# Motihari District Police Constable vs The State of Bihar and Others

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## Report card

By judgment dated 27 November 2015 in Civil Review No. 124 of 2014 in L.P.A. No. 227 of 2012, the Patna High Court (Coram: I. A. Ansari, Ashwani Kumar Singh, JJ.) upheld the disciplinary action taken against the Constable, Motihari District Police, Bihar Police.

- Register number: BR 05 CW 0002
- Case reference: Civil Review No. 124 of 2014 in L.P.A. No. 227 of 2012
- Court and date: Patna High Court (Coram: I. A. Ansari, Ashwani Kumar Singh, JJ.), 27 November 2015
- Officer(s) at the material time: Constable, Motihari District Police, Bihar Police
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Section 364A of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 34 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 120B of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section Order XLVII Rule 1 of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908
- Finding of the Court (extract): “The application, being devoid of any merit, is dismissed.” (at para 15)
- 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://indiankanoon.org/doc/2275886/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2015-0036)

**Record:** CW-2015-0036 (compiler id CWC-1013); case GAP3-105-014
**Title:** Motihari District Police Constable vs The State of Bihar and Others
**Court:** Patna High Court; judges: I. A. Ansari; Ashwani Kumar Singh
**Case number / citation:** Civil Review No. 124 of 2014 in L.P.A. No. 227 of 2012
**Judgment:** 2015-11-27 (2015, day precision)
**Incident date:** 2002-02-13 (2002)
**Place:** East Champaran, Bihar; city town: Raxaul; police station or unit: Motihari District Police (Raxaul P.S. Case No. 20 of 2002); force: state_police
**Category:** Other misconduct
**Sub-category:** other
**Outcome:** Disciplinary action upheld (disciplinary_upheld)
**Sections:** IPC 364A; IPC 34; IPC 120B; CPC Order XLVII Rule 1
**Officers (gated display forms):** Constable, Motihari District Police, Bihar Police (1 in record)
**Victims:** Raxaul resident (1 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** dismissal
**Sentence type:** dismissal (dismissal)

The judgment of the Patna High Court records the following account. \[name withheld\], a 1999-recruited Bihar Police constable posted at Motihari, sought review of the dismissal of his appeal against the termination of his service for complicity in the February 2002 kidnapping of a Raxaul resident for ransom. The court recorded that a departmental enquiry had found his home telephone was used in the crime, the victim was kept at his house, and he associated with a known criminal, leading the DGP to enhance an initial minor penalty to dismissal in January 2006. The court held the review was merely an attempt at a re-hearing on merits beyond Order XLVII Rule 1 CPC and disclosed no error apparent. The review application was dismissed as devoid of merit, and the dismissal stands. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> The application, being devoid of any merit, is dismissed.

**Sources (1):** [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/2275886/)
**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:** 15
**display title redacted:** Motihari District Police Constable vs The State of Bihar 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': '2015-11-27', 'action_type': 'Order issued', 'status': 'Concluded', 'authority': 'Patna High Court', 'independence': 'External', 'legal_effect': 'Binding', 'description': 'The Patna High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.', 'disposition': 'Disciplinary action · Procedural only', 'source': 'Civil Review No. 124 of 2014 in L.P.A. No. 227 of 2012', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/2275886/', '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:** Patna HC dismissed the review; dismissal of constable for complicity in kidnapping for ransom stands.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Disciplinary action upheld.

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