{ "record_id": "CW-2007-0023", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1082", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Tiryani Police Sub-Inspector v. Inspector General of Police, Warangal Range and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Tiryani Police Sub-Inspector v. Inspector General of Police, Warangal Range and Others", "state": "Telangana", "district": "Komaram Bheem Asifabad", "district_at_time": "Adilabad", "city_town": "Tiryani", "police_station_or_unit": "Tiryani Police Station, Adilabad", "court": "Andhra Pradesh High Court", "court_as_verified": "Andhra Pradesh High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Tiryani Police Sub-Inspector v. Inspector General of Police, Warangal Range and Others", "case_number": "Writ Petition No. 8019 of 2007", "citation": "(2007) 5 ALD 314", "judges": [ "G.S. Singhvi", "C.V. Nagarjuna Reddy" ], "judgment_date": "2007-04-24", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2007, "incident_date": "1995-01-01", "incident_year": 1995, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "corruption", "admin_subcategory": "bribery_pc_act", "subcategory": "bribery_pc_act", "subcategory_display": "bribery pc act", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "AP Civil Services (CCA) Rules 1991", "APCS (Conduct) Rules 1964 Rule 3", "IPC 324", "IPC 366", "IPC 504", "IPC 34", "Constitution Art. 226" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Sub-Inspector", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "Tiryani Police Station, Adilabad", "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, Tiryani Police Station, Adilabad" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 0, "sentence_type": "dismissal", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/708452/t-srinivas-appellant-hash-inspector-general-of-police-warangal-range-and-others-respondent/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/492379/" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Andhra Pradesh High Court records the following account. Sub-Inspector of Tiryani police station, Adilabad district, faced a departmental enquiry on the charge of misusing his position by collecting Rs 6,500 from villagers of Burudagudem to favour accused in Crime No. 2 of 1995. The Inspector General of Police, Warangal Range imposed compulsory retirement in August 2001, affirmed in departmental appeal and revision, and the AP Administrative Tribunal refused to interfere. The Division Bench found the enquiry evidence, including the middleman who collected and passed the bribe to the SI, proved the charge, drawing support from the three-day detention followed by release of the accused. It held the Tribunal committed no error in refusing to interfere with the punishment, and dismissed the writ petition. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "Sub-Inspector of Tiryani police station, Adilabad district, faced a departmental enquiry on the charge of misusing his position by collecting Rs 6,500 from villagers of Burudagudem to favour accused in Crime No. 2 of 1995. The Inspector General of Police, Warangal Range imposed compulsory retirement in August 2001, affirmed in departmental appeal and revision, and the AP Administrative Tribunal refused to interfere. The Division Bench found the enquiry evidence, including the middleman who collected and passed the bribe to the SI, proved the charge, drawing support from the three-day detention followed by release of the accused. It held the Tribunal committed no error in refusing to interfere with the punishment, and dismissed the writ petition.", "court_quote": "In our opinion, the allegation levelled against the petitioner that he misused his official position in collecting Rs. 6,500/- from the villagers for releasing the accused persons has rightly been treated as proved because the money has, in fact, been collected by his agents and absence of direct evidence regarding collecting of money by himself is not sufficient to absolve him of the charge.", "court_quote_para": "22", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Judgment text verified; SI's compulsory retirement for Rs 6,500 bribe-taking 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": "2007-04-24", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Andhra Pradesh High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Andhra Pradesh High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "(2007) 5 ALD 314", "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://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/708452/t-srinivas-appellant-hash-inspector-general-of-police-warangal-range-and-others-respondent/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/492379/", "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-95" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-12-001", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }