5 Aug 1997
Order issued
ConcludedThe Supreme Court of India upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.
Disciplinary action · Procedural only.
Source: (1998) 9 SCC 490
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CW-1997-0016Tamil NaduJudgment 5 August 1997
Director General of Police and Others vs Tamil Nadu Police personnel
The Supreme Court on 5 August 1997 set aside the Tribunal order and restored the dismissal order passed by the disciplinary authority against [name withheld] (bribe demand/acceptance charge), holding the Tribunal exceeded jurisdiction by reappreciating evidence; the appellate authority's reduction to compulsory retirement does not survive the restoration of the disciplinary authority's dismissal order. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.
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By judgment dated 5 August 1997 in Civil Appeal No. 4588 of 1995, the Supreme Court of India (Coram: V. N. Khare, K. Venkataswami, JJ.) upheld the disciplinary action taken against the Police personnel, Tamil Nadu Police.
- Register number
- TN 00 CW 0002
- Case reference
- Civil Appeal No. 4588 of 1995 / (1998) 9 SCC 490
- Court and date
- Supreme Court of India (Coram: V. N. Khare, K. Venkataswami, JJ.), 5 August 1997
- Officer(s) at the material time
- Police personnel, Tamil Nadu Police
- Present service status
- Recorded in the cited sources as compulsorily retired.
- Provisions invoked
- Not stated in the cited sources
- Finding of the Court (extract)
- “We find from the order of the disciplinary authority the charge was that the respondent had demanded and accepted the bribe, but the only discrepancy pointed out in the evidence was regarding the date, time and amount. This has been …” (at para 3)
- 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 5 August 1997 is the concluded position shown in the cited sources.
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“We find from the order of the disciplinary authority the charge was that the respondent had demanded and accepted the bribe, but the only discrepancy pointed out in the evidence was regarding the date, time and amount. This has been …” (para 3)
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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.