# State of Haryana and Others vs Satish Kumar

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## Report card

By judgment dated 30 May 2022 in LPA No. 565 of 2020 (O&M), the Punjab and Haryana High Court (Coram: G. S. Sandhawalia, Vikas Suri, JJ.) upheld the disciplinary action taken against the Satish Kumar (Assistant Sub-Inspector).

- Register number: HR 12 CW 0009
- Case reference: LPA No. 565 of 2020 (O&M)
- Court and date: Punjab and Haryana High Court (Coram: G. S. Sandhawalia, Vikas Suri, JJ.), 30 May 2022
- Officer(s) at the material time: Satish Kumar (Assistant Sub-Inspector)
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Section 7 of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988; Section 13 of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988
- Finding of the Court (extract): “It is not disputed that the writ petitioner was arrested by the State Vigilance Bureau team and his hands had turned pink and, thus, he had handled the money.” (at para 19)
- 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/63899068/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2022-0007)

**Record:** CW-2022-0007 (compiler id CWC-0169); case HARYAN-015
**Title:** State of Haryana and Others vs Satish Kumar
**Court:** Punjab and Haryana High Court; judges: G. S. Sandhawalia; Vikas Suri
**Case number / citation:** LPA No. 565 of 2020 (O&M)
**Judgment:** 2022-05-30 (2022, day precision)
**Incident date:** 2014-01-01 (2014)
**Place:** Rohtak, Haryana; city town: Rohtak; police station or unit: CIA-3, Rohtak; force: state_police
**Category:** Bribery & extortion
**Sub-category:** bribery pc act
**Outcome:** Disciplinary action upheld (disciplinary_upheld)
**Sections:** PC Act 1988 s.7; PC Act 1988 s.13
**Officers (gated display forms):** Satish Kumar (Assistant Sub-Inspector) (1 in record)
**Victims:** Rohtak man (1 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** dismissal
**Sentence type:** dismissal (dismissal)

A Division Bench of the Punjab and Haryana High Court allowed the State appeal in LPA 565 of 2020, set aside the Single Judge reinstatement order of 23 October 2019, and restored the dismissal of ASI Satish Kumar of CIA-3 Rohtak. The Court found he made complainant \[name withheld\] believe he could get his brother dropped from the accused in FIR 454 of 2014, and the Vigilance Bureau arrested him with hands turned pink from the marked money. He was dismissed on 29 October 2015 after an enquiry in which the complainant supported the charge, though he later turned hostile in the criminal trial ending in acquittal. The Bench held the dismissal rested on independent enquiry evidence and the acquittal was no bar, dismissing the employee writ. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> It is not disputed that the writ petitioner was arrested by the State Vigilance Bureau team and his hands had turned pink and, thus, he had handled the money.

**Sources (1):** [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/63899068/)
**Verification:** V2 · Externally reported
**Review:** Solo Staff combined review (one combined attestation) — not yet recorded
**admin category:** corruption
**admin subcategory:** bribery_pc_act
**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:** 19
**display title redacted:** State of Haryana and Others vs Satish Kumar
**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': '2022-05-30', 'action_type': 'Order issued', 'status': 'Concluded', 'authority': 'Punjab and Haryana High Court', 'independence': 'External', 'legal_effect': 'Binding', 'description': 'The Punjab and Haryana High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.', 'disposition': 'Disciplinary action · Procedural only', 'source': 'LPA No. 565 of 2020 (O&M)', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/63899068/', 'link_checked': None}
**retracted:** {"is_retracted": false}
**service:** police
**source assessment:** {"established": null, "basis": null}
**status:** current
**subcategory display:** bribery pc act
**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:** P&H HC Division Bench allowed State LPA and restored dismissal; Single Judge reinstatement set aside.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Disciplinary action upheld.

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