{ "record_id": "CW-1982-0002", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0804", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Mangalore Man vs D.I.G. of Police", "display_title_redacted": "Mangalore Man vs D.I.G. of Police", "state": "Karnataka", "district": "Dakshina Kannada", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Mangalore", "police_station_or_unit": "Bajpe Airport, Mangalore (then ASI); SSB Bangalore (at dismissal)", "court": "Karnataka High Court", "court_as_verified": "Karnataka High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Mangalore Man vs D.I.G. of Police", "case_number": "Writ Petition No. 38840 of 1982", "citation": "ILR 1986 KAR 478", "judges": [ "Rama Jois" ], "judgment_date": "1982-11-08", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 1982, "incident_date": "1980-10-01", "incident_year": 1980, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "IPC 353" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Sub-Inspector of Police", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "SSB Bangalore (formerly ASI, Bajpe Airport)", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Sub-Inspector of Police, SSB Bangalore (formerly ASI, Bajpe Airport)" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Mangalore man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "dismissal", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/326983/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/511306/mahalinga-appellant-hash-dig-of-police-respondent/" ], "summary": "The Karnataka High Court (Rama Jois J., 8 November 1982) rejected the writ of Sub-Inspector and sustained his dismissal from service. The court recorded that while posted as ASI at Bajpe Airport he assaulted on-duty traffic constable at Mangalore on 1 October 1980, for which the JMFC convicted him under Section 353 IPC and sentenced him to 3 months RI. The court held the dismissal validly founded on the conduct that led to the conviction, and that suspension of the sentence pending appeal did not wipe out the conviction. It found the disciplinary authority had applied its own mind and dismissed the petition. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Karnataka High Court (Rama Jois J., 8 November 1982) rejected the writ of Sub-Inspector and sustained his dismissal from service. The court recorded that while posted as ASI at Bajpe Airport he assaulted on-duty traffic constable at Mangalore on 1 October 1980, for which the JMFC convicted him under Section 353 IPC and sentenced him to 3 months RI. The court held the dismissal validly founded on the conduct that led to the conviction, and that suspension of the sentence pending appeal did not wipe out the conviction. It found the disciplinary authority had applied its own mind and dismissed the petition.", "court_quote": "This Writ Petition is by a Sub-Inspector of Police who has been dismissed from service on the basis of the conduct which has led to his conviction, on a criminal charge u/s 353 of the Indian Penal Code.", "court_quote_para": "1", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Writ rejected; dismissal of PSI for assault leading to Section 353 IPC conviction upheld.", "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": "Other", "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": "1982-11-08", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Karnataka High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Karnataka High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "ILR 1986 KAR 478", "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": "wrong_facts", "corrections_applied": [ "court_quote" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/326983/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/511306/mahalinga-appellant-hash-dig-of-police-respondent/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-62" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP2-25-001", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }