# Vadodara City Police Police Constable vs The Commissioner of Police & Ors.

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## Report card

By judgment dated 14 March 2022 in R/Special Civil Application No. 2532 of 2007, the Gujarat High Court (Coram: A.S. Supehia, J.) upheld the disciplinary action taken against the Police Constable, Vadodara City Police.

- Register number: GJ 06 CW 0008
- Case reference: R/Special Civil Application No. 2532 of 2007
- Court and date: Gujarat High Court (Coram: A.S. Supehia, J.), 14 March 2022
- Officer(s) at the material time: Police Constable, Vadodara City Police
- Present service status: Recorded in the cited sources as dismissed from service.
- Provisions invoked: Section 379 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860
- Finding of the Court (extract): “In the present case, as noted hereinabove, the entire case of the petitioner is premised on acquittal which cannot ipso facto result in diluting the order of punishment.” (at para 11)
- 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/82731018/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2022-0028)

**Record:** CW-2022-0028 (compiler id CWC-1219); case GAP3-53-002
**Title:** Vadodara City Police Police Constable vs The Commissioner of Police & Ors.
**Court:** Gujarat High Court; judges: A.S. Supehia
**Case number / citation:** R/Special Civil Application No. 2532 of 2007
**Judgment:** 2022-03-14 (2022, day precision)
**Incident date:** 1990-01-01 (1990)
**Place:** Vadodara, Gujarat; city town: Vadodara; police station or unit: Vadodara City Police; force: state_police
**Category:** Other misconduct
**Sub-category:** other
**Outcome:** Disciplinary action upheld (disciplinary_upheld)
**Sections:** IPC 379
**Officers (gated display forms):** Police Constable, Vadodara City Police (1 in record)
**Victims:** Not stated (0 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** dismissal
**Sentence type:** dismissal (dismissal)

On 14 March 2022 the Gujarat High Court dismissed the writ petition of a Vadodara City police constable and left his dismissal from service undisturbed. The court recorded that the petitioner, suspended in March 1990 and charge-sheeted in 1994 for stealing motorcycles with duplicate keys and reselling them with duplicate number plates, had been acquitted in the parallel criminal cases under section 379 IPC but found guilty in a detailed departmental inquiry, leading to dismissal in November 2003, confirmed in appeal and revision. The court held that an acquittal premised on similar facts cannot ipso facto dilute a punishment order and that judicial review cannot re-appreciate evidence as an appellate authority. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> In the present case, as noted hereinabove, the entire case of the petitioner is premised on acquittal which cannot ipso facto result in diluting the order of punishment.

**Sources (1):** [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/82731018/)
**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:** 11
**display title redacted:** Vadodara City Police Police Constable vs The Commissioner of Police & Ors.
**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': '2022-03-14', '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/Special Civil Application No. 2532 of 2007', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/82731018/', '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 held criminal acquittal cannot dilute dismissal; motorcycle-theft dismissal upheld.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Disciplinary action upheld.

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