11 Sep 2012
Order issued
ConcludedThe Madhya Pradesh High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.
Disciplinary action · Procedural only.
Source: (2012) 09 MP CK 0278
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CW-2012-0034West BengalJudgment 11 September 2012
BSF Constable vs The Union of India and Others
The judgment of the Madhya Pradesh High Court records the following account. BSF Constable was charge-sheeted for slapping Assistant Commandant a West Bengal man, his Company Commandant, on the left cheek and threatening to shoot and kill him without provocation on 29 June 1999 at about 19:45 hours. A Summary Security Force Court convened on 5 July 1999 established his guilt and the Commandant dismissed him from service the same day. An earlier dismissal of his writ on jurisdiction grounds was set aside by a Division Bench in 2007 and the matter was heard on merits. The Madhya Pradesh High Court held the assault on a superior officer was proved in a properly conducted departmental inquiry, the cited judgments had no relevance to the peculiar facts, and dismissed the petition, sustaining the dismissal. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.
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By judgment dated 11 September 2012 in Writ Petition No. 1024 of 2000, the Madhya Pradesh High Court (Coram: Rajendra Menon, J.) upheld the disciplinary action taken against the Constable, E Coy, 195 Battalion BSF.
- Register number
- WB 00 CW 0003
- Case reference
- Writ Petition No. 1024 of 2000 / (2012) 09 MP CK 0278
- Court and date
- Madhya Pradesh High Court (Coram: Rajendra Menon, J.), 11 September 2012
- Officer(s) at the material time
- Constable, E Coy, 195 Battalion BSF
- Present service status
- Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked
- Section 20(a) of the BSF Act, 1968; Section 20(b) of the BSF Act, 1968
- Finding of the Court (extract)
- “Accordingly, finding the petitioner - a Member of the Disciplined Armed Force, to have been punished for the act of assaulting a Superior Officer, which has been proved in a properly conducted departmental inquiry, I see no reason to interfere …” (at para 23)
- 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 Madhya Pradesh High Court judgment dated 11 September 2012 is the concluded position shown in the cited sources.
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“Accordingly, finding the petitioner - a Member of the Disciplined Armed Force, to have been punished for the act of assaulting a Superior Officer, which has been proved in a properly conducted departmental inquiry, I see no reason to interfere …” (para 23)
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19 Sep 2026
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