10 May 2024
Order issued
ConcludedThe Gauhati High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.
Disciplinary action · Procedural only.
Source: WP(C)/4092/2013
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CW-2024-0008Golaghat, AssamJudgment 10 May 2024
Golaghat Police Armed Branch Constable vs The State of Assam and 3 Ors
The Gauhati High Court upheld the removal from service of Armed Branch Constable of Golaghat DEF for misconduct. Served a show-cause notice in September 2003 for maintaining an illegal relationship with a named woman while posted for duty, he was removed by the SP Golaghat in August 2005, affirmed by the DIG in May 2006. The Court held the departmental charge stood on a footing different from the connected criminal case in which he was later acquitted, was substantiated by material on record, and that delay further disentitled him. The writ petition was dismissed as bereft of merit. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.
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By judgment dated 10 May 2024 in WP(C)/4092/2013, the Gauhati High Court (Coram: N. Unni Krishnan Nair, J.) upheld the disciplinary action taken against the Armed Branch Constable, Golaghat DEF.
- Register number
- AS 05 CW 0003
- Case reference
- WP(C)/4092/2013
- Court and date
- Gauhati High Court (Coram: N. Unni Krishnan Nair, J.), 10 May 2024
- Officer(s) at the material time
- Armed Branch Constable, Golaghat DEF
- Present service status
- Recorded in the cited sources as removed from service.
- Provisions invoked
- Section 7 of the Police Act; Section 376 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 493 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860
- Finding of the Court (extract)
- “In that view of the matter, the writ petition is hereby held to be bereft of merit and the same, accordingly, stands dismissed.” (at para 30)
- 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 Gauhati High Court judgment dated 10 May 2024 is the concluded position shown in the cited sources.
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What the court found
Holding not recorded separately.
“In that view of the matter, the writ petition is hereby held to be bereft of merit and the same, accordingly, stands dismissed.” (para 30)
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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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