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 "status": "current",
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 "display_title": "Public Prosecutor vs Warangal Police Sub-Inspector of Police and others",
 "display_title_redacted": "Public Prosecutor vs Warangal Police Sub-Inspector of Police and others",
 "state": "Telangana",
 "district": "Warangal",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Warangal",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Mathwada Police Station / Central Crime Station Warangal",
 "court": "Andhra Pradesh High Court",
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 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Public Prosecutor vs Warangal Police Sub-Inspector of Police and others",
 "case_number": null,
 "citation": "AIR 1964 AP 548",
 "judges": [
  "Basi Reddy"
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 "judgment_date": "1963-11-26",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 1963,
 "incident_date": "1961-04-24",
 "incident_year": 1961,
 "category": "Custodial death",
 "admin_category": "brutality",
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 "subcategory": "custodial_death",
 "subcategory_display": "custodial death",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "conviction_by_hc",
 "sections": [
  "IPC 330",
  "IPC 109",
  "IPC 201"
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   "name": "Syed Hasan Ali",
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   "unit": "Central Crime Station, Warangal",
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   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": "Syed Hasan Ali",
   "display": "Syed Hasan Ali (Sub-Inspector of Police)"
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  {
   "name": "C. Janardhanrao",
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   "name_public": "C. Janardhanrao",
   "display": "C. Janardhanrao (Sub-Inspector of Police)"
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  {
   "name": "Ahmed Ali",
   "rank": "Police Constable",
   "unit": "Mathwada Police Station, Warangal",
   "role": "convicted",
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   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": "Ahmed Ali",
   "display": "Ahmed Ali (Police Constable)"
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  {
   "name": "G.K. Narasimhamurthy",
   "rank": "Police Constable",
   "unit": "Mathwada Police Station, Warangal",
   "role": "convicted",
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   "name_public": "G.K. Narasimhamurthy",
   "display": "G.K. Narasimhamurthy (Police Constable)"
  },
  {
   "name": "K. Ramaiah",
   "rank": "Police Constable",
   "unit": "Central Crime Station, Warangal",
   "role": "convicted",
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   "gate_reasons": [],
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   "key2": "yes",
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   "later_outcome": "none_found",
   "name_public": "K. Ramaiah",
   "display": "K. Ramaiah (Police Constable)"
  }
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 "officer_count": 5,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "descriptor": "Warangal man"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "imprisonment",
 "sentence_max_years": 3,
 "compensation_inr": null,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1311171/",
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 "summary": "The High Court of Andhra Pradesh allowed the State's appeal against acquittal in part, reversing the trial court order and convicting two Sub-Inspectors and three Police Constables of Mathwada Police Station and Central Crime Station, Warangal. Suspect a Warangal man had been detained and severely tortured through the night of 24 April 1961 to extort a confession, resulting in his death and the subsequent clandestine disposal of his body. While finding that murderous intent was not established beyond reasonable doubt, the High Court held that the officers voluntarily caused hurt to extort confessions. The Court convicted the two Sub-Inspectors under IPC 330 read with 109, the three Constables under IPC 330, and one Sub-Inspector additionally under IPC 201, sentencing each of them to three years' rigorous imprisonment. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The High Court of Andhra Pradesh allowed the State's appeal against acquittal in part, reversing the trial court order and convicting two Sub-Inspectors and three Police Constables of Mathwada Police Station and Central Crime Station, Warangal. Suspect a Warangal man had been detained and severely tortured through the night of 24 April 1961 to extort a confession, resulting in his death and the subsequent clandestine disposal of his body. While finding that murderous intent was not established beyond reasonable doubt, the High Court held that the officers voluntarily caused hurt to extort confessions. The Court convicted the two Sub-Inspectors under IPC 330 read with 109, the three Constables under IPC 330, and one Sub-Inspector additionally under IPC 201, sentencing each of them to three years' rigorous imprisonment.",
 "court_quote": "torturing suspects with a view to extorting information from them, is a crude, barbarous and reprehensible method of investigating and detecting crime. Those who are entrusted with the duty of enforcing the law, must learn to obey the law.",
 "court_quote_para": "113",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Andhra Pradesh HC reversed trial court acquittals, convicting 2 Sub-Inspectors and 3 Constables to 3 years RI under IPC 330/109/201 for custodial torture and death.",
 "verification_status": "V2",
 "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported",
 "tier_badge": "Externally reported",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
 "tier_history": [
  "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded"
 ],
 "allegations": [
  {
   "category": "Custodial death",
   "primary": true,
   "position": "Material fact supported",
   "position_explainer": "Reliable material supports a specifically documented fact relevant to that allegation, not necessarily the full allegation, causation, intent, unlawfulness, or responsibility.",
   "official_finding_relation": "supports allegation"
  }
 ],
 "institutional_response": [
  {
   "date": "1963-11-26",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Andhra Pradesh High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Andhra Pradesh High Court entered convictions against police personnel in this judgment.",
   "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation",
   "source": "AIR 1964 AP 548",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
 ],
 "later_proceedings": [],
 "final_outcome_url": null,
 "followup_history": [
  {
   "date": "2026-09-19",
   "scope": "Round-8 full re-verification: published record re-checked against the judgment text (outcome, officers, quote, key facts) plus methodology-compliance pass",
   "method": "skills-guided adversarial re-verification of the published record against the judgment text (reverify/t1-*/adversarial-8.jsonl)",
   "result": "holds",
   "corrections_applied": []
  }
 ],
 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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  {
   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1311171/",
   "link_checked": null
  }
 ],
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 "v3_basis": null,
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 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
 },
 "fidelity_checked": true,
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 "merged_case_id": "TELANG-009",
 "officers_named_public": 5,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}