# Haryana Police Constable vs State of Haryana and others

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## Report card

By judgment dated 4 December 2025 in Civil Writ Petition No. 13740 of 2004 (O&M), the Punjab and Haryana High Court (Coram: Jagmohan Bansal, J.) upheld the disciplinary action taken against the Constable, Haryana Police.

- Register number: HR 00 CW 0006
- Case reference: Civil Writ Petition No. 13740 of 2004 (O&M) / (2025) 12 P&H CK 1872
- Court and date: Punjab and Haryana High Court (Coram: Jagmohan Bansal, J.), 4 December 2025
- Officer(s) at the material time: Constable, Haryana Police
- Present service status: Recorded in the cited sources as dismissed from service.
- Provisions invoked: Article 226 of the Constitution of India; Article 227 of the Constitution of India
- Finding of the Court (extract): “The petitioner was found guilty for inaction. One prisoner was murdered and another injured who were in the safe custody of petitioner. He did not even try to open gunfire at assailants.” (at para 9)
- 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.
- Source orders: [Judgment / order (primary source)](https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/1217900/dhan-raj-vs-state-of-haryana-and-others/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2025-0028)

**Record:** CW-2025-0028 (compiler id CWC-0165); case HARYAN-011
**Title:** Haryana Police Constable vs State of Haryana and others
**Court:** Punjab and Haryana High Court; judges: Jagmohan Bansal
**Case number / citation:** Civil Writ Petition No. 13740 of 2004 (O&M) / (2025) 12 P&H CK 1872
**Judgment:** 2025-12-04 (2025, day precision)
**Incident date:** 2003-01-01 (2003)
**Place:** Haryana; police station or unit: Haryana Police (prisoner escort/guard duty); force: state_police
**Category:** Other misconduct
**Sub-category:** dereliction evidence tampering
**Outcome:** Disciplinary action upheld (disciplinary_upheld)
**Sections:** Constitution Art 226; Constitution Art 227
**Officers (gated display forms):** Constable, Haryana Police (1 in record)
**Victims:** Not stated (0 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** dismissal
**Sentence type:** dismissal (dismissal)

The Punjab and Haryana High Court dismissed Constable's writ petition and upheld his dismissal from service for inaction on prisoner-guard duty. Part of a three-man guard holding two undertrial prisoners in safe custody, he possessed a carbine but did not fire when assailants attacked, letting them escape after killing one undertrial and seriously injuring the other; the enquiry officer found him guilty of inaction and he was dismissed on 28 July 2003, with his departmental appeal and revision also failing. The Court held the enquiry procedurally sound with unassailable factual findings in writ jurisdiction, noting also the 22-year delay since dismissal. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> The petitioner was found guilty for inaction. One prisoner was murdered and another injured who were in the safe custody of petitioner. He did not even try to open gunfire at assailants.

**Sources (1):** [courtkutchehry.com](https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/1217900/dhan-raj-vs-state-of-haryana-and-others/)
**Verification:** V2 · Externally reported
**Review:** Solo Staff combined review (one combined attestation) — not yet recorded
**admin category:** misconduct
**admin subcategory:** dereliction_evidence_tampering
**allegations:** {'category': 'Other', 'primary': True, 'position': 'Material fact supported', 'position_explainer': 'Reliable material supports a specifically documented fact relevant to that allegation, not necessarily the full allegation, causation, intent, unlawfulness, or responsibility.', 'official_finding_relation': 'supports allegation'}
**anonymised:** False
**court quote para:** 9
**display title redacted:** Haryana Police Constable vs State of Haryana and others
**followup history:** {'date': '2026-09-19', 'scope': 'Round-8 full re-verification: published record re-checked against the judgment text (outcome, officers, quote, key facts) plus methodology-compliance pass', 'method': 'skills-guided adversarial re-verification of the published record against the judgment text (reverify/t1-*/adversarial-8.jsonl)', 'result': 'wrong_facts', 'corrections_applied': \[\]}
**followup status:** checked
**institutional response:** {'date': '2025-12-04', 'action_type': 'Order issued', 'status': 'Concluded', 'authority': 'Punjab and Haryana High Court', 'independence': 'External', 'legal_effect': 'Binding', 'description': 'The Punjab and Haryana High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.', 'disposition': 'Disciplinary action · Procedural only', 'source': '(2025) 12 P&H CK 1872', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/1217900/dhan-raj-vs-state-of-haryana-and-others/', 'link_checked': None}
**retracted:** {"is_retracted": false}
**service:** police
**source assessment:** {"established": null, "basis": null}
**status:** current
**subcategory display:** dereliction evidence tampering
**tier:** Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded
**tier badge:** Externally reported
**tier history:** Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded
**verdict:** accept
**verdict note:** P&H HC judgment verified on CourtKutchehry; dismissal for guard-duty inaction upheld, writ dismissed.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Disciplinary action upheld.

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