24 Jul 1992
Order issued
ConcludedThe Supreme Court of India upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.
Disciplinary action · Procedural only.
Source: (1992) 4 SCC 54; AIR 1992 SC 2188
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CW-1992-0007PunjabJudgment 24 July 1992
State of Punjab & Ors. v. Ram Singh, Ex-Constable
Constable Ram Singh, gunman of the Deputy Commissioner of Police, was found heavily drunk on duty roaming at a bus stand wearing his service revolver; a traffic constable took him to the police station, the revolver was deposited in the malkhana, and medical examination confirmed heavy drunkenness. Dismissed on 11 February 1980 after a prescribed-procedure enquiry, he won reinstatement through a civil suit affirmed up to second appeal on the ground that a single drink was not the gravest misconduct. The Supreme Court held a single act of heavy armed drunkenness on duty is the gravest misconduct under Rule 16.2(1) of the Punjab Police Manual, allowed the appeal and restored the dismissal.
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By judgment dated 24 July 1992, the Supreme Court of India (Coram: K. Ramaswamy, A.M. Ahmadi, M.M. Punchhi, JJ.) upheld the disciplinary action taken against the Ram Singh (Constable).
- Register number
- PB 00 CW 0004
- Case reference
- (1992) 4 SCC 54; AIR 1992 SC 2188
- Court and date
- Supreme Court of India (Coram: K. Ramaswamy, A.M. Ahmadi, M.M. Punchhi, JJ.), 24 July 1992
- Officer(s) at the material time
- Ram Singh (Constable)
- Present service status
- Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked
- Not stated in the cited sources
- Finding of the Court (extract)
- “Thus it would constitute gravest misconduct warranting dismissal from service. The authorities, therefore, were justified in imposing the penalty of dismissal.” (at para n/a)
- 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 Supreme Court of India judgment dated 24 July 1992 is the concluded position shown in the cited sources.
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“Thus it would constitute gravest misconduct warranting dismissal from service. The authorities, therefore, were justified in imposing the penalty of dismissal.” (para n/a)
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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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