5,00,000 payable by the State within two weeks, and directed recovery of the amount from the torturing officials within two months. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "A Garu man was forcibly taken from his home in 2022 by Garu police led by SI, confined at the police station for three days and mercilessly assaulted with lathis to coerce an admission of helping naxals, then released when police realised he was the wrong person — facts the Court recorded as admitted by the State. The police had submitted a chargesheet against the SI and other officials, and the State had sanctioned only Rs 50,000 as compensation. The High Court held that Rs 50,000 was inadequate for such arbitrary torture of a citizen against whom there was no material, enhanced compensation to Rs 5,00,000 payable by the State within two weeks, and directed recovery of the amount from the torturing officials within two months.", "court_quote": "The police officials in most arbitrary manner had taken law in their hands and had tortured a poor citizen of this Country without there being any material against him.", "court_quote_para": "5", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "High Court held the petitioner was illegally taken into custody and tortured for three days in a mistaken-identity case and enhanced compensation to Rs 5 lakh, recoverable from the torturing officials.", "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 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55, "gender": "male", "name": null, "descriptor": "Barkakana man, age 55" }, { "age": 39, "gender": "female", "name": null, "descriptor": "Barkakana woman, age 39" }, { "age": 32, "gender": "female", "name": null, "descriptor": "Barkakana woman, age 32" }, { "age": null, "gender": "female", "name": null, "descriptor": "Barkakana woman" }, { "age": null, "gender": "male", "name": null, "descriptor": "Barkakana man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 5, "sentence_type": "mixed", "sentence_max_years": 25, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "railway", "primary_source_url": "https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/display-1-563724.pdf", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/jharkhand-high-court/jharkhand-high-court-firing-unlicensed-prohibited-arms-invites-conviction-under-section-27-arms-act-not-service-pistol-271366", "https://lawtrend.in/jharkhand-rpf-constable-sentenced-to-death-for-killing-three-of-family/" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Jharkhand High Court records the following account. On 17 August 2019 RPF constable, posted at Barkakana, opened indiscriminate fire with his service pistol on his neighbour milk-supplier's unarmed family when asked for milk dues, killing three members including a pregnant woman and injuring two. The trial court convicted him under sections 302 and 307 IPC and section 27 of the Arms Act and sentenced him to death. The Jharkhand High Court upheld the murder convictions, held section 27 Arms Act was not attracted to a licensed service pistol, answered the death reference in the negative, and commuted the sentence to rigorous imprisonment of not less than 25 years without remission plus fines. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "On 17 August 2019 RPF constable, posted at Barkakana, opened indiscriminate fire with his service pistol on his neighbour milk-supplier's unarmed family when asked for milk dues, killing three members including a pregnant woman and injuring two. The trial court convicted him under sections 302 and 307 IPC and section 27 of the Arms Act and sentenced him to death. The Jharkhand High Court upheld the murder convictions, held section 27 Arms Act was not attracted to a licensed service pistol, answered the death reference in the negative, and commuted the sentence to rigorous imprisonment of not less than 25 years without remission plus fines.", "court_quote": "The victims were unarmed persons, whereas the appellant was a Constable in RPF who resorted to indiscriminate firing by service pistol.", "court_quote_para": "11", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "RPF constable's triple-murder conviction upheld; death commuted to 25 years RI without remission.", "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 Jharkhand High Court judgment)", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Jharkhand High Court judgment.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation", "source": "2024 LiveLaw (Jha) 154", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." }, { "date": "2024-09-19", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Jharkhand High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Jharkhand High Court dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)", "source": "2024 LiveLaw (Jha) 154", "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.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/display-1-563724.pdf", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/jharkhand-high-court/jharkhand-high-court-firing-unlicensed-prohibited-arms-invites-conviction-under-section-27-arms-act-not-service-pistol-271366", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://lawtrend.in/jharkhand-rpf-constable-sentenced-to-death-for-killing-three-of-family/", "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": "GAP2-48-001", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2024-0019", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0174", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Ranchi Man vs State of Jharkhand", "display_title_redacted": "Ranchi Man vs State of Jharkhand", "state": "Jharkhand", "district": "Ranchi", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Ranchi", "police_station_or_unit": "Custody guard, RINPAS Ranchi, Jharkhand Police", "court": "Jharkhand High Court", "court_as_verified": "Jharkhand High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Ranchi Man vs State of Jharkhand", "case_number": "L.P.A. No. 187 of 2015", "citation": null, "judges": [ "M.S. Ramachandra Rao", "Deepak Roshan" ], "judgment_date": "2024-11-18", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2024, "incident_date": "2012-06-29", "incident_year": 2012, "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. 21", "Constitution Art. 226" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "unit": "Custody guard, RINPAS Ranchi, Jharkhand Police", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2_openrouter:no" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "no", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": "no", "jev_risk": 0.57, "jev_p_culpable": 0.54, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Constable, Custody guard, RINPAS Ranchi, Jharkhand Police" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "unit": "Custody guard, RINPAS Ranchi, Jharkhand Police", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2_openrouter:no" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "no", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": "no", "jev_risk": 0.65, "jev_p_culpable": 0.5, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Constable, Custody guard, RINPAS Ranchi, Jharkhand Police" } ], "officer_count": 2, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Ranchi man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 400000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/54706713/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/75455348/" ], "summary": "A Ranchi man, an undertrial prisoner remanded in judicial custody and admitted to RINPAS Ranchi for psychotic depression, escaped on 29 June 2012 when the two police constables deputed to guard him were absent from their posts, and was found dead later that day on a railway track. Overruling the Single Judge's dismissal, the Division Bench of the Jharkhand High Court held that the deceased was in legal custody and that the State had failed in its constitutional duty to protect his life. The High Court directed the State of Jharkhand to pay Rs. 4,00,000 compensation to the deceased's widow under Article 226. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "A Ranchi man, an undertrial prisoner remanded in judicial custody and admitted to RINPAS Ranchi for psychotic depression, escaped on 29 June 2012 when the two police constables deputed to guard him were absent from their posts, and was found dead later that day on a railway track. Overruling the Single Judge's dismissal, the Division Bench of the Jharkhand High Court held that the deceased was in legal custody and that the State had failed in its constitutional duty to protect his life. The High Court directed the State of Jharkhand to pay Rs. 4,00,000 compensation to the deceased's widow under Article 226.", "court_quote": "Thus, from the facts narrated herein above, it is crystal clear that due to the negligence of the two constables who were deputed for custody of the husband of the petitioner, who was suffering from \"Psychotic Depression\", the appellant's husband escaped and finally his dead body was found.", "court_quote_para": "6", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Division Bench set aside writ court dismissal and awarded Rs 4 lakh compensation for death of undertrial who escaped RINPAS custody due to constable negligence.", "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": "2024-11-18", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Jharkhand High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Jharkhand High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 400,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "L.P.A. No. 187 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/54706713/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/75455348/", "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-05" ], "merged_case_id": "JHARKH-004", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2024-0023", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0607", "alias_merged_ids": [ "CWC-1443" ], "display_title": "Ranchi Police Officer In-Charge and Another v. State of Jharkhand and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Ranchi Police Officer In-Charge and Another v. State of Jharkhand and Others", "state": "Jharkhand", "district": "Ranchi", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Ranchi", "police_station_or_unit": "Jagarnathpur Police Station", "court": "Jharkhand High Court", "court_as_verified": "Jharkhand High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Ranchi Police Officer In-Charge and Another v. State of Jharkhand and Others", "case_number": "Cont. Case (Civil) No. 387 of 2024", "citation": null, "judges": [ "M.S. Ramachandra Rao", "Deepak Roshan" ], "judgment_date": "2024-12-17", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2024, "incident_date": "2024-02-29", "incident_year": 2024, "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": "conviction_by_hc", "sections": [ "IPC 419", "IPC 420", "IPC 469", "IPC 34", "CrPC 41", "CrPC 41A" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Officer In-Charge", "role": "convicted", "unit": "Jagarnathpur Police Station, Ranchi", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2_openrouter:unclear" ], "ledger_role": "convicted", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "unclear", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.38, "jev_p_culpable": 0.82, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "pending_appeal", "name_public": null, "display": "Officer In-Charge, Jagarnathpur Police Station, Ranchi" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Additional Sub-Inspector", "role": "convicted", "unit": "Jagarnathpur Police Station, Ranchi", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2_openrouter:unclear" ], "ledger_role": "convicted", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "unclear", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.41, "jev_p_culpable": 0.79, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "pending_appeal", "name_public": null, "display": "Additional Sub-Inspector, Jagarnathpur Police Station, Ranchi" } ], "officer_count": 2, "victims": [ { "age": 34, "gender": "male", "name": null, "descriptor": "Ranchi man, age 34" }, { "age": 36, "gender": "male", "name": null, "descriptor": "Ranchi man, age 36" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 2, "sentence_type": "mixed", "sentence_max_years": 0.083, "compensation_inr": 100000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/irshadandanrvstateofjharkhandors-1-577958.pdf", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/jharkhand-high-court/jharkhand-high-court-sentences-police-officials-unlawful-arrest-flipkart-employees-arnesh-kumar-guidelines-ignored-279172", "https://www.barandbench.com/news/jharkhand-high-court-holds-two-cops-guilty-illegal-arrests-flipkart-employees" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Jharkhand High Court records the following account. Instakart/Flipkart officials a Ranchi man and a Ranchi man were arrested on 29-02-2024 in FIR 88/2024 for sub-seven-year offences without any Section 41-A CrPC notice or preliminary inquiry, and kept in custody till bail on 16-03-2024. The Division Bench held the officers in brazen, wilful disobedience of the Supreme Court's Arnesh Kumar and Satender Kumar Antil directions. Both officers were held guilty of contempt and sentenced to one month's simple imprisonment with Rs. 2,000 fine each, the sentence suspended four weeks to approach the Supreme Court. Disciplinary action was ordered within six months of release, costs of Rs. 50,000 each were awarded to the petitioners, and a separate compensation claim was left open.", "summary_verified": "Instakart/Flipkart officials a Ranchi man and a Ranchi man were arrested on 29-02-2024 in FIR 88/2024 for sub-seven-year offences without any Section 41-A CrPC notice or preliminary inquiry, and kept in custody till bail on 16-03-2024. The Division Bench held the officers in brazen, wilful disobedience of the Supreme Court's Arnesh Kumar and Satender Kumar Antil directions. Both officers were held guilty of contempt and sentenced to one month's simple imprisonment with Rs. 2,000 fine each, the sentence suspended four weeks to approach the Supreme Court. Disciplinary action was ordered within six months of release, costs of Rs. 50,000 each were awarded to the petitioners, and a separate compensation claim was left open.", "court_quote": "The Opposite Party Nos.2 and 3 are held guilty of contempt of court for willfully disobeying the directions contained in the above decisions and both of them are sentenced to suffer simple imprisonment of one month with fine of Rs.2000/- (Rupees Two Thousand).", "court_quote_para": "71", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Primary judgment verified: both officers convicted of contempt; 1-month SI + fine; costs Rs.1 lakh.", "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": "2024-12-17", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Jharkhand High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Jharkhand High Court entered convictions against police personnel in this judgment.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation", "source": "Cont. Case (Civil) No. 387 of 2024", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." }, { "date": null, "action_type": "Appeal pending", "status": "Pending", "authority": "Supreme Court of India", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "An appeal arising from this judgment was pending before the Supreme Court of India (officers: [name withheld], [name withheld], listing date not recorded); the judgment's findings had not been set aside.", "disposition": "Later proceeding · Appeal pending", "source": "https://api.sci.gov.in/supremecourt/2025/1880/1880_2025_22_30_60669_Order_09-May-2025.pdf", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." }, { "date": "2025-09-26", "action_type": "Appeal pending", "status": "Pending", "authority": "Supreme Court of India", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "As of 26 September 2025, an appeal arising from this judgment was pending before the Supreme Court of India (officers: [name withheld], [name withheld]); the judgment's findings had not been set aside on that date.", "disposition": "Later proceeding · Appeal pending", "source": "https://api.sci.gov.in/jonew/cl/2025-09-26/M_R_1.pdf", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." } ], "later_proceedings": [ { "court": "Supreme Court of India", "date": null, "url": "https://api.sci.gov.in/supremecourt/2025/1880/1880_2025_22_30_60669_Order_09-May-2025.pdf", "outcome": "pending_appeal" }, { "court": "Supreme Court of India", "date": "2025-09-26", "url": "https://api.sci.gov.in/jonew/cl/2025-09-26/M_R_1.pdf", "outcome": "pending_appeal" } ], "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.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/irshadandanrvstateofjharkhandors-1-577958.pdf", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/jharkhand-high-court/jharkhand-high-court-sentences-police-officials-unlawful-arrest-flipkart-employees-arnesh-kumar-guidelines-ignored-279172", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.barandbench.com/news/jharkhand-high-court-holds-two-cops-guilty-illegal-arrests-flipkart-employees", "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-44", "chunk-45" ], "merged_case_id": "SWILLEGA-028", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2025-0070", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1365", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Hazaribagh Police Armed police personnel vs The State Of Jharkhand", "display_title_redacted": "Hazaribagh Police Armed police personnel vs The State Of Jharkhand", "state": "Jharkhand", "district": "Hazaribagh", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": null, "police_station_or_unit": "JAP-7, Hazaribagh", "court": "High Court of Jharkhand at Ranchi", "court_as_verified": "High Court of Jharkhand at Ranchi", "bench": null, "case_title": "Hazaribagh Police Armed police personnel vs The State Of Jharkhand", "case_number": "W.P.(S) No. 2580 of 2017", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Anubha Rawat Choudhary" ], "judgment_date": "2025-05-02", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2025, "incident_date": "2005-01-04", "incident_year": 2005, "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": "Armed police personnel", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "JAP-7, Hazaribagh", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "name_public": null, "display": "Armed police personnel, JAP-7, Hazaribagh" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 0, "sentence_type": "imprisonment", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/4836846/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The High Court held that the armed-police staffer declined assigned duty on 04.01.2005 and stayed away, with four prior penalties for overstay and absence on record. The High Court held that the case was one of refusal of duty rather than overstay of sanctioned leave. The High Court held that the delayed memorial under the Police Manual gave no ground to reopen the penalty. The High Court dismissed the writ petition.", "summary_verified": "The High Court held that the armed-police staffer declined assigned duty on 04.01.2005 and stayed away, with four prior penalties for overstay and absence on record. The High Court held that the case was one of refusal of duty rather than overstay of sanctioned leave. The High Court held that the delayed memorial under the Police Manual gave no ground to reopen the penalty. The High Court dismissed the writ petition.", "court_quote": "Consequently, this writ petition is dismissed.", "court_quote_para": "final paragraph", "confidence": "medium", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "None; all claims verified. Neutral citation 2025:JHHC:13275 exists and could be added (record shows null).", "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": "2025-05-02", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "High Court of Jharkhand at Ranchi", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The High Court of Jharkhand at Ranchi recorded adverse findings against police personnel.", "disposition": "disciplinary upheld", "source": "W.P.(S) No. 2580 of 2017", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." } ], "later_proceedings": [], "final_outcome_url": null, "followup_history": [ { "date": "2026-09-24", "scope": "Swarm scout and independent verification pass (Muse Spark)." } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-24", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/4836846/", "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": [ "swarm-verify-cop-jh-hc" ], "merged_case_id": "cop-jh-hc-6", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2025-0069", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1364", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Jharkhand Police Constable vs The State Of Jharkhand", "display_title_redacted": "Jharkhand Police Constable vs The State Of Jharkhand", "state": "Jharkhand", "district": null, "district_at_time": null, "city_town": null, "police_station_or_unit": "JAP-6 Jamshedpur; rail unit Daltonganj", "court": "High Court of Jharkhand at Ranchi", "court_as_verified": "High Court of Jharkhand at Ranchi", "bench": null, "case_title": "Jharkhand Police Constable vs The State Of Jharkhand", "case_number": "W.P.(S) No. 779 of 2013", "citation": "2025:JHHC:24800", "judges": [ "Deepak Roshan" ], "judgment_date": "2025-08-19", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2025, "incident_date": "2007-08-24", "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", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "JAP-6 Jamshedpur", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "name_public": null, "display": "Constable, JAP-6 Jamshedpur" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 0, "sentence_type": "imprisonment", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/156852770/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The High Court held that the constable reported for duty on 24.08.2007 in an intoxicated condition, abused staff, and fled from hospital during medical examination. The High Court held that the doctor's note of alcoholic smell with oral testimony corroborated the charge despite the absence of a blood test. The High Court held that a prior record of habitual misconduct supported the penalty. The High Court dismissed the writ application and denied reinstatement.", "summary_verified": "The High Court held that the constable reported for duty on 24.08.2007 in an intoxicated condition, abused staff, and fled from hospital during medical examination. The High Court held that the doctor's note of alcoholic smell with oral testimony corroborated the charge despite the absence of a blood test. The High Court held that a prior record of habitual misconduct supported the penalty. The High Court dismissed the writ application and denied reinstatement.", "court_quote": "no relief can be granted to the Petitioner", "court_quote_para": "operative findings paragraph", "confidence": "medium", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "None; all claims verified including intoxication incident of 24.08.2007, removal order dated 30.11.2007, and quoted sentence.", "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": "2025-08-19", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "High Court of Jharkhand at Ranchi", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The High Court of Jharkhand at Ranchi recorded adverse findings against police personnel.", "disposition": "disciplinary upheld", "source": "2025:JHHC:24800", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." } ], "later_proceedings": [], "final_outcome_url": null, "followup_history": [ { "date": "2026-09-24", "scope": "Swarm scout and independent verification pass (Muse Spark)." } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-24", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/156852770/", "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": [ "swarm-verify-cop-jh-hc" ], "merged_case_id": "cop-jh-hc-5", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2025-0068", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1363", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Jharkhand Police Not stated; uniformed member vs The State Of Jharkhand", "display_title_redacted": "Jharkhand Police Not stated; uniformed member vs The State Of Jharkhand", "state": "Jharkhand", "district": null, "district_at_time": null, "city_town": null, "police_station_or_unit": "State police; petitioner described as Secretary of Police Men's Association", "court": "High Court of Jharkhand at Ranchi", "court_as_verified": "High Court of Jharkhand at Ranchi", "bench": null, "case_title": "Jharkhand Police Not stated; uniformed member vs The State Of Jharkhand", "case_number": "W.P.(S) No. 1637 of 2018", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Deepak Roshan" ], "judgment_date": "2025-09-09", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2025, "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": "Not stated; uniformed member", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "State police", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "name_public": null, "display": "Not stated; uniformed member, State police" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 0, "sentence_type": "imprisonment", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/116509259/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The High Court held that the uniformed staffer had joined a coordinated mass leave and incited colleagues while holding weaponry and shouting slogans. The High Court held that the compulsory retirement imposed after the departmental enquiry was supported by the record. The High Court held that an earlier writ (WPS No. 4872 of 2008) had already left the penalty undisturbed. The High Court dismissed the writ application.", "summary_verified": "The High Court held that the uniformed staffer had joined a coordinated mass leave and incited colleagues while holding weaponry and shouting slogans. The High Court held that the compulsory retirement imposed after the departmental enquiry was supported by the record. The High Court held that an earlier writ (WPS No. 4872 of 2008) had already left the penalty undisturbed. The High Court dismissed the writ application.", "court_quote": "instant application stands dismissed", "court_quote_para": "final paragraph", "confidence": "medium", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "None; all claims verified. Neutral citation 2025:JHHC:27410 exists and could be added (record shows null).", "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": "2025-09-09", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "High Court of Jharkhand at Ranchi", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The High Court of Jharkhand at Ranchi recorded adverse findings against police personnel.", "disposition": "disciplinary upheld", "source": "W.P.(S) No. 1637 of 2018", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." } ], "later_proceedings": [], "final_outcome_url": null, "followup_history": [ { "date": "2026-09-24", "scope": "Swarm scout and independent verification pass (Muse Spark)." } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-24", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/116509259/", "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": [ "swarm-verify-cop-jh-hc" ], "merged_case_id": "cop-jh-hc-4", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2025-0029", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0175", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Chainpur Man vs The State of Jharkhand and Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "Chainpur Man vs The State of Jharkhand and Ors.", "state": "Jharkhand", "district": "Gumla", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Chainpur", "police_station_or_unit": "Chainpur Police Station, Gumla", "court": "Jharkhand High Court", "court_as_verified": "Jharkhand High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Chainpur Man vs The State of Jharkhand and Ors.", "case_number": "W.P.(PIL) No. 7140 of 2025", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Tarlok Singh Chauhan", "Rajesh Shankar" ], "judgment_date": "2025-12-08", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2025, "incident_date": "2025-12-01", "incident_year": 2025, "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 Art. 21", "Constitution Art. 226" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Police Sub-Inspector", "unit": "Chainpur Police Station, Gumla (Officer-in-Charge; suspended)", "role": "named_only", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2:no", "key2_agy:no", "key2_openrouter:no" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "no", "key2_agy": "no", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "no", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": "no", "jev_risk": 0.22, "jev_p_culpable": 0.75, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Police Sub-Inspector, Chainpur Police Station, Gumla (Officer-in-Charge; suspended)" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Police Sub-Inspector", "unit": "Chainpur Police Station, Gumla (sent to police lines)", "role": "named_only", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no", "key2_agy:no", "key2_union:unclear", "key2_openrouter:no" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": "no", "key2_agy": "no", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "unclear", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "no", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Police Sub-Inspector, Chainpur Police Station, Gumla (sent to police lines)" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Assistant Sub-Inspector", "unit": "Chainpur Police Station, Gumla (sent to police lines)", "role": "named_only", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no", "key2_agy:no", "key2_union:unclear", "key2_openrouter:no" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": "no", "key2_agy": "no", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "unclear", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "no", "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, Chainpur Police Station, Gumla (sent to police lines)" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Assistant Sub-Inspector", "unit": "Chainpur Police Station, Gumla (sent to police lines)", "role": "named_only", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no", "key2_agy:no", "key2_union:unclear", "key2_openrouter:no" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": "no", "key2_agy": "no", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "unclear", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "no", "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, Chainpur Police Station, Gumla (sent to police lines)" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Chainpur man" } ], "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://indiankanoon.org/doc/39272848/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://thejharkhandstory.co.in/jharkhand-hc-orders-%E2%82%B91-lakh-compensation-directs-dgp-to-act-after-shocking-custodial-torture-of-kayum-chaudhary/" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Jharkhand High Court records the following account. A Chainpur man was detained on 1 December 2025 without an FIR or any criminal case against him and subjected to brutal physical torture within the premises of Chainpur Police Station, Gumla. An inquiry by the SDPO confirmed the illegal detention and custodial beating, leading to the suspension of the Officer-in-Charge. The Division Bench of the Jharkhand High Court condemned the cowardly torture in police custody and directed the State of Jharkhand to pay Rs. 1,00,000 in interim compensation to the victim, with express directions that the amount be recovered from the erring police officials. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "A Chainpur man was detained on 1 December 2025 without an FIR or any criminal case against him and subjected to brutal physical torture within the premises of Chainpur Police Station, Gumla. An inquiry by the SDPO confirmed the illegal detention and custodial beating, leading to the suspension of the Officer-in-Charge. The Division Bench of the Jharkhand High Court condemned the cowardly torture in police custody and directed the State of Jharkhand to pay Rs. 1,00,000 in interim compensation to the victim, with express directions that the amount be recovered from the erring police officials.", "court_quote": "Bearing in mind the aforesaid exposition of law, we direct the respondent State to pay, by way of interim compensation a sum of Rs. 1,00,000/- ( Rs. One Lakh only) within one week to the petitioner which, at the first instance, shall be paid by the State Government but shall thereafter be recovered from the erring officials/officers.", "court_quote_para": "24", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Division Bench entered adverse finding of custodial torture and awarded Rs 1 lakh interim compensation recoverable from erring 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": "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": "2025-12-08", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Jharkhand High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Jharkhand High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 100,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "W.P.(PIL) No. 7140 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": [] } ], 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"district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Ichagarh", "police_station_or_unit": "Ichagarh Police Station", "court": "Jharkhand High Court", "court_as_verified": "Jharkhand High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Ichagarh Man vs The State of Jharkhand and Ors.", "case_number": "W.P.(PIL) No. 7197 of 2025", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Tarlok Singh Chauhan", "Rajesh Shankar" ], "judgment_date": "2025-12-11", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2025, "incident_date": "2025-11-19", "incident_year": 2025, "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 Art. 21" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Police Sub-Inspector (Officer-in-Charge)", "unit": "Ichagarh Police Station", "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": "Police Sub-Inspector (Officer-in-Charge), Ichagarh Police Station" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Officer-in-Charge", "unit": "Tiruldih 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": "Officer-in-Charge, Tiruldih Police Station" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Officer-in-Charge", "unit": "Nimdih 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": "Officer-in-Charge, Nimdih Police Station" } ], "officer_count": 4, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Ichagarh man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 150000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/175992496/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "Treating a wife's letter as a suo motu PIL, the Jharkhand High Court examined the pre-dawn pickup and alleged custodial torture of an Ichagarh man at Ichagarh police station on 19-11-2025. The court described the alleged police conduct as unprecedented, noted CCTV cameras were never installed despite the Supreme Court's mandate, and treated the SP's suspension order as prima facie acknowledgment of lapses by the officers-in-charge of Ichagarh, Tiruldih and Nimdih police stations. Relying on Nilabati Behera, D.K. Basu and Sube Singh, it directed Rs 1,50,000 interim compensation within one week, recoverable from the erring officials, and kept the PIL pending for further orders.", "summary_verified": "Treating a wife's letter as a suo motu PIL, the Jharkhand High Court examined the pre-dawn pickup and alleged custodial torture of an Ichagarh man at Ichagarh police station on 19-11-2025. The court described the alleged police conduct as unprecedented, noted CCTV cameras were never installed despite the Supreme Court's mandate, and treated the SP's suspension order as prima facie acknowledgment of lapses by the officers-in-charge of Ichagarh, Tiruldih and Nimdih police stations. Relying on Nilabati Behera, D.K. Basu and Sube Singh, it directed Rs 1,50,000 interim compensation within one week, recoverable from the erring officials, and kept the PIL pending for further orders.", "court_quote": "This is probably a most unprecedented demonizing behavior on the part of the police perhaps one of the worst crime in a civilized society governed by the rule of law.", "court_quote_para": "29", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Suo motu PIL: HC found prima facie custodial torture at Ichagarh PS, ordered Rs 1.5L interim compensation; PIL continues.", "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": "2025-12-11", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Jharkhand High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Jharkhand High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 150,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "W.P.(PIL) No. 7197 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": "wrong_facts", "corrections_applied": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/175992496/", "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": "GAP2-48-006", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2026-0084", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1362", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Dhanbad Police Constable vs The State Of Jharkhand", "display_title_redacted": "Dhanbad Police Constable vs The State Of Jharkhand", "state": "Jharkhand", "district": "Dhanbad", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": null, "police_station_or_unit": "Dhanbad district police", "court": "High Court of Jharkhand at Ranchi", "court_as_verified": "High Court of Jharkhand at Ranchi", "bench": null, "case_title": "Dhanbad Police Constable vs The State Of Jharkhand", "case_number": "L.P.A No. 303 of 2024", "citation": "2026:JHHC:96-DB", "judges": [ "Sujit Narayan Prasad", "Rajesh Kumar" ], "judgment_date": "2026-01-05", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2026, "incident_date": "2013-07-29", "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", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "Dhanbad district police", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "name_public": null, "display": "Constable, Dhanbad district police" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 0, "sentence_type": "imprisonment", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/196899833/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The High Court held that the constable had fired 11 rounds in the air from his service AK-47 rifle on 29.07.2013. The High Court held that indiscipline and carelessness with a service weapon justified disciplinary action despite a plea of mental imbalance and insomnia. The High Court held that conversion of removal into compulsory retirement needed no interference. The Division Bench dismissed the appeal, affirming the Single Judge order dated 16.02.2024.", "summary_verified": "The High Court held that the constable had fired 11 rounds in the air from his service AK-47 rifle on 29.07.2013. The High Court held that indiscipline and carelessness with a service weapon justified disciplinary action despite a plea of mental imbalance and insomnia. The High Court held that conversion of removal into compulsory retirement needed no interference. The Division Bench dismissed the appeal, affirming the Single Judge order dated 16.02.2024.", "court_quote": "the present appeal fails and is, accordingly, dismissed.", "court_quote_para": "final paragraph", "confidence": "medium", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "None; all claims verified including firing of 11 rounds from AK-47 on 29.07.2013, converted penalty, and final order.", "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": "2026-01-05", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "High Court of Jharkhand at Ranchi", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The High Court of Jharkhand at Ranchi recorded adverse findings against police personnel.", "disposition": "disciplinary upheld", "source": "2026:JHHC:96-DB", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." } ], "later_proceedings": [], "final_outcome_url": null, "followup_history": [ { "date": "2026-09-24", "scope": "Swarm scout and independent verification pass (Muse Spark)." } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-24", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/196899833/", "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": [ "swarm-verify-cop-jh-hc" ], "merged_case_id": "cop-jh-hc-3", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2026-0083", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1361", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Jharkhand Police Constable vs The State Of Jharkhand", "display_title_redacted": "Jharkhand Police Constable vs The State Of Jharkhand", "state": "Jharkhand", "district": null, "district_at_time": null, "city_town": null, "police_station_or_unit": "Not stated", "court": "High Court of Jharkhand at Ranchi", "court_as_verified": "High Court of Jharkhand at Ranchi", "bench": null, "case_title": "Jharkhand Police Constable vs The State Of Jharkhand", "case_number": "W.P.(S) No. 5503 of 2022", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Ananda Sen" ], "judgment_date": "2026-01-13", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2026, "incident_date": "2012-12-06", "incident_year": 2012, "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": "State police", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "name_public": null, "display": "Constable, State police" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 0, "sentence_type": "imprisonment", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/66086257/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The High Court held that the police constable absented himself from duty from 06.12.2012 and ignored notices and enquiry proceedings. The High Court held that the departmental finding of prolonged unauthorized absence stood established ex parte. The High Court held that removal was fitting for a uniformed staffer and no violation of natural justice was shown. The High Court dismissed the writ petition.", "summary_verified": "The High Court held that the police constable absented himself from duty from 06.12.2012 and ignored notices and enquiry proceedings. The High Court held that the departmental finding of prolonged unauthorized absence stood established ex parte. The High Court held that removal was fitting for a uniformed staffer and no violation of natural justice was shown. The High Court dismissed the writ petition.", "court_quote": "this writ petition stands dismissed.", "court_quote_para": "final paragraph", "confidence": "medium", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "None; all claims verified. Neutral citation 2026:JHHC:858 exists and could be added (record shows null).", "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": "2026-01-13", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "High Court of Jharkhand at Ranchi", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The High Court of Jharkhand at Ranchi recorded adverse findings against police personnel.", "disposition": "disciplinary upheld", "source": "W.P.(S) No. 5503 of 2022", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." } ], "later_proceedings": [], "final_outcome_url": null, "followup_history": [ { "date": "2026-09-24", "scope": "Swarm scout and independent verification pass (Muse Spark)." } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-24", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/66086257/", "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": [ "swarm-verify-cop-jh-hc" ], "merged_case_id": "cop-jh-hc-2", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2026-0082", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1360", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Jharkhand Police Constable vs State Of Jharkhand", "display_title_redacted": "Jharkhand Police Constable vs State Of Jharkhand", "state": "Jharkhand", "district": null, "district_at_time": null, "city_town": null, "police_station_or_unit": "Bagbera police station", "court": "High Court of Jharkhand at Ranchi", "court_as_verified": "High Court of Jharkhand at Ranchi", "bench": null, "case_title": "Jharkhand Police Constable vs State Of Jharkhand", "case_number": "W.P.(S) No. 2136 of 2023", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Ananda Sen" ], "judgment_date": "2026-02-18", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2026, "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": "Bagbera police station", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "name_public": null, "display": "Constable, Bagbera police station" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 0, "sentence_type": "imprisonment", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/25925037/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The High Court held that the constable deputed for treasure escort duty had left his rifle in the guardroom and remained absent. The High Court held that opportunity was given to participate in the departmental enquiry but the constable did not appear. The High Court held that a delayed appeal filed after sixteen years gave no ground to interfere. The High Court dismissed the writ petition and upheld the removal.", "summary_verified": "The High Court held that the constable deputed for treasure escort duty had left his rifle in the guardroom and remained absent. The High Court held that opportunity was given to participate in the departmental enquiry but the constable did not appear. The High Court held that a delayed appeal filed after sixteen years gave no ground to interfere. The High Court dismissed the writ petition and upheld the removal.", "court_quote": "Opportunity was given to the petitioner but he did not appear before the Enquiry Committee.", "court_quote_para": "operative findings paragraph", "confidence": "medium", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "None; all claims verified. Neutral citation 2026:JHHC:5100 exists and could be added (record shows null).", "verification_status": "V2", "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported", "tier_badge": "Externally reported", "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded", "tier_history": [ "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded" ], "allegations": [ { "category": "Other", "primary": true, "position": "Material fact supported", "position_explainer": "Reliable material supports a specifically documented fact relevant to that allegation, not necessarily the full allegation, causation, intent, unlawfulness, or responsibility.", "official_finding_relation": "supports allegation" } ], "institutional_response": [ { "date": "2026-02-18", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "High Court of Jharkhand at Ranchi", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The High Court of Jharkhand at Ranchi recorded adverse findings against police personnel.", "disposition": "disciplinary upheld", "source": "W.P.(S) No. 2136 of 2023", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." } ], "later_proceedings": [], "final_outcome_url": null, "followup_history": [ { "date": "2026-09-24", "scope": "Swarm scout and independent verification pass (Muse Spark)." } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-24", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/25925037/", "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": [ "swarm-verify-cop-jh-hc" ], "merged_case_id": "cop-jh-hc-1", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2026-0081", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1359", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Jharkhand Armed Police Constable vs The State Of Jharkhand", "display_title_redacted": "Jharkhand Armed Police Constable vs The State Of Jharkhand", "state": "Jharkhand", "district": null, "district_at_time": null, "city_town": null, "police_station_or_unit": "Jharkhand Armed Police", "court": "High Court of Jharkhand at Ranchi", "court_as_verified": "High Court of Jharkhand at Ranchi", "bench": null, "case_title": "Jharkhand Armed Police Constable vs The State Of Jharkhand", "case_number": "W.P.(S) No. 1702 of 2026", "citation": "2026:JHHC:7904", "judges": [ "Ananda Sen" ], "judgment_date": "2026-03-18", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2026, "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": "Jharkhand Armed Police", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "name_public": null, "display": "Constable, Jharkhand Armed Police" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 0, "sentence_type": "imprisonment", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/34982875/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The High Court held that the constable had suppressed a pending criminal case when entering police service. The High Court held that a later acquittal in October 2025 did not automatically undo a dismissal founded on suppression of material facts. The High Court held that there was a distinction between dismissal for a criminal charge and dismissal for suppression. The High Court dismissed the writ petition and kept the removal in place.", "summary_verified": "The High Court held that the constable had suppressed a pending criminal case when entering police service. The High Court held that a later acquittal in October 2025 did not automatically undo a dismissal founded on suppression of material facts. The High Court held that there was a distinction between dismissal for a criminal charge and dismissal for suppression. The High Court dismissed the writ petition and kept the removal in place.", "court_quote": "He was dismissed on the charge that he has suppressed the pendency of criminal case.", "court_quote_para": "operative findings paragraph", "confidence": "medium", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Penalty misstated: judgment uses 'dismissal' (order dated 08.08.2019), not 'removal from service'.; Quoted sentence is not verbatim: the recorded text is only a clause inside a longer sentence in para 6, not a standalone sentence; the verified verbatim sentence is 'He was dismissed on the charge that he has suppressed the pendency of criminal case.' (para 7).; Appeal upheld 29.03.2020 and revision 19.11.2020 (judgment also shows 09.11.2020 in one para) — dates otherwise confirmed.", "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": "2026-03-18", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "High Court of Jharkhand at Ranchi", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The High Court of Jharkhand at Ranchi recorded adverse findings against police personnel.", "disposition": "disciplinary upheld", "source": "2026:JHHC:7904", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." } ], "later_proceedings": [], "final_outcome_url": null, "followup_history": [ { "date": "2026-09-24", "scope": "Swarm scout and independent verification pass (Muse Spark)." } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-24", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/34982875/", "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": [ "swarm-verify-cop-jh-hc" ], "merged_case_id": "cop-jh-hc-0", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2026-0021", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0177", "alias_merged_ids": [ "CWC-1462" ], "display_title": "State of Jharkhand & Ors. vs Garhwa District Police Constable & Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "State of Jharkhand & Ors. vs Garhwa District Police Constable & Ors.", "state": "Jharkhand", "district": "Garhwa", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Garhwa", "police_station_or_unit": "Garhwa District Police, Jharkhand Police", "court": "Supreme Court of India", "court_as_verified": "Supreme Court of India", "bench": null, "case_title": "State of Jharkhand & Ors. vs Garhwa District Police Constable & Ors.", "case_number": "Civil Appeal No. 7364 of 2026", "citation": "2026 INSC 466", "judges": [ "Ahsanuddin Amanullah", "R. Mahadevan" ], "judgment_date": "2026-05-08", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2026, "incident_date": "2005-05-18", "incident_year": 2005, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "Constitution Art. 142" ], "officers": [ { "name": "Ranjan Kumar @ Santosh Kumar", "rank": "Constable", "unit": "Garhwa District Police, Jharkhand Police", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "named_safe", "gate_reasons": [], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.08, "jev_p_culpable": 0.93, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": "Ranjan Kumar @ Santosh Kumar", "display": "Ranjan Kumar @ Santosh Kumar (Constable)" } ], "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.advocatekhoj.com/library/judgments/index.php?go=2026/may/state-of-jharkhand-vs-ranjan-kumar-23", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.verdictum.in/supreme-court/the-state-of-jharkhand-ors-v-ranjan-kumar-ors-2026-insc-466-impersonation-1613679", "https://www.livelaw.in/supreme-court/supreme-court-orders-criminal-action-against-constable-who-joined-bihar-jharkhand-police-in-different-names-533562", "https://courtbook.in/posts/supreme-court-jharkhand-constable-fake-identity-bihar-police-dismissal", "https://www.barandbench.com/news/litigation/supreme-court-orders-dismissal-of-cop-who-joined-bihar-and-jharkhand-police-under-different-names", "https://www.scconline.com/blog/post/2026/05/12/sc-restores-police-constables-dismissal-for-securing-appointment-through-fraud/" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Supreme Court of India records the following account. Ranjan Kumar was appointed as a constable in Jharkhand Police in Garhwa district in 2005 and subsequently secured a second constable appointment in Bihar Police under the assumed name 'Santosh Kumar' using fabricated documents. Departmental inquiry revealed the fraud and he was dismissed in 2010, but the Jharkhand High Court Division Bench interfered with the dismissal. The Supreme Court reversed the Division Bench, restored the constable's dismissal from Jharkhand Police, quashed his appointment in Bihar Police under Article 142, and directed the DGPs of both states to initiate criminal proceedings. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "Ranjan Kumar was appointed as a constable in Jharkhand Police in Garhwa district in 2005 and subsequently secured a second constable appointment in Bihar Police under the assumed name 'Santosh Kumar' using fabricated documents. Departmental inquiry revealed the fraud and he was dismissed in 2010, but the Jharkhand High Court Division Bench interfered with the dismissal. The Supreme Court reversed the Division Bench, restored the constable's dismissal from Jharkhand Police, quashed his appointment in Bihar Police under Article 142, and directed the DGPs of both states to initiate criminal proceedings.", "court_quote": "Public employment, particularly in the police service, cannot be converted into an instrument of fraud.", "court_quote_para": "24", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Supreme Court reversed High Court Division Bench, restoring dismissal of constable who fraudulently joined Bihar Police under an alias while serving in Jharkhand 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": "2026-05-08", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Supreme Court of India", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Supreme Court of India upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "2026 INSC 466", "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.advocatekhoj.com/library/judgments/index.php?go=2026/may/state-of-jharkhand-vs-ranjan-kumar-23", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.verdictum.in/supreme-court/the-state-of-jharkhand-ors-v-ranjan-kumar-ors-2026-insc-466-impersonation-1613679", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/supreme-court/supreme-court-orders-criminal-action-against-constable-who-joined-bihar-jharkhand-police-in-different-names-533562", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://courtbook.in/posts/supreme-court-jharkhand-constable-fake-identity-bihar-police-dismissal", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.barandbench.com/news/litigation/supreme-court-orders-dismissal-of-cop-who-joined-bihar-and-jharkhand-police-under-different-names", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.scconline.com/blog/post/2026/05/12/sc-restores-police-constables-dismissal-for-securing-appointment-through-fraud/", "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-05", "chunk-45" ], "merged_case_id": "SWOTHERM-015", "officers_named_public": 1, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2026-0048", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0916", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "State of Jharkhand & Ors. v. Jharkhand Police Constable and others", "display_title_redacted": "State of Jharkhand & Ors. v. Jharkhand Police Constable and others", "state": "Jharkhand", "district": "Garhwa", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Dhurki", "police_station_or_unit": "Dhurki Police Station", "court": "Supreme Court of India", "court_as_verified": "Supreme Court of India", "bench": null, "case_title": "State of Jharkhand & Ors. v. Jharkhand Police Constable and others", "case_number": "Civil Appeal No. 7364 of 2026 [arising out of SLP (C) No. 6111 of 2023]", "citation": "2026 INSC 466; 2026 SCC OnLine SC 824", "judges": [ "Ahsanuddin Amanullah", "R. Mahadevan" ], "judgment_date": "2026-05-08", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2026, "incident_date": "2007-12-23", "incident_year": 2007, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "Jharkhand Police, Dhurki Police Station, Garhwa", "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, Jharkhand Police, Dhurki Police Station, Garhwa" } ], "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.verdictum.in/pdf_upload/2026/05/09/the-state-of-jharkhand-v-ranjan-kumar-1777285.pdf", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.livelaw.in/supreme-court/supreme-court-orders-criminal-action-against-constable-who-joined-bihar-jharkhand-police-in-different-names-533562", "https://www.barandbench.com/news/litigation/supreme-court-orders-dismissal-of-cop-who-joined-bihar-and-jharkhand-police-under-different-names" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Supreme Court of India records the following account. [name withheld], appointed Constable in the Jharkhand Police in May 2005 and serving as Reserve Guard at Dhurki Police Station, took two days compensatory leave from 20 December 2007 and never rejoined. The Court recorded that during that absence he secured appointment as Constable in the Bihar Police under the name [name withheld] on forged certificates, then abandoned the Patna posting in January 2008. A forensic comparison of fingerprints, biometrics and photographs confirmed both names were one person, and the Superintendent of Police, Garhwa dismissed him in August 2010. The writ court sustained the dismissal but the Division Bench set it aside; the Supreme Court restored the dismissal as proportionate, quashed the Bihar appointment under Article 142, and directed the DGPs to examine criminal proceedings. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "[name withheld], appointed Constable in the Jharkhand Police in May 2005 and serving as Reserve Guard at Dhurki Police Station, took two days compensatory leave from 20 December 2007 and never rejoined. The Court recorded that during that absence he secured appointment as Constable in the Bihar Police under the name [name withheld] on forged certificates, then abandoned the Patna posting in January 2008. A forensic comparison of fingerprints, biometrics and photographs confirmed both names were one person, and the Superintendent of Police, Garhwa dismissed him in August 2010. The writ court sustained the dismissal but the Division Bench set it aside; the Supreme Court restored the dismissal as proportionate, quashed the Bihar appointment under Article 142, and directed the DGPs to examine criminal proceedings.", "court_quote": "Public employment, particularly in the police service, cannot be converted into an instrument of fraud.", "court_quote_para": "24", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "SC restored dismissal for fraudulent dual police appointment under forged identity; criminal aspect sent for examination.", "verification_status": "V2", "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported", "tier_badge": "Externally reported", "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded", "tier_history": [ "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded" ], "allegations": [ { "category": "Other", "primary": true, "position": "Material fact supported", "position_explainer": "Reliable material supports a specifically documented fact relevant to that allegation, not necessarily the full allegation, causation, intent, unlawfulness, or responsibility.", "official_finding_relation": "supports allegation" } ], "institutional_response": [ { "date": "2026-05-08", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Supreme Court of India", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Supreme Court of India upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "2026 INSC 466; 2026 SCC OnLine SC 824", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." } ], "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/2026/05/09/the-state-of-jharkhand-v-ranjan-kumar-1777285.pdf", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/supreme-court/supreme-court-orders-criminal-action-against-constable-who-joined-bihar-jharkhand-police-in-different-names-533562", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.barandbench.com/news/litigation/supreme-court-orders-dismissal-of-cop-who-joined-bihar-and-jharkhand-police-under-different-names", "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-77" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP2-60-007", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" } ] }