25 Jul 2013
Order issued
ConcludedThe Madhya Pradesh High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.
Disciplinary action · Procedural only.
Source: LAWS(MPH)-2013-7-461; (2013) 07 MP CK 0250
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CW-2013-0029Madhya PradeshJudgment 25 July 2013
Madhya Pradesh Police Head Constable vs State of M.P. and Others
Head Constable, with 23 years of service in the Madhya Pradesh Police, was charge-sheeted on 8 June 2001 on two charges arising from an incident dated 20 July 2001, and a regular departmental enquiry found both charges established on the evidence of eyewitnesses, leading to dismissal from service affirmed on appeal. He challenged the dismissal on grounds including reliance on a preliminary enquiry, hearsay, the incident occurring off duty hours and outside his posting area, and disproportionality. The Madhya Pradesh High Court held it was not a case of no evidence, that off-duty conduct reflecting on establishment discipline amounts to misconduct, and that the charges were very grave with punishment commensurate to the misconduct. The Court observed his conduct was highly improper and unbecoming of a police constable, and dismissed the petition with no costs. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.
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By judgment dated 25 July 2013 in Writ Petition No. 7868 of 2003, the Madhya Pradesh High Court (Coram: Sujoy Paul, J.) upheld the disciplinary action taken against the Head Constable, Madhya Pradesh Police.
- Register number
- MP 00 CW 0002
- Case reference
- Writ Petition No. 7868 of 2003 / LAWS(MPH)-2013-7-461; (2013) 07 MP CK 0250
- Court and date
- Madhya Pradesh High Court (Coram: Sujoy Paul, J.), 25 July 2013
- Officer(s) at the material time
- Head Constable, Madhya Pradesh Police
- Present service status
- Recorded in the cited sources as dismissed from service.
- Provisions invoked
- Not stated in the cited sources
- Finding of the Court (extract)
- “The police force is appointed to save the life and dignity of the citizens and not to snatch their dignity.” (at para 11)
- 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 25 July 2013 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.
“The police force is appointed to save the life and dignity of the citizens and not to snatch their dignity.” (para 11)
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Continuing record
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.