19 Jun 2024
Order issued
ConcludedThe Jharkhand High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.
Disciplinary action · Procedural only.
Source: W.P.(S) No. 2250 of 2021
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CW-2024-0039Hazaribagh, JharkhandJudgment 19 June 2024
X vs The State of Jharkhand and Ors.
The Jharkhand High Court dismissed a Hazaribagh constable's writ petition challenging his dismissal from service. The court held that his admitted live-in relationship with a woman other than his wife, while married with two children, violated Rule 23 of the Service Code read with Rule 707 of the Police Manual and was unbecoming of police personnel. It further held that his acquittal in the related criminal case (Daru P.S. Case No. 29 of 2016) could not unsettle the concurrent findings of the disciplinary, appellate and revisional authorities. Finding no procedural flaw, the court sustained the dismissal. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.
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By judgment dated 19 June 2024 in W.P.(S) No. 2250 of 2021, the Jharkhand High Court (Coram: S. N. Pathak, J.) upheld the disciplinary action taken against the Constable, Churchu Police Station, Hazaribagh.
- Register number
- JH 02 CW 0003
- Case reference
- W.P.(S) No. 2250 of 2021
- Court and date
- Jharkhand High Court (Coram: S. N. Pathak, J.), 19 June 2024
- Officer(s) at the material time
- Constable, Churchu Police Station, Hazaribagh
- Present service status
- Recorded in the cited sources as dismissed from service.
- Provisions invoked
- Rule 23 of the Jharkhand Service Code; Rule 707 of the Jharkhand Police Manual
- Finding of the Court (extract)
- “It is unbecoming of a police personnel who was in live-in-relation with another lady other than wife and amounts to violation of rules whereby the service conditions of the petitioner are governed.” (at para 7(iii))
- 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 Jharkhand High Court judgment dated 19 June 2024 is the concluded position shown in the cited sources.
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What the court found
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“It is unbecoming of a police personnel who was in live-in-relation with another lady other than wife and amounts to violation of rules whereby the service conditions of the petitioner are governed.” (para 7(iii))
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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.
Review: Solo Staff combined review (one combined attestation) — not yet recorded.