19 Feb 2014
Order issued
ConcludedThe Punjab and Haryana High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.
Disciplinary action · Procedural only.
Source: Civil Writ Petition No. 28466 of 2013 (O&M)
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CW-2014-0002Panchkula, HaryanaJudgment 19 February 2014
Barwala Police Assistant Sub-Inspector vs State of Haryana & Others
The Punjab and Haryana High Court upheld the dismissal of ASI, Incharge of Police Post Barwala, who with Constable attended the drowning death of Nepali labourer a Barwala man two-year-old son at Amit Poultry Farm, Barwala. The Court found he brokered a Rs 60,000 compromise instead of taking legal action, pocketed Rs 25,000 as expenditure, gave Rs 2,000 to the constable, and got the child cremated without post-mortem, with the farm owner enquiry statement proving demand and acceptance of bribe. SP Panchkula dismissed him on 19 August 2008, affirmed on appeal, revision and mercy petition. The Court held a police official found demanding and accepting bribe is unfit to continue in service and dismissed the writ. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.
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By judgment dated 19 February 2014 in Civil Writ Petition No. 28466 of 2013 (O&M), the Punjab and Haryana High Court (Coram: Augustine George Masih, J.) upheld the disciplinary action taken against 2 police personnel, namely: Assistant Sub-Inspector, Police Post Barwala, Panchkula; Constable, Police Post Barwala, Panchkula.
- Register number
- HR 03 CW 0003
- Case reference
- Civil Writ Petition No. 28466 of 2013 (O&M)
- Court and date
- Punjab and Haryana High Court (Coram: Augustine George Masih, J.), 19 February 2014
- Officer(s) at the material time
- Assistant Sub-Inspector, Police Post Barwala, Panchkula; Constable, Police Post Barwala, Panchkula
- Present service status
- Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked
- Not stated in the cited sources
- Finding of the Court (extract)
- “The conclusion drawn by the punishment authority is fully justified as a police official, who has been found to have demanded and has been paid bribe, cannot be a fit person to be continued in service.” (at para n/a)
- 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 Punjab and Haryana High Court judgment dated 19 February 2014 is the concluded position shown in the cited sources.
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What the court found
Holding not recorded separately.
“The conclusion drawn by the punishment authority is fully justified as a police official, who has been found to have demanded and has been paid bribe, cannot be a fit person to be continued in service.” (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.