# Bengaluru Police Armed Police Constable (APC-1140) vs The State of Karnataka and Others

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## Report card

By judgment dated 3 December 2012 in W.P. No. 46400 of 2012 (S-KAT) (against KAT Application No. 5066/2007, 10.07.2012), the Karnataka High Court (Coram: N. K. Patil, B. S. Indrakala, JJ.) upheld the disciplinary action taken against the Armed Police Constable (APC-1140), City Armed Reserve (South), Bengaluru.

- Register number: KA 01 CW 0018
- Case reference: W.P. No. 46400 of 2012 (S-KAT) (against KAT Application No. 5066/2007, 10.07.2012)
- Court and date: Karnataka High Court (Coram: N. K. Patil, B. S. Indrakala, JJ.), 3 December 2012
- Officer(s) at the material time: Armed Police Constable (APC-1140), City Armed Reserve (South), Bengaluru
- Present service status: Recorded in the cited sources as compulsorily retired.
- Provisions invoked: Not stated in the cited sources
- Finding of the Court (extract): “justified in imposing penalty of compulsory retirement to the petitioner, which is infact a lenient view” (at para 5)
- 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/7205702/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2012-0021)

**Record:** CW-2012-0021 (compiler id CWC-0687); case GAP10-005
**Title:** Bengaluru Police Armed Police Constable (APC-1140) vs The State of Karnataka and Others
**Court:** Karnataka High Court; judges: N. K. Patil; B. S. Indrakala
**Case number / citation:** W.P. No. 46400 of 2012 (S-KAT) (against KAT Application No. 5066/2007, 10.07.2012)
**Judgment:** 2012-12-03 (2012, day precision)
**Incident date:** 2004-08-02 (2004)
**Place:** Bengaluru Urban, Karnataka; city town: Bengaluru; police station or unit: City Armed Reserve (South), Bengaluru; force: state_police
**Category:** Other misconduct
**Sub-category:** other
**Outcome:** Disciplinary action upheld (disciplinary_upheld)
**Officers (gated display forms):** Armed Police Constable (APC-1140), City Armed Reserve (South), Bengaluru (1 in record)
**Victims:** Not stated (0 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** dismissal
**Sentence type:** dismissal (dismissal)

The judgment of the Karnataka High Court records the following account. Armed Police Constable of CAR (South), Bengaluru remained unauthorisedly absent from 2 August 2004, admitting 192 days absence before the enquiry officer. The Deputy Commissioner of Police imposed compulsory retirement in June 2005 considering his earlier record of absence in 18 years of service, and the appellate, revisional and KAT orders affirmed the penalty. The Division Bench held the disciplinary authority was justified in imposing compulsory retirement, calling it a lenient view, and found the 192-day absence from an essential service astonishing. Recording concurrent findings of fact, the Court held the penalty not disproportionate and dismissed the writ petition as devoid of merit. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> justified in imposing penalty of compulsory retirement to the petitioner, which is infact a lenient view

**Sources (1):** [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/7205702/)
**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:** 5
**display title redacted:** Bengaluru Police Armed Police Constable (APC-1140) vs The State of Karnataka 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': \['court_quote_para'\]}
**followup status:** checked
**institutional response:** {'date': '2012-12-03', 'action_type': 'Order issued', 'status': 'Concluded', 'authority': 'Karnataka High Court', 'independence': 'External', 'legal_effect': 'Binding', 'description': 'The Karnataka High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.', 'disposition': 'Disciplinary action · Procedural only', 'source': 'W.P. No. 46400 of 2012 (S-KAT) (against KAT Application No. 5066/2007, 10.07.2012)', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/7205702/', '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:** HC upheld compulsory retirement of armed constable for 192-day unauthorised absence; service-discipline matter.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Disciplinary action upheld.

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