1 Aug 2023
Order issued
ConcludedThe Delhi High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.
Disciplinary action · Procedural only.
Source: W.P.(C) 8139/2010 & W.P.(C) 8141/2010
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CW-2023-0019South East Delhi, DelhiJudgment 1 August 2023
Ram Niwas vs Union of India & Ors.; Raj Singh vs Union of India & Ors.
The Delhi High Court dismissed the writ petitions of two RPF constables posted at Tughlakabad railway station and sustained their removal from service for bribery. The Court noted they were caught in a Delhi ACB trap on 6 September 1998 accepting Rs 8,000 from complainant [name withheld] (FIR 35/98) and were removed after an RPF departmental enquiry in 2003, affirmed on appeal and review. Though a Special Judge acquitted them in the criminal trial in 2010, the Court held the acquittal was a benefit-of-doubt one giving no clean chit. It ruled that a dismissal founded on independent departmental findings on preponderance of probabilities cannot be undone by such an acquittal. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.
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By judgment dated 1 August 2023 in W.P.(C) 8139/2010 & W.P.(C) 8141/2010, the Delhi High Court (Coram: Suresh Kumar Kait, Neena Bansal Krishna, JJ.) upheld the disciplinary action taken against 2 police personnel, namely: Ram Niwas (Constable); Raj Singh (Constable).
- Register number
- DL 03 CW 0025
- Case reference
- W.P.(C) 8139/2010 & W.P.(C) 8141/2010
- Court and date
- Delhi High Court (Coram: Suresh Kumar Kait, Neena Bansal Krishna, JJ.), 1 August 2023
- Officer(s) at the material time
- Ram Niwas (Constable); Raj Singh (Constable)
- Present service status
- Recorded in the cited sources as removed from service.
- Provisions invoked
- Section 7 of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988; Section 8 of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988; Section 13 of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988
- Finding of the Court (extract)
- “The acquittal of delinquent in a criminal case cannot by itself result in reinstatement in service of the petitioner who had been punished in the Departmental proceedings with a dismissal.” (at para 19)
- 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 Delhi High Court judgment dated 1 August 2023 is the concluded position shown in the cited sources.
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What the court found
Holding not recorded separately.
“The acquittal of delinquent in a criminal case cannot by itself result in reinstatement in service of the petitioner who had been punished in the Departmental proceedings with a dismissal.” (para 19)
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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.