11 Nov 2008
Order issued
ConcludedThe Rajasthan High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.
Disciplinary action · Procedural only.
Source: S.B. Civil Writ Petition No. 1614/1996
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CW-2008-0014Bikaner, RajasthanJudgment 11 November 2008
Magha Puri vs State of Rajasthan & Ors.
The Principal Seat of the Rajasthan High Court at Jodhpur dismissed a writ petition filed by dismissed Constable Magha Puri of Naya Shehar Police Station, Bikaner, upholding his dismissal from service. A departmental inquiry had found Magha Puri guilty of demanding and taking an illegal gratification of Rs. 40,000 from complainant [name withheld] and others to compromise and settle a pending criminal case registered under Sections 498A and 406 IPC. The High Court affirmed the findings of the inquiry officer based on testimony of independent witnesses and held that accepting a bribe to settle a criminal case was grave misconduct warranting the punishment of dismissal. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.
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By judgment dated 11 November 2008 in S.B. Civil Writ Petition No. 1614/1996, the Rajasthan High Court (Coram: Vineet Kothari, J.) upheld the disciplinary action taken against the Magha Puri (Constable).
- Register number
- RJ 07 CW 0001
- Case reference
- S.B. Civil Writ Petition No. 1614/1996
- Court and date
- Rajasthan High Court (Coram: Vineet Kothari, J.), 11 November 2008
- Officer(s) at the material time
- Magha Puri (Constable)
- Present service status
- Recorded in the cited sources as dismissed from service.
- Provisions invoked
- Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 406 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 420 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860
- Finding of the Court (extract)
- “Thus, this Court finds no ground to quash the impugned orders passed by disciplinary authority and appellate authority awarding punishment of dismissal from service against the petitioner. Consequently, the writ petition has no force and same is accordingly dismissed.” (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 Rajasthan High Court judgment dated 11 November 2008 is the concluded position shown in the cited sources.
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“Thus, this Court finds no ground to quash the impugned orders passed by disciplinary authority and appellate authority awarding punishment of dismissal from service against the petitioner. Consequently, the writ petition has no force and same is accordingly dismissed.” (para 12)
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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))
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