23 Sep 2003
Order issued
ConcludedThe Patna High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.
Disciplinary action · Procedural only.
Source: (2004) 1 PLJR 35
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CW-2003-0021Bhagalpur, BiharJudgment 23 September 2003
Bihar Police Constable v. The State of Bihar and Others
The Patna High Court Division Bench dismissed the Letters Patent Appeal of police constable, upholding his dismissal from service. The Court recorded that on 26 February 1991 he was caught on the spot with 10-12 armed associates during a forcible house invasion and assault on the survivor at Bhagalpur (Kotwali P.S. Case No. 110/91), and was thereafter departmentally tried, found guilty and dismissed by the S.P. Bhagalpur on 30 May 1995, confirmed by the DIG and the Zonal IG. It held the record showed he received the show-cause notice, replied to it, faced inquiry and preferred a departmental appeal, and that his criminal acquittal on benefit of doubt did not vitiate the departmental action. Having regard to his assault on a woman, the Court declined to interfere. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.
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By judgment dated 23 September 2003 in L.P.A. No. 869 of 2003, the Patna High Court (Coram: Ravi S. Dhavan, Shashank Kumar Singh, JJ.) upheld the disciplinary action taken against the Constable, Bihar Police, Bhagalpur.
- Register number
- BR 10 CW 0007
- Case reference
- L.P.A. No. 869 of 2003 / (2004) 1 PLJR 35
- Court and date
- Patna High Court (Coram: Ravi S. Dhavan, Shashank Kumar Singh, JJ.), 23 September 2003
- Officer(s) at the material time
- Constable, Bihar Police, Bhagalpur
- Present service status
- Recorded in the cited sources as dismissed from service.
- Provisions invoked
- Section 147 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 148 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 149 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 354 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 448 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 323 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 35 of the Arms Act, 1959
- Finding of the Court (extract)
- “Regard being had to the circumstances that the Petitioner had assaulted a woman, this Court ought not to interfere in this appeal.” (at para 8)
- 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 Patna High Court judgment dated 23 September 2003 is the concluded position shown in the cited sources.
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What the court found
Holding not recorded separately.
“Regard being had to the circumstances that the Petitioner had assaulted a woman, this Court ought not to interfere in this appeal.” (para 8)
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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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