# Gwalior Police Constable and others vs State of Madhya Pradesh

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## Report card

By judgment dated 3 January 2018 in Writ Petition No. 3479 of 2015, the Madhya Pradesh High Court (Coram: Sanjay Yadav, J.) upheld the disciplinary action taken against the Constable, District Executive Force, Gwalior.

- Register number: MP 07 CW 0008
- Case reference: Writ Petition No. 3479 of 2015
- Court and date: Madhya Pradesh High Court (Coram: Sanjay Yadav, J.), 3 January 2018
- Officer(s) at the material time: Constable, District Executive Force, Gwalior
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Not stated in the cited sources
- Finding of the Court (extract): “this Court declines to interfere with the punishment meted out to the petitioner.” (at para 13)
- 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/35598633/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2018-0020)

**Record:** CW-2018-0020 (compiler id CWC-1262); case GAP3-79-001
**Title:** Gwalior Police Constable and others vs State of Madhya Pradesh
**Court:** Madhya Pradesh High Court; bench: Gwalior; judges: Sanjay Yadav
**Case number / citation:** Writ Petition No. 3479 of 2015
**Judgment:** 2018-01-03 (2018, day precision)
**Incident date:** 2014-05-13 (2014)
**Place:** Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh; city town: Gwalior; police station or unit: District Executive Force, Gwalior (hospital guard duty, J.A. Hospital); force: state_police
**Category:** Other misconduct
**Sub-category:** dereliction evidence tampering
**Outcome:** Disciplinary action upheld (disciplinary_upheld)
**Officers (gated display forms):** Constable, District Executive Force, Gwalior (1 in record)
**Victims:** Not stated (0 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** dismissal
**Sentence type:** dismissal (dismissal)

The judgment of the Madhya Pradesh High Court records the following account. Constable \[name withheld\] was on guard duty over undertrial Pradeep Rathore in the general ward of J.A. Hospital, Gwalior, when the undertrial escaped between 3 am and 6 am on 13 May 2014. The department found he left his post to answer nature's call without informing a fellow constable, and dismissed him from service; the appeal was affirmed. The court held the joint enquiry under Rule 18 of the 1966 CCA Rules was valid, the enquiry officer had not acted as prosecutor, and the petitioner was solely guilty of dereliction. It declined to interfere with the dismissal and dismissed the writ petition. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> this Court declines to interfere with the punishment meted out to the petitioner.

**Sources (1):** [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/35598633/)
**Verification:** V2 · Externally reported
**Review:** Solo Staff combined review (one combined attestation) — not yet recorded
**admin category:** misconduct
**admin subcategory:** dereliction_evidence_tampering
**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:** 13
**display title redacted:** Gwalior Police Constable and others vs State of Madhya Pradesh
**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': '2018-01-03', '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. 3479 of 2015', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/35598633/', 'link_checked': None}
**retracted:** {"is_retracted": false}
**service:** police
**source assessment:** {"established": null, "basis": null}
**status:** current
**subcategory display:** dereliction evidence tampering
**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:** Dismissal of guard constable for undertrial's escape upheld; dereliction proved.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Disciplinary action upheld.

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