4 Dec 2015
Order issued
ConcludedThe Jharkhand High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.
Disciplinary action · Procedural only.
Source: W.P.(S) No. 7671 of 2011
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CW-2015-0037Dhanbad, JharkhandJudgment 4 December 2015
Jharkhand Police Constable vs The State of Jharkhand and Others
The Jharkhand High Court (Pramath Patnaik J.) dismissed a Dhanbad constable writ against his dismissal dated 6 March 2010. The court found proved gross negligence on prisoner-ward guard duty at PMCH, where an undertrial suffered burn injuries on 22 September 2008 and an inspection later found no uniformed guard at the ward. It held three concurrent evidence-based findings cannot be reappraised under Article 226 given the serious misconduct. The dismissal, affirmed in appeal and revision, therefore stands.
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By judgment dated 4 December 2015 in W.P.(S) No. 7671 of 2011, the Jharkhand High Court (Coram: Pramath Patnaik, J.) upheld the disciplinary action taken against the Constable, Jharkhand Police, Dhanbad (PMCH prisoner-ward guard).
- Register number
- JH 10 CW 0008
- Case reference
- W.P.(S) No. 7671 of 2011
- Court and date
- Jharkhand High Court (Coram: Pramath Patnaik, J.), 4 December 2015
- Officer(s) at the material time
- Constable, Jharkhand Police, Dhanbad (PMCH prisoner-ward guard)
- Present service status
- Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked
- Article 226 of the Constitution of India
- Finding of the Court (extract)
- “As per the statement of the accused, there was candles and matches in the prisoner ward, the fire incident took place due to absence of the petitioner and others on the spot the fire engulfed.” (at para 7(i))
- 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 Jharkhand High Court judgment dated 4 December 2015 is the concluded position shown in the cited sources.
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What the court found
Holding not recorded separately.
“As per the statement of the accused, there was candles and matches in the prisoner ward, the fire incident took place due to absence of the petitioner and others on the spot the fire engulfed.” (para 7(i))
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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.