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 "record_id": "CW-2023-0044",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0929",
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 "display_title": "Bachupally Resident & Ors. v. State of Telangana",
 "display_title_redacted": "Bachupally Resident & Ors. v. State of Telangana",
 "state": "Telangana",
 "district": "Medchal-Malkajgiri",
 "district_at_time": "Ranga Reddy",
 "city_town": "Bachupally",
 "police_station_or_unit": null,
 "court": "Telangana High Court",
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 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Bachupally Resident & Ors. v. State of Telangana",
 "case_number": "Criminal Petition No. 6096 of 2019",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "M. Laxman"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2023-06-30",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2023,
 "incident_date": "2009-01-24",
 "incident_year": 2009,
 "category": "Other",
 "admin_category": "misconduct",
 "admin_subcategory": "false_implication_fabrication",
 "subcategory": "false_implication_fabrication",
 "subcategory_display": "false implication fabrication",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation",
 "sections": [
  "IPC s.447",
  "IPC s.427",
  "CrPC s.482"
 ],
 "officers": [
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   "rank": null,
   "role": "held_liable",
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   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "gate_reasons": [
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    "key2:no_row"
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   "key2_agy": null,
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   "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": "Police personnel"
  }
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 "officer_count": 1,
 "victims": [
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": null,
   "descriptor": "Bachupally resident"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": null,
   "descriptor": "Bachupally resident"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": null,
   "descriptor": "Bachupally resident"
  },
  {
   "name": null,
   "age": null,
   "gender": null,
   "descriptor": "Bachupally resident"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 4,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 25000,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://www.verdictum.in/pdf_upload/koduluri-ramu-ors-vs-state-of-telangana-1521904.pdf",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://www.livelaw.in/amp/high-court/telangana-high-court/telangana-high-court-cost-wrong-implication-trespass-case-232835"
 ],
 "summary": "The Telangana High Court allowed a Section 482 petition and quashed the proceedings against four accused in a Bachupally land-trespass case (C.C. No. 33 of 2019). The Court found the charge sheet was filed without any basis: the petitioners were named neither in the FIR nor the private complaint nor by any witness, while the person actually named by the complainant was deleted without reasons. Holding this a clear case of abuse of process causing needless prosecution and mental agony through improper investigation, the Court awarded Rs 25,000 exemplary costs payable by the State with liberty to recover the sum from the investigating officer who filed the charge sheet. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "The Telangana High Court allowed a Section 482 petition and quashed the proceedings against four accused in a Bachupally land-trespass case (C.C. No. 33 of 2019). The Court found the charge sheet was filed without any basis: the petitioners were named neither in the FIR nor the private complaint nor by any witness, while the person actually named by the complainant was deleted without reasons. Holding this a clear case of abuse of process causing needless prosecution and mental agony through improper investigation, the Court awarded Rs 25,000 exemplary costs payable by the State with liberty to recover the sum from the investigating officer who filed the charge sheet.",
 "court_quote": "This is a clear case of abuse of process. On account of improper investigation, the petitioners were unnecessarily subjected to criminal prosecution and undergone mental agony.",
 "court_quote_para": "para 4",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Telangana HC quashed prosecution as abuse of process from improper investigation; Rs 25,000 exemplary costs, recoverable from IO.",
 "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": "2023-06-30",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Telangana High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Telangana High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 25,000.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "Criminal Petition No. 6096 of 2019",
   "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://www.verdictum.in/pdf_upload/koduluri-ramu-ors-vs-state-of-telangana-1521904.pdf",
   "link_checked": null
  },
  {
   "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/amp/high-court/telangana-high-court/telangana-high-court-cost-wrong-implication-trespass-case-232835",
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 "source_assessment": {
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  "basis": null
 },
 "v3_basis": null,
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 "merged_case_id": "GAP2-8-001",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
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 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}