{ "record_id": "CW-2003-0017", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0905", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Udhagamandalam Police Constable v. State rep. by S.D.M.", "display_title_redacted": "Udhagamandalam Police Constable v. State rep. by S.D.M.", "state": "Tamil Nadu", "district": "The Nilgiris", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Udhagamandalam", "police_station_or_unit": "Conoor Police Station (Prohibition Wing)", "court": "Supreme Court of India", "court_as_verified": "Supreme Court of India", "bench": null, "case_title": "Udhagamandalam Police Constable v. State rep. by S.D.M.", "case_number": "Criminal Appeal Nos. 929-930 of 2002", "citation": "(2003) 6 SCC 73", "judges": [ "Y. K. Sabharwal", "H. K. Sema" ], "judgment_date": "2003-04-28", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2003, "incident_date": "1989-03-11", "incident_year": 1989, "category": "Custodial torture", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "custodial_rape_sexual_assault", "subcategory": "custodial_rape_sexual_assault", "subcategory_display": "custodial rape sexual assault", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "conviction_upheld", "sections": [ "IPC 346", "IPC 366", "IPC 376" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "role": "convicted", "unit": "Prohibition Wing, Conoor Police Station", "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": "Constable, Prohibition Wing, Conoor Police Station" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "age": null, "gender": "female", "name": null, "descriptor": "Udhagamandalam woman" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "mixed", "sentence_max_years": 7, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://www.advocatekhoj.com/library/judgments/index.php?go=2003/april/visveswaran-vs-state-rep-by-s-d-m-77", "secondary_sources": [ "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1527467/", "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/5609add9e4b0149711412583" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Supreme Court of India records the following account. On the night of 11-12 March 1989, a police constable took PW1 and her husband from a Kethi bus stand in a taxi on the pretext of suspicion, pushed the husband out en route, and raped PW1 in a Woodlands Hotel room at Udhagamandalam; she escaped in the morning and reported to Kethi Police Station. [name withheld], a constable in the Prohibition Wing of Conoor Police Station, was convicted by the trial court under Sections 346, 366 and 376 IPC and sentenced to 7 years RI with a Rs 10,000 fine, affirmed by the High Court. He challenged only his identity before the Supreme Court. The Court held identity proved by hotel booking records, his unexplained whereabouts, and his refusal to give a semen sample, and dismissed the appeals, upholding the conviction and sentence.", "summary_verified": "On the night of 11-12 March 1989, a police constable took PW1 and her husband from a Kethi bus stand in a taxi on the pretext of suspicion, pushed the husband out en route, and raped PW1 in a Woodlands Hotel room at Udhagamandalam; she escaped in the morning and reported to Kethi Police Station. [name withheld], a constable in the Prohibition Wing of Conoor Police Station, was convicted by the trial court under Sections 346, 366 and 376 IPC and sentenced to 7 years RI with a Rs 10,000 fine, affirmed by the High Court. He challenged only his identity before the Supreme Court. The Court held identity proved by hotel booking records, his unexplained whereabouts, and his refusal to give a semen sample, and dismissed the appeals, upholding the conviction and sentence.", "court_quote": "The appellant at the relevant time was posted as a Constable in the Prohibition Wing of Conoor Police Station. The victim, PW1, was a young, recently married rustic woman. The commission of crime on the person of the victim by a Police Constable has also been fully established and is not a matter in issue.", "court_quote_para": null, "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "SC judgment verified (AdvocateKhoj + Indian Kanoon); police constable's rape conviction upheld, appeals dismissed.", "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": null, "action_type": "Conviction", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Trial court (as recorded in the Supreme Court of India judgment)", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Supreme Court of India judgment.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation", "source": "(2003) 6 SCC 73", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." }, { "date": "2003-04-28", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Supreme Court of India", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Supreme Court of India dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)", "source": "(2003) 6 SCC 73", "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": [ "court_quote_para" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://www.advocatekhoj.com/library/judgments/index.php?go=2003/april/visveswaran-vs-state-rep-by-s-d-m-77", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1527467/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/5609add9e4b0149711412583", "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-76" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP2-57-001", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }