# Gomoh Police Constable vs The State of Jharkhand

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## Report card

By judgment dated 12 December 2014 in W.P.(S) No. 104 of 2006, the Jharkhand High Court (Coram: Aparesh Kumar Singh, J.) upheld the disciplinary action taken against the Constable, Gomoh Railway Police Station.

- Register number: JH 10 CW 0004
- Case reference: W.P.(S) No. 104 of 2006 / (2015) 3 JLJR 78
- Court and date: Jharkhand High Court (Coram: Aparesh Kumar Singh, J.), 12 December 2014
- Officer(s) at the material time: Constable, Gomoh Railway Police Station
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Not stated in the cited sources
- Finding of the Court (extract): “He actually appears to have threatened by misuse of his official arms his own superior i.e. Officer Incharge with an intention to kill and it further appears that such an instance took place in the busy place which is adjacent …” (at para 11-12)
- 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/481717/mahesh-singh-appellant-hash-the-state-of-jharkhand-respondent/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2014-0037)

**Record:** CW-2014-0037 (compiler id CWC-0990); case GAP3-104-005
**Title:** Gomoh Police Constable vs The State of Jharkhand
**Court:** Jharkhand High Court; judges: Aparesh Kumar Singh
**Case number / citation:** W.P.(S) No. 104 of 2006 / (2015) 3 JLJR 78
**Judgment:** 2014-12-12 (2014, day precision)
**Incident date:** 2000-12-24 (2000)
**Place:** Dhanbad, Jharkhand; city town: Gomoh; police station or unit: Gomoh Railway Police Station; force: railway
**Category:** Other misconduct
**Sub-category:** other
**Outcome:** Disciplinary action upheld (disciplinary_upheld)
**Officers (gated display forms):** Constable, Gomoh Railway Police Station (1 in record)
**Victims:** Gomoh resident; Gomoh resident (2 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** dismissal
**Sentence type:** dismissal (dismissal)

The judgment of the Jharkhand High Court records the following account. Constable of Gomoh Railway Police Station faced 11 charges arising from incidents including 24 December 2000, when he allegedly loaded his service rifle, threatened the Officer Incharge and reader, aimed the rifle at the Officer Incharge with intent to shoot, and chased the reader onto a crowded platform. Three of four departmental witnesses supported the charges, and he was dismissed in June 2003, with his appeal and memorial rejected. The Jharkhand High Court found the charges established after due compliance with natural justice and held that threatening a superior with official arms amounts to serious indiscipline no uniformed force must condone. The Court rejected the pleas of provocation and disproportionality and dismissed the writ petition. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> He actually appears to have threatened by misuse of his official arms his own superior i.e. Officer Incharge with an intention to kill and it further appears that such an instance took place in the busy place which is adjacent to the platform. In such circumstances, it cannot also be said that the petitioner has been imposed with a disproportionate punishment as such acts of indiscipline in uniform police force should not be condoned.

**Sources (1):** [courtkutchehry.com](https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/481717/mahesh-singh-appellant-hash-the-state-of-jharkhand-respondent/)
**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:** 11-12
**display title redacted:** Gomoh Police Constable vs The State of Jharkhand
**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': '2014-12-12', 'action_type': 'Order issued', 'status': 'Concluded', 'authority': 'Jharkhand High Court', 'independence': 'External', 'legal_effect': 'Binding', 'description': 'The Jharkhand High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.', 'disposition': 'Disciplinary action · Procedural only', 'source': '(2015) 3 JLJR 78', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/481717/mahesh-singh-appellant-hash-the-state-of-jharkhand-respondent/', '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:** Jharkhand HC dismissed writ; dismissal for aiming service rifle at superior with intent to shoot upheld.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Disciplinary action upheld.

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