# Pratappur Police Constable vs State of Jharkhand and Others

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## Report card

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.
- Source orders: [Judgment / order (primary source)](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/524457/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2005-0020)

**Record:** CW-2005-0020 (compiler id CWC-0985); case GAP3-102-007
**Title:** Pratappur Police Constable vs State of Jharkhand and Others
**Court:** Jharkhand High Court; judges: M.Y. Eqbal
**Case number / citation:** W.P.(S) No. 6077 of 2005 / \[2006(1) JCR 309 (JHR)\]
**Judgment:** 2005-12-23 (2005, day precision)
**Incident date:** 2002-04-18 (2002)
**Place:** Chatra, Jharkhand; city town: Pratappur; police station or unit: JAP-7, Hazaribagh (posted Pratappur, Chatra); force: state_police
**Category:** Other misconduct
**Sub-category:** dereliction evidence tampering
**Outcome:** Disciplinary action upheld (disciplinary_upheld)
**Officers (gated display forms):** Constable, JAP-7, Hazaribagh (1 in record)
**Victims:** Not stated (0 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** dismissal
**Sentence type:** dismissal (dismissal)

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.

> 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.

**Sources (2):** [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/524457/); \[2006(1)JCR309(JHR)\]
**Verification:** V2 · Externally reported
**Review:** Solo Staff combined review (one combined attestation) — not yet recorded
**admin category:** misconduct
**admin subcategory:** dereliction_evidence_tampering
**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:** 7
**display title redacted:** Pratappur Police Constable vs State of Jharkhand 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': '2005-12-23', 'action_type': 'Order issued', 'status': 'Concluded', 'authority': 'Jharkhand High Court', 'independence': 'External', 'legal_effect': 'Binding', 'description': 'The Jharkhand High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.', 'disposition': 'Disciplinary action · Procedural only', 'source': '\[2006(1) JCR 309 (JHR)\]', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/524457/', 'link_checked': None}; {'url': '\[2006(1)JCR309(JHR)\]', 'link_checked': None}
**retracted:** {"is_retracted": false}
**service:** police
**source assessment:** {"established": null, "basis": null}
**status:** current
**subcategory display:** dereliction evidence tampering
**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:** Writ dismissed; JAP constable's dismissal for habitual absence with fabricated kidnapping story upheld.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Disciplinary action upheld.

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