# Director General of Police and Others vs Tamil Nadu Police Police Constable

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## Report card

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.
- Source orders: [Judgment / order (primary source)](https://www.advocatekhoj.com/library/judgments/index.php?go=1998/january/37.php); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-1998-0007)

**Record:** CW-1998-0007 (compiler id CWC-1100); case GAP3-127-008
**Title:** Director General of Police and Others vs Tamil Nadu Police Police Constable
**Court:** Supreme Court of India; judges: S. C. Agrawal; K. Venkataswami; A. P. Misra
**Case number / citation:** (1998) 2 SCC 407; AIR 1998 SC 2265
**Judgment:** 1998-01-28 (1998, day precision)
**Incident date:** 1983-05-28 (1983)
**Place:** Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu (district at time: Tirunelveli); city town: Nagercoil; police station or unit: Crime detection party, Kanyakumari District; force: state_police
**Category:** Bribery & extortion
**Sub-category:** extortion
**Outcome:** Disciplinary action upheld (disciplinary_upheld)
**Officers (gated display forms):** Police Constable, Crime detection party, Kanyakumari District, Tamil Nadu Police (1 in record)
**Victims:** Nagercoil man (1 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** dismissal
**Sentence type:** dismissal (dismissal)

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.

> 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.

**Sources (2):** [advocatekhoj.com](https://www.advocatekhoj.com/library/judgments/index.php?go=1998/january/37.php); [sooperkanoon.com](https://sooperkanoon.com/case/641558/director-general-police-vs-g-dasayan)
**Verification:** V2 · Externally reported
**Review:** Solo Staff combined review (one combined attestation) — not yet recorded
**admin category:** corruption
**admin subcategory:** extortion
**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:** n/a
**display title redacted:** Director General of Police and Others vs Tamil Nadu 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': '1998-01-28', 'action_type': 'Order issued', 'status': 'Concluded', 'authority': 'Supreme Court of India', 'independence': 'External', 'legal_effect': 'Binding', 'description': 'The Supreme Court of India upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.', 'disposition': 'Disciplinary action · Procedural only', 'source': '(1998) 2 SCC 407; AIR 1998 SC 2265', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://www.advocatekhoj.com/library/judgments/index.php?go=1998/january/37.php', 'link_checked': None}; {'url': 'https://sooperkanoon.com/case/641558/director-general-police-vs-g-dasayan', 'link_checked': None}
**retracted:** {"is_retracted": false}
**service:** police
**source assessment:** {"established": null, "basis": null}
**status:** current
**subcategory display:** extortion
**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:** SC sustained major penalty (compulsory retirement) for gold extortion by constable.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Disciplinary action upheld.

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