# Madhya Pradesh Police Constable vs State of Madhya Pradesh

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## Report card

By judgment dated 29 May 2020 in Writ Appeal No. 691 of 2019, the Madhya Pradesh High Court (Coram: S. C. Sharma, Shailendra Shukla, JJ.) upheld the disciplinary action taken against the Constable, Madhya Pradesh Police, Shajapur.

- Register number: MP 42 CW 0002
- Case reference: Writ Appeal No. 691 of 2019
- Court and date: Madhya Pradesh High Court (Coram: S. C. Sharma, Shailendra Shukla, JJ.), 29 May 2020
- Officer(s) at the material time: Constable, Madhya Pradesh Police, Shajapur
- Present service status: Recorded in the cited sources as compulsorily retired.
- Provisions invoked: Not stated in the cited sources
- Finding of the Court (extract): “The punishment is certainly not at all disproportionate to the guilt of the employee and, therefore, the admission is declined.” (at para 10)
- 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/97037983/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2020-0018)

**Record:** CW-2020-0018 (compiler id CWC-1264); case GAP3-79-003
**Title:** Madhya Pradesh Police Constable vs State of Madhya Pradesh
**Court:** Madhya Pradesh High Court; bench: Indore; judges: S. C. Sharma; Shailendra Shukla
**Case number / citation:** Writ Appeal No. 691 of 2019
**Judgment:** 2020-05-29 (2020, day precision)
**Incident date:** 2003-08-29 (2003)
**Place:** Shajapur, Madhya Pradesh; city town: Shajapur; police station or unit: Madhya Pradesh Police, Shajapur; force: state_police
**Category:** Other misconduct
**Sub-category:** other
**Outcome:** Disciplinary action upheld (disciplinary_upheld)
**Officers (gated display forms):** Constable, Madhya Pradesh Police, Shajapur (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, appointed in 1982 and transferred from Agar to Shajapur, was charge-sheeted in December 2003 for unauthorised absence in August-September 2003 against a record of twenty earlier minor penalties for absence. After due enquiry the charges were proved and he was compulsorily retired in June 2004; the appeal, mercy petition and writ petition all failed. The Division Bench held the Supreme Court cases he cited involved singular absences and were distinguishable from his habitual misconduct as uniformed personnel. Finding no procedural irregularity and the punishment not disproportionate, it declined admission of the writ appeal.

> The punishment is certainly not at all disproportionate to the guilt of the employee and, therefore, the admission is declined.

**Sources (1):** [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/97037983/)
**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:** 10
**display title redacted:** Madhya Pradesh Police Constable 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': '2020-05-29', '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 Appeal No. 691 of 2019', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/97037983/', '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:** Compulsory retirement for habitual unauthorised absence upheld in writ appeal.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Disciplinary action upheld.

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