# Mahavir Prasad v. U.P. State Public Services Tribunal and Others

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## Report card

By judgment dated 15 February 2005 in Writ Petition against Tribunal judgment and order dated 06.07.2000, the Uttarakhand High Court (Coram: V. S. Sirpurkar, Prafulla C. Pant, JJ.) upheld the disciplinary action taken against the Mahavir Prasad (Constable).

- Register number: UK 04 CW 0001
- Case reference: Writ Petition against Tribunal judgment and order dated 06.07.2000 / 2005(2) AWC 1520 (UHC)
- Court and date: Uttarakhand High Court (Coram: V. S. Sirpurkar, Prafulla C. Pant, JJ.), 15 February 2005
- Officer(s) at the material time: Mahavir Prasad (Constable)
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Section 7 of the Police Act
- Finding of the Court (extract): “Therefore, we are of the view that the writ petition is devoid of merits and liable to be dismissed. The writ petition is dismissed.” (at para 9)
- 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://indiankanoon.org/doc/1442185/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2005-0005)

**Record:** CW-2005-0005 (compiler id CWC-0417); case UTTARA-014
**Title:** Mahavir Prasad v. U.P. State Public Services Tribunal and Others
**Court:** Uttarakhand High Court; judges: V. S. Sirpurkar; Prafulla C. Pant
**Case number / citation:** Writ Petition against Tribunal judgment and order dated 06.07.2000 / 2005(2) AWC 1520 (UHC)
**Judgment:** 2005-02-15 (2005, day precision)
**Incident date:** 1991-06-17 (1991)
**Place:** Nainital, Uttarakhand; city town: Nainital; police station or unit: U.P. Armed Police (directed to join duties at Nainital); force: state_police
**Category:** Other misconduct
**Sub-category:** other
**Outcome:** Disciplinary action upheld (disciplinary_upheld)
**Sections:** Police Act s.7
**Officers (gated display forms):** Mahavir Prasad (Constable) (1 in record)
**Victims:** Not stated (0 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** dismissal
**Sentence type:** dismissal (dismissal)

Replace closing boilerplate to note the State case as recorded in the dismissal order and Tribunal findings (para 8). Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> Therefore, we are of the view that the writ petition is devoid of merits and liable to be dismissed. The writ petition is dismissed.

**Sources (1):** [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1442185/)
**Verification:** V2 · Externally reported
**Review:** Solo Staff combined review (one combined attestation) — not yet recorded
**admin category:** misconduct
**admin subcategory:** other
**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:** 9
**display title redacted:** Mahavir Prasad v. U.P. State Public Services Tribunal 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': 'wrong_facts', 'corrections_applied': \['court_quote_para', 'summary'\]}
**followup status:** checked
**institutional response:** {'date': '2005-02-15', 'action_type': 'Order issued', 'status': 'Concluded', 'authority': 'Uttarakhand High Court', 'independence': 'External', 'legal_effect': 'Binding', 'description': 'The Uttarakhand High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.', 'disposition': 'Disciplinary action · Procedural only', 'source': '2005(2) AWC 1520 (UHC)', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1442185/', 'link_checked': None}
**retracted:** {"is_retracted": false}
**service:** police
**source assessment:** {"established": null, "basis": null}
**status:** current
**subcategory display:** other
**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:** UHC judgment verified on Indian Kanoon; dismissal for unauthorised absence upheld, Arts.14/21/311(2) plea rejected.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Disciplinary action upheld.

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