5 Oct 2007
Order issued
ConcludedThe Gujarat High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.
Disciplinary action · Procedural only.
Source: (2008) 1 GLR 595
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CW-2007-0030Surat, GujaratJudgment 5 October 2007
State Reserve Police Police Constable vs State of Gujarat & Anr.
Remove 'leaving arms and ammunition unguarded' — that sentence occurs only inside a quoted Supreme Court paragraph about a different appellant (Railway Protection Special Force constable posted at Tarantaran, Punjab), not in the findings about [name withheld]. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.
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By judgment dated 5 October 2007 in Special Civil Application No. 4393 of 1994, the Gujarat High Court (Coram: S.R. Brahmbhatt, J.) upheld the disciplinary action taken against the Police Constable, State Reserve Police Force.
- Register number
- GJ 05 CW 0002
- Case reference
- Special Civil Application No. 4393 of 1994 / (2008) 1 GLR 595
- Court and date
- Gujarat High Court (Coram: S.R. Brahmbhatt, J.), 5 October 2007
- Officer(s) at the material time
- Police Constable, State Reserve Police Force
- Present service status
- Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked
- Article 226 of the Constitution of India; Section 14 of the Bombay State Reserve Police Force Act, 1951
- Finding of the Court (extract)
- “Thus defiance by the petitioner can not be viewed lightly, nor the penalty could be termed to be disproportionate in absence of any mitigating circumstance.” (at para 12)
- 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 Gujarat High Court judgment dated 5 October 2007 is the concluded position shown in the cited sources.
Evidence position
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Material fact supported
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What the court found
Holding not recorded separately.
“Thus defiance by the petitioner can not be viewed lightly, nor the penalty could be termed to be disproportionate in absence of any mitigating circumstance.” (para 12)
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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.