{ "record_id": "CW-1992-0008", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0008", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Nellore Man vs Government of Andhra Pradesh and Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "Nellore Man vs Government of Andhra Pradesh and Ors.", "state": "Andhra Pradesh", "district": "SPSR Nellore", "district_at_time": "Nellore", "city_town": "Nellore", "police_station_or_unit": "III-Town Police Station, Nellore", "court": "Andhra Pradesh High Court", "court_as_verified": "Andhra Pradesh High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Nellore Man vs Government of Andhra Pradesh and Ors.", "case_number": "W.P. Nos. 2216 and 2225 of 1992", "citation": "1992 (3) ALT 193, 1993 Cri LJ 691", "judges": [ "Y. Bhaskar Rao" ], "judgment_date": "1992-08-14", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 1992, "incident_date": "1992-01-30", "incident_year": 1992, "category": "Custodial torture", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "custodial_torture", "subcategory": "custodial_torture", "subcategory_display": "custodial torture", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation", "sections": [ "Constitution of India Art. 21", "Constitution of India Art. 22", "Constitution of India Art. 226", "CrPC 97", "Contempt of Courts Act 1971 s.15" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Sub-Inspector of Police", "unit": "III-Town Police Station, Nellore", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "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": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Sub-Inspector of Police, III-Town Police Station, Nellore" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Sub-Inspector of Police", "unit": "Central Crime Station, Nellore", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "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": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Sub-Inspector of Police, Central Crime Station, Nellore" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Inspector of Police", "unit": "Nellore", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "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": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Inspector of Police, Nellore" } ], "officer_count": 3, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Nellore man" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Nellore man" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Nellore man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 3, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 10000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1556927/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The High Court found that police officers illegally abducted a Nellore man and two others from their homes on 30 January 1992, detained them in III-Town Police Station, Nellore, and subjected a Nellore man to custodial beatings to discover the whereabouts of an SI daughter who had entered into an interfaith marriage. The Sub-Inspector of III-Town Police Station defied a search warrant issued under Section 97 CrPC by an Advocate-Commissioner appointed by the Magistrate. Holding that the officers violated Articles 21 and 22 in an egregious display of lawlessness, the Court awarded Rs 10,000 compensation payable by the State with liberty to recover from the officers, and initiated criminal contempt proceedings against the Station House Officer. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The High Court found that police officers illegally abducted a Nellore man and two others from their homes on 30 January 1992, detained them in III-Town Police Station, Nellore, and subjected a Nellore man to custodial beatings to discover the whereabouts of an SI daughter who had entered into an interfaith marriage. The Sub-Inspector of III-Town Police Station defied a search warrant issued under Section 97 CrPC by an Advocate-Commissioner appointed by the Magistrate. Holding that the officers violated Articles 21 and 22 in an egregious display of lawlessness, the Court awarded Rs 10,000 compensation payable by the State with liberty to recover from the officers, and initiated criminal contempt proceedings against the Station House Officer.", "court_quote": "In view of these decisions, we hold that the Ist respondent-State is liable to pay compensation to the detenu for the forcible taking away and illegal detention of P.W. 3 and for the injuries sustained by him as a result of the beating by R-2 and another while P.W. 3 was in III-Town Police Station, Nellore, as certified by the Doctor, the illegal detention being malacious in the pursuit to know the whereabouts of the daughters of the 3rd respondent, who wedded a non-muslim boy of whom the detenu (P.W. 3) was a close friend. We accordingly direct the State (1st respondent) to deposit a sum of Rs. 10,000/- (rupees ten thousand only) towards compensation for the illegal detention of the detenu, with the Registrar (Judicial), High Court of A.P., within one month from to-day.", "court_quote_para": "25", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "High Court held police illegally abducted, detained, and beat detenu over personal vendetta, awarding Rs 10,000 compensation and initiating contempt.", "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 torture", "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": "1992-08-14", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Andhra Pradesh High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Andhra Pradesh High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 10,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "1992 (3) ALT 193, 1993 Cri LJ 691", "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", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1556927/", "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-01" ], "merged_case_id": "ANDHRA-008", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }