9 Jan 2023
Order issued
ConcludedThe Patna High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.
Disciplinary action · Procedural only.
Source: 2023 (1) PLJR 552
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CW-2023-0034Munger, BiharJudgment 9 January 2023
Railway Police Constable vs The State of Bihar and Ors
The Patna High Court dismissed the writ petition of Railway Police constable, a member of the Jamalpur-Howrah Super Express escort party who allegedly extorted passengers and then shot dead two persons during an altercation in 2000. The court held the Superintendent of Police (Rail), Jamalpur had recorded cogent reasons for dispensing with the departmental inquiry under Article 311(2)(b) and Rule 20(ii) of the Bihar CCA Rules, 2005, since the petitioner had absconded after service of the charge-sheet. It sustained the dismissal order dated 6 September 2000 along with the appellate and memorial rejections. The court further noted the charges stood proved in the criminal trial with a conviction under s.302 IPC, which independently bars reinstatement under Article 311(2)(a). Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.
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By judgment dated 9 January 2023 in Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case No.11616 of 2013, the Patna High Court (Coram: Sanjeev Prakash Sharma, J.) upheld the disciplinary action taken against the Constable, Railway Police, Jamalpur.
- Register number
- BR 08 CW 0003
- Case reference
- Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case No.11616 of 2013 / 2023 (1) PLJR 552
- Court and date
- Patna High Court (Coram: Sanjeev Prakash Sharma, J.), 9 January 2023
- Officer(s) at the material time
- Constable, Railway Police, Jamalpur
- Present service status
- Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked
- Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Article 311 of the Constitution of India
- Finding of the Court (extract)
- “The charges levelled against the petitioner have been ultimately proved in the criminal trial and he has already been convicted of offense under 302.” (at para 9)
- 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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Current position
The Patna High Court judgment dated 9 January 2023 is the concluded position shown in the cited sources.
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What the court found
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“The charges levelled against the petitioner have been ultimately proved in the criminal trial and he has already been convicted of offense under 302.” (para 9)
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Follow-up history
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))
Corrections (0): No corrections recorded.
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