14 Jan 1980
Order issued
ConcludedThe Karnataka High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.
Disciplinary action · Procedural only.
Source: W.P. No. 11937 of 1978
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CW-1980-0004Chikkamagaluru, KarnatakaJudgment 14 January 1980
Birur Police Head Constable (HC 81) vs State of Karnataka
The Karnataka High Court (Rama Jois J., 14 January 1980) dismissed the writ of Head Constable and upheld his dismissal for bribery. The court recorded that in April 1974, while posted at Birur police station, he demanded Rs 3,000 and accepted Rs 1,000 to release two lock-up detainees on bail. It rejected his procedural challenges to the departmental enquiry and held the concurrent findings rested on clear evidence that a writ court cannot re-appreciate. The dismissal as confirmed in appeal and revision was sustained.
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By judgment dated 14 January 1980 in W.P. No. 11937 of 1978, the Karnataka High Court (Coram: Rama Jois, J.) upheld the disciplinary action taken against the Head Constable (HC 81), Birur Police Station.
- Register number
- KA 18 CW 0001
- Case reference
- W.P. No. 11937 of 1978
- Court and date
- Karnataka High Court (Coram: Rama Jois, J.), 14 January 1980
- Officer(s) at the material time
- Head Constable (HC 81), Birur Police Station
- Present service status
- Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked
- Not stated in the cited sources
- Finding of the Court (extract)
- “the petitioner, who was a Head Constable in the Police Department of the State Government, has prayed for quashing the order imposing the penalty of dismissal from service against him”
- 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.
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Current position
The Karnataka High Court judgment dated 14 January 1980 is the concluded position shown in the cited sources.
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Material fact supported
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What the court found
Holding not recorded separately.
“the petitioner, who was a Head Constable in the Police Department of the State Government, has prayed for quashing the order imposing the penalty of dismissal from service against him”
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Follow-up history
19 Sep 2026
(Round-8 full re-verification: published record re-checked against the judgment text (outcome, officers, quote, key facts) plus methodology-compliance pass; skills-guided adversarial re-verification of the published record against the judgment text (reverify/t1-*/adversarial-8.jsonl))
Corrections (0): No corrections recorded.
Review: Solo Staff combined review (one combined attestation) — not yet recorded.