29 Apr 2019
Order issued
ConcludedThe Delhi High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.
Disciplinary action · Procedural only.
Source: AIRONLINE 2019 DEL 642
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CW-2019-0030Central Delhi, DelhiJudgment 29 April 2019
Delhi Police Constable (Mounted) vs Commissioner of Police & Ors.
The judgment of the Delhi High Court records the following account. Delhi Police Constable (Mounted) [name withheld] faced a departmental inquiry from April 2011 for outraging the modesty of a woman constable and absence from duty, with FIR No. 42/2011 under Sections 354/34 IPC registered at PS Civil Lines against him and two other police officers. Found guilty departmentally, he was dismissed from service on 28.08.2012, lost his departmental appeal in April 2013, and lost before the CAT in September 2018, though acquitted in the criminal trial in May 2018. The Delhi High Court held the criminal acquittal was not clean and on merits so as to bar departmental proceedings under Rule 12, found he played the main role in the incident, and dismissed his writ petition as meritless. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.
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By judgment dated 29 April 2019 in W.P.(C) 4420/2019, the Delhi High Court (Coram: Vipin Sanghi, Rekha Palli, JJ.) upheld the disciplinary action taken against the Constable (Mounted), Delhi Police.
- Register number
- DL 06 CW 0031
- Case reference
- W.P.(C) 4420/2019 / AIRONLINE 2019 DEL 642
- Court and date
- Delhi High Court (Coram: Vipin Sanghi, Rekha Palli, JJ.), 29 April 2019
- Officer(s) at the material time
- Constable (Mounted), Delhi Police
- Present service status
- Recorded in the cited sources as dismissed from service.
- Provisions invoked
- Section 354 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 34 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Rule 8(a) of the Delhi Police (Punishment and Appeal) Rules, 1980; Rule 10 of the Delhi Police (Punishment and Appeal) Rules, 1980; Rule 12 of the Delhi Police (Punishment and Appeal) Rules, 1980
- Finding of the Court (extract)
- “We find that the petitioner has been held to be guilty of the charges of outraging the modesty of a woman, and remaining absent from duty by a duly constituted inquiry, where he was given due opportunity to cross-examine all …” (at para 8)
- 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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“We find that the petitioner has been held to be guilty of the charges of outraging the modesty of a woman, and remaining absent from duty by a duly constituted inquiry, where he was given due opportunity to cross-examine all …” (para 8)
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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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