23 Dec 2005
Order issued
ConcludedThe Jharkhand High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.
Disciplinary action · Procedural only.
Source: [2006(1) JCR 309 (JHR)]
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CW-2005-0020Chatra, JharkhandJudgment 23 December 2005
Pratappur Police Constable vs State of Jharkhand and Others
The Jharkhand High Court (M.Y. Eqbal J.) on 23 December 2005 dismissed the writ petition of JAP-7 constable against his dismissal for habitual unauthorised absence. The court recorded that he absconded from 18 April to 29 July 2002 (102 days), covering it with a story of kidnapping by Naxalites that neither his superior officers nor the Chatra police had reported, supported by a private practitioner's certificate of mental-illness treatment, and that he had three earlier major punishments for absconding for up to 186 days before absconding again in December 2002. The court held the kidnapping story was hatched to cover wilful absence and that he was not fit to be retained in police service. It declared the dismissal order perfectly legal and valid and dismissed the writ petition, so the dismissal stands. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.
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By judgment dated 23 December 2005 in W.P.(S) No. 6077 of 2005, the Jharkhand High Court (Coram: M.Y. Eqbal, J.) upheld the disciplinary action taken against the Constable, JAP-7, Hazaribagh.
- Register number
- JH 13 CW 0001
- Case reference
- W.P.(S) No. 6077 of 2005 / [2006(1) JCR 309 (JHR)]
- Court and date
- Jharkhand High Court (Coram: M.Y. Eqbal, J.), 23 December 2005
- Officer(s) at the material time
- Constable, JAP-7, Hazaribagh
- Present service status
- Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked
- Not stated in the cited sources
- Finding of the Court (extract)
- “the petitioner is not at all fit to be retained in the police service. The impugned order of dismissal from service is perfectly legal and valid which needs no interference.” (at para 7)
- 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 Jharkhand High Court judgment dated 23 December 2005 is the concluded position shown in the cited sources.
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Material fact supported
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Attributed to the court
What the court found
Holding not recorded separately.
“the petitioner is not at all fit to be retained in the police service. The impugned order of dismissal from service is perfectly legal and valid which needs no interference.” (para 7)
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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.