# The State of Kerala and Anr. vs Kerala Police Police Constable

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## Report card

By judgment dated 9 March 1964 in Writ Appeal against O.P. No. 2905 of 1961, the Kerala High Court (Coram: Madhavan Nair J., J.) upheld the disciplinary action taken against the Police Constable.

- Register number: KL 00 CW 0001
- Case reference: Writ Appeal against O.P. No. 2905 of 1961 / AIR 1964 Ker 254; 1964 KLT 310; 1964 KLJ 1005
- Court and date: Kerala High Court (Coram: Madhavan Nair J., J.), 9 March 1964
- Officer(s) at the material time: Police Constable
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Not stated in the cited sources
- Finding of the Court (extract): “The only defect on which the learned Judge has held the disciplinary proceedings to be without jurisdiction being thus found to be unsubstantial, the order quashing the dismissal of the delinquent Police Constable has to be discharged.” (at para 2)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum: Disciplinary action upheld. Sentence: dismissal.
- Present status of the proceedings: No further proceedings are recorded in the cited sources; the judgment is the concluded position shown.
- Source orders: [Judgment / order (primary source)](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/507922/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-1964-0002)

**Record:** CW-1964-0002 (compiler id CWC-0809); case GAP2-29-001
**Title:** The State of Kerala and Anr. vs Kerala Police Police Constable
**Court:** Kerala High Court; judges: Madhavan Nair J.
**Case number / citation:** Writ Appeal against O.P. No. 2905 of 1961 / AIR 1964 Ker 254; 1964 KLT 310; 1964 KLJ 1005
**Judgment:** 1964-03-09 (1964, day precision)
**Incident date:** Not stated
**Place:** Kerala; force: state_police
**Category:** Other misconduct
**Sub-category:** other
**Outcome:** Disciplinary action upheld (disciplinary_upheld)
**Officers (gated display forms):** Police Constable (1 in record)
**Victims:** Not stated (0 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** dismissal
**Sentence type:** dismissal (dismissal)

The Kerala High Court Division Bench allowed the State appeal against a Single Judge order that had quashed the dismissal of Police Constable. The Court held that the Circle Inspector who held the oral enquiry was competent under Rule 8 of the Kerala Police Departmental Enquiries, Punishment and Appeal Rules, 1958 read with the IG 1 August 1958 circular as a general authorisation. The Single Judge jurisdictional objection was found unsubstantial, the quashing order was discharged, and O.P. No. 2905 of 1961 was dismissed. The IG dismissal order, confirmed by Government after PSC consultation, therefore stands; the judgment does not state the underlying misconduct. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> The only defect on which the learned Judge has held the disciplinary proceedings to be without jurisdiction being thus found to be unsubstantial, the order quashing the dismissal of the delinquent Police Constable has to be discharged.

**Sources (2):** [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/507922/); [sooperkanoon.com](https://sooperkanoon.com/case/720705/the-state-kerala-anr-vs-k-madhavan)
**Verification:** V2 · Externally reported
**Review:** Solo Staff combined review (one combined attestation) — not yet recorded
**admin category:** misconduct
**admin subcategory:** other
**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'}
**anonymised:** False
**court quote para:** 2
**display title redacted:** The State of Kerala and Anr. vs Kerala Police Police Constable
**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
**institutional response:** {'date': '1964-03-09', 'action_type': 'Order issued', 'status': 'Concluded', 'authority': 'Kerala High Court', 'independence': 'External', 'legal_effect': 'Binding', 'description': 'The Kerala High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.', 'disposition': 'Disciplinary action · Procedural only', 'source': 'AIR 1964 Ker 254; 1964 KLT 310; 1964 KLJ 1005', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/507922/', 'link_checked': None}; {'url': 'https://sooperkanoon.com/case/720705/the-state-kerala-anr-vs-k-madhavan', 'link_checked': None}
**retracted:** {"is_retracted": false}
**service:** police
**source assessment:** {"established": null, "basis": null}
**status:** current
**subcategory display:** other
**tier:** Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded
**tier badge:** Externally reported
**tier history:** Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded
**verdict:** accept
**verdict note:** Division Bench allowed State appeal; dismissal of Police Constable stands.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Disciplinary action upheld.

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