6 Nov 1996
Order issued
ConcludedThe Supreme Court of India upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.
Disciplinary action · Procedural only.
Source: [1996] INSC 1409
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CW-1996-0017Kanker, ChhattisgarhJudgment 6 November 1996
Madhya Pradesh Police Sub-Inspector vs State of M.P. and Others
The Supreme Court on 6 November 1996 sustained the 1971 dismissal of Sub-Inspector, formerly in charge of Pakhanjur police station in what is now Chhattisgarh. The Court recorded that while SHO he received illegal gratification from gambling organiser N.K. Ghosh and failed to prevent his common gambling house, a charge proved in the departmental enquiry and confirmed on departmental appeal and by the M.P. High Court in 1978. It held the preliminary enquiry report need not have been supplied since it never formed the basis of dismissal, and that Evidence Act strictures do not govern departmental enquiries. The appeal, pursued by his legal representatives, was dismissed with no costs.
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By judgment dated 6 November 1996, the Supreme Court of India (Coram: K. Ramaswamy, G. B. Pattanaik, JJ.) upheld the disciplinary action taken against the Sub-Inspector, Police Station Pakhanjur, Madhya Pradesh Police.
- Register number
- CG 19 CW 0001
- Case reference
- [1996] INSC 1409
- Court and date
- Supreme Court of India (Coram: K. Ramaswamy, G. B. Pattanaik, JJ.), 6 November 1996
- Officer(s) at the material time
- Sub-Inspector, Police Station Pakhanjur, Madhya Pradesh Police
- Present service status
- Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked
- Not stated in the cited sources
- Finding of the Court (extract)
- “The appellant, while working as Sub-Inspector, and being in-charge of the Police Station Pakhanjur, District Jagadalpur, on receipt of illegal gratification failed to prevent the running of common gambling house of one N.K.Ghosh.” (at para n/a)
- 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 Supreme Court of India judgment dated 6 November 1996 is the concluded position shown in the cited sources.
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“The appellant, while working as Sub-Inspector, and being in-charge of the Police Station Pakhanjur, District Jagadalpur, on receipt of illegal gratification failed to prevent the running of common gambling house of one N.K.Ghosh.” (para n/a)
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19 Sep 2026
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