17 Dec 2014
Order issued
ConcludedThe Jharkhand High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.
Disciplinary action · Procedural only.
Source: (2014) 12 JH CK 0117
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CW-2014-0038Dhanbad, JharkhandJudgment 17 December 2014
Chirkunda Police Constable vs State of Jharkhand and Others
The judgment of the Jharkhand High Court records the following account. Constable, appointed in the Gumla District Police in 1999 and posted at Chirkunda Police Station, Dhanbad, was charged with reporting for and remaining on duty in a drunken state and abusing colleagues and the public during 2009-2010. A regular departmental enquiry, supported by the Officer Incharge's evidence and four prior punishments for similar conduct, proved the charges, and he was dismissed in April 2010 with his appeal rejected. The Jharkhand High Court found he had been given repeated opportunities but chose not to appear, and held his conduct unfit for a government servant under the Conduct Rules. The Court declined to reappraise concurrent findings under Article 226 and dismissed the writ petition. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.
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By judgment dated 17 December 2014 in W.P.(S) No. 2486 of 2013, the Jharkhand High Court (Coram: Sujit Narayan Prasad, J.) upheld the disciplinary action taken against the Constable, Chirkunda Police Station, Dhanbad.
- Register number
- JH 10 CW 0005
- Case reference
- W.P.(S) No. 2486 of 2013 / (2014) 12 JH CK 0117
- Court and date
- Jharkhand High Court (Coram: Sujit Narayan Prasad, J.), 17 December 2014
- Officer(s) at the material time
- Constable, Chirkunda Police Station, Dhanbad
- Present service status
- Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked
- Rule 3 of the Bihar Jharkhand Servant Conduct Rules, 1976; Rule 4 of the Bihar Jharkhand Servant Conduct Rules, 1976
- Finding of the Court (extract)
- “Considering the nature of allegation it can be safely said that the conduct of the petitioner is not fit to be a government servant. On perusal of record it appears that sufficient opportunity of being heard had been given to …” (at para n/a)
- 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.
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Current position
The Jharkhand High Court judgment dated 17 December 2014 is the concluded position shown in the cited sources.
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What the court found
Holding not recorded separately.
“Considering the nature of allegation it can be safely said that the conduct of the petitioner is not fit to be a government servant. On perusal of record it appears that sufficient opportunity of being heard had been given to …” (para n/a)
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19 Sep 2026
(Round-8 full re-verification: published record re-checked against the judgment text (outcome, officers, quote, key facts) plus methodology-compliance pass; skills-guided adversarial re-verification of the published record against the judgment text (reverify/t1-*/adversarial-8.jsonl))
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