29 Mar 2016
Order issued
ConcludedThe Patna High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.
Disciplinary action · Procedural only.
Source: Letters Patent Appeal No. 1790 of 2012
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CW-2016-0021Saran, BiharJudgment 29 March 2016
The State of Bihar and Others vs Government Railway Police Constable
[name withheld], a Government Railway Police constable attached to Railway Police Station Chapra, was dismissed in November 2005 after an enquiry found he had boarded a running train in uniform and extorted money from passengers. A Single Bench upheld the guilt finding but set aside the dismissal on hardship grounds, and the State appealed. The Division Bench held that dismissal for such grave misconduct by one meant to protect citizens could not be called disproportionate. The appeal was allowed, the Single Bench relief set aside, and the dismissal restored.
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By judgment dated 29 March 2016 in Letters Patent Appeal No. 1790 of 2012, the Patna High Court (Coram: Navaniti Prasad Singh, Nilu Agrawal, JJ.) upheld the disciplinary action taken against the Constable, Government Railway Police, Chapra.
- Register number
- BR 04 CW 0001
- Case reference
- Letters Patent Appeal No. 1790 of 2012
- Court and date
- Patna High Court (Coram: Navaniti Prasad Singh, Nilu Agrawal, JJ.), 29 March 2016
- Officer(s) at the material time
- Constable, Government Railway Police, Chapra
- Present service status
- Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked
- Not stated in the cited sources
- Finding of the Court (extract)
- “When we look to the facts of the present case, the delinquency is grave. An Officer of Uniformed Service(Constable) gets into a running Train and starts extorting money from the passengers and is apprehended there itself.” (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.
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Current position
The Patna High Court judgment dated 29 March 2016 is the concluded position shown in the cited sources.
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“When we look to the facts of the present case, the delinquency is grave. An Officer of Uniformed Service(Constable) gets into a running Train and starts extorting money from the passengers and is apprehended there itself.” (para 5)
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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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