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 "case_id": "t2w3-32-006",
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 "state": "Andhra Pradesh",
 "district": "Krishna",
 "court": "Sessions Judge, Mahila Court, Vijayawada (Krishna district)",
 "court_level": "sessions",
 "trial_court_name": "Sessions Judge, Mahila Court, Vijayawada (Krishna district)",
 "case_title": "Sessions Case No.137 of 2000 (State vs Jyothi & Ors.; custodial death of woman detainee Krishna Woman, Mahila Police Station Vijayawada); AP High Court Crl.A.No.1326 of 2007 (A-4), decided 20-04-2011",
 "case_number": null,
 "conviction_date": "2007-08-17",
 "conviction_year": 2007,
 "date_precision": "day",
 "incident_date": "1999-01-01",
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 "category": "brutality",
 "subcategory": "custodial_death",
 "raw_subcategory": "custodial_death",
 "outcome_type": "trial_court_conviction",
 "officers": [
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   "rank": "Woman Police Constable (night duty)",
   "unit": "Mahila Police Station, Vijayawada (Krishna district)",
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   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Krishna woman"
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 "sections": [
  "Section 302, IPC (trial; set aside on appeal)",
  "Section 348, IPC (trial; set aside on appeal)",
  "Section 331, IPC (trial; set aside on appeal)",
  "Section 201, IPC (trial; CONFIRMED on appeal)"
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 "sentence": "Trial: life (s.302) + 2 yrs RI each (ss.348/331/201); appeal (Crl.A.No.1326/2007, partly allowed) set aside ss.302/348/331 convictions and confirmed only s.201 IPC conviction (2 yrs RI + fine), release if already served",
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 "appeal_status": "upheld",
 "appeal_url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/708956/gandikota-venkateswarlu-and-gandikota-ranga-rao-appellant-hash-state-of-ap-respondent/",
 "source_kind": "judgment",
 "source_agency": "Andhra Pradesh High Court (Division Bench, Crl.A.Nos.1123,1124,1158,1326 of 2007, judgment dated 20-04-2011 recording sessions-court conviction)",
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 "summary": "Per the AP High Court judgment of 20-04-2011, the night-duty Woman Police Constable (A-4) of Mahila Police Station, Vijayawada — whose full name is not stated in the accessed judgment text — was convicted with three colleagues by the Sessions Judge, Mahila Court, Vijayawada on 17-08-2007 in Sessions Case No.137 of 2000 for the May-1999 custodial death of woman detainee a Krishna woman Her appeal (Crl.A.No.1326/2007) was partly allowed: convictions under IPC 302/348/331 were set aside but the IPC 201 (causing disappearance of evidence) conviction was confirmed, with release if that sentence was already served.",
 "court_quote": null,
 "confidence": "medium",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
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 "subcategory_display": "custodial death",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
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 "case_title_or_number": "Sessions Case No.137 of 2000 (State vs Jyothi & Ors.; custodial death of woman detainee Krishna Woman, Mahila Police Station Vijayawada); AP High Court Crl.A.No.1326 of 2007 (A-4), decided 20-04-2011",
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