# The State of Bihar and Others vs Government Railway Police Constable

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## Report card

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.
- Source orders: [Judgment / order (primary source)](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/136354547/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2016-0021)

**Record:** CW-2016-0021 (compiler id CWC-1015); case GAP3-105-016
**Title:** The State of Bihar and Others vs Government Railway Police Constable
**Court:** Patna High Court; judges: Navaniti Prasad Singh; Nilu Agrawal
**Case number / citation:** Letters Patent Appeal No. 1790 of 2012
**Judgment:** 2016-03-29 (2016, day precision)
**Incident date:** Not stated
**Place:** Saran, Bihar; city town: Chapra; police station or unit: Government Railway Police, Railway P.S. Chapra; force: state_police
**Category:** Bribery & extortion
**Sub-category:** extortion
**Outcome:** Disciplinary action upheld (disciplinary_upheld)
**Officers (gated display forms):** Constable, Government Railway Police, Chapra (1 in record)
**Victims:** Not stated
**Sentence / compensation:** dismissal
**Sentence type:** dismissal (dismissal)

\[name withheld\], 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.

> 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.

**Sources (1):** [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/136354547/)
**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:** 5
**display title redacted:** The State of Bihar and Others vs Government Railway Police Constable
**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': '2016-03-29', '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. 1790 of 2012', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/136354547/', 'link_checked': None}
**retracted:** {"is_retracted": false}
**service:** police
**source assessment:** {"established": null, "basis": null}
**status:** current
**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:** Patna HC Division Bench allowed the State appeal and restored the GRP constable dismissal for extorting passengers.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Disciplinary action upheld.

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