# Bhopal Police Constable vs The State of M.P.

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## Report card

By judgment dated 23 May 2017 in Writ Petition No. 23175 of 2003, the Madhya Pradesh High Court (Coram: Vijay Kumar Shukla, J.) upheld the disciplinary action taken against the Constable, Police Station Mishrod, Bhopal.

- Register number: MP 01 CW 0007
- Case reference: Writ Petition No. 23175 of 2003
- Court and date: Madhya Pradesh High Court (Coram: Vijay Kumar Shukla, J.), 23 May 2017
- Officer(s) at the material time: Constable, Police Station Mishrod, Bhopal
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Section 376 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860
- Finding of the Court (extract): “I do not find any illegality and perversity of approach in the impugned order warranting interference of this Court in writ jurisdiction and the same being impregnable deserves to and are given stamp of approval of this Court.” (at para 21)
- 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/28000019/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2017-0025)

**Record:** CW-2017-0025 (compiler id CWC-1260); case GAP3-78-001
**Title:** Bhopal Police Constable vs The State of M.P.
**Court:** Madhya Pradesh High Court; judges: Vijay Kumar Shukla
**Case number / citation:** Writ Petition No. 23175 of 2003
**Judgment:** 2017-05-23 (2017, day precision)
**Incident date:** 1988-01-01 (1988)
**Place:** Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh; city town: Bhopal; police station or unit: Police Station Mishrod, Bhopal; force: state_police
**Category:** Other misconduct
**Sub-category:** other
**Outcome:** Disciplinary action upheld (disciplinary_upheld)
**Sections:** IPC 376
**Officers (gated display forms):** Constable, Police Station Mishrod, Bhopal (1 in record)
**Victims:** Bhopal girl, age 14 (1 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** dismissal
**Sentence type:** dismissal (dismissal)

The judgment of the Madhya Pradesh High Court records the following account. Constable, posted at Police Station Mishrod, Bhopal, was charge-sheeted in February 1988 for pursuing a 14-year-old girl, developing physical relations with her, and thereby causing her pregnancy and delivery of a child. He was acquitted in the criminal case under Section 376 IPC on 7 March 1992 as the prosecution failed to prove the prosecutrix was below 16, after which the department held a fresh enquiry and the Superintendent of Police, Bhopal dismissed him on 11 January 1993, affirmed by the DIG and DGP. The Madhya Pradesh High Court held the victim's firm statement of forcible intercourse under threats, corroborated by her parents with no previous enmity, sustained the enquiry findings, and that a benefit-of-doubt acquittal applying the criminal standard of proof does not bar departmental action. The Court held involvement in a Section 376 case itself impaired the image of the disciplined police force, gave its stamp of approval to the dismissal, and dismissed the writ petition. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> I do not find any illegality and perversity of approach in the impugned order warranting interference of this Court in writ jurisdiction and the same being impregnable deserves to and are given stamp of approval of this Court.

**Sources (1):** [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/28000019/)
**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:** 21
**display title redacted:** Bhopal Police Constable vs The State of M.P.
**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': '2017-05-23', 'action_type': 'Order issued', 'status': 'Concluded', 'authority': 'Madhya Pradesh High Court', 'independence': 'External', 'legal_effect': 'Binding', 'description': 'The Madhya Pradesh High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.', 'disposition': 'Disciplinary action · Procedural only', 'source': 'Writ Petition No. 23175 of 2003', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/28000019/', '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:** MP HC (Jabalpur) upheld dismissal of Mishrod PS constable for sexual exploitation of 14-year-old resulting in pregnancy; criminal acquittal on age-doubt held no bar to departmental action.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Disciplinary action upheld.

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