The judgment of the Supreme Court of India records the following account. Ranjan Kumar was appointed as a constable in Jharkhand Police in Garhwa district in 2005 and subsequently secured a second constable appointment in Bihar Police under the assumed name 'Santosh Kumar' using fabricated documents. Departmental…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Supreme Court of India records the following account. [name withheld], appointed Constable in the Jharkhand Police in May 2005 and serving as Reserve Guard at Dhurki Police Station, took two days compensatory leave from 20 December 2007 and never rejoined. The Court recorded that during that…
Read the court recordThe High Court held that the constable had suppressed a pending criminal case when entering police service. The High Court held that a later acquittal in October 2025 did not automatically undo a dismissal founded on suppression of material facts. The High Court held that there was a distinction between dismissal for…
Read the court recordThe High Court held that the constable deputed for treasure escort duty had left his rifle in the guardroom and remained absent. The High Court held that opportunity was given to participate in the departmental enquiry but the constable did not appear. The High Court held that a delayed appeal filed after sixteen…
Read the court recordThe High Court held that the police constable absented himself from duty from 06.12.2012 and ignored notices and enquiry proceedings. The High Court held that the departmental finding of prolonged unauthorized absence stood established ex parte. The High Court held that removal was fitting for a uniformed staffer and…
Read the court recordThe High Court held that the constable had fired 11 rounds in the air from his service AK-47 rifle on 29.07.2013. The High Court held that indiscipline and carelessness with a service weapon justified disciplinary action despite a plea of mental imbalance and insomnia. The High Court held that conversion of removal…
Read the court recordTreating a wife's letter as a suo motu PIL, the Jharkhand High Court examined the pre-dawn pickup and alleged custodial torture of an Ichagarh man at Ichagarh police station on 19-11-2025. The court described the alleged police conduct as unprecedented, noted CCTV cameras were never installed despite the Supreme…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Jharkhand High Court records the following account. A Chainpur man was detained on 1 December 2025 without an FIR or any criminal case against him and subjected to brutal physical torture within the premises of Chainpur Police Station, Gumla. An inquiry by the SDPO confirmed the illegal detention…
Read the court recordThe High Court held that the uniformed staffer had joined a coordinated mass leave and incited colleagues while holding weaponry and shouting slogans. The High Court held that the compulsory retirement imposed after the departmental enquiry was supported by the record. The High Court held that an earlier writ (WPS No.…
Read the court recordThe High Court held that the constable reported for duty on 24.08.2007 in an intoxicated condition, abused staff, and fled from hospital during medical examination. The High Court held that the doctor's note of alcoholic smell with oral testimony corroborated the charge despite the absence of a blood test. The High…
Read the court recordThe High Court held that the armed-police staffer declined assigned duty on 04.01.2005 and stayed away, with four prior penalties for overstay and absence on record. The High Court held that the case was one of refusal of duty rather than overstay of sanctioned leave. The High Court held that the delayed memorial…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Jharkhand High Court records the following account. Instakart/Flipkart officials a Ranchi man and a Ranchi man were arrested on 29-02-2024 in FIR 88/2024 for sub-seven-year offences without any Section 41-A CrPC notice or preliminary inquiry, and kept in custody till bail on 16-03-2024. The…
Read the court recordA Ranchi man, an undertrial prisoner remanded in judicial custody and admitted to RINPAS Ranchi for psychotic depression, escaped on 29 June 2012 when the two police constables deputed to guard him were absent from their posts, and was found dead later that day on a railway track. Overruling the Single Judge's…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Jharkhand High Court records the following account. On 17 August 2019 RPF constable, posted at Barkakana, opened indiscriminate fire with his service pistol on his neighbour milk-supplier's unarmed family when asked for milk dues, killing three members including a pregnant woman and injuring two.…
Read the court recordA Garu man was forcibly taken from his home in 2022 by Garu police led by SI, confined at the police station for three days and mercilessly assaulted with lathis to coerce an admission of helping naxals, then released when police realised he was the wrong person — facts the Court recorded as admitted by the State. The…
Read the court recordThe Jharkhand High Court dismissed a Hazaribagh constable's writ petition challenging his dismissal from service. The court held that his admitted live-in relationship with a woman other than his wife, while married with two children, violated Rule 23 of the Service Code read with Rule 707 of the Police Manual and was…
Read the court recordThe Jharkhand High Court found that a Ranchi man, a dhaba waiter arrested at Barachatti (Gaya, [name withheld]) on 6 October 2015, spent about eight years in jail for a crime he did not commit after NCB officials falsely implicated him in an NDPS case. The court noted the NCB itself had twice sought withdrawal of the…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Jharkhand High Court records the following account. On 12 June 2021, 24-year-old tribal villager was shot dead near Piri village, Latehar, while hunting with fellow villagers for the Nem Sarhul festival; the hunters pleaded they were villagers, not Maoists, but security forces fired without…
Read the court recordThe Jharkhand High Court held it established and admitted that tribal villager a Garu man died of police firing during a 12 June 2021 hunting expedition near Piri village, Latehar, where security personnel allegedly fired without warning, shot him again across the river and falsely implicated villagers. Finding the…
Read the court recordA Dhanbad man was taken into custody on 23 June 2015 by the Munshi of Ghanudih Outpost at the instance of the Officer-in-Charge, and was found dead the following morning inside the police lockup bearing severe physical injuries. A judicial inquiry by the CJM Dhanbad confirmed that the victim died in police custody due…
Read the court recordThe Jharkhand High Court held that student a Ranchi man was falsely implicated in a murder, gang-rape and burning case after a burnt female body near NH-33 was wrongly identified as the survivor, and remained in custody from 14 February to 27 July 2014 on a confessional statement alone. the survivor was later found…
Read the court recordThe Jharkhand High Court (Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) held a Lesliganj man was a victim of custodial violence who died in police custody. The OIC-led party had seized him from his home at Lukuwa on 9 September 2014 when his son was absent; photographs and the post-mortem showed multiple injuries, fortifying that death…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Jharkhand High Court records the following account. The petitioner's husband was arrested on 10 September 2006 by Rehla police and falsely implicated in an Arms Act case, and subsequently died unnaturally while in custody. Although jail authorities claimed death due to illness, the forensic science…
Read the court recordThe Jharkhand High Court held that tribal neighbour a Karmatand man had been languishing in custody since 1 July 2021 for committing no offence whatsoever, having been chargesheeted in Karmatand P.S. Case No. 47 of 2021 solely because he sat beside Asha Devi's body after being called by her husband, with no overt act…
Read the court recordThe Jharkhand High Court held that a Satgawan man was wrongfully confined by Satgawan police for around 16 hours on 13-14 March 2017. The petitioner alleged he was also beaten after abir/gulal was put on a chowkidar during Holi festivities, but the court held the torture/death question not proved ('How the death has…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Jharkhand High Court records the following account. JAP-1 Constable (Brass No. 759) was dismissed with effect from 31.08.2006 after a departmental enquiry into charges that, while on SOP training at TTS Jamshedpur, he evaded standby duty on Holi (26.03.2005), consumed alcohol, and attempted to rape…
Read the court recordCRPF Constable (GD) [name withheld], 11th Battalion at Latehar, was dismissed on 10.08.2013 for leaving the campus without permission in a Naxal-affected area on 11.07.2012, consuming liquor, and brawling with fellow personnel, misconduct he admitted before the Enquiry Officer. The appellate authority converted…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Jharkhand High Court records the following account. Probationer-constable [name withheld] (No. 2029), appointed in Ranchi in 1999, was removed from service on 18.10.2005 under Rule 668 of the Jharkhand Police Manual after being chargesheeted as an absconder in Nawada Muffasil P.S. Case No. 40 of…
Read the court recordPolice official [name withheld] was dismissed on 14.09.1996 by the Superintendent of Police, Bokaro (then in undivided Bihar), after a departmental inquiry found he collected money from truck drivers and declared a false identity when caught red-handed; his appeal (1997) and memorial (1998) were rejected. He sought…
Read the court recordConstable, appointed in Dumka in October 2004 and sent for training to CISF Regional Training Centre, Arkonam, absented himself from 18.02.2005, was suspended, and was dismissed on 16.12.2005 after a departmental proceeding found the absconding charge established; his appeal was rejected on 15.03.2011. His defences of…
Read the court recordConstable, Reserve Guard at Bara Jamda Out Post, West Singhbhum, was dismissed on 24.09.2007 after a departmental enquiry found he was watching TV instead of reporting for his 2-4 pm duty when MCC militants attacked the post on 31.03.2004 and looted nine rifles, a revolver and cartridges. His departmental appeal was…
Read the court recordThe Jharkhand High Court Division Bench dismissed the appeal of CRPF Constable against his removal for reporting for Quarter Guard duty in a drunken condition after consuming country-made liquor and for four days of unauthorised absence in 1996. The court held the charges stood proved after full opportunity, noting…
Read the court recordThe Jharkhand High Court Division Bench dismissed the Letters Patent Appeal of CISF constable of the BCCL Dhanbad unit against his removal dated 19 February 2008. The court found three charges proved through a multi-witness enquiry: intoxication on duty, outraging the modesty of a woman during duty hours on 13 June…
Read the court recordThe Jharkhand High Court Single Judge dismissed the writ petition of JAP-5 constable challenging his dismissal dated 30 May 2008 for overstaying ten days leave from 12 to 22 April 2004 by about two years. The court found the enquiry officer rightly held the absence wilful and deliberate, since the mental-illness…
Read the court recordThe Jharkhand High Court Single Judge dismissed the writ petition of trainee constable, appointed 24 September 2009, challenging his dismissal dated 30 May 2011. The court recorded he secured appointment with forged documents, absconded with another person attending duty in his place, and never appeared in the…
Read the court recordThe Jharkhand High Court dismissed the writ petition of Constable challenging his dismissal for shooting dead the Officer-in-Charge of a Jamshedpur resident on 20 March 1997 after being refused leave. The court held that Departmental Proceeding No. 37/1998 had proved the charge, that Police Manual Rules 844/847 and…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Patna High Court records the following account. [name withheld] [name withheld], a CRPF constable of 133 Battalion at Dhurwa, Ranchi, challenged his May 2010 dismissal for overstaying leave sanctioned from January to February 2009. The court found he had remained absent for hundreds of days without…
Read the court recordThe Jharkhand High Court Division Bench dismissed the appeal of Constable against his dismissal for snatching Rs. 17,000 from passenger a Dhanbad resident at Dhanbad Railway Station on 28 July 2008 and for unauthorised absence. The court held the ex parte enquiry was fair, with registered notice sent, local police…
Read the court recordThe Jharkhand High Court Single Judge dismissed the writ petition of Bokaro constable, appointed on 12 July 2006 on compassionate ground, challenging his dismissal dated 31 July 2014. The court found he had suppressed a Hulasganj criminal case in his appointment declaration, exposed by letter dated 1 October 2011, and…
Read the court recordThe Jharkhand High Court disposed of as devoid of merit the writ petition of JAP-3 Constable against his dismissal for ten days of leave without information and failure to rejoin duty despite repeated directions. The court held the enquiry rested on overwhelming material with no procedural infirmity and that judicial…
Read the court recordThe Jharkhand High Court Division Bench (Virender Singh CJ, Shree Chandrashekhar J.) on 16 February 2016 dismissed the LPA of Dhanbad Constable and upheld his dismissal from service. The court recorded that on 20-21 August 2010 he impersonated the Superintendent of Police bodyguard, demanded Rs. 12,000 from truck…
Read the court recordThe Jharkhand High Court Division Bench allowed the State appeal and restored the dismissal of constable, setting aside the Single Judge order of 13 November 2013 that had reinstated him with full back wages. The court found he had secured appointment under the 50 percent trained Home Guard quota by annexing only an…
Read the court recordThe Jharkhand High Court Division Bench allowed the State appeal and restored the dismissal dated 14 October 2012 of constable, setting aside the Single Judge order of 13 November 2013 that had reinstated him with full back wages. Decided the same day on the identical pattern as the companion appeals, the court found…
Read the court recordThe Jharkhand High Court Division Bench allowed the State appeal and restored the dismissal dated 14 October 2012 of constable, setting aside the Single Judge order of 18 January 2014 that had reinstated him. Decided the same day on the identical pattern as the companion appeals, the court found he had secured…
Read the court recordThe Jharkhand High Court Division Bench, condoning 17 days delay, dismissed the Letters Patent Appeal of Tiger Mobile constable against his dismissal dated 31 March 2010. The court found a regular departmental enquiry with medical evidence proved he consumed liquor on duty and, in a drunken state, pointed the…
Read the court recordThe 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…
Read the court recordThe Jharkhand High Court (Pramath Patnaik J.) on 6 November 2015 dismissed the writ petition of police Constable and upheld his dismissal from service. The court recorded that he dishonestly drew Rs. 11,630 as house rent allowance for March, September, October and November 2009 and January 2010 while retaining…
Read the court recordThe Jharkhand High Court (Pramath Patnaik J.) dismissed a CISF constable's writ against his dismissal dated 29 July 2002. The court found he was drunk on firing-point duty at HEC Ranchi on 15 October 2001 and disobeyed a lawful order to deposit his rifle, against a record of one major and 18 minor prior punishments.…
Read the court recordThe Jharkhand High Court (Pramath Patnaik J.) dismissed a Garhwa constable's writ against his dismissal dated 20 August 2010. The court found departmental evidence proved intentional forgery and fraud: two matriculation identities, simultaneous appointments in two states, and fraudulent salary draw, and not mere…
Read the court recordThe Jharkhand High Court (Pramath Patnaik J.) dismissed a Jharkhand Armed Police constable's writ against his dismissal dated 30 October 2007. The court found he had concealed a previous criminal case and judicial custody at appointment, which it held amounts to grave misconduct, particularly in a disciplined service…
Read the court recordThe Jharkhand High Court (Sujit Narayan Prasad J.) dismissed a Hawaldar's writ against his dismissal dated 31 March 2004. The court found the enquiry had proved, on witness depositions and documents, that he stalked a Hazaribagh woman under a false identity, misused his service pistol, threatened adverse newspaper…
Read the court recordThe Jharkhand High Court Division Bench (D. N. Patel and Pramath Patnaik JJ.) dismissed a constable's Letters Patent Appeal against the Single Judge order dated 18 April 2013 upholding his dismissal for theft. The court noted the trial court had convicted and sentenced him to two years' simple imprisonment, and held…
Read the court recordThe Jharkhand High Court (Sujit Narayan Prasad J.) dismissed a CISF constable's writ challenging his removal dated 21 October 2009. The court found proved three charges: absence from main-gate duty at Koyla Nagar on 6-7 April 2009, abusing higher officials with bullet threats on 7 April 2009, and five prior…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Jharkhand High Court records the following account. Constable, appointed in the Gumla District Police in 1999 and posted at Chirkunda Police Station, Dhanbad, was charged with reporting for and remaining on duty in a drunken state and abusing colleagues and the public during 2009-2010. A regular…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Jharkhand High Court records the following account. Constable of Gomoh Railway Police Station faced 11 charges arising from incidents including 24 December 2000, when he allegedly loaded his service rifle, threatened the Officer Incharge and reader, aimed the rifle at the Officer Incharge with…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Jharkhand High Court records the following account. replace victim name 'a minor' with role noun (e.g. 'a man'/'a boy'). Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.
Read the court recordConstable, first dismissed in 1979 for fleeing patrol duty at Ara railway station — a dismissal that attained finality up to the Supreme Court in 1981 — was reinstated in 1993-94 and posted with BMP-3 at Govindpur, Dhanbad. A later enquiry found that the reinstatement rested on a forged Home Department letter, leading…
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Read the court recordThe judgment of the Jharkhand High Court records the following account. Constable of Patmada Police Station, East Singhbhum, was apprehended by villagers on the night of 24/25 September 2000 at the scene of a godown theft near the Swarnrekha river, leading to Patmada P.S. Case No. 66 of 2000 under IPC sections 461…
Read the court recordThe Jharkhand High Court (Aparesh Kumar Singh J.) on 28 February 2013 dismissed the writ petition of CISF Constable and upheld his removal from service. The court recorded that on 9 January 1997 he assaulted Sub-Inspector-Fire a Bokaro resident, who emerged bleeding from the side of his head, and that seven witnesses…
Read the court recordThe Jharkhand High Court (Alok Singh J.) on 9 October 2012 dismissed the writ petition of Godda police Constable and upheld his termination from service. The court recorded as undisputed that he had been convicted under Section 364 IPC in Sahebganj Muffassil P.S. Case No. 51 of 2001, that the conviction had attained…
Read the court recordSepoy of BMP-II, Jamshedpur, was caught stealing an iron angle from the Lalbabu Tube Company on the night of 4/5 January 1979 (then undivided Bihar) and dismissed after a departmental enquiry, but the Ranchi Bench quashed that dismissal in 1991 for non-supply of documents and ordered a fresh enquiry. A de novo enquiry…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Jharkhand High Court records the following account. Railway policeman, on duty with Daltonganj Railway Police on 5 February 2004, allegedly abused Inspector while drunk, then fired a round from Government Rifle No. 1309438 before colleagues overpowered him; medical examination found him drunk and…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Jharkhand High Court records the following account. The petitioner sought compensation for the custodial death of her 24-year-old son, a Ranchi man @ a Ranchi man, who died after being subjected to brutal physical assault by Jagannathpur police personnel on 27 July 1990. The trial court in Sessions…
Read the court recordThe Jharkhand High Court (Narendra Nath Tiwari J.) on 26 April 2012 dismissed the writ petition of Pakur Havildar [name withheld] and upheld his discharge from service. The court recorded that he slapped Havildar twice, abused him, chased him into the office and assaulted him with a chair, fomented a caste-line…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Jharkhand High Court records the following account. Constable of Jharkhand Armed Police-4, Bokaro, was charged after being caught by a night patrol on 23 July 2000 leaving the quarters of a fellow constable in the same campus, with grave allegations of misconduct concerning the household. An…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Jharkhand High Court records the following account. On 26 May 2001 Railway Police constables, [name withheld] and [name withheld], while on duty at the Jamshedpur railway platform, extorted Rs 500 from a Gitanjali Express passenger; G.R.P. Case No. 31/2000 (as stated in the judgment) under Section…
Read the court recordThe Jharkhand High Court dismissed police constable Ratnesh Kumar Singh's writ petition and upheld his dismissal for gross station-house misconduct at Tatanagar Railway Police, where in civil dress he abused the ASI with a caste slur, tried to tear the station diary and threw the telephone set down, leading to an FIR…
Read the court recordThe Supreme Court dismissed the appeal of Bihar Military Police writer constable Akhilesh Kumar Singh and upheld his 1987 dismissal for tampering with the general diary, making double and false entries, and misappropriating food allowance by claiming presence while absent, one charge of which he admitted. Rejecting…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Jharkhand High Court records the following account. On 12 August 2005 Ranchi traffic police seized trekker JH-01-E-9057 at Jail Chowk, which the petitioners alleged followed their refusal to pay illegal gratification, and falsely implicated an advocate who took up the matter in a Motor Vehicles Act…
Read the court recordThe Jharkhand High Court (M.Y. Eqbal J.) on 14 November 2006 dismissed the appeals of CISF constables and Naik of the Kargali colliery check post against their dismissal from service. The court recorded that surprise checks on 21 and 24 November 1997 found them collecting Rs. 50 and Rs. 65 respectively as illegal…
Read the court recordThe Jharkhand High Court (R.K. Merathia J.) on 25 July 2006 dismissed the writ petition of CISF constable of the Bokaro Steel Plant unit, challenging his dismissal from service. The court recorded that he had been found guilty in a departmental enquiry of conspiring to commit theft inside the plant on 29 April 1995…
Read the court recordThe Jharkhand High Court Division Bench (S.J. Mukhopadhaya and Permod Kohli JJ.) on 19 May 2006 dismissed the Letters Patent Appeal of constable of Sadar Court, Dhanbad, against his dismissal for habitual absconding from duty since November 2000. The court recorded that an ex parte departmental enquiry had held him…
Read the court recordThe Jharkhand High Court (S.J. Mukhopadhaya J.) on 8 March 2006 dismissed the appeal of CISF constable against his dismissal from service. The court recorded that he was found sitting and dozing before a small fire while on 'C'-shift watch-tower duty on the night of 11/12 February 1992 and assaulted Inspector when…
Read the court recordThe Jharkhand High Court (M.Y. Eqbal J.) on 23 December 2005 dismissed the writ petition of JAP-7 constable against his dismissal for habitual unauthorised absence. The court recorded that he absconded from 18 April to 29 July 2002 (102 days), covering it with a story of kidnapping by Naxalites that neither his…
Read the court recordThe Jharkhand High Court (M.Y. Eqbal J.) on 25 July 2005 dismissed the writ petition of CISF constable (No. 8017761) against the rejection of his revision by the Inspector General, CISF Eastern Sector. The court recorded the same history as the later appeal round: dozing on watch-tower duty on 11/12 February 1992 and…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Jharkhand High Court records the following account. On 8 May 1996, while on deputation at D.A.V. School, Hazaribagh, during the Lok Sabha elections, BMP constable abused and pushed down constable and later that night assaulted the sleeping constable on the chest with boots, hospitalising him till…
Read the court recordOn 18 January 2002 constable, escorting three accused including murder-accused [name withheld] from jail to the Jamshedpur Sadar Court, left Singh untied and unhandcuffed, allowing him to remove his handcuffs and escape; Bistupur P.S. Case No. 19/2002 under Sections 224, 225 and 120B IPC followed. Departmental…
Read the court recordThe Jharkhand High Court allowed the father's writ after his son [name withheld] was killed on 7 December 2001 when a suspected parcel bomb exploded at Daltonganj. The court found the Daltonganj police patrolling party negligent: instead of summoning explosive experts, the Inspector had the civilian open the lunch-box…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Jharkhand High Court records the following account. A Ranchi man @ a Ranchi man was apprehended along with two others by Jagannathpur police on 27 July 1990 following an alleged dacoity, and was brutally assaulted with rifle butts and iron rods in a police jeep, resulting in his custodial death.…
Read the court recordThe Patna High Court (Ranchi bench) allowed the widow's writ, holding that her husband [name withheld] died in custody on 18 July 1998 from a brutal assault by a police party led by DySP [name withheld]. The court found that the joint Bihar police-BMP-CRPF party had raided the house without warrant, beaten the…
Read the court recordThe Patna High Court (Ranchi bench) partly allowed the writ of two TISCO Assistant Security Officers detained at Sidhgora police station on 25 May 1990. The court held there was no reasonable cause for their detention, for refusing them bail, or for handcuffing and roping them in public view outside the magistrate's…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Patna High Court records the following account. On 10 October 1952, the ASI and constable of Kandra outpost threatened about 28 villagers of Bikaneepur with prosecution over a witchcraft-related sacrifice and extracted illegal gratification at Rs.2/8 per head, settled after haggling down from…
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