26 Aug 2021
Order issued
ConcludedThe Gujarat High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.
Disciplinary action · Procedural only.
Source: R/Special Civil Application No. 17969 of 2006
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CW-2021-0016Rajkot, GujaratJudgment 26 August 2021
District Police Unarmed Police Constable vs State of Gujarat
On 26 August 2021 the Gujarat High Court dismissed the writ petition of an Unarmed Police Constable and left his removal from service undisturbed. The court recorded that on 5 September 2001 the petitioner was found intoxicated in public at 11:30 pm, quarrelling and talking nonsense, that the inquiry officer held the charge proved in May 2002, and that the Superintendent of Police, Rajkot (Rural) removed him in September 2002, a penalty confirmed in departmental appeal and review. The court held prior record had played no part in the penalty and found the petition devoid of merits. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.
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By judgment dated 26 August 2021 in R/Special Civil Application No. 17969 of 2006, the Gujarat High Court (Coram: Bhargav D. Karia, J.) upheld the disciplinary action taken against the Unarmed Police Constable, Rajkot (Rural) District Police.
- Register number
- GJ 03 CW 0003
- Case reference
- R/Special Civil Application No. 17969 of 2006
- Court and date
- Gujarat High Court (Coram: Bhargav D. Karia, J.), 26 August 2021
- Officer(s) at the material time
- Unarmed Police Constable, Rajkot (Rural) District Police
- Present service status
- Recorded in the cited sources as removed from service.
- Provisions invoked
- Not stated in the cited sources
- Finding of the Court (extract)
- “In view of the foregoing reasons, the petition is devoid of any merits and is accordingly, dismissed.” (at para 9)
- 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 Gujarat High Court judgment dated 26 August 2021 is the concluded position shown in the cited sources.
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What the court found
Holding not recorded separately.
“In view of the foregoing reasons, the petition is devoid of any merits and is accordingly, dismissed.” (para 9)
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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.