2 Aug 2013
Order issued
ConcludedThe Punjab and Haryana High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.
Disciplinary action · Procedural only.
Source: Civil Writ Petition No.16680 of 2013
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CW-2013-0030Karnal, HaryanaJudgment 2 August 2013
Haryana Police Exemptee Head Constable vs State of Haryana and Others
The Punjab and Haryana High Court dismissed the writ petition of Exemptee Head Constable of the Haryana Police, Karnal, thereby sustaining a major disciplinary penalty for bribe-taking. [name withheld] and Head Constable were accused in FIR No.465 of 12.9.2007 of demanding a bribe from a Karnal man under threat of a false NDPS case, but both were acquitted by the Special Judge, Karnal in 2010 after the complainant and an eyewitness turned hostile. In the parallel departmental enquiry [name withheld] was held guilty of demanding and taking his share of the bribe, punished with reversion to Constable, reduced on appeal to stoppage of one annual increment with cumulative effect plus integrity-dishonest ACRs. The Court called it proven misconduct involving moral turpitude of the worst kind and directed the DGP to re-examine the clean chit given to co-delinquent not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.
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By judgment dated 2 August 2013 in Civil Writ Petition No.16680 of 2013, the Punjab and Haryana High Court (Coram: Rajiv Narain Raina, J.) upheld the disciplinary action taken against the Exemptee Head Constable, Haryana Police, District Karnal.
- Register number
- HR 05 CW 0002
- Case reference
- Civil Writ Petition No.16680 of 2013
- Court and date
- Punjab and Haryana High Court (Coram: Rajiv Narain Raina, J.), 2 August 2013
- Officer(s) at the material time
- Exemptee Head Constable, Haryana Police, District Karnal
- Present service status
- Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked
- Section 7 of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988; Section 13 of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988; Section 120-B of the Indian Penal Code, 1860
- Finding of the Court (extract)
- “This Court cannot put a premium on proven misconduct involving moral turpitude of the worst kind.” (at para n/a)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum
- Disciplinary action upheld.
- 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 Punjab and Haryana High Court judgment dated 2 August 2013 is the concluded position shown in the cited sources.
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What the court found
Holding not recorded separately.
“This Court cannot put a premium on proven misconduct involving moral turpitude of the worst kind.” (para n/a)
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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.