24 Apr 2025
Order issued
ConcludedThe Gujarat High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.
Disciplinary action · Procedural only.
Source: 2025:GUJHC:24473
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CW-2025-0003Panchmahal, GujaratJudgment 24 April 2025
Gujarat Railway Police Police Constable and others vs State of Gujarat & Ors.
The Gujarat High Court upheld the removal from service of nine Gujarat Railway Police constables for abandoning escort duty on the Sabarmati Express on 26-27 February 2002. The Court found they made a false entry at Dahod that they were departing by that train but instead boarded the Shanti Express, leaving the A-category train without any police escort when coach S-6 was set ablaze at Godhra killing 58 people. It rejected the pleas of bias and disproportionality, holding the bogus entries and abandonment proved and the penalty consonant with the Bombay Police (Punishment and Appeal) Rules. Both petitions were dismissed on merits. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.
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By judgment dated 24 April 2025 in R/Special Civil Application Nos. 25294 of 2007 with 13000 of 2008, the Gujarat High Court (Coram: Vaibhavi D. Nanavati, J.) upheld the disciplinary action taken against 9 police personnel, namely: Police Constable, Gujarat Railway Police, Mobile Squad; Police Constable, Gujarat Railway Police, Mobile Squad; Police Constable, Gujarat Railway Police, Mobile Squad; Police Constable, Gujarat Railway Police, Mobile Squad; Head Constable, Ahmedabad Railway Police Station; Police Constable, Ahmedabad Railway Police Station; Police Constable, Ahmedabad Railway Police Station; Police Constable, Ahmedabad Railway Police Station; Police Constable, Ahmedabad Railway Police Station.
- Register number
- GJ 17 CW 0002
- Case reference
- R/Special Civil Application Nos. 25294 of 2007 with 13000 of 2008 / 2025:GUJHC:24473
- Court and date
- Gujarat High Court (Coram: Vaibhavi D. Nanavati, J.), 24 April 2025
- Officer(s) at the material time
- Police Constable, Gujarat Railway Police, Mobile Squad; Police Constable, Gujarat Railway Police, Mobile Squad; Police Constable, Gujarat Railway Police, Mobile Squad; Police Constable, Gujarat Railway Police, Mobile Squad; Head Constable, Ahmedabad Railway Police Station; Police Constable, Ahmedabad Railway Police Station; Police Constable, Ahmedabad Railway Police Station; Police Constable, Ahmedabad Railway Police Station; Police Constable, Ahmedabad Railway Police Station
- Present service status
- Recorded in the cited sources as removed from service.
- Provisions invoked
- Rule 3(2) of the Bombay Police (Punishment and Appeal) Rules, 1956
- Finding of the Court (extract)
- “If, the petitioners had departed in Sabarmati express train itself to reach Ahmedabad, the incident that have occurred at Godhra could have been prevented.” (at para 16)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum
- Disciplinary action upheld. Sentence: dismissal.
- Present status of the proceedings
- The judgment is recent and may be subject to appeal; the pendency of an appeal is not a finding.
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Current position
Judgment dated 24 April 2025. This judgment may still be subject to appeal; initiation or pendency of an appeal is not a finding.
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Official finding: supports allegation.
Attributed to the court
What the court found
Holding not recorded separately.
“If, the petitioners had departed in Sabarmati express train itself to reach Ahmedabad, the incident that have occurred at Godhra could have been prevented.” (para 16)
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Institutional response
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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.