19 Oct 2023
Order issued
ConcludedThe Punjab and Haryana High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.
Disciplinary action · Procedural only.
Source: 2023:PHHC:137380-DB
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CW-2023-0030Chandigarh, ChandigarhJudgment 19 October 2023
UT Police Constable vs Union of India and Others
The Punjab and Haryana High Court (Sukhvinder Kaur, J., Deepak Sibal, J. concurring) dismissed the writ of Chandigarh Police constable, upholding the stoppage of 10 annual increments with permanent effect (reduced by the DIG from 15). On the intervening night of 25/26 July 2012, Kumar and fellow patrol constable stopped and harassed a couple near Aroma Light Point, Sector-20, and took Rs. 300 illegal gratification, later returned to the complainant's friend. No criminal Prevention of Corruption Act prosecution was involved; culpability is departmental only, concurrently confirmed by the disciplinary, appellate and revisional authorities, the Central Administrative Tribunal and the High Court, which held the penalty not excessive. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.
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By judgment dated 19 October 2023 in CWP-37381-2018, the Punjab and Haryana High Court (Coram: Deepak Sibal, Sukhvinder Kaur, JJ.) upheld the disciplinary action taken against the Constable, UT Police Chandigarh.
- Register number
- CH 01 CW 0016
- Case reference
- CWP-37381-2018 / 2023:PHHC:137380-DB
- Court and date
- Punjab and Haryana High Court (Coram: Deepak Sibal, Sukhvinder Kaur, JJ.), 19 October 2023
- Officer(s) at the material time
- Constable, UT Police Chandigarh
- Present service status
- Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked
- Not stated in the cited sources
- Finding of the Court (extract)
- “It has also been rightly observed by the Tribunal that a perusal of the allegations proved and the penalty imposed upon the petitioner will show, that the same is not excessive and it cannot be said that it pricks the …” (at para 15)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum
- Disciplinary action upheld. Sentence: fine.
- 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 October 2023 is the concluded position shown in the cited sources.
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“It has also been rightly observed by the Tribunal that a perusal of the allegations proved and the penalty imposed upon the petitioner will show, that the same is not excessive and it cannot be said that it pricks the …” (para 15)
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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.