# Zawar Mines Police Constable vs Union of India and Others

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## Report card

By judgment dated 8 April 2009 in S.B. Civil Writ Petition No. 819/1998, the Rajasthan High Court (Coram: Govind Mathur, J.) upheld the disciplinary action taken against the Constable, Central Industrial Security Force, Unit Zawar Mines, Udaipur.

- Register number: RJ 27 CW 0002
- Case reference: S.B. Civil Writ Petition No. 819/1998
- Court and date: Rajasthan High Court (Coram: Govind Mathur, J.), 8 April 2009
- Officer(s) at the material time: Constable, Central Industrial Security Force, Unit Zawar Mines, Udaipur
- Present service status: Recorded in the cited sources as removed from service.
- Provisions invoked: Not stated in the cited sources
- Finding of the Court (extract): “An inference as such was rightly drawn on basis of all available evidence that the theft occured during duty hours of the petitioner and he was negligent in discharging his duties.” (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/21632312/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2009-0023)

**Record:** CW-2009-0023 (compiler id CWC-1087); case GAP3-121-005
**Title:** Zawar Mines Police Constable vs Union of India and Others
**Court:** Rajasthan High Court; judges: Govind Mathur
**Case number / citation:** S.B. Civil Writ Petition No. 819/1998
**Judgment:** 2009-04-08 (2009, day precision)
**Incident date:** 1996-02-29 (1996)
**Place:** Udaipur, Rajasthan; city town: Zawar Mines; police station or unit: CISF Unit Zawar Mines; force: central_armed
**Category:** Other misconduct
**Sub-category:** dereliction evidence tampering
**Outcome:** Disciplinary action upheld (disciplinary_upheld)
**Officers (gated display forms):** Constable, Central Industrial Security Force, Unit Zawar Mines, Udaipur (1 in record)
**Victims:** Not stated (0 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** dismissal
**Sentence type:** dismissal (dismissal)

The judgment of the Rajasthan High Court records the following account. CISF Constable was on patrol of explosives magazines 1 to 6 at Zawar Mines, Udaipur, on the night of 28-29 February 1996, after which theft of 930 non-electric detonators was reported at about 05:20 hours. The court recorded that he was charge-sheeted in May 1996 for patrol negligence and for getting relieved without handing over physical charge, found guilty after a regular inquiry, removed from service in October 1996, and his appeal was rejected in February 1997. The court held the theft must have occurred during his duty hours since seven high-security locks could not have been broken in 20 minutes, found no fault in the disciplinary or appellate orders, and dismissed the writ, leaving the removal intact. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> An inference as such was rightly drawn on basis of all available evidence that the theft occured during duty hours of the petitioner and he was negligent in discharging his duties.

**Sources (1):** [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/21632312/)
**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:** n/a
**display title redacted:** Zawar Mines Police Constable vs Union of India 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': '2009-04-08', 'action_type': 'Order issued', 'status': 'Concluded', 'authority': 'Rajasthan High Court', 'independence': 'External', 'legal_effect': 'Binding', 'description': 'The Rajasthan High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.', 'disposition': 'Disciplinary action · Procedural only', 'source': 'S.B. Civil Writ Petition No. 819/1998', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/21632312/', '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:** Judgment text verified; CISF constable removal for patrol negligence upheld.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Disciplinary action upheld.

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