# Jharkhand Police Constable vs The State of Jharkhand and Others

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## Report card

By judgment dated 12 January 2016 in L.P.A. No. 82 of 2015, the Jharkhand High Court (Coram: Virender Singh, P. P. Bhatt, JJ.) upheld the disciplinary action taken against the Constable, Jharkhand Police, Tiger Mobile, Dhanbad.

- Register number: JH 10 CW 0009
- Case reference: L.P.A. No. 82 of 2015
- Court and date: Jharkhand High Court (Coram: Virender Singh, P. P. Bhatt, JJ.), 12 January 2016
- Officer(s) at the material time: Constable, Jharkhand Police, Tiger Mobile, Dhanbad
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Not stated in the cited sources
- Finding of the Court (extract): “Viewed thus, the appeal on hand merits dismissal being devoid of any merit in it.” (at para 5)
- 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/104442173/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2016-0012)

**Record:** CW-2016-0012 (compiler id CWC-1040); case GAP3-105-041
**Title:** Jharkhand Police Constable vs The State of Jharkhand and Others
**Court:** Jharkhand High Court; judges: Virender Singh; P. P. Bhatt
**Case number / citation:** L.P.A. No. 82 of 2015
**Judgment:** 2016-01-12 (2016, day precision)
**Incident date:** Not stated
**Place:** Dhanbad, Jharkhand; city town: Dhanbad; police station or unit: Tiger Mobile, Dhanbad; force: state_police
**Category:** Other misconduct
**Sub-category:** other
**Outcome:** Disciplinary action upheld (disciplinary_upheld)
**Officers (gated display forms):** Constable, Jharkhand Police, Tiger Mobile, Dhanbad (1 in record)
**Victims:** Not stated (0 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** dismissal
**Sentence type:** dismissal (dismissal)

The Jharkhand High Court Division Bench, condoning 17 days delay, dismissed the Letters Patent Appeal of Tiger Mobile constable against his dismissal dated 31 March 2010. The court found a regular departmental enquiry with medical evidence proved he consumed liquor on duty and, in a drunken state, pointed the government revolver at a fellow constable, constituting gross indiscipline on its face. The court held the writ court order of 12 December 2014 suffered from no infirmity on facts or law, with two authorities concurrently affirming the dismissal. The dismissal therefore stands. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> Viewed thus, the appeal on hand merits dismissal being devoid of any merit in it.

**Sources (1):** [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/104442173/)
**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:** 5
**display title redacted:** Jharkhand Police Constable vs The State of Jharkhand 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': '2016-01-12', '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': 'L.P.A. No. 82 of 2015', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/104442173/', '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:** Division Bench dismissed LPA; dismissal for on-duty drunkenness and pointing service revolver upheld.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Disciplinary action upheld.

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