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 "record_id": "CW-2009-0031",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-1227",
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 "display_title": "State of Karnataka vs Bengaluru Police Police Constable (PC No. 2545)",
 "display_title_redacted": "State of Karnataka vs Bengaluru Police Police Constable (PC No. 2545)",
 "state": "Karnataka",
 "district": "Bengaluru Urban",
 "district_at_time": "Bangalore",
 "city_town": "Bengaluru",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Mico Layout Police Station",
 "court": "Karnataka High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Karnataka High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "State of Karnataka vs Bengaluru Police Police Constable (PC No. 2545)",
 "case_number": "W.P. No. 6376/2007 (S)",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "B.V. Nagarathna"
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 "judgment_date": "2009-10-26",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2009,
 "incident_date": "1983-01-01",
 "incident_year": 1983,
 "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": "disciplinary_upheld",
 "sections": [
  "IPC 375"
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 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Police Constable (PC No. 2545)",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "unit": "Mico Layout Police Station, Bengaluru",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
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   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Police Constable (PC No. 2545), Mico Layout Police Station, Bengaluru"
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 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": "female",
   "descriptor": "Bengaluru woman"
  }
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 "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/1959223/",
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 "summary": "The judgment of the Karnataka High Court records the following account. Police Constable (PC No. 2545) of Mico Layout Police Station, Bengaluru, brought a helpless woman to the police station at about 1 a.m. in 1983 and sexually abused her, for which the enquiry officer found the departmental charges proved and he was dismissed on 19 August 1994. His criminal conviction had been set aside by the High Court in Crl.A. No. 154/1986 on benefit of doubt, and the Karnataka Administrative Tribunal ordered reinstatement with full benefits. The High Court held the acquittal was not honourable and the Tribunal erred, allowing the State's writ petition in part. The dismissal was converted to compulsory retirement with terminal benefits but no benefits for the dismissal-to-judgment period. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "Police Constable (PC No. 2545) of Mico Layout Police Station, Bengaluru, brought a helpless woman to the police station at about 1 a.m. in 1983 and sexually abused her, for which the enquiry officer found the departmental charges proved and he was dismissed on 19 August 1994. His criminal conviction had been set aside by the High Court in Crl.A. No. 154/1986 on benefit of doubt, and the Karnataka Administrative Tribunal ordered reinstatement with full benefits. The High Court held the acquittal was not honourable and the Tribunal erred, allowing the State's writ petition in part. The dismissal was converted to compulsory retirement with terminal benefits but no benefits for the dismissal-to-judgment period.",
 "court_quote": "The order of dismissal imposed by the disciplinary authority is converted to one of compulsory retirement. The respondent shall be entitled to all terminal benefits but shall not be entitled to any benefit for the period from the date of order of dismissal till today.",
 "court_quote_para": "9",
 "confidence": "medium",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "HC judgment verified on IK (OCR degraded); sexual misconduct in custody held proved, dismissal modified to compulsory retirement.",
 "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": "2009-10-26",
   "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": "W.P. No. 6376/2007 (S)",
   "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": []
  }
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 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1959223/",
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 "merged_case_id": "GAP3-58-001",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}