# Chhattisgarh Police Police Constable vs State of Madhya Pradesh (now Chhattisgarh)

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## Report card

By judgment dated 11 November 2014 in Writ Petition No. 194 of 2005, the Chhattisgarh High Court (Coram: Navin Sinha, J.) upheld the disciplinary action taken against the Police Constable.

- Register number: CG 00 CW 0003
- Case reference: Writ Petition No. 194 of 2005 / (2015) LabIC 1428; (2014) 11 CHH CK 0050
- Court and date: Chhattisgarh High Court (Coram: Navin Sinha, J.), 11 November 2014
- Officer(s) at the material time: Police Constable
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Not stated in the cited sources
- Finding of the Court (extract): “Discipline is the hallmark of an uniformed service. While a long period of absence for a civilian post may not have as serious consequence as a single day's absence can have for a uniformed force.” (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.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/899539/ravi-kumar-shrivastava-vs-state-of-madhya-pradesh-now-chhat/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2014-0033)

**Record:** CW-2014-0033 (compiler id CWC-1258); case GAP3-77-007
**Title:** Chhattisgarh Police Police Constable vs State of Madhya Pradesh (now Chhattisgarh)
**Court:** Chhattisgarh High Court; judges: Navin Sinha
**Case number / citation:** Writ Petition No. 194 of 2005 / (2015) LabIC 1428; (2014) 11 CHH CK 0050
**Judgment:** 2014-11-11 (2014, day precision)
**Incident date:** 1988-10-21 (1988)
**Place:** Chhattisgarh; force: state_police
**Category:** Other misconduct
**Sub-category:** other
**Outcome:** Disciplinary action upheld (disciplinary_upheld)
**Officers (gated display forms):** Police Constable (1 in record)
**Victims:** Not stated (0 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** dismissal
**Sentence type:** dismissal (dismissal)

The judgment of the Chhattisgarh High Court records the following account. Police Constable was served a three-charge memo on 3 April 1989 alleging 75 days of unauthorized absence from 21 October 1988 to 4 January 1989, uncultured language toward the department, and incorrigibility despite earlier punishments. He never participated in the departmental enquiry, which proceeded ex parte on five witnesses and eight documents and found charges 1 and 3 proved, leading to dismissal on 9 September 1989. He contended that regularization of the absence period against unearned leave wiped out the charge. The Chhattisgarh High Court held the regularization order merely adjusted leave and did not recall the dismissal, that the punishment was severably sustainable on charges 1 and 3, and that discipline in a uniformed service should not be lightly interfered with, dismissing the writ petition. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> Discipline is the hallmark of an uniformed service. While a long period of absence for a civilian post may not have as serious consequence as a single day's absence can have for a uniformed force.

**Sources (2):** [courtkutchehry.com](https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/899539/ravi-kumar-shrivastava-vs-state-of-madhya-pradesh-now-chhat/); (2015) LabIC 1428
**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:** Chhattisgarh Police Police Constable vs State of Madhya Pradesh (now Chhattisgarh)
**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': '2014-11-11', 'action_type': 'Order issued', 'status': 'Concluded', 'authority': 'Chhattisgarh High Court', 'independence': 'External', 'legal_effect': 'Binding', 'description': 'The Chhattisgarh High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.', 'disposition': 'Disciplinary action · Procedural only', 'source': '(2015) LabIC 1428; (2014) 11 CHH CK 0050', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/899539/ravi-kumar-shrivastava-vs-state-of-madhya-pradesh-now-chhat/', 'link_checked': None}; {'url': '(2015) LabIC 1428', '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:** CG HC sustained dismissal of police constable for 75 days unauthorized absence and incorrigibility; purely internal-discipline matter with no citizen victim.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Disciplinary action upheld.

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