# Deputy Inspector General of Police & Anr. v. \[name withheld\]

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## Report card

By judgment dated 30 November 2012 in Civil Appeal No. 8513 of 2012, the Supreme Court of India (Coram: K.S. Radhakrishnan, Dipak Misra, JJ.) upheld the disciplinary action taken against the Police Constable (PC 388), Armed Reserve, Palayamkottai.

- Register number: TN 76 CW 0005
- Case reference: Civil Appeal No. 8513 of 2012 / (2013) 1 SCC 598; AIR 2013 SC 14
- Court and date: Supreme Court of India (Coram: K.S. Radhakrishnan, Dipak Misra, JJ.), 30 November 2012
- Officer(s) at the material time: Police Constable (PC 388), Armed Reserve, Palayamkottai
- Present service status: Recorded in the cited sources as dismissed from service.
- Provisions invoked: Section 509 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 4 of the Tamil Nadu Prohibition of Eve-Teasing Act, 1998
- Finding of the Court (extract): “We are in this case concerned with a situation where a member of the law enforcement agency, a police personnel, himself was caught in the act of eve-teasing of a married woman leading to criminal and disciplinary proceeding, ending in …” (at para 3)
- 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://api.sci.gov.in/jonew/judis/39774.pdf); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2012-0037)

**Record:** CW-2012-0037 (compiler id CWC-1118); case GAP3-131-001
**Title:** Deputy Inspector General of Police & Anr. v. \[name withheld\]
**Court:** Supreme Court of India; judges: K.S. Radhakrishnan; Dipak Misra
**Case number / citation:** Civil Appeal No. 8513 of 2012 / (2013) 1 SCC 598; AIR 2013 SC 14
**Judgment:** 2012-11-30 (2012, day precision)
**Incident date:** 1999-07-09 (1999)
**Place:** Tenkasi, Tamil Nadu (district at time: Tirunelveli); city town: Tenkasi; police station or unit: Tenkasi Police Station; force: state_police
**Category:** Other misconduct
**Sub-category:** other
**Outcome:** Disciplinary action upheld (disciplinary_upheld)
**Sections:** IPC 509; Tamil Nadu Prohibition of Eve-Teasing Act 1998 s.4
**Officers (gated display forms):** Police Constable (PC 388), Armed Reserve, Palayamkottai (1 in record)
**Victims:** Tenkasi woman (1 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** dismissal
**Sentence type:** dismissal (dismissal)

On 9 July 1999 the respondent, an Armed Reserve police constable on Courtallam-season bandobust duty, went to Tenkasi bus stand in a drunken state and eve-teased a married woman waiting with her husband, threatening to book a case against the husband; he was taken into custody by head constables on night duty and dismissed from service on 4 January 2000 after disciplinary proceedings. He was acquitted in the criminal case under Section 509 IPC and the Tamil Nadu Prohibition of Eve-Teasing Act, and the Madras High Court set aside the dismissal and ordered reinstatement with back wages. The Supreme Court held the criminal acquittal was on technical grounds rather than honourable and no bar to the departmental penalty, allowed the State appeal, set aside the High Court judgment and restored the dismissal. The Court additionally issued eight directions to States and Union Territories to curb eve-teasing. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> We are in this case concerned with a situation where a member of the law enforcement agency, a police personnel, himself was caught in the act of eve-teasing of a married woman leading to criminal and disciplinary proceeding, ending in his dismissal from service, the legality of which is the subject matter of this appeal.

**Sources (2):** [api.sci.gov.in](https://api.sci.gov.in/jonew/judis/39774.pdf); [casemine.com](https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/5609af1be4b0149711415a01)
**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:** 3
**display title redacted:** Deputy Inspector General of Police & Anr. v. \[name withheld\]
**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': '2012-11-30', 'action_type': 'Order issued', 'status': 'Concluded', 'authority': 'Supreme Court of India', 'independence': 'External', 'legal_effect': 'Binding', 'description': 'The Supreme Court of India upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.', 'disposition': 'Disciplinary action · Procedural only', 'source': '(2013) 1 SCC 598; AIR 2013 SC 14', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://api.sci.gov.in/jonew/judis/39774.pdf', 'link_checked': None}; {'url': 'https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/5609af1be4b0149711415a01', '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:** SC allowed State appeal; dismissal of constable for drunk on-duty eve-teasing restored.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Disciplinary action upheld.

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