# Assandh Police Sub-Inspector and others vs The State of Punjab and Others

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## Report card

By judgment dated 10 March 1965 in Civil Writ No. 1913 of 1963, the Punjab and Haryana High Court (Coram: Shamsher Bahadur, J.) upheld the disciplinary action taken against the Sub-Inspector, SHO, Police Station Assandh.

- Register number: HR 05 CW 0001
- Case reference: Civil Writ No. 1913 of 1963 / (1965) 03 P&H CK 0019
- Court and date: Punjab and Haryana High Court (Coram: Shamsher Bahadur, J.), 10 March 1965
- Officer(s) at the material time: Sub-Inspector, SHO, Police Station Assandh
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Article 226 of the Constitution of India; Article 227 of the Constitution of India; Rule 16.38(2) of the Punjab Police Rules, 1934; Rule 16.28(1) of the Punjab Police Rules, 1934
- Finding of the Court (extract): “All that is required is that the petitioner should be given an adequate opportunity at the time of enquiry and when he is to be removed from service. At both stages the petitioner was asked to furnish his explanations which …” (at para 9-10)
- 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://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/130212/ram-singh-dhawan-vs-the-state-of-punjab-and-others/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-1965-0001)

**Record:** CW-1965-0001 (compiler id CWC-0891); case GAP2-49-007
**Title:** Assandh Police Sub-Inspector and others vs The State of Punjab and Others
**Court:** Punjab and Haryana High Court; judges: Shamsher Bahadur
**Case number / citation:** Civil Writ No. 1913 of 1963 / (1965) 03 P&H CK 0019
**Judgment:** 1965-03-10 (1965, day precision)
**Incident date:** 1959-07-22 (1959)
**Place:** Karnal, Haryana; city town: Assandh; police station or unit: Police Station Assandh (Punjab Police at the time; now Haryana Police); force: state_police
**Category:** Bribery & extortion
**Sub-category:** bribery pc act
**Outcome:** Disciplinary action upheld (disciplinary_upheld)
**Sections:** Constitution Art. 226; Constitution Art. 227; Punjab Police Rules 1934 r.16.38(2); Punjab Police Rules 1934 r.16.28(1)
**Officers (gated display forms):** Sub-Inspector, SHO, Police Station Assandh (1 in record)
**Victims:** Assandh man (1 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** dismissal
**Sentence type:** dismissal (dismissal)

The judgment of the Punjab and Haryana High Court records the following account. Sub-Inspector \[name withheld\], SHO of Police Station Assandh, was alleged to have beaten an Assandh man, confined him in the police station on the night of 22-23 July 1959, and accepted a Rs 300 bribe from him after recovering opium from an Assandh man's brother \[name withheld\]. After a Vigilance examination, a departmental enquiry initially found the allegations not proved, but the DIG called for the record, held the bribery charge proved, and dismissed him on 28 October 1961, and his appeal was rejected on 10 September 1963. The High Court repelled challenges on Rule 16.38 compliance, the DIG's competence under Rule 16.28, bias, and pre-enquiry association, holding there was no jurisdictional error in the dismissal order. It dismissed the writ petition with no order as to costs, leaving the bribery dismissal intact. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> All that is required is that the petitioner should be given an adequate opportunity at the time of enquiry and when he is to be removed from service. At both stages the petitioner was asked to furnish his explanations which were duly, considered by the appropriate authorities. There is no force in this petition which fails and is dismissed.

**Sources (1):** [courtkutchehry.com](https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/130212/ram-singh-dhawan-vs-the-state-of-punjab-and-others/)
**Verification:** V2 · Externally reported
**Review:** Solo Staff combined review (one combined attestation) — not yet recorded
**admin category:** corruption
**admin subcategory:** bribery_pc_act
**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:** 9-10
**display title redacted:** Assandh Police Sub-Inspector and others vs The State of Punjab and Others
**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': '1965-03-10', 'action_type': 'Order issued', 'status': 'Concluded', 'authority': 'Punjab and Haryana High Court', 'independence': 'External', 'legal_effect': 'Binding', 'description': 'The Punjab and Haryana High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.', 'disposition': 'Disciplinary action · Procedural only', 'source': '(1965) 03 P&H CK 0019', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/130212/ram-singh-dhawan-vs-the-state-of-punjab-and-others/', 'link_checked': None}
**retracted:** {"is_retracted": false}
**service:** police
**source assessment:** {"established": null, "basis": null}
**status:** current
**subcategory display:** bribery pc act
**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:** Writ dismissed; SHO's dismissal on proved Rs 300 bribery charge upheld — disciplinary_upheld.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Disciplinary action upheld.

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