6 Feb 2012
Order issued
ConcludedThe Patna High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.
Disciplinary action · Procedural only.
Source: Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case No. 9314 of 1998
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CW-2012-0002Samastipur, BiharJudgment 6 February 2012
Narhan Bazar, Bibhutipur Police Constable vs The State Of Bihar & Ors
The Patna High Court upheld the dismissal of Bihar Police constable, posted at Narhan Bazar in Samastipur for law-and-order duty, who quarrelled with vegetable vendor a Narhan Bazar, Bibhutipur woman over 25 paise on March 6, 1989, assaulted her and her husband, then returned with his service rifle and an associate and fired twice, killing one person and injuring four (Bibhutipur PS Case No. 34 of 1989). A departmental enquiry proved the charges, leading to dismissal by the SP Samastipur on September 28, 1995, affirmed on appeal and memorial; the constable was also criminally convicted and sentenced to 5 years RI under Sections 307/34 IPC and 2 years RI under the Arms Act, upheld on criminal appeal. Holding the misconduct of the highest degree and a barbaric crime, the Court found dismissal not disproportionate and dismissed the writ petition. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.
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By judgment dated 6 February 2012 in Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case No. 9314 of 1998, the Patna High Court (Coram: Shivaji Pandey, J.) upheld the disciplinary action taken against the Constable, Narhan Bazar, Samastipur.
- Register number
- BR 33 CW 0001
- Case reference
- Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case No. 9314 of 1998
- Court and date
- Patna High Court (Coram: Shivaji Pandey, J.), 6 February 2012
- Officer(s) at the material time
- Constable, Narhan Bazar, Samastipur
- Present service status
- Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked
- Section 307 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 34 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 27 of the Arms Act, 1959
- Finding of the Court (extract)
- “for a petty matter, petitioner used his service rifle and killed one person and injured others without any provocation and, as such, he does not deserve any sympathy from this Court. This act is not only highest degree of misconduct …” (at para 9)
- 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
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“for a petty matter, petitioner used his service rifle and killed one person and injured others without any provocation and, as such, he does not deserve any sympathy from this Court. This act is not only highest degree of misconduct …” (para 9)
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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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