# The Commissioner of Police and Others vs Andhra Pradesh Police Police Constable

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## Report card

By judgment dated 25 January 2006 in Civil Appeal No. 6319 of 2004, the Supreme Court of India (Coram: S. B. Sinha, P. P. Naolekar, JJ.) upheld the disciplinary action taken against the Police Constable, Andhra Pradesh Police.

- Register number: AP 39 CW 0021
- Case reference: Civil Appeal No. 6319 of 2004 / (2006) 3 SCC 173
- Court and date: Supreme Court of India (Coram: S. B. Sinha, P. P. Naolekar, JJ.), 25 January 2006
- Officer(s) at the material time: Police Constable, Andhra Pradesh Police
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Not stated in the cited sources
- Finding of the Court (extract): “In a situation of this nature, keeping in view the nature of duties that a protector of law is required to perform, we are firmly of the opinion that the disciplinary authority cannot be said to have committed an error …” (at para n/a)
- 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/349010/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2006-0017)

**Record:** CW-2006-0017 (compiler id CWC-1115); case GAP3-129-004
**Title:** The Commissioner of Police and Others vs Andhra Pradesh Police Police Constable
**Court:** Supreme Court of India; judges: S. B. Sinha; P. P. Naolekar
**Case number / citation:** Civil Appeal No. 6319 of 2004 / (2006) 3 SCC 173
**Judgment:** 2006-01-25 (2006, day precision)
**Incident date:** Not stated
**Place:** Andhra Pradesh; force: state_police
**Category:** Other misconduct
**Sub-category:** other
**Outcome:** Disciplinary action upheld (disciplinary_upheld)
**Officers (gated display forms):** Police Constable, Andhra Pradesh Police (1 in record)
**Victims:** Not stated (0 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** dismissal
**Sentence type:** dismissal (dismissal)

remove/replace final sentence; appellants' (police) case is recorded via counter affidavit before APAT. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> In a situation of this nature, keeping in view the nature of duties that a protector of law is required to perform, we are firmly of the opinion that the disciplinary authority cannot be said to have committed an error in imposing the punishment of removal from service upon the respondent, particularly when on earlier two occasions also he had been found guilty of commission of misconduct and punished therefor.

**Sources (1):** [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/349010/)
**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:** n/a
**display title redacted:** The Commissioner of Police and Others vs Andhra Pradesh Police Police Constable
**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': \['summary'\]}
**followup status:** checked
**institutional response:** {'date': '2006-01-25', 'action_type': 'Order issued', 'status': 'Concluded', 'authority': 'Supreme Court of India', 'independence': 'External', 'legal_effect': 'Binding', 'description': 'The Supreme Court of India upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.', 'disposition': 'Disciplinary action · Procedural only', 'source': '(2006) 3 SCC 173', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/349010/', '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:** SC restored removal of constable who stood surety for habitual offender and aided criminals; HC lesser-penalty remit set aside.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Disciplinary action upheld.

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