17 Dec 2008
Order issued
ConcludedThe Jharkhand High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.
Disciplinary action · Procedural only.
Source: (2009) 1 JCR 549 (JHA)
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CW-2008-0031East Singhbhum, JharkhandJudgment 17 December 2008
Railway Police Constable vs State of Jharkhand and Others (Railway Police personnel vs State of Jharkhand and Others; [name withheld] vs State of Jharkhand and Others)
The judgment of the Jharkhand High Court records the following account. On 26 May 2001 Railway Police constables, [name withheld] and [name withheld], while on duty at the Jamshedpur railway platform, extorted Rs 500 from a Gitanjali Express passenger; G.R.P. Case No. 31/2000 (as stated in the judgment) under Section 386/34 IPC was lodged. All three participated in departmental enquiries, were held guilty, were dismissed by the Superintendent of Police, Railway, in July-August 2002, and their appeals were rejected by the DIG, Railway, in June-July 2003. The Jharkhand High Court (Ajit Kumar Sinha, J.) held full opportunity was given, natural justice was followed, and the court could not reappreciate concurrent findings of fact under Article 226. All three writ petitions were dismissed on 17 December 2008, so the dismissals stand; the court made no finding on the criminal charge itself.
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By judgment dated 17 December 2008 in W.P.(S) Nos. 3861 of 2003, 1778 of 2003, 3905 of 2003, the Jharkhand High Court (Coram: Ajit Kumar Sinha, J.) upheld the disciplinary action taken against 3 police personnel, namely: Constable, Railway Police, Jamshedpur; Constable, Railway Police; Constable, Railway Police.
- Register number
- JH 05 CW 0003
- Case reference
- W.P.(S) Nos. 3861 of 2003, 1778 of 2003, 3905 of 2003 / (2009) 1 JCR 549 (JHA)
- Court and date
- Jharkhand High Court (Coram: Ajit Kumar Sinha, J.), 17 December 2008
- Officer(s) at the material time
- Constable, Railway Police, Jamshedpur; Constable, Railway Police; Constable, Railway Police
- Present service status
- Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked
- Section 386/34 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860
- Finding of the Court (extract)
- “Under these facts and circumstances of the case all the three writ petitions, being devoid of any merit, are accordingly dismissed.” (at para 16)
- 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 17 December 2008 is the concluded position shown in the cited sources.
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What the court found
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“Under these facts and circumstances of the case all the three writ petitions, being devoid of any merit, are accordingly dismissed.” (para 16)
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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))
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