# Bokaro Police personnel v. State of Jharkhand and Others

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## Report card

By judgment dated 7 January 2019 in W.P.(S) No. 779 of 2016, the Jharkhand High Court (Coram: Ananda Sen, J.) upheld the disciplinary action taken against the Police personnel, Bokaro district police.

- Register number: JH 09 CW 0007
- Case reference: W.P.(S) No. 779 of 2016
- Court and date: Jharkhand High Court (Coram: Ananda Sen, J.), 7 January 2019
- Officer(s) at the material time: Police personnel, Bokaro district police
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Not stated in the cited sources
- Finding of the Court (extract): “The petitioner was charge sheeted on the ground that he, being a police official, was found collecting money from the truck drivers and when he was caught red-handed, he has declared his false identity and suppressed his actual identity. On …” (at para n/a)
- 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/33569271/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2019-0022)

**Record:** CW-2019-0022 (compiler id CWC-1048); case GAP3-106-004
**Title:** Bokaro Police personnel v. State of Jharkhand and Others
**Court:** Jharkhand High Court; judges: Ananda Sen
**Case number / citation:** W.P.(S) No. 779 of 2016
**Judgment:** 2019-01-07 (2019, day precision)
**Incident date:** Not stated (1996)
**Place:** Bokaro, Jharkhand; city town: Bokaro; police station or unit: Bokaro district police; force: state_police
**Category:** Bribery & extortion
**Sub-category:** extortion
**Outcome:** Disciplinary action upheld (disciplinary_upheld)
**Officers (gated display forms):** Police personnel, Bokaro district police (1 in record)
**Victims:** Not stated (0 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** dismissal
**Sentence type:** dismissal (dismissal)

Police official \[name withheld\] was dismissed on 14.09.1996 by the Superintendent of Police, Bokaro (then in undivided Bihar), after a departmental inquiry found he collected money from truck drivers and declared a false identity when caught red-handed; his appeal (1997) and memorial (1998) were rejected. He sought parity with three others exonerated in the same inquiry. The Court held he had repeatedly failed to appear despite opportunities, the punishment commensurated with the charge and was not disproportionate, and concurrent findings disclosed no illegality. The writ application was dismissed. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> The petitioner was charge sheeted on the ground that he, being a police official, was found collecting money from the truck drivers and when he was caught red-handed, he has declared his false identity and suppressed his actual identity. On this basis, a departmental proceeding was initiated against him.

**Sources (1):** [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/33569271/)
**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:** n/a
**display title redacted:** Bokaro Police personnel v. 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': '2019-01-07', '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': 'W.P.(S) No. 779 of 2016', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/33569271/', '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:** Judgment verified on Indian Kanoon; writ dismissed, dismissal for extortion upheld.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Disciplinary action upheld.

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