16 Mar 2002
Order issued
ConcludedThe Delhi High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.
Disciplinary action · Procedural only.
Source: CWP No. 7007 of 2001
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CW-2002-0019DelhiJudgment 16 March 2002
Delhi Police Constable vs Union of India and Ors.
The Delhi High Court Division Bench (S.B. Sinha, C.J. and A.K. Sikri, J.) on 16 March 2002 dismissed the writ petition against the CAT order in OA No. 2430 of 1998 and left intact the removal of Delhi Armed Police constables and [name withheld] for gross negligence that allowed undertrial prisoner Mohd. Salim to escape from the Patiala House Courts Dakhila gate on 23 August 1996. The court held the escape-specific Rule 29 enquiry governed rather than a Rule 15 preliminary enquiry, that due procedure was followed with six prosecution and five defence witnesses examined, and that the admitted escape at the petitioner's searching/frisking post proved dereliction. It declined to interfere with the quantum of punishment, which had been considered at all levels. The removal from service therefore stood; the supervising Head Constable's increment stop was also left undisturbed. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.
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By judgment dated 16 March 2002 in CWP No. 7007 of 2001, the Delhi High Court (Coram: S.B. Sinha, A.K. Sikri, JJ.) upheld the disciplinary action taken against 3 police personnel, namely: Constable, III Bn DAP, Delhi Police (Patiala House Courts Gaddi Guard); Constable, III Bn DAP, Delhi Police (Patiala House Courts Gaddi Guard); Head Constable, III Bn DAP, Delhi Police (Patiala House Courts Gaddi Guard).
- Register number
- DL 00 CW 0010
- Case reference
- CWP No. 7007 of 2001
- Court and date
- Delhi High Court (Coram: S.B. Sinha, A.K. Sikri, JJ.), 16 March 2002
- Officer(s) at the material time
- Constable, III Bn DAP, Delhi Police (Patiala House Courts Gaddi Guard); Constable, III Bn DAP, Delhi Police (Patiala House Courts Gaddi Guard); Head Constable, III Bn DAP, Delhi Police (Patiala House Courts Gaddi Guard)
- Present service status
- Recorded in the cited sources as removed from service.
- Provisions invoked
- Section 221 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 222 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 223 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860
- Finding of the Court (extract)
- “The fact that the under trial prisoner has escaped from the custody stood admitted and the fact that the petitioner and the other delinquent officers were do duty was also admitted.” (at para 26)
- 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 Delhi High Court judgment dated 16 March 2002 is the concluded position shown in the cited sources.
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Official finding: supports allegation.
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What the court found
Holding not recorded separately.
“The fact that the under trial prisoner has escaped from the custody stood admitted and the fact that the petitioner and the other delinquent officers were do duty was also admitted.” (para 26)
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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.