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 "record_id": "CW-2014-0024",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-1231",
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 "display_title": "Pavagada Police Police Constable vs The Director General and Inspector General of Police and Another",
 "display_title_redacted": "Pavagada Police Police Constable vs The Director General and Inspector General of Police and Another",
 "state": "Karnataka",
 "district": "Tumakuru",
 "district_at_time": "Tumkur",
 "city_town": "Pavagada",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Pavagada Police Station",
 "court": "Karnataka High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Karnataka High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Pavagada Police Police Constable vs The Director General and Inspector General of Police and Another",
 "case_number": "Writ Petition No. 29152 of 2010 (S-KAT)",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "K.L. Manjunath",
  "Ravi Malimath"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2014-03-20",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2014,
 "incident_date": "1987-02-15",
 "incident_year": 1987,
 "category": "Custodial torture",
 "admin_category": "brutality",
 "admin_subcategory": "custodial_torture",
 "subcategory": "custodial_torture",
 "subcategory_display": "custodial torture",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld",
 "sections": [
  "Karnataka State Police (Disciplinary Proceedings) Rules 1965 Rule 6(2) r/w Rule 8"
 ],
 "officers": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "rank": "Police Constable",
   "role": "held_liable",
   "unit": "Pavagada police, Tumkur district",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
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    "key2:no_row"
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   "later_outcome": null,
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Police Constable, Pavagada police, Tumkur district"
  }
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 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [
  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": "female",
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Pavagada woman"
  },
  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Pavagada man"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 2,
 "sentence_type": "dismissal",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": null,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/38508783/",
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 "summary": "The judgment of the Karnataka High Court records the following account. On the night of 15 February 1987, a woman and her husband who had missed their bus in Pavagada town were stopped by three drunken police constables including [name withheld], abused and assaulted, then taken by jeep to the police station where they were inhumanly beaten and the woman was sexually humiliated. A commission of inquiry indicted the police, and a joint disciplinary proceeding held the grave-misconduct charge proved against [name withheld], leading to his removal from service. The Karnataka High Court credited the direct evidence of both victims, rejected pleas of discrimination, disproportionality and reliance on a technical criminal-trial acquittal, and dismissed the writ petition. The court sustained the removal from service; no compensation was ordered. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "On the night of 15 February 1987, a woman and her husband who had missed their bus in Pavagada town were stopped by three drunken police constables including [name withheld], abused and assaulted, then taken by jeep to the police station where they were inhumanly beaten and the woman was sexually humiliated. A commission of inquiry indicted the police, and a joint disciplinary proceeding held the grave-misconduct charge proved against [name withheld], leading to his removal from service. The Karnataka High Court credited the direct evidence of both victims, rejected pleas of discrimination, disproportionality and reliance on a technical criminal-trial acquittal, and dismissed the writ petition. The court sustained the removal from service; no compensation was ordered.",
 "court_quote": "Charge no.2 was held proved to the effect that the petitioner and two others assaulted [survivor] and her husband and poked at her private parts with their sticks and kicked them with the boots and thus committed grave misconduct.",
 "court_quote_para": "10",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "HC judgment verified on Indian Kanoon; removal of constable for custodial assault and sexual humiliation 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": "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": "2014-03-20",
   "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": "Writ Petition No. 29152 of 2010 (S-KAT)",
   "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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   ]
  }
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 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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  {
   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/38508783/",
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  }
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 "merged_case_id": "GAP3-59-003",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}