# State Reserve Police Armed Police Constable vs State of Gujarat

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## Report card

By judgment dated 6 January 2022 in R/Letters Patent Appeal No. 1123 of 2021 in R/Special Civil Application No. 10335 of 2021, the Gujarat High Court (Coram: R.M. Chhaya, Niral R. Mehta, JJ.) upheld the disciplinary action taken against the Armed Police Constable, State Reserve Police Force, Group-12, Gandhinagar.

- Register number: GJ 18 CW 0004
- Case reference: R/Letters Patent Appeal No. 1123 of 2021 in R/Special Civil Application No. 10335 of 2021
- Court and date: Gujarat High Court (Coram: R.M. Chhaya, Niral R. Mehta, JJ.), 6 January 2022
- Officer(s) at the material time: Armed Police Constable, State Reserve Police Force, Group-12, Gandhinagar
- Present service status: Recorded in the cited sources as dismissed from service.
- Provisions invoked: Not stated in the cited sources
- Finding of the Court (extract): “In addition to that, the appellant has already accepted the order of dismissal for almost 23 years and hence, the appellant cannot now be permitted to question the same in exercise of extraordinary discretionary jurisdiction under Article 226 of the …” (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/66817616/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2022-0027)

**Record:** CW-2022-0027 (compiler id CWC-1220); case GAP3-53-003
**Title:** State Reserve Police Armed Police Constable vs State of Gujarat
**Court:** Gujarat High Court; judges: R.M. Chhaya; Niral R. Mehta
**Case number / citation:** R/Letters Patent Appeal No. 1123 of 2021 in R/Special Civil Application No. 10335 of 2021
**Judgment:** 2022-01-06 (2022, day precision)
**Incident date:** 1983-02-01 (1983)
**Place:** Gandhinagar, Gujarat; city town: Gandhinagar; police station or unit: State Reserve Police Force, Group-12; force: state_police
**Category:** Other misconduct
**Sub-category:** other
**Outcome:** Disciplinary action upheld (disciplinary_upheld)
**Officers (gated display forms):** Armed Police Constable, State Reserve Police Force, Group-12, Gandhinagar (1 in record)
**Victims:** Not stated (0 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** dismissal
**Sentence type:** dismissal (dismissal)

On 6 January 2022 the Gujarat High Court Division Bench dismissed the appeal of an Armed Police Constable (SRP Group-12, Gandhinagar) against his dismissal from service ordered on 28 April 1998. The court recorded that the appellant, appointed in February 1983, had been charge-sheeted for producing a false school leaving certificate and misrepresenting his date of birth, and that he approached the court only in June 2020 seeking parity with other dismissed constables. Agreeing with the Single Judge, the court held the appellant had accepted the dismissal for almost 23 years and could not question it in extraordinary writ jurisdiction after such inordinate delay, leaving the dismissal undisturbed. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> In addition to that, the appellant has already accepted the order of dismissal for almost 23 years and hence, the appellant cannot now be permitted to question the same in exercise of extraordinary discretionary jurisdiction under Article 226 of the Constitution of India.

**Sources (1):** [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/66817616/)
**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:** State Reserve Police Armed Police Constable vs State of Gujarat
**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': '2022-01-06', 'action_type': 'Order issued', 'status': 'Concluded', 'authority': 'Gujarat High Court', 'independence': 'External', 'legal_effect': 'Binding', 'description': 'The Gujarat High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.', 'disposition': 'Disciplinary action · Procedural only', 'source': 'R/Letters Patent Appeal No. 1123 of 2021 in R/Special Civil Application No. 10335 of 2021', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/66817616/', '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:** Gujarat HC Division Bench dismissed LPA on 23-year laches; 1998 dismissal for false appointment records left undisturbed.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Disciplinary action upheld.

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