18 Dec 2025
Order issued
ConcludedThe Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.
Disciplinary action · Procedural only.
Source: 2025:JKLHC-SGR:356-DB
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CW-2025-0030Kulgam, Jammu and KashmirJudgment 18 December 2025
UT of J&K & Ors. v. [name withheld]
The judgment of the Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court records the following account. Constable (J&K Police, appointed 1992), posted with the constabulary guard at the minority picket at Adjin, Kulgam, failed to fire a single round when militants attacked on the night of 7/8 May 2016, surrendering service weapons to them. After inquiry, SP Kulgam dismissed him on 13 October 2016. A Single Judge quashed the dismissal in October 2019 on grounds including inquiry by an allegedly incompetent officer. A Division Bench of Justices Sanjeev Kumar and Sanjay Parihar allowed the UT's appeal, holding the inquiry was by a competent authority with natural justice scrupulously followed, that surrender without firing is cowardice bringing moral disgrace, and that dismissal was not shockingly disproportionate, restoring the dismissal.
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By judgment dated 18 December 2025 in LPA No. 27 of 2022, the Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court (Coram: Sanjeev Kumar, Sanjay Parihar, JJ.) upheld the disciplinary action taken against the Constable, J&K Police, minority picket, Adjin, Kulgam.
- Register number
- JK 18 CW 0002
- Case reference
- LPA No. 27 of 2022 / 2025:JKLHC-SGR:356-DB
- Court and date
- Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court (Coram: Sanjeev Kumar, Sanjay Parihar, JJ.), 18 December 2025
- Officer(s) at the material time
- Constable, J&K Police, minority picket, Adjin, Kulgam
- Present service status
- Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked
- Article 226 of the Constitution of India
- Finding of the Court (extract)
- “The failure of the Police Guards on duty to retaliate an attack by the militants and surrendering their weapons without firing a single round is a serious act of cowardice bringing moral disgrace to the police force as a whole.” (at para 20)
- 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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Judgment dated 18 December 2025. This judgment may still be subject to appeal; initiation or pendency of an appeal is not a finding.
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“The failure of the Police Guards on duty to retaliate an attack by the militants and surrendering their weapons without firing a single round is a serious act of cowardice bringing moral disgrace to the police force as a whole.” (para 20)
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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))
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Review: Solo Staff combined review (one combined attestation) — not yet recorded.