# Devendra Kumar vs State of Uttaranchal and Others

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## Report card

By judgment dated 29 July 2013 in Civil Appeal (against Special Appeal No. 16 of 2003, Uttarakhand High Court), the Supreme Court of India (Coram: B.S. Chauhan, S.A. Bobde, JJ.) upheld the disciplinary action taken against the Devendra Kumar (Constable (recruit, 2001 batch)).

- Register number: UK 00 CW 0001
- Case reference: Civil Appeal (against Special Appeal No. 16 of 2003, Uttarakhand High Court) / (2013) 9 SCC 363
- Court and date: Supreme Court of India (Coram: B.S. Chauhan, S.A. Bobde, JJ.), 29 July 2013
- Officer(s) at the material time: Devendra Kumar (Constable (recruit, 2001 batch))
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Not stated in the cited sources
- Finding of the Court (extract): “The case pending against a person might not involve moral turpitude but suppressing of this information itself amounts to moral turpitude.” (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.
- Source orders: [Judgment / order (primary source)](https://www.lawweb.in/2014/01/suppression-of-material-information.html?m=1); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2013-0009)

**Record:** CW-2013-0009 (compiler id CWC-0413); case UTTARA-010
**Title:** Devendra Kumar vs State of Uttaranchal and Others
**Court:** Supreme Court of India; judges: B.S. Chauhan; S.A. Bobde
**Case number / citation:** Civil Appeal (against Special Appeal No. 16 of 2003, Uttarakhand High Court) / (2013) 9 SCC 363
**Judgment:** 2013-07-29 (2013, day precision)
**Incident date:** 2001-10-18 (2001)
**Place:** Uttarakhand; police station or unit: Uttarakhand Police (2001 constable recruitment; training from 18.10.2001); force: state_police
**Category:** Other misconduct
**Sub-category:** other
**Outcome:** Disciplinary action upheld (disciplinary_upheld)
**Officers (gated display forms):** Devendra Kumar (Constable (recruit, 2001 batch)) (1 in record)
**Victims:** Not stated (0 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** dismissal
**Sentence type:** dismissal (dismissal)

The judgment of the Supreme Court of India records the following account. Devendra Kumar was selected as a constable in Uttarakhand's September 2001 recruitment and sent for training on 18 October 2001, submitting an affidavit that he had never been involved in any criminal case. Character verification in January 2002 revealed he had in fact been involved in a criminal case in which a final report was later accepted, and he was discharged in April 2002 as a temporary servant. A Single Judge and then a Division Bench of the Uttarakhand High Court upheld the discharge. The Supreme Court dismissed his appeal, holding that suppression of material information sought by the employer itself amounts to moral turpitude and fraud, so the termination was proper and called for no interference.

> The case pending against a person might not involve moral turpitude but suppressing of this information itself amounts to moral turpitude.

**Sources (2):** [lawweb.in](https://www.lawweb.in/2014/01/suppression-of-material-information.html?m=1); [casemine.com](https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/5609af35e4b0149711415d2d)
**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:** 10
**display title redacted:** Devendra Kumar vs State of Uttaranchal 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': '2013-07-29', '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) 9 SCC 363', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://www.lawweb.in/2014/01/suppression-of-material-information.html?m=1', 'link_checked': None}; {'url': 'https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/5609af35e4b0149711415d2d', '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 upheld discharge of constable-recruit for suppressing criminal antecedents in affidavit.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Disciplinary action upheld.

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