28 Jan 1998
Order issued
ConcludedThe Supreme Court of India upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.
Disciplinary action · Procedural only.
Source: (1998) 2 SCC 407; AIR 1998 SC 2265
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CW-1998-0007Kanyakumari, Tamil NaduJudgment 28 January 1998
Director General of Police and Others vs Tamil Nadu Police Police Constable
The Supreme Court on 28 January 1998 sustained a major penalty against constable of a Kanyakumari crime detection party for extorting 31 grams of gold jewels from jeweller a Nagercoil man under coercion on 28 May 1983, with related charges of off-record detention and misappropriation of seized property. He was dismissed in April 1987, upheld on appeal and review, but the Tamil Nadu Administrative Tribunal set the dismissal aside on enquiry-report, competency and parity grounds. The Court rejected the first two grounds but applied parity with a co-delinquent Head Constable, substituting compulsory retirement for dismissal to meet the ends of justice. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.
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By judgment dated 28 January 1998, the Supreme Court of India (Coram: S. C. Agrawal, K. Venkataswami, A. P. Misra, JJ.) upheld the disciplinary action taken against the Police Constable, Crime detection party, Kanyakumari District, Tamil Nadu Police.
- Register number
- TN 74 CW 0001
- Case reference
- (1998) 2 SCC 407; AIR 1998 SC 2265
- Court and date
- Supreme Court of India (Coram: S. C. Agrawal, K. Venkataswami, A. P. Misra, JJ.), 28 January 1998
- Officer(s) at the material time
- Police Constable, Crime detection party, Kanyakumari District, Tamil Nadu Police
- Present service status
- Recorded in the cited sources as compulsorily retired.
- Provisions invoked
- Not stated in the cited sources
- Finding of the Court (extract)
- “a punishment of compulsory retirement in the case of the respondent as well would meet the ends of justice on the facts and circumstances of this case.” (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 28 January 1998 is the concluded position shown in the cited sources.
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Holding not recorded separately.
“a punishment of compulsory retirement in the case of the respondent as well would meet the ends of justice on the facts and circumstances of this case.” (para n/a)
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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.