# Railway Police personnel vs State of Bihar and Others

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## Report card

By judgment dated 8 September 2004 in C.W.J.C. No. 2013 of 1999, the Patna High Court (Coram: Narayan Roy, J.) upheld the disciplinary action taken against the Police personnel, Railway Police, Bihar.

- Register number: BR 01 CW 0003
- Case reference: C.W.J.C. No. 2013 of 1999 / (2004) 4 PLJR 374
- Court and date: Patna High Court (Coram: Narayan Roy, J.), 8 September 2004
- Officer(s) at the material time: Police personnel, Railway Police, Bihar
- Present service status: Recorded in the cited sources as compulsorily retired.
- Provisions invoked: Not stated in the cited sources
- Finding of the Court (extract): “From the materials on record, it appears that the police party, who were accompanying the Superintendent of Railway Police, have proved the charges against the petitioner.” (at para 6)
- 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.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/772103/babu-lal-choudhary-vs-state-of-bihar-and-others/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2004-0014)

**Record:** CW-2004-0014 (compiler id CWC-0973); case GAP3-101-003
**Title:** Railway Police personnel vs State of Bihar and Others
**Court:** Patna High Court; judges: Narayan Roy
**Case number / citation:** C.W.J.C. No. 2013 of 1999 / (2004) 4 PLJR 374
**Judgment:** 2004-09-08 (2004, day precision)
**Incident date:** 1996-12-21 (1996)
**Place:** Patna, Bihar; city town: Bakhtiarpur; police station or unit: Railway Police, Bakhtiarpur Railway Station; force: railway
**Category:** Bribery & extortion
**Sub-category:** extortion
**Outcome:** Disciplinary action upheld (disciplinary_upheld)
**Officers (gated display forms):** Police personnel, Railway Police, Bihar (1 in record)
**Victims:** Not stated
**Sentence / compensation:** dismissal
**Sentence type:** dismissal (dismissal)

The judgment of the Patna High Court records the following account. On 21 December 1996 the Superintendent of Railway Police, Patna, with a police force caught railway policeman at Bakhtiarpur Railway Station collecting money from Patna-Mokama train passengers. After a departmental inquiry found the charges proved he was dismissed; in appeal the dismissal was modified to compulsory retirement under Rule 854(A)(6) of the Bihar Police Manual. The Patna High Court (Narayan Roy, J.) held that the accompanying police party had proved the charges, that the authorities had applied the rules of law and observed natural justice, and that substituting compulsory retirement for dismissal was already a lenient view. Finding no ground to interfere, the court dismissed the writ petition on 8 September 2004. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> From the materials on record, it appears that the police party, who were accompanying the Superintendent of Railway Police, have proved the charges against the petitioner.

**Sources (2):** [courtkutchehry.com](https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/772103/babu-lal-choudhary-vs-state-of-bihar-and-others/); (2004) 09 PAT CK 0166
**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:** 6
**display title redacted:** Railway Police personnel vs State of Bihar and Others
**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': '2004-09-08', 'action_type': 'Order issued', 'status': 'Concluded', 'authority': 'Patna High Court', 'independence': 'External', 'legal_effect': 'Binding', 'description': 'The Patna High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.', 'disposition': 'Disciplinary action · Procedural only', 'source': '(2004) 4 PLJR 374', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/772103/babu-lal-choudhary-vs-state-of-bihar-and-others/', 'link_checked': None}; {'url': '(2004) 09 PAT CK 0166', '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:** Judgment verified; railway policeman's extortion charge proved, compulsory retirement upheld, writ dismissed.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Disciplinary action upheld.

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