# The State of Bihar and Others vs Patna Police Constable and others

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## Report card

By judgment dated 16 November 2016 in Letters Patent Appeal No. 516 of 2014 (arising out of CWJC No. 471 of 2004), the Patna High Court (Coram: Hemant Gupta, Ahsanuddin Amanullah, JJ.) upheld the disciplinary action taken against the Constable, Dog Squad, Crime Investigation Department (CID), Bihar, Patna.

- Register number: BR 01 CW 0008
- Case reference: Letters Patent Appeal No. 516 of 2014 (arising out of CWJC No. 471 of 2004)
- Court and date: Patna High Court (Coram: Hemant Gupta, Ahsanuddin Amanullah, JJ.), 16 November 2016
- Officer(s) at the material time: Constable, Dog Squad, Crime Investigation Department (CID), Bihar, Patna
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Not stated in the cited sources
- Finding of the Court (extract): “The respondent was caught with Rs. 40,000/- by the raiding party and taken into custody” (at para 2)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum: Disciplinary action upheld. Sentence: dismissal.
- Present status of the proceedings: Supreme Court of India, 23 April 2025: conviction set aside.
- Source orders: [Judgment / order (primary source)](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/96641301/); [Supreme Court of India order](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/120966011/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2016-0008)

**Record:** CW-2016-0008 (compiler id CWC-0046); case BIHAR1-009
**Title:** The State of Bihar and Others vs Patna Police Constable and others
**Court:** Patna High Court; judges: Hemant Gupta; Ahsanuddin Amanullah
**Case number / citation:** Letters Patent Appeal No. 516 of 2014 (arising out of CWJC No. 471 of 2004)
**Judgment:** 2016-11-16 (2016, day precision)
**Incident date:** 1988-08-08 (1988)
**Place:** Patna, Bihar; city town: Patna; police station or unit: Dog Squad, CID, Bihar, Patna; force: state_police
**Category:** Bribery & extortion
**Sub-category:** extortion
**Outcome:** Disciplinary action upheld (disciplinary_upheld)
**Officers (gated display forms):** Constable, Dog Squad, Crime Investigation Department (CID), Bihar, Patna (1 in record)
**Victims:** Patna resident (1 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** dismissal
**Sentence type:** dismissal (dismissal)

A Division Bench of the Patna High Court restored the dismissal of CID Dog Squad constable \[name withheld\], caught red-handed with Rs 40,000 blackmail money by a raiding party on 8 August 1988. Though convicted in the criminal case in 1994 and acquitted on appeal in 1996, he was dismissed after a departmental enquiry, a penalty affirmed in appeal and memorial but set aside by a Single Judge in 2013. The Division Bench held the Single Judge had impermissibly re-appreciated evidence, found no procedural infirmity on perusing the original file, and held criminal acquittal does not conclude departmental proceedings. The LPA was allowed and the writ dismissed. Later proceedings: on 23 April 2025, the Supreme Court of India set aside the order recorded in this judgment (concerning \[name withheld\] \[name withheld\]); the outcome recorded here therefore does not stand. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> The respondent was caught with Rs. 40,000/- by the raiding party and taken into custody

**Sources (1):** [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/96641301/)
**Verification:** V2 · Externally reported
**Review:** Solo Staff combined review (one combined attestation) — not yet recorded
**admin category:** corruption
**admin subcategory:** extortion
**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:** 2
**display title redacted:** The State of Bihar and Others vs Patna Police Constable and others
**final outcome url:** https://indiankanoon.org/doc/120966011/
**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': '2016-11-16', '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': 'Letters Patent Appeal No. 516 of 2014 (arising out of CWJC No. 471 of 2004)', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}; {'date': '2025-04-23', 'action_type': 'Order set aside', 'status': 'Concluded', 'authority': 'Supreme Court of India', 'independence': 'External', 'legal_effect': 'Binding', 'description': 'Later proceedings: on 23 April 2025, the Supreme Court of India set aside the order recorded in this judgment (concerning \[name withheld\] \[name withheld\]); the outcome recorded here therefore does not stand.', 'disposition': 'Later proceeding · Conviction not standing', 'source': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/120966011/', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**later proceedings:** {'court': 'Supreme Court of India', 'date': '2025-04-23', 'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/120966011/', 'outcome': 'conviction_set_aside'}
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/96641301/', 'link_checked': None}
**retracted:** {"is_retracted": false}
**service:** police
**source assessment:** {"established": null, "basis": null}
**status:** overturned
**subcategory display:** extortion
**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:** LPA allowed; dismissal for Rs 40,000 blackmail restored, criminal acquittal held no bar.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Disciplinary action upheld.

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