# Seondha Police Constable and others v. State of M.P. and Others

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## Report card

By judgment dated 3 September 2025 in WP No. 18398 of 2022, the Madhya Pradesh High Court (Coram: Ashish Shroti, J.) upheld the disciplinary action taken against 2 police personnel, namely: Constable, Police Station Seondha, Datia; Constable, Police Station Seondha, Datia.

- Register number: MP 32 CW 0004
- Case reference: WP No. 18398 of 2022 / 2025:MPHC-GWL:20242
- Court and date: Madhya Pradesh High Court (Coram: Ashish Shroti, J.), 3 September 2025
- Officer(s) at the material time: Constable, Police Station Seondha, Datia; Constable, Police Station Seondha, Datia
- Present service status: Recorded in the cited sources as removed from service.
- Provisions invoked: Regulation Reg. 270(4) of the M.P. Police Regulations
- Finding of the Court (extract): “Keeping in view the aforesaid discussion of facts, this Court is of the considered opinion that the findings recorded by respondent no.2 against the petitioners cannot be said to be perverse and based on no evidence.” (at para 22)
- 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://mphc.gov.in/upload/gwalior/MPHCGWL/2022/WP/18398/WP_18398_2022_FinalOrder_03-09-2025.pdf); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2025-0046)

**Record:** CW-2025-0046 (compiler id CWC-1270); case GAP3-81-008
**Title:** Seondha Police Constable and others v. State of M.P. and Others
**Court:** Madhya Pradesh High Court; bench: Gwalior; judges: Ashish Shroti
**Case number / citation:** WP No. 18398 of 2022 / 2025:MPHC-GWL:20242
**Judgment:** 2025-09-03 (2025, day precision)
**Incident date:** 2019-11-05 (2019)
**Place:** Datia, Madhya Pradesh; city town: Seondha; police station or unit: Police Station Seondha; force: state_police
**Category:** Other misconduct
**Sub-category:** other
**Outcome:** Disciplinary action upheld (disciplinary_upheld)
**Sections:** M.P. Police Regulations Reg. 270(4)
**Officers (gated display forms):** Constable, Police Station Seondha, Datia; Constable, Police Station Seondha, Datia (2 in record)
**Victims:** Not stated (0 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** dismissal
**Sentence type:** dismissal (dismissal)

The judgment of the Madhya Pradesh High Court records the following account. Constables and \[name withheld\], posted at Police Station Seondha, Datia, were named by villagers as facilitating long-running illegal sand mining and transportation at Mauja Kandarpura, confirmed by a joint SDOP-Mining Officer inspection on 5 November 2019. After suspension and a departmental enquiry, both were removed from service by order dated 2 August 2022. The Madhya Pradesh High Court held the enquiry findings, based on eleven witnesses and the documentary record, were neither perverse nor based on no evidence, noting beat constables could not plausibly be unaware of long-running mining in their beat. The Court held the Regulation 270 revisional removal order legal and justified, upheld it, and dismissed the petition. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> Keeping in view the aforesaid discussion of facts, this Court is of the considered opinion that the findings recorded by respondent no.2 against the petitioners cannot be said to be perverse and based on no evidence.

**Sources (1):** [mphc.gov.in](https://mphc.gov.in/upload/gwalior/MPHCGWL/2022/WP/18398/WP_18398_2022_FinalOrder_03-09-2025.pdf)
**Verification:** V2 · Externally reported
**Review:** Solo Staff combined review (one combined attestation) — not yet recorded
**admin category:** corruption
**admin subcategory:** other
**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:** 22
**display title redacted:** Seondha Police Constable and others v. State of M.P. 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': 'holds', 'corrections_applied': \[\]}
**followup status:** checked
**institutional response:** {'date': '2025-09-03', 'action_type': 'Order issued', 'status': 'Concluded', 'authority': 'Madhya Pradesh High Court', 'independence': 'External', 'legal_effect': 'Binding', 'description': 'The Madhya Pradesh High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.', 'disposition': 'Disciplinary action · Procedural only', 'source': '2025:MPHC-GWL:20242', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://mphc.gov.in/upload/gwalior/MPHCGWL/2022/WP/18398/WP_18398_2022_FinalOrder_03-09-2025.pdf', 'link_checked': None}
**retracted:** {"is_retracted": false}
**service:** police
**source assessment:** {"established": null, "basis": null}
**status:** current
**subcategory display:** other
**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:** Removal of two beat constables for facilitating long-running illegal sand mining upheld; abuse of police position.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Disciplinary action upheld.

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