31 Jan 2006
Order issued
ConcludedThe Supreme Court of India upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.
Disciplinary action · Procedural only.
Source: (2006) 2 SCC 373; AIR 2006 SC 1214
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CW-2006-0018Ranga Reddy, TelanganaJudgment 31 January 2006
Government of Andhra Pradesh & Ors. vs Shamshabad Police Head Constable
The judgment of the Supreme Court of India records the following account. Head Constable of Shamshabad Police Station was on bandobast duty at the Oracle office in Hi-Tech City, Hyderabad, during the March 2000 US Presidential visit when he was alleged to have removed a CCTV lens from the office ceiling. The Court recorded that electrician G. Sridhar saw the removal on the monitor, confronted him, and the lens was recovered, leading to a DSP-led disciplinary inquiry and dismissal in September 2000, confirmed on departmental appeal and by the A.P. Administrative Tribunal. The Andhra Pradesh High Court had quashed the dismissal and ordered reinstatement with full back wages. The Supreme Court held the High Court exceeded Article 226 review by re-appreciating inquiry evidence like an appellate authority, allowed the State appeal, and restored the dismissal without back wages.
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By judgment dated 31 January 2006 in Civil Appeal No. 1318 of 2005, the Supreme Court of India (Coram: H.K. Sema, A.R. Lakshmanan, JJ.) upheld the disciplinary action taken against the Head Constable, Shamshabad Police Station.
- Register number
- TG 07 CW 0002
- Case reference
- Civil Appeal No. 1318 of 2005 / (2006) 2 SCC 373; AIR 2006 SC 1214
- Court and date
- Supreme Court of India (Coram: H.K. Sema, A.R. Lakshmanan, JJ.), 31 January 2006
- Officer(s) at the material time
- Head Constable, Shamshabad Police Station
- Present service status
- Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked
- Article 226 of the Constitution of India
- Finding of the Court (extract)
- “We entirely agree with the inquiry officer that the charges are serious in nature, being committed by a member of Disciplinary Force, who deserved stringent punishment. To instill the confidence of the public in the Establishment, the only appropriate punishment …” (at para 15)
- 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 31 January 2006 is the concluded position shown in the cited sources.
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“We entirely agree with the inquiry officer that the charges are serious in nature, being committed by a member of Disciplinary Force, who deserved stringent punishment. To instill the confidence of the public in the Establishment, the only appropriate punishment …” (para 15)
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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.
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