6 Sep 2023
Order issued
ConcludedThe Calcutta High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.
Disciplinary action · Procedural only.
Source: WP.ST 627 of 2009
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CW-2023-0051Kolkata, West BengalJudgment 6 September 2023
The State of West Bengal & Ors. vs. Calcutta Police Constable
Constable of Calcutta Police was booked for Central Bank guard duty with firearms on 23 July 2000, left without informing any authority and without depositing his firearm, and remained absent until 8 August 2000, during which he was arrested on 31 July 2000 in an English Bazar impersonation case and held in custody until 7 August 2000. The disciplinary authority dismissed him on 22 September 2003, but the West Bengal Administrative Tribunal set aside the dismissal and directed reinstatement. The court held the charges stood established by the respondent's own admission, that abandoning guard duty and issued arms was serious dereliction unbecoming of police personnel, and that the enquiry complied with natural justice. It held the Tribunal exceeded jurisdiction in interfering with the quantum of punishment, set aside the Tribunal order, and restored the dismissal. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.
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By judgment dated 6 September 2023 in WP.ST 627 of 2009, the Calcutta High Court (Coram: Debangsu Basak, Md. Shabbar Rashidi, JJ.) upheld the disciplinary action taken against the Constable, Calcutta Police.
- Register number
- WB 01 CW 0010
- Case reference
- WP.ST 627 of 2009
- Court and date
- Calcutta High Court (Coram: Debangsu Basak, Md. Shabbar Rashidi, JJ.), 6 September 2023
- Officer(s) at the material time
- Constable, Calcutta Police
- Present service status
- Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked
- Section 170 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 419 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 511 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860
- Finding of the Court (extract)
- “In such circumstances, the impugned order of the Tribunal is set aside. The order of dismissal from service of the respondent is restored.” (at para 32)
- 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 Calcutta High Court judgment dated 6 September 2023 is the concluded position shown in the cited sources.
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What the court found
Holding not recorded separately.
“In such circumstances, the impugned order of the Tribunal is set aside. The order of dismissal from service of the respondent is restored.” (para 32)
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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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