15 Aug 1998
Order issued
ConcludedThe Gujarat High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.
Disciplinary action · Procedural only.
Source: (1999) 1 GLR 881
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CW-1998-0010Ahmedabad, GujaratJudgment 15 August 1998
Government of Gujarat vs Ahmedabad Police Unarmed Police Constable
The judgment of the Gujarat High Court records the following account. Unarmed Police Constable of the Ahmedabad Traffic Branch was dismissed after a departmental inquiry proved the second charge of conduct unbecoming a government servant in keeping a mistress, following an earlier penalty of withheld increments for abusive language under the influence of liquor. The City Civil Court decreed his suit, declared the dismissal illegal, and ordered reinstatement with full benefits. On the State's appeal, the Gujarat High Court held police personnel guilty of such character and conduct must be taken more seriously, set aside the decree, dismissed the suit, and thereby restored the dismissal.
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By judgment dated 15 August 1998 in First Appeal No. 1075 of 1988, the Gujarat High Court (Coram: S. K. Keshote, J.) upheld the disciplinary action taken against the Unarmed Police Constable, Office of the Police Commissioner, Ahmedabad (Traffic Branch).
- Register number
- GJ 01 CW 0006
- Case reference
- First Appeal No. 1075 of 1988 / (1999) 1 GLR 881
- Court and date
- Gujarat High Court (Coram: S. K. Keshote, J.), 15 August 1998
- Officer(s) at the material time
- Unarmed Police Constable, Office of the Police Commissioner, Ahmedabad (Traffic Branch)
- Present service status
- Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked
- Rule 3 of the GCSR (Conduct) Rules, 1971; Rule 3(1) of the GCSR (Conduct) Rules, 1971; Rule 26 of the GCSR (Conduct) Rules, 1971; Article 309 of the Constitution of India
- Finding of the Court (extract)
- “The employees in the police department are under obligation for enforcement of law and order in the country and in case they themselves have come up with such character and conduct it has to be taken more seriously.” (at para 24)
- 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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“The employees in the police department are under obligation for enforcement of law and order in the country and in case they themselves have come up with such character and conduct it has to be taken more seriously.” (para 24)
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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))
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