14 May 2009
Order issued
ConcludedThe Gujarat High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.
Disciplinary action · Procedural only.
Source: (2009) 3 GLR 2499 : (2010) 1 SLR 194
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CW-2009-0026Vadodara, GujaratJudgment 14 May 2009
[name withheld] vs District Superintendent of Police & Anr.
The judgment of the Gujarat High Court records the following account. Armed Constable, married with five children, was charged in 1984 with marrying and cohabiting with two other women, one of village Rajpura, Taluka Padra, while his first marriage subsisted. The inquiry proved the charges on witness statements and he was removed in January 1988, with his appeal failing. On a reference over whether private conduct can be police misconduct, the Division Bench held such acts unbecoming of a government servant under the Gujarat Civil Services (Conduct) Rules, and dismissed the petition without reducing the penalty. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.
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By judgment dated 14 May 2009 in Special Civil Application No. 2829 of 1988, the Gujarat High Court (Coram: K.S. Radhakrishnan, Akil Kureshi, JJ.) upheld the disciplinary action taken against the Armed Police Constable.
- Register number
- GJ 06 CW 0007
- Case reference
- Special Civil Application No. 2829 of 1988 / (2009) 3 GLR 2499 : (2010) 1 SLR 194
- Court and date
- Gujarat High Court (Coram: K.S. Radhakrishnan, Akil Kureshi, JJ.), 14 May 2009
- Officer(s) at the material time
- Armed Police Constable
- Present service status
- Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked
- Not stated in the cited sources
- Finding of the Court (extract)
- “Such a conduct of a police official who has been employed in a disciplined force carrying out important functions of maintaining law and order and investigating crimes would certainly amount to acts unbecoming of a Government servant and therefore misconduct.” (at para 10)
- 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 Gujarat High Court judgment dated 14 May 2009 is the concluded position shown in the cited sources.
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What the court found
Holding not recorded separately.
“Such a conduct of a police official who has been employed in a disciplined force carrying out important functions of maintaining law and order and investigating crimes would certainly amount to acts unbecoming of a Government servant and therefore misconduct.” (para 10)
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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.