{ "state": "Andhra Pradesh", "slug": "andhra-pradesh", "count": 23, "url": "https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/state/andhra-pradesh", "cases": [ { "record_id": "CW-1959-0002", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0011", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "The Deputy Inspector General of Police vs [name withheld] and Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "The Deputy Inspector General of Police vs [name withheld] and Ors.", "state": "Andhra Pradesh", "district": null, "district_at_time": null, "city_town": null, "police_station_or_unit": null, "court": "Andhra Pradesh High Court", "court_as_verified": "Andhra Pradesh High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "The Deputy Inspector General of Police vs [name withheld] and Ors.", "case_number": "Writ Appeal No. 90 of 1956 and connected appeal", "citation": "AIR 1960 AP 259", "judges": [ "Chandra Reddy" ], "judgment_date": "1959-07-28", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 1959, "incident_date": null, "incident_year": null, "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": [ "IPC 331", "IPC 348" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Sub-Inspector of Police", "role": "held_liable", "unit": null, "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2_gemapi:no", "key2_openrouter:no", "key2_gpt:unclear" ], "ledger_role": "convicted", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": "no", "key2_openrouter": "no", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": "no", "jev_risk": 0.1, "jev_p_culpable": 0.73, "key2_gpt": "unclear", "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Sub-Inspector of Police" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Police Constables", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "served under the Sub-Inspector", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": "convicted", "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": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Police Constables, served under the Sub-Inspector" } ], "officer_count": 2, "victims": [], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": null, "sentence_type": "dismissal", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/464087/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The High Court allowed the Government writ appeals and restored the October 1953 dismissal of Sub-Inspector and the constables serving under him, who stood convicted of moral-turpitude offences under Sections 331 and 348 IPC for custodial hurt and wrongful confinement to extort a confession. The Court held the January 1954 general amnesty on formation of Andhra State remitted only the sentences and did not wipe out the convictions, and that the Article 311(2) proviso permits dismissal on the ground of conduct leading to a criminal conviction. Since the officers had withdrawn their criminal appeals as not pressed, the Court held the convictions stood finally upheld and set aside the single Judge orders quashing the dismissals. The judgment does not name the station, district, victim, or offence date. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The High Court allowed the Government writ appeals and restored the October 1953 dismissal of Sub-Inspector and the constables serving under him, who stood convicted of moral-turpitude offences under Sections 331 and 348 IPC for custodial hurt and wrongful confinement to extort a confession. The Court held the January 1954 general amnesty on formation of Andhra State remitted only the sentences and did not wipe out the convictions, and that the Article 311(2) proviso permits dismissal on the ground of conduct leading to a criminal conviction. Since the officers had withdrawn their criminal appeals as not pressed, the Court held the convictions stood finally upheld and set aside the single Judge orders quashing the dismissals. The judgment does not name the station, district, victim, or offence date.", "court_quote": "In the result, the appeals filed by the Government are allowed and the Writ Petitions are dismissed.", "court_quote_para": "26", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "High Court allowed State appeals and restored dismissal of SI and constables convicted under IPC 331/348; 1954 amnesty remitted only sentence, not conviction.", "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": "1959-07-28", "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": "AIR 1960 AP 259", "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://indiankanoon.org/doc/464087/", "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-01", "chunk-r01" ], "merged_case_id": "ANDHRA-011", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-1963-0001", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0012", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "State of Andhra Pradesh vs Kodur Police Sub-Inspector of Police (Station House Officer)", "display_title_redacted": "State of Andhra Pradesh vs Kodur Police Sub-Inspector of Police (Station House Officer)", "state": "Andhra Pradesh", "district": "Anakapalli", "district_at_time": "Visakhapatnam", "city_town": "Kodur", "police_station_or_unit": "Kodur Police Station", "court": "Supreme Court of India", "court_as_verified": "Supreme Court of India", "bench": null, "case_title": "State of Andhra Pradesh vs Kodur Police Sub-Inspector of Police (Station House Officer)", "case_number": null, "citation": "AIR 1963 SC 1723, 1964 SCR (3) 25", "judges": [ "J.C. Shah", "B.P. Sinha", "N. Rajagopala Ayyangar" ], "judgment_date": "1963-04-10", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 1963, "incident_date": "1954-03-05", "incident_year": 1954, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "illegal_detention_false_imprisonment", "subcategory": "illegal_detention_false_imprisonment", "subcategory_display": "illegal detention false imprisonment", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Sub-Inspector of Police (Station House Officer)", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "Kodur Police Station", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2_gpt:unclear" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": "yes", "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.06, "jev_p_culpable": 0.96, "key2_gpt": "unclear", "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Sub-Inspector of Police (Station House Officer), Kodur Police Station" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Kodur man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "removal", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1763592/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Supreme Court restored the removal from service of Sub-Inspector, officer in charge of Kodur Police Station, for reprehensible conduct in wrongfully confining theft suspect [name withheld] in the station from the night of 5 March 1954 to 7 March 1954 without a magistrate remand, diary entry, or written acknowledgment. The Court found the departmental enquiry regularly proved the charge and rejected the officer defence that a Kodur man had escaped from village servants en route. Holding that the High Court had no jurisdiction under Article 226 to reappreciate departmental evidence by the criminal standard of proof beyond reasonable doubt, the Court set aside the High Court order quashing the DIG dismissal (modified to removal by the IGP) and dismissed the officer writ petition. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Supreme Court restored the removal from service of Sub-Inspector, officer in charge of Kodur Police Station, for reprehensible conduct in wrongfully confining theft suspect [name withheld] in the station from the night of 5 March 1954 to 7 March 1954 without a magistrate remand, diary entry, or written acknowledgment. The Court found the departmental enquiry regularly proved the charge and rejected the officer defence that a Kodur man had escaped from village servants en route. Holding that the High Court had no jurisdiction under Article 226 to reappreciate departmental evidence by the criminal standard of proof beyond reasonable doubt, the Court set aside the High Court order quashing the DIG dismissal (modified to removal by the IGP) and dismissed the officer writ petition.", "court_quote": "The charge against the respondent was that he had wrongfully confined a Kodur man on March 5, 1954, to March 7, 1954, in the police station.", "court_quote_para": "n/a", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Supreme Court set aside HC quashing and restored removal of SHO for wrongfully confining a Kodur man in Kodur PS for 3 days without remand.", "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": "1963-04-10", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Supreme Court of India", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Supreme Court of India upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "AIR 1963 SC 1723, 1964 SCR (3) 25", "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://indiankanoon.org/doc/1763592/", "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-01", "chunk-r01" ], "merged_case_id": "ANDHRA-012", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-1963-0002", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0002", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "The State of Andhra Pradesh vs Kadiri Police Sub-Inspector of Police and others", "display_title_redacted": "The State of Andhra Pradesh vs Kadiri Police Sub-Inspector of Police and others", "state": "Andhra Pradesh", "district": "Sri Sathya Sai", "district_at_time": "Anantapur", "city_town": "Kadiri", "police_station_or_unit": "Kadiri Police Station", "court": "Supreme Court of India", "court_as_verified": "Supreme Court of India", "bench": null, "case_title": "The State of Andhra Pradesh vs Kadiri Police Sub-Inspector of Police and others", "case_number": "Criminal Appeal No. 142 of 1961", "citation": "1964 AIR 33, 1964 SCR (3) 742", "judges": [ "K.C. Das Gupta", "P.B. Gajendragadkar", "K.N. Wanchoo" ], "judgment_date": "1963-05-09", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 1963, "incident_date": "1957-01-06", "incident_year": 1957, "category": "Custodial torture", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "custodial_torture", "subcategory": "custodial_torture", "subcategory_display": "custodial torture", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "conviction_by_sc", "sections": [ "IPC 330" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Sub-Inspector of Police", "unit": "Vempalli Police Station", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2_gpt:unclear" ], "ledger_role": "convicted", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": "yes", "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.05, "jev_p_culpable": 0.96, "key2_gpt": "unclear", "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Sub-Inspector of Police, Vempalli Police Station" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Head Constable", "unit": "Vempalli Police Station", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2_gpt:unclear" ], "ledger_role": "convicted", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": "yes", "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.29, "jev_p_culpable": 0.83, "key2_gpt": "unclear", "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Head Constable, Vempalli Police Station" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Police Constable", "unit": "Vempalli Police Station", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2_gpt:unclear" ], "ledger_role": "convicted", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": "yes", "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.26, "jev_p_culpable": 0.8, "key2_gpt": "unclear", "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Police Constable, Vempalli Police Station" } ], "officer_count": 3, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Kadiri man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "imprisonment", "sentence_max_years": 5, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/867890/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Supreme Court set aside the High Court order acquitting three police officers and convicted all of them under Section 330 IPC for torturing a Kadiri man to extort information regarding stolen property. A Kadiri man was taken into custody on 6 January 1957 and subsequently found dead with multiple injuries. The Supreme Court restored the Sessions Judge assessment of circumstantial and witness evidence, observing that deterrent sentences must be inflicted for such barbarous methods, and sentenced the Sub-Inspector, Head Constable, and Constable to five years rigorous imprisonment each. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Supreme Court set aside the High Court order acquitting three police officers and convicted all of them under Section 330 IPC for torturing a Kadiri man to extort information regarding stolen property. A Kadiri man was taken into custody on 6 January 1957 and subsequently found dead with multiple injuries. The Supreme Court restored the Sessions Judge assessment of circumstantial and witness evidence, observing that deterrent sentences must be inflicted for such barbarous methods, and sentenced the Sub-Inspector, Head Constable, and Constable to five years rigorous imprisonment each.", "court_quote": "A serious view cannot but be taken of such a barbarous method of dealing with persons suspected of a crime as was committed by these respondents in this case. It is necessary that deterrent sentences should be inflicted for such an offence when established. Accordingly, we convict the respondents under Section 330 of the Indian Penal Code and we sentence each of them to five years' rigorous imprisonment.", "court_quote_para": "64-65", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Supreme Court set aside High Court acquittal and convicted SI, HC, and Constable under IPC 330, sentencing each to 5 years RI for custodial torture.", "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": "1963-05-09", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Supreme Court of India", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Supreme Court of India entered convictions against police personnel in this judgment.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation", "source": "1964 AIR 33, 1964 SCR (3) 742", "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": "wrong_facts", "corrections_applied": [ "court_quote", "court_quote_para" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/867890/", "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-01" ], "merged_case_id": "SUPREM-040", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-1989-0003", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0075", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Koilkuntla Man and Others vs State of Andhra Pradesh", "display_title_redacted": "Koilkuntla Man and Others vs State of Andhra Pradesh", "state": "Andhra Pradesh", "district": "Kurnool", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Koilkuntla", "police_station_or_unit": "Koilkuntla Sub-Jail guard, Kurnool", "court": "Andhra Pradesh High Court", "court_as_verified": "Andhra Pradesh High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Koilkuntla Man and Others vs State of Andhra Pradesh", "case_number": null, "citation": "AIR 1989 AP 235", "judges": [ "Jeevan Reddy", "Bhaskar Rao" ], "judgment_date": "1989-02-17", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 1989, "incident_date": "1977-05-06", "incident_year": 1977, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "custodial_death", "subcategory": "custodial_death", "subcategory_display": "custodial death", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation", "sections": [], "officers": [], "officer_count": 0, "victims": [ { "age": null, "gender": "male", "name": null, "descriptor": "Koilkuntla man" }, { "age": null, "gender": "male", "name": null, "descriptor": "Koilkuntla man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 2, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 144000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/98578/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The judgment of the Andhra Pradesh High Court records the following account. The deceased and his son, accused in a 1977 Owk PS case, were lodged in Cell No.7 of Koilkuntla Sub-Jail; on the night of 5-6 May 1977 miscreants entered the jail and hurled bombs into the cell, killing the father while the son escaped with injuries. The family pleaded the deceased had warned authorities of danger to his life and the guards were callously negligent; the State denied negligence and claimed sovereign immunity. The Division Bench reversed the trial court's dismissal, held the police officials negligent in failing to provide adequate guard, rejected sovereign immunity as incompatible with Article 21, and decreed Rs.1,44,000 with interest against the State. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The deceased and his son, accused in a 1977 Owk PS case, were lodged in Cell No.7 of Koilkuntla Sub-Jail; on the night of 5-6 May 1977 miscreants entered the jail and hurled bombs into the cell, killing the father while the son escaped with injuries. The family pleaded the deceased had warned authorities of danger to his life and the guards were callously negligent; the State denied negligence and claimed sovereign immunity. The Division Bench reversed the trial court's dismissal, held the police officials negligent in failing to provide adequate guard, rejected sovereign immunity as incompatible with Article 21, and decreed Rs.1,44,000 with interest against the State.", "court_quote": "the negligence on the part of the police officials in failing to provide adequate guard to protect the life of the deceased", "court_quote_para": null, "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "DB judgment verified; Rs 1,44,000 for undertrial murdered in sub-jail under negligent police guard.", "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": "1989-02-17", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Andhra Pradesh High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Andhra Pradesh High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 144,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "AIR 1989 AP 235", "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://indiankanoon.org/doc/98578/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": false, "verified_by": [ "chunk-52" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP15-001", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-1992-0008", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0008", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Nellore Man vs Government of Andhra Pradesh and Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "Nellore Man vs Government of Andhra Pradesh and Ors.", "state": "Andhra Pradesh", "district": "SPSR Nellore", "district_at_time": "Nellore", "city_town": "Nellore", "police_station_or_unit": "III-Town Police Station, Nellore", "court": "Andhra Pradesh High Court", "court_as_verified": "Andhra Pradesh High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Nellore Man vs Government of Andhra Pradesh and Ors.", "case_number": "W.P. Nos. 2216 and 2225 of 1992", "citation": "1992 (3) ALT 193, 1993 Cri LJ 691", "judges": [ "Y. Bhaskar Rao" ], "judgment_date": "1992-08-14", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 1992, "incident_date": "1992-01-30", "incident_year": 1992, "category": "Custodial torture", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "custodial_torture", "subcategory": "custodial_torture", "subcategory_display": "custodial torture", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation", "sections": [ "Constitution of India Art. 21", "Constitution of India Art. 22", "Constitution of India Art. 226", "CrPC 97", "Contempt of Courts Act 1971 s.15" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Sub-Inspector of Police", "unit": "III-Town Police Station, Nellore", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "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": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Sub-Inspector of Police, III-Town Police Station, Nellore" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Sub-Inspector of Police", "unit": "Central Crime Station, Nellore", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "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": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Sub-Inspector of Police, Central Crime Station, Nellore" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Inspector of Police", "unit": "Nellore", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "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": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Inspector of Police, Nellore" } ], "officer_count": 3, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Nellore man" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Nellore man" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Nellore man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 3, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 10000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1556927/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The High Court found that police officers illegally abducted a Nellore man and two others from their homes on 30 January 1992, detained them in III-Town Police Station, Nellore, and subjected a Nellore man to custodial beatings to discover the whereabouts of an SI daughter who had entered into an interfaith marriage. The Sub-Inspector of III-Town Police Station defied a search warrant issued under Section 97 CrPC by an Advocate-Commissioner appointed by the Magistrate. Holding that the officers violated Articles 21 and 22 in an egregious display of lawlessness, the Court awarded Rs 10,000 compensation payable by the State with liberty to recover from the officers, and initiated criminal contempt proceedings against the Station House Officer. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The High Court found that police officers illegally abducted a Nellore man and two others from their homes on 30 January 1992, detained them in III-Town Police Station, Nellore, and subjected a Nellore man to custodial beatings to discover the whereabouts of an SI daughter who had entered into an interfaith marriage. The Sub-Inspector of III-Town Police Station defied a search warrant issued under Section 97 CrPC by an Advocate-Commissioner appointed by the Magistrate. Holding that the officers violated Articles 21 and 22 in an egregious display of lawlessness, the Court awarded Rs 10,000 compensation payable by the State with liberty to recover from the officers, and initiated criminal contempt proceedings against the Station House Officer.", "court_quote": "In view of these decisions, we hold that the Ist respondent-State is liable to pay compensation to the detenu for the forcible taking away and illegal detention of P.W. 3 and for the injuries sustained by him as a result of the beating by R-2 and another while P.W. 3 was in III-Town Police Station, Nellore, as certified by the Doctor, the illegal detention being malacious in the pursuit to know the whereabouts of the daughters of the 3rd respondent, who wedded a non-muslim boy of whom the detenu (P.W. 3) was a close friend. We accordingly direct the State (1st respondent) to deposit a sum of Rs. 10,000/- (rupees ten thousand only) towards compensation for the illegal detention of the detenu, with the Registrar (Judicial), High Court of A.P., within one month from to-day.", "court_quote_para": "25", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "High Court held police illegally abducted, detained, and beat detenu over personal vendetta, awarding Rs 10,000 compensation and initiating contempt.", "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": "1992-08-14", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Andhra Pradesh High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Andhra Pradesh High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 10,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "1992 (3) ALT 193, 1993 Cri LJ 691", "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://indiankanoon.org/doc/1556927/", "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-01" ], "merged_case_id": "ANDHRA-008", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-1993-0006", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0006", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Tirupati Man vs State of Andhra Pradesh and Anr.", "display_title_redacted": "Tirupati Man vs State of Andhra Pradesh and Anr.", "state": "Andhra Pradesh", "district": "Tirupati", "district_at_time": "Chittoor", "city_town": "Tirupati", "police_station_or_unit": "Central Crime Station, Tirupati", "court": "Andhra Pradesh High Court", "court_as_verified": "Andhra Pradesh High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Tirupati Man vs State of Andhra Pradesh and Anr.", "case_number": "W.P. No. 15602 of 1993", "citation": "1994 (1) ALT 60, 1994 Cri LJ 1469", "judges": [ "N.D. Patnaik" ], "judgment_date": "1993-12-27", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 1993, "incident_date": "1993-10-02", "incident_year": 1993, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "illegal_detention_false_imprisonment", "subcategory": "illegal_detention_false_imprisonment", "subcategory_display": "illegal detention false imprisonment", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation", "sections": [ "Constitution of India Art. 21", "Constitution of India Art. 226", "CrPC 482" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Sub-Inspector of Police", "unit": "Central Crime Station, Tirupati", "role": "named_only", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "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": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Sub-Inspector of Police, Central Crime Station, Tirupati" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Police Constable", "unit": "Central Crime Station, Tirupati", "role": "named_only", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "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": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Police Constable, Central Crime Station, Tirupati" } ], "officer_count": 2, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Tirupati man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 5000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1477666/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "Acting on a habeas corpus petition filed by a law professor, the High Court held that Andhra Pradesh police abducted a Tirupati man from his village in Tamil Nadu on 2 October 1993 and illegally detained him in Tirupati until 21 October 1993. The Court found that the subsequent registration of a gold-chain theft case against him was a fabricated cover-up to shield police wrongdoing. The Court quashed the criminal prosecution as a gross abuse of process and directed the State of Andhra Pradesh to pay Rs 5,000 compensation to a Tirupati man for violation of his fundamental right to personal liberty under Article 21. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "Acting on a habeas corpus petition filed by a law professor, the High Court held that Andhra Pradesh police abducted a Tirupati man from his village in Tamil Nadu on 2 October 1993 and illegally detained him in Tirupati until 21 October 1993. The Court found that the subsequent registration of a gold-chain theft case against him was a fabricated cover-up to shield police wrongdoing. The Court quashed the criminal prosecution as a gross abuse of process and directed the State of Andhra Pradesh to pay Rs 5,000 compensation to a Tirupati man for violation of his fundamental right to personal liberty under Article 21.", "court_quote": "Since the arrest of a Tirupati man on the evening of 21-10-1993 on a false charge of theft and subsequent production before the Judicial Magistrate is only an attempt to cover up the illegal detention.", "court_quote_para": "21", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "High Court held AP police abducted and illegally detained victim for 18 days, fabricated false theft charge to cover up, and awarded Rs 5,000 compensation.", "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": "1993-12-27", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Andhra Pradesh High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Andhra Pradesh High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 5,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "1994 (1) ALT 60, 1994 Cri LJ 1469", "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://indiankanoon.org/doc/1477666/", "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-01" ], "merged_case_id": "ANDHRA-006", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-1994-0002", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0001", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Madanapalle Man and Anr. vs The State of Andhra Pradesh and Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "Madanapalle Man and Anr. vs The State of Andhra Pradesh and Ors.", "state": "Andhra Pradesh", "district": "Annamayya", "district_at_time": "Chittoor", "city_town": "Madanapalle", "police_station_or_unit": "I Town Police Station, Madanapalle", "court": "Andhra Pradesh High Court", "court_as_verified": "Andhra Pradesh High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Madanapalle Man and Anr. vs The State of Andhra Pradesh and Ors.", "case_number": null, "citation": "1994 (3) ALT 131", "judges": [ "Motilal B. Naik" ], "judgment_date": "1994-09-19", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 1994, "incident_date": "1991-08-23", "incident_year": 1991, "category": "Custodial death", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "custodial_death", "subcategory": "custodial_death", "subcategory_display": "custodial death", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation", "sections": [ "Constitution of India Art. 21", "Constitution of India Art. 226" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Sub-Inspector of Police", "unit": "I Town Police Station, Madanapalle", "role": "named_only", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "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": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Sub-Inspector of Police, I Town Police Station, Madanapalle" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "unit": "I Town Police Station, Madanapalle", "role": "named_only", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "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": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Constable, I Town Police Station, Madanapalle" } ], "officer_count": 2, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": 22, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Madanapalle man, age 22" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 100000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/600315/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The High Court found that the petitioners son, 22-year-old a Madanapalle man, died on account of beating and torture by police personnel of I Town Police Station, Madanapalle while in custody between 23-8-1991 and 24-8-1991. The Court rejected the police defense that the victim was beaten by a mob for saree theft and died spontaneously of a ruptured berry aneurysm, noting eleven external injuries, failure to provide medical care, and fabricated entries in police registers. Holding the State liable for the tortious acts of its police personnel under Article 21 and Article 226, the Court awarded Rs 1,00,000 compensation and Rs 10,000 costs to the parents with liberty to the State to recover the amount from guilty personnel after a departmental enquiry. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The High Court found that the petitioners son, 22-year-old a Madanapalle man, died on account of beating and torture by police personnel of I Town Police Station, Madanapalle while in custody between 23-8-1991 and 24-8-1991. The Court rejected the police defense that the victim was beaten by a mob for saree theft and died spontaneously of a ruptured berry aneurysm, noting eleven external injuries, failure to provide medical care, and fabricated entries in police registers. Holding the State liable for the tortious acts of its police personnel under Article 21 and Article 226, the Court awarded Rs 1,00,000 compensation and Rs 10,000 costs to the parents with liberty to the State to recover the amount from guilty personnel after a departmental enquiry.", "court_quote": "On a careful consideration of the entire material placed before me and in the facts and circumstances of the case, I am inclined to come to the conclusion that the death of a Madanapalle man is only on account of beating and torture by the Police personnel of I Town Police Station, Madanapalle, while he was in their custody between 23-8-1991 and 24-8-1991.", "court_quote_para": "22", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "High Court found victim died from police custody torture at I Town PS Madanapalle and awarded Rs 1,00,000 compensation plus Rs 10,000 costs under Article 226.", "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 death", "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": "1994-09-19", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Andhra Pradesh High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Andhra Pradesh High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 100,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "1994 (3) ALT 131", "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://indiankanoon.org/doc/600315/", "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-01" ], "merged_case_id": "ANDHRA-001", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-1997-0014", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1097", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "The Government of Andhra Pradesh vs Andhra Pradesh Police Inspector of Police", "display_title_redacted": "The Government of Andhra Pradesh vs Andhra Pradesh Police Inspector of Police", "state": "Andhra Pradesh", "district": null, "district_at_time": null, "city_town": null, "police_station_or_unit": null, "court": "Supreme Court of India", "court_as_verified": "Supreme Court of India", "bench": null, "case_title": "The Government of Andhra Pradesh vs Andhra Pradesh Police Inspector of Police", "case_number": "Civil Appeal No. 3510 of 1997", "citation": "(1997) 5 SCC 478; AIR 1997 SC 2447", "judges": [ "K. Ramaswamy", "D. P. Wadhwa" ], "judgment_date": "1997-04-28", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 1997, "incident_date": null, "incident_year": null, "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": [], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Inspector of Police", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "Andhra Pradesh Police", "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": "Inspector of Police, Andhra Pradesh Police" } ], "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.advocatekhoj.com/library/judgments/index.php?go=1997/april/the-govt-of-andhra-pradesh-vs-b-ashok-kumar-107", "secondary_sources": [ "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/745575/" ], "summary": "The Supreme Court on 28 April 1997 confirmed the dismissal of Andhra Pradesh Inspector for demanding and accepting Rs. 3,000 to refrain from registering a complaint and launching a prosecution. The disciplinary tribunal found the charge proved and the Government dismissed him in July 1995, but the Administrative Tribunal asked the Government to reconsider a lighter penalty as dismissal shocked its conscience. The Court held that calibrating penalty to the gravity of proved misconduct is the disciplinary authority's domain, and a higher-ranking officer who sells non-prosecution damages the maintenance of law and order. It set aside the Tribunal's direction and confirmed the dismissal. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Supreme Court on 28 April 1997 confirmed the dismissal of Andhra Pradesh Inspector for demanding and accepting Rs. 3,000 to refrain from registering a complaint and launching a prosecution. The disciplinary tribunal found the charge proved and the Government dismissed him in July 1995, but the Administrative Tribunal asked the Government to reconsider a lighter penalty as dismissal shocked its conscience. The Court held that calibrating penalty to the gravity of proved misconduct is the disciplinary authority's domain, and a higher-ranking officer who sells non-prosecution damages the maintenance of law and order. It set aside the Tribunal's direction and confirmed the dismissal.", "court_quote": "The Tribunal in disciplinary proceedings found as a fact that the respondent demanded and accepted illegal gratification of Rs. 3,000/- for not prosecuting the offender. Since the respondent is an Inspector of Police, a higher ranking officer, if he demands and accepts illegal gratification and restrains himself from initiating prosecution against the offender, it would have an effect on the maintenance of law and order in the society.", "court_quote_para": "n/a", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "SC confirmed dismissal of Inspector who took Rs.3,000 to drop a prosecution.", "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": "1997-04-28", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Supreme Court of India", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Supreme Court of India upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "(1997) 5 SCC 478; AIR 1997 SC 2447", "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.advocatekhoj.com/library/judgments/index.php?go=1997/april/the-govt-of-andhra-pradesh-vs-b-ashok-kumar-107", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/745575/", "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-97" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-127-005", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-1997-0008", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0004", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "K. Yesupadam vs S.I. of Police, Penamaluru P.S., Vijayawada and Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "K. Yesupadam vs S.I. of Police, Penamaluru P.S., Vijayawada and Ors.", "state": "Andhra Pradesh", "district": "Krishna", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Vijayawada", "police_station_or_unit": "Penamaluru Police Station", "court": "Andhra Pradesh High Court", "court_as_verified": "Andhra Pradesh High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "K. Yesupadam vs S.I. of Police, Penamaluru P.S., Vijayawada and Ors.", "case_number": null, "citation": "1997 (2) ALD (Cri) 621, 1997 (5) ALT 98", "judges": [ "V. Rajagopala Reddy" ], "judgment_date": "1997-08-06", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 1997, "incident_date": "1997-03-23", "incident_year": 1997, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "illegal_detention_false_imprisonment", "subcategory": "illegal_detention_false_imprisonment", "subcategory_display": "illegal detention false imprisonment", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation", "sections": [ "Constitution of India Art. 21", "Constitution of India Art. 226" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Sub-Inspector of Police", "unit": "Penamaluru Police Station", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "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": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Sub-Inspector of Police, Penamaluru Police Station" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "female", "descriptor": "Vijayawada woman" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 10000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1081343/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The High Court found that the Sub-Inspector of Penamaluru Police Station illegally detained a Vijayawada woman, a hospital aaya, for eight days from 23 March 1997 to 31 March 1997 without any General Diary entry, solely to pressure her absconding son to surrender. Accepting the inquiry report of the Principal District and Sessions Judge, Krishna, which corroborated the unlawful confinement through independent witness testimony, the Court held that the officer flagrantly violated her fundamental right to personal liberty under Article 21. The Court ordered the Sub-Inspector to personally pay Rs 10,000 compensation into a fixed deposit in the victim name for five years. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The High Court found that the Sub-Inspector of Penamaluru Police Station illegally detained a Vijayawada woman, a hospital aaya, for eight days from 23 March 1997 to 31 March 1997 without any General Diary entry, solely to pressure her absconding son to surrender. Accepting the inquiry report of the Principal District and Sessions Judge, Krishna, which corroborated the unlawful confinement through independent witness testimony, the Court held that the officer flagrantly violated her fundamental right to personal liberty under Article 21. The Court ordered the Sub-Inspector to personally pay Rs 10,000 compensation into a fixed deposit in the victim name for five years.", "court_quote": "However, since it was found that the 1st respondent has illegally detained the wife of the petitioner from 23-3-97 to 31-3-97, for eight long days, keeping her away from her duties as Aaya in Nagarjuna Hospital, the petitioner's wife should be suitably compensated.", "court_quote_para": "9", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "High Court held SI of Penamaluru PS illegally detained woman for 8 days to force absconding son surrender, ordering SI personally to pay Rs 10,000 compensation.", "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": "1997-08-06", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Andhra Pradesh High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Andhra Pradesh High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 10,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "1997 (2) ALD (Cri) 621, 1997 (5) ALT 98", "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://indiankanoon.org/doc/1081343/", "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-01" ], "merged_case_id": "SOUTH-001", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-1997-0009", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0003", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Vissannapeta Man vs The S.H.O., Vissannapeta P.S. and Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "Vissannapeta Man vs The S.H.O., Vissannapeta P.S. and Ors.", "state": "Andhra Pradesh", "district": "NTR", "district_at_time": "Krishna", "city_town": "Vissannapeta", "police_station_or_unit": "Vissannapeta Police Station", "court": "Andhra Pradesh High Court", "court_as_verified": "Andhra Pradesh High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Vissannapeta Man vs The S.H.O., Vissannapeta P.S. and Ors.", "case_number": null, "citation": "1997 (5) ALD 793, 1998 Cri LJ 414", "judges": [ "V. Rajagopala Reddy" ], "judgment_date": "1997-08-07", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 1997, "incident_date": "1996-10-29", "incident_year": 1996, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "illegal_detention_false_imprisonment", "subcategory": "illegal_detention_false_imprisonment", "subcategory_display": "illegal detention false imprisonment", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation", "sections": [ "Constitution of India Art. 21", "Constitution of India Art. 226", "CrPC 154", "CrPC 155" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Sub-Inspector of Police", "unit": "Vissannapeta Police Station", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "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": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Sub-Inspector of Police, Vissannapeta Police Station" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": 70, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Vissannapeta man, age 70" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 6000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1110858/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The High Court found that the Sub-Inspector of Vissannapeta Police Station unlawfully detained 70-year-old a Vissannapeta man from 29 October 1996 to 31 October 1996 without registering any crime. The detention was executed to pressure a Vissannapeta man regarding a civil loan dispute involving his son. Based on a CID enquiry report and witness testimonies confirming the illegal confinement, the Court held that the officer had violated Article 21 and directed the Sub-Inspector to personally pay Rs 6,000 compensation to the detenu. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The High Court found that the Sub-Inspector of Vissannapeta Police Station unlawfully detained 70-year-old a Vissannapeta man from 29 October 1996 to 31 October 1996 without registering any crime. The detention was executed to pressure a Vissannapeta man regarding a civil loan dispute involving his son. Based on a CID enquiry report and witness testimonies confirming the illegal confinement, the Court held that the officer had violated Article 21 and directed the Sub-Inspector to personally pay Rs 6,000 compensation to the detenu.", "court_quote": "Thus his stay till 31-10-96 in the police station should be treated as unlawful custody by the S.I. of Police. It is, therefore, clear that the detenu was detained unauthorisedly in the police station by the 4th respondent without there being any crime registered against him.", "court_quote_para": "11", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "High Court held SI of Vissannapeta PS illegally detained 70-year-old man for two days over a civil dispute and ordered SI personally to pay Rs 6,000 compensation.", "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": "1997-08-07", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Andhra Pradesh High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Andhra Pradesh High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 6,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "1997 (5) ALD 793, 1998 Cri LJ 414", "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://indiankanoon.org/doc/1110858/", "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-01" ], "merged_case_id": "ANDHRA-003", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-1997-0010", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0009", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Tadipatri Man vs S.H.O. and Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "Tadipatri Man vs S.H.O. and Ors.", "state": "Andhra Pradesh", "district": "Ananthapuramu", "district_at_time": "Anantapur", "city_town": "Tadipatri", "police_station_or_unit": "Tadipatri Rural Police Station", "court": "Andhra Pradesh High Court", "court_as_verified": "Andhra Pradesh High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Tadipatri Man vs S.H.O. and Ors.", "case_number": null, "citation": "1997 (6) ALT 278", "judges": [ "Y. Bhaskar Rao", "K.B. Siddappa" ], "judgment_date": "1997-11-13", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 1997, "incident_date": "1997-08-31", "incident_year": 1997, "category": "Custodial death", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "custodial_death", "subcategory": "custodial_death", "subcategory_display": "custodial death", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation", "sections": [ "Constitution of India Art. 21", "Constitution of India Art. 226", "IPC 302" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Sub-Inspector of Police", "unit": "Tadipatri Rural Police Station", "role": "named_only", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "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": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Sub-Inspector of Police, Tadipatri Rural Police Station" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Head Constable", "unit": "Tadipatri Rural Police Station", "role": "named_only", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2:no", "key2_agy:no", "key2_union:no", "key2_gemapi:no", "key2_openrouter:no" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "no", "key2_agy": "no", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "no", "key2_gemapi": "no", "key2_openrouter": "no", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.15, "jev_p_culpable": 0.77, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Head Constable, Tadipatri Rural Police Station" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Police Constable", "unit": "Tadipatri Rural Police Station", "role": "named_only", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2:no", "key2_agy:no", "key2_union:no", "key2_gemapi:no", "key2_openrouter:no" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "no", "key2_agy": "no", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "no", "key2_gemapi": "no", "key2_openrouter": "no", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.16, "jev_p_culpable": 0.76, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Police Constable, Tadipatri Rural Police Station" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Inspector of Police", "unit": "Tadipatri", "role": "named_only", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:named_only", "key2:no", "key2_agy:no", "key2_union:no", "key2_gemapi:no", "key2_openrouter:no" ], "ledger_role": "named_only", "key2": "no", "key2_agy": "no", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "no", "key2_gemapi": "no", "key2_openrouter": "no", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.92, "jev_p_culpable": 0.15, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Inspector of Police, Tadipatri" } ], "officer_count": 4, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Tadipatri man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 150000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/851781/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "Acting on newspaper reports in Eenadu, the High Court held that a Tadipatri man, a poor coolie, was illegally detained at Tadipatri Rural Police Station on 31 August 1997 and tortured to death by police personnel after failing to satisfy their demands. The CID investigation and post-mortem report confirmed severe multiple ante-mortem injuries, including a skull fracture and broken ribs, holding the Sub-Inspector, Head Constable, and Constable responsible. Finding a gross violation of Article 21, the Court awarded Rs 1,50,000 compensation to the deceased wife and son and directed the Assistant Sessions Judge, Tadipatri to conduct an enquiry into broader allegations of police extortion and torture in the area. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "Acting on newspaper reports in Eenadu, the High Court held that a Tadipatri man, a poor coolie, was illegally detained at Tadipatri Rural Police Station on 31 August 1997 and tortured to death by police personnel after failing to satisfy their demands. The CID investigation and post-mortem report confirmed severe multiple ante-mortem injuries, including a skull fracture and broken ribs, holding the Sub-Inspector, Head Constable, and Constable responsible. Finding a gross violation of Article 21, the Court awarded Rs 1,50,000 compensation to the deceased wife and son and directed the Assistant Sessions Judge, Tadipatri to conduct an enquiry into broader allegations of police extortion and torture in the area.", "court_quote": "Thus, it is established that the deceased succumbed to the injuries due to torture by the police in the lock-up.", "court_quote_para": "7", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "High Court held coolie a Tadipatri man was tortured to death in lock-up at Tadipatri Rural PS and awarded Rs 1,50,000 compensation to widow and son.", "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 death", "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": "1997-11-13", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Andhra Pradesh High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Andhra Pradesh High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 150,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "1997 (6) ALT 278", "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://indiankanoon.org/doc/851781/", "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-01" ], "merged_case_id": "ANDHRA-009", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-1999-0003", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0624", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "D.G. & I.G. of Police and Others v. Prem Sagar and Another", "display_title_redacted": "D.G. & I.G. of Police and Others v. Prem Sagar and Another", "state": "Andhra Pradesh", "district": "Kurnool", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Kurnool", "police_station_or_unit": null, "court": "Supreme Court of India", "court_as_verified": "Supreme Court of India", "bench": null, "case_title": "D.G. & I.G. of Police and Others v. Prem Sagar and Another", "case_number": null, "citation": "(1999) 5 SCC 700", "judges": [ "G.B. Pattanaik", "N. Santosh Hegde" ], "judgment_date": "1999-04-13", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 1999, "incident_date": "1992-01-01", "incident_year": 1992, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "illegal_detention_false_imprisonment", "subcategory": "illegal_detention_false_imprisonment", "subcategory_display": "illegal detention false imprisonment", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation", "sections": [], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": null, "unit": "Andhra Pradesh Police", "role": "unclear", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:unclear", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": "unclear", "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": "Police personnel, Andhra Pradesh Police" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Kurnool man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 20000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/881041/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/5609ad57e4b01497114111d4" ], "summary": "The Supreme Court dismissed the State appeals, affirming the Andhra Pradesh High Court direction to pay Rs 20,000 compensation for the one-month illegal and unauthorised detention of a Kurnool man His relatives filed habeas corpus on 15 October 1992 alleging detention since 26 September 1992; police claimed arrest only on 28 October 1992, but the Metropolitan Sessions Judge, Hyderabad, inquiring with witnesses, found much earlier arrest and continuous police custody till production before the AJM First Class, Kurnool, though the responsible officer could not be located. The Court found sufficient material for the conclusion that the detention was wholly illegal and declined interference. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Supreme Court dismissed the State appeals, affirming the Andhra Pradesh High Court direction to pay Rs 20,000 compensation for the one-month illegal and unauthorised detention of a Kurnool man His relatives filed habeas corpus on 15 October 1992 alleging detention since 26 September 1992; police claimed arrest only on 28 October 1992, but the Metropolitan Sessions Judge, Hyderabad, inquiring with witnesses, found much earlier arrest and continuous police custody till production before the AJM First Class, Kurnool, though the responsible officer could not be located. The Court found sufficient material for the conclusion that the detention was wholly illegal and declined interference.", "court_quote": "We do not find any error committed by the High Court in accepting the report of the learned Sessions Judge and in coming to the conclusion that a Kurnool man was illegally detained for a period of one month and for such illegal detention awarding compensation to the tune of Rs 20,000.", "court_quote_para": "4", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "SC affirmed Rs 20K for one-month illegal detention of a Kurnool man; State appeals dismissed.", "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": "1999-04-13", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Supreme Court of India", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Supreme Court of India recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 20,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "(1999) 5 SCC 700", "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": [ "court_quote_para" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/881041/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/5609ad57e4b01497114111d4", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": false, "verified_by": [ "chunk-47" ], "merged_case_id": "SWILLEGA-054", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2001-0004", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0383", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "C. H. vs Government of A.P. and Others", "display_title_redacted": "C. H. vs Government of A.P. and Others", "state": "Andhra Pradesh", "district": "Alluri Sitharama Raju", "district_at_time": "Khammam", "city_town": "Malluru", "police_station_or_unit": "Kunavaram Police Station", "court": "Andhra Pradesh High Court", "court_as_verified": "Andhra Pradesh High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "C. H. vs Government of A.P. and Others", "case_number": null, "citation": "2001 (4) ALD 210", "judges": [ "Elipe Dharma Rao" ], "judgment_date": "2001-06-07", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2001, "incident_date": "1989-11-12", "incident_year": 1989, "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": [ "Constitution of India Art. 226", "Constitution of India Art. 21", "IPC 302" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Sub-Inspector of Police", "unit": "Kunavaram Police Station", "role": "named_only", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "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": "pending_appeal", "name_public": null, "display": "Sub-Inspector of Police, Kunavaram Police Station" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Inspector of Police", "unit": "Bhadrachalam", "role": "named_only", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "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": "pending_appeal", "name_public": null, "display": "Inspector of Police, Bhadrachalam" } ], "officer_count": 2, "victims": [ { "age": 19, "gender": "female", "descriptor": "Malluru woman, age 19", "name": null }, { "age": 0, "gender": "female", "descriptor": "Malluru newborn", "name": null } ], "victims_redacted": [ { "age": 19, "gender": "female", "descriptor": "a woman" }, { "age": 0, "gender": "female", "descriptor": "a newborn girl" } ], "anonymised": true, "victim_count": 2, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 100000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/723998/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The judgment of the Andhra Pradesh High Court records the following account. The petitioner, a woman, was arrested and charge-sheeted for the murder of her husband under Section 302 IPC after he died during an epileptic seizure in November 1989. Despite forensic reports establishing that the deceased died from Mader vegetable poison administered by his own father to revive him, police pursued murder charges based on an unfounded theory that the wife gave him Musti Chekka poison. Following her acquittal by the Additional Sessions Judge, Khammam, she petitioned the High Court under Article 226 citing severe social ostracisation, wrongful lock-up, and giving birth to a daughter in prison. The High Court found the investigating and charge-sheeting officers guilty of gross negligence and lack of bona fides in falsely prosecuting her despite scientific evidence, ordering the State to pay Rs 1,00,000 as compensation for violation of her fundamental rights under Article 21. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The petitioner, Ch. Hymavathi, was arrested and charge-sheeted for the murder of her husband under Section 302 IPC after he died during an epileptic seizure in November 1989. Despite forensic reports establishing that the deceased died from Mader vegetable poison administered by his own father to revive him, police pursued murder charges based on an unfounded theory that the wife gave him Musti Chekka poison. Following her acquittal by the Additional Sessions Judge, Khammam, she petitioned the High Court under Article 226 citing severe social ostracisation, wrongful lock-up, and giving birth to a daughter in prison. The High Court found the investigating and charge-sheeting officers guilty of gross negligence and lack of bona fides in falsely prosecuting her despite scientific evidence, ordering the State to pay Rs 1,00,000 as compensation for violation of her fundamental rights under Article 21.", "court_quote": "ignoring the fact that Mader poison was found during chemical analysis of viscera, which was admittedly administered by the father of the deceased only, the prosecution has charge-sheeted the petitioner falsely and made her to suffer and bear the curses of the society, whereas the allegation of the prosecution is that the deceased died due to Musti Chekka poison. Thus for the negligent act of the Investigating Officer - Government Servant, which culminated into untold sufferings and misery to the petitioner, the State is liable to compensate the petitioner.", "court_quote_para": "15", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "High Court awarded Rs 1 lakh compensation under Art. 226 for false implication and wrongful prosecution despite forensic proof of innocence.", "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": "2001-06-07", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Andhra Pradesh High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Andhra Pradesh High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 100,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "2001 (4) ALD 210", "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://indiankanoon.org/doc/723998/", "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-13" ], "merged_case_id": "TELANG-006", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2001-0009", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0005", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Pakala Police Sub-Inspector of Police vs Government of Andhra Pradesh, Home Department and Anr.", "display_title_redacted": "Pakala Police Sub-Inspector of Police vs Government of Andhra Pradesh, Home Department and Anr.", "state": "Andhra Pradesh", "district": "Chittoor", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Pakala", "police_station_or_unit": "Pakala Police Station", "court": "Andhra Pradesh High Court", "court_as_verified": "Andhra Pradesh High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Pakala Police Sub-Inspector of Police vs Government of Andhra Pradesh, Home Department and Anr.", "case_number": null, "citation": "2001 (6) ALT 229", "judges": [ "S.R. Nayak" ], "judgment_date": "2001-11-05", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2001, "incident_date": "1981-08-22", "incident_year": 1981, "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": [ "Constitution of India Art. 226", "A.P. Civil Services (Disciplinary Proceedings Tribunal) Rules 1960 Rule 2(b)" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Sub-Inspector of Police", "unit": "Pakala Police Station", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2_gemapi:no(overruled by grok)", "key2_gpt:unclear" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": "no", "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": "yes", "jev_risk": 0.07, "jev_p_culpable": 0.96, "key2_gpt": "unclear", "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Sub-Inspector of Police, Pakala Police Station" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Head Constable", "unit": "Pakala Police Station", "role": "named_only", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:named_only", "key2:no", "key2_agy:no", "key2_union:no", "key2_openrouter:no" ], "ledger_role": "named_only", "key2": "no", "key2_agy": "no", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "no", "key2_gemapi": "yes", "key2_openrouter": "no", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": "no", "jev_risk": 0.92, "jev_p_culpable": 0.06, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Head Constable, Pakala Police Station" } ], "officer_count": 2, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Pakala man" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Pakala 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/1083807/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The High Court dismissed the writ petition filed by Sub-Inspector, upholding his dismissal from service for corrupt misconduct. The officer had illegally detained two traders, a Pakala man and a Pakala man, on false allegations of possessing stolen copper wire, and demanded and received bribes of Rs 1,400 and Rs 3,000 to release them without registering cases. The Court confirmed the findings of the Tribunal for Disciplinary Proceedings and the Andhra Pradesh Administrative Tribunal, holding that the charges were established on the standard of preponderance of probabilities. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The High Court dismissed the writ petition filed by Sub-Inspector, upholding his dismissal from service for corrupt misconduct. The officer had illegally detained two traders, a Pakala man and a Pakala man, on false allegations of possessing stolen copper wire, and demanded and received bribes of Rs 1,400 and Rs 3,000 to release them without registering cases. The Court confirmed the findings of the Tribunal for Disciplinary Proceedings and the Andhra Pradesh Administrative Tribunal, holding that the charges were established on the standard of preponderance of probabilities.", "court_quote": "It is also very relevant to notice that there is no controversy according to the evidence on record, the charged officer demanded the bribe on 28-8-1981 and even on 29-8-1981 insisted for payment of bribe.", "court_quote_para": "6", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "High Court dismissed writ petition of SI and upheld his dismissal from service for extortion of bribes under threat of false charges.", "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": "2001-11-05", "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": "2001 (6) ALT 229", "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://indiankanoon.org/doc/1083807/", "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-01" ], "merged_case_id": "ANDHRA-005", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2002-0006", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0010", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Rajahmundry Man (Rajahmundry Man) vs [name withheld] and Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "Rajahmundry Man (Rajahmundry Man) vs [name withheld] and Ors.", "state": "Andhra Pradesh", "district": "East Godavari", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Rajahmundry", "police_station_or_unit": "II Town Police Station, Rajahmundry", "court": "Andhra Pradesh High Court", "court_as_verified": "Andhra Pradesh High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Rajahmundry Man (Rajahmundry Man) vs [name withheld] and Ors.", "case_number": "W.P. Nos. 19666 of 1999 and 3785 of 2000", "citation": "2002 (6) ALT 46, 2002 (2) ALT (Cri) 518", "judges": [ "B. Sudershan Reddy" ], "judgment_date": "2002-10-03", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2002, "incident_date": "1999-08-08", "incident_year": 1999, "category": "Custodial torture", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "custodial_torture", "subcategory": "custodial_torture", "subcategory_display": "custodial torture", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation", "sections": [ "Constitution Art. 21", "Constitution Art. 226" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Police Constable", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "II Town Police Station, Rajahmundry", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2_gemapi:no", "key2_openrouter:unclear", "key2_gpt:unclear" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": "no", "key2_openrouter": "unclear", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": "no", "jev_risk": 0.34, "jev_p_culpable": 0.5, "key2_gpt": "unclear", "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Police Constable, II Town Police Station, Rajahmundry" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Police Constable", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "II Town Police Station, Rajahmundry", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "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": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Police Constable, II Town Police Station, Rajahmundry" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Head Constable", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "II Town Police Station, Rajahmundry", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "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": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Head Constable, II Town Police Station, Rajahmundry" } ], "officer_count": 8, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Rajahmundry man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 75000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1296773/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The High Court found that police personnel of II Town Police Station, Rajahmundry dragged a Rajahmundry man from his house on 8 August 1999, illegally detained him, and beat him with lathis for about four hours in the station causing multiple injuries. Accepting the enquiry report of the Chief Judicial Magistrate, which examined 23 witnesses and rejected the officers alibi defence, the Court held the torture violated the petitioner fundamental right under Article 21 regardless of his alleged bootlegging record. The Court directed the State to pay Rs 75,000 compensation plus Rs 2,500 costs to the Legal Services Authority, to fix individual responsibility and prosecute the guilty personnel, with liberty to recover the amount from them. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The High Court found that police personnel of II Town Police Station, Rajahmundry dragged a Rajahmundry man from his house on 8 August 1999, illegally detained him, and beat him with lathis for about four hours in the station causing multiple injuries. Accepting the enquiry report of the Chief Judicial Magistrate, which examined 23 witnesses and rejected the officers alibi defence, the Court held the torture violated the petitioner fundamental right under Article 21 regardless of his alleged bootlegging record. The Court directed the State to pay Rs 75,000 compensation plus Rs 2,500 costs to the Legal Services Authority, to fix individual responsibility and prosecute the guilty personnel, with liberty to recover the amount from them.", "court_quote": "In the instant case, we have no doubt whatsoever that the respondents-police personnel are jointly and severally responsible for the torture of the petitioner in the police station resulting in violation of his fundamental right guaranteed by Article 21 of the Constitution of India.", "court_quote_para": "34", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Single Judge held II Town PS Rajahmundry police jointly and severally responsible for custodial torture of petitioner and awarded Rs 75,000 compensation plus Rs 2,500 costs.", "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": "2002-10-03", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Andhra Pradesh High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Andhra Pradesh High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 75,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "2002 (6) ALT 46, 2002 (2) ALT (Cri) 518", "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": "wrong_facts", "corrections_applied": [ "sections" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1296773/", "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-01", "chunk-r01" ], "merged_case_id": "ANDHRA-010", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2002-0007", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0014", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "K. Kotapadu Man vs Government of A.P. and Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "K. Kotapadu Man vs Government of A.P. and Ors.", "state": "Andhra Pradesh", "district": "Anakapalli", "district_at_time": "Visakhapatnam", "city_town": "K. Kotapadu", "police_station_or_unit": null, "court": "Andhra Pradesh High Court", "court_as_verified": "Andhra Pradesh High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "K. Kotapadu Man vs Government of A.P. and Ors.", "case_number": null, "citation": "2002(6) ALD 794; 2003(1) ALT 504", "judges": [ "T. Meena Kumari" ], "judgment_date": "2002-10-11", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2002, "incident_date": "1993-08-25", "incident_year": 1993, "category": "Custodial death", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "custodial_death", "subcategory": "custodial_death", "subcategory_display": "custodial death", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation", "sections": [ "CrPC s.174", "Constitution of India Art. 21", "Constitution of India Art. 226" ], "officers": [], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "K. Kotapadu man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 100000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1093510/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Andhra Pradesh High Court held that a K. Kotapadu man, arrested on 24 August 1993 with a suspected stolen motorcycle, bore injuries sustained only after being brought to the police station, where he was chained by the leg to a window rod in the lockup. The Court found that in all probability he hanged himself on 25 August 1993 unable to bear physical torture by the police, rejecting the claim that he acted from despondency and calling it strange that officers in the front room noticed nothing. Holding that his fundamental right to life under Article 21 had been violated, the Court awarded his 25-year-old widow Rs 1,00,000 as compensation, directing the State to hold it in a five-year fixed deposit with quarterly interest payable to her. The judgment identifies the erring officer only as the second respondent. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Andhra Pradesh High Court held that a K. Kotapadu man, arrested on 24 August 1993 with a suspected stolen motorcycle, bore injuries sustained only after being brought to the police station, where he was chained by the leg to a window rod in the lockup. The Court found that in all probability he hanged himself on 25 August 1993 unable to bear physical torture by the police, rejecting the claim that he acted from despondency and calling it strange that officers in the front room noticed nothing. Holding that his fundamental right to life under Article 21 had been violated, the Court awarded his 25-year-old widow Rs 1,00,000 as compensation, directing the State to hold it in a five-year fixed deposit with quarterly interest payable to her. The judgment identifies the erring officer only as the second respondent.", "court_quote": "In all probability, the husband of the petitioner might have committed suicide because of the unable to bear physical torture meted out to him by the police while he was in their custody.", "court_quote_para": "16", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Custodial torture drove detainee to suicide; Rs 1L compensation verified.", "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 death", "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": "2002-10-11", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Andhra Pradesh High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Andhra Pradesh High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 100,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "2002(6) ALD 794; 2003(1) ALT 504", "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://indiankanoon.org/doc/1093510/", "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-27" ], "merged_case_id": "ANDHRA-014", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2002-0010", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0007", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Chintalapudi Woman vs The Station House Officer and Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "Chintalapudi Woman vs The Station House Officer and Ors.", "state": "Andhra Pradesh", "district": "Eluru", "district_at_time": "West Godavari", "city_town": "Chintalapudi", "police_station_or_unit": "Chintalapudi Police Station and T. Narasapuram Police Station", "court": "Andhra Pradesh High Court", "court_as_verified": "Andhra Pradesh High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Chintalapudi Woman vs The Station House Officer and Ors.", "case_number": "W.P. Nos. 21782 and 22006 of 2002", "citation": "2003 (1) ALT (Cri) 112, 2003 Cri LJ 1404", "judges": [ "B.S.A. Swamy" ], "judgment_date": "2002-11-21", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2002, "incident_date": "2002-10-28", "incident_year": 2002, "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": [ "Constitution of India Art. 21", "Constitution of India Art. 226" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Sub-Inspector of Police", "unit": "T. Narasapuram Police Station", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2_gemapi:no(overruled by grok)", "key2_gpt:unclear" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": "no", "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": "yes", "jev_risk": 0.1, "jev_p_culpable": 0.91, "key2_gpt": "unclear", "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Sub-Inspector of Police, T. Narasapuram Police Station" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Sub-Inspector of Police", "unit": "Chintalapudi Police Station", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2_gemapi:no(overruled by grok)", "key2_gpt:unclear" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": "no", "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": "yes", "jev_risk": 0.1, "jev_p_culpable": 0.91, "key2_gpt": "unclear", "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Sub-Inspector of Police, Chintalapudi Police Station" } ], "officer_count": 2, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Chintalapudi man" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Chintalapudi man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 2, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 50000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1069607/", "secondary_sources": [ "SC SLP by SHO admitted: leave granted 13.02.2004 (Station House Officer vs S. Swathi)" ], "summary": "The High Court found that the Sub-Inspectors of T. Narasapuram and Chintalapudi Police Stations maliciously foisted false extortion and robbery charges against practicing advocate a Chintalapudi man in retaliation for filing a private complaint against police brutality. The police arrested him at 2 a.m., misled the Magistrate to deny bail, and unlawfully detained him for nearly 20 days. The Court quashed the criminal cases as an abuse of process, held that the officers violated Article 21, and directed the State to pay Rs 50,000 compensation to the advocate with directions to recover the sum from the two officers. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The High Court found that the Sub-Inspectors of T. Narasapuram and Chintalapudi Police Stations maliciously foisted false extortion and robbery charges against practicing advocate a Chintalapudi man in retaliation for filing a private complaint against police brutality. The police arrested him at 2 a.m., misled the Magistrate to deny bail, and unlawfully detained him for nearly 20 days. The Court quashed the criminal cases as an abuse of process, held that the officers violated Article 21, and directed the State to pay Rs 50,000 compensation to the advocate with directions to recover the sum from the two officers.", "court_quote": "In the light of the sequence of events, we hold that the police foisted the complaints against Mr. A Chintalapudi man, in retaliation to the private complaint filed by him on behalf of one Marudodla Savitri.", "court_quote_para": "30", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "High Court found two SHOs foisted false cases against advocate in retaliation for complaint against police and ordered Rs 50,000 compensation recoverable from them.", "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": "2002-11-21", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Andhra Pradesh High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Andhra Pradesh High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 50,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "2003 (1) ALT (Cri) 112, 2003 Cri LJ 1404", "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://indiankanoon.org/doc/1069607/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "SC SLP by SHO admitted: leave granted 13.02.2004 (Station House Officer vs S. Swathi)", "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-01" ], "merged_case_id": "ANDHRA-007", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2006-0017", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1115", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "The Commissioner of Police and Others vs Andhra Pradesh Police Police Constable", "display_title_redacted": "The Commissioner of Police and Others vs Andhra Pradesh Police Police Constable", "state": "Andhra Pradesh", "district": null, "district_at_time": null, "city_town": null, "police_station_or_unit": null, "court": "Supreme Court of India", "court_as_verified": "Supreme Court of India", "bench": null, "case_title": "The Commissioner of Police and Others vs Andhra Pradesh Police Police Constable", "case_number": "Civil Appeal No. 6319 of 2004", "citation": "(2006) 3 SCC 173", "judges": [ "S. B. Sinha", "P. P. Naolekar" ], "judgment_date": "2006-01-25", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2006, "incident_date": null, "incident_year": null, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Police Constable", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "Andhra Pradesh Police", "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": "Police Constable, Andhra Pradesh Police" } ], "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://indiankanoon.org/doc/349010/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "remove/replace final sentence; appellants' (police) case is recorded via counter affidavit before APAT. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "remove/replace final sentence; appellants' (police) case is recorded via counter affidavit before APAT", "court_quote": "In a situation of this nature, keeping in view the nature of duties that a protector of law is required to perform, we are firmly of the opinion that the disciplinary authority cannot be said to have committed an error in imposing the punishment of removal from service upon the respondent, particularly when on earlier two occasions also he had been found guilty of commission of misconduct and punished therefor.", "court_quote_para": "n/a", "confidence": "medium", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "SC restored removal of constable who stood surety for habitual offender and aided criminals; HC lesser-penalty remit set aside.", "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": "2006-01-25", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Supreme Court of India", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Supreme Court of India upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "(2006) 3 SCC 173", "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": [ "summary" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/349010/", "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-99" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-129-004", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2010-0005", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0623", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Miduthuru Man and Others v. The Circle Inspector of Police, Nandikotkur and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Miduthuru Man and Others v. The Circle Inspector of Police, Nandikotkur and Others", "state": "Andhra Pradesh", "district": "Kurnool", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Miduthuru", "police_station_or_unit": "Miduthuru Police Station", "court": "Andhra Pradesh High Court", "court_as_verified": "Andhra Pradesh High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Miduthuru Man and Others v. The Circle Inspector of Police, Nandikotkur and Others", "case_number": "Writ Appeal against W.P. No. 6195 of 2002", "citation": "2010 (3) UPLJ 19", "judges": [ "B. Prakash Rao", "R. Kantha Rao" ], "judgment_date": "2010-06-01", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2010, "incident_date": "2002-01-10", "incident_year": 2002, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "illegal_detention_false_imprisonment", "subcategory": "illegal_detention_false_imprisonment", "subcategory_display": "illegal detention false imprisonment", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation", "sections": [ "IPC 302" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Circle Inspector of Police", "unit": "Nandikotkur Police Station", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "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": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Circle Inspector of Police, Nandikotkur Police Station" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Sub-Inspector of Police", "unit": "Miduthuru Police Station", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "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": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Sub-Inspector of Police, Miduthuru Police Station" } ], "officer_count": 2, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Miduthuru man" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Miduthuru man" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Miduthuru man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 3, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 96000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/710836/boya-nallabothula-venkateswarlu-and-others-appellant-hash-the-circle-inspector-of-police-and-oth/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/5dc113403321bc13af24cd32", "https://blog.ipleaders.in/remedies-illegal-police-action/" ], "summary": "remove/replace final sentence; police version (arrest + recovery theory) is recorded at paras 8, 21-22. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "remove/replace final sentence; police version (arrest + recovery theory) is recorded at paras 8, 21-22", "court_quote": "The alleged arrest as well as the detention are illegal and moreover, the police very well knew that they were implicating innocent persons falsely in a grave charge of murder only for their statistical purpose to close down the file with some invented result.", "court_quote_para": "36", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "AP HC DB held 3 men falsely implicated in murder, illegally detained 32 days; Rs 32K each + costs with recovery.", "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": "2010-06-01", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Andhra Pradesh High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Andhra Pradesh High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 96,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "2010 (3) UPLJ 19", "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": [ "court_quote_para", "summary" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/710836/boya-nallabothula-venkateswarlu-and-others-appellant-hash-the-circle-inspector-of-police-and-oth/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/5dc113403321bc13af24cd32", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://blog.ipleaders.in/remedies-illegal-police-action/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": false, "verified_by": [ "chunk-47" ], "merged_case_id": "SWILLEGA-053", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2024-0035", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1126", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Piduguralla Resident & Ors. v. The Collector & District Magistrate, Guntur & Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "Piduguralla Resident & Ors. v. The Collector & District Magistrate, Guntur & Ors.", "state": "Andhra Pradesh", "district": "Palnadu", "district_at_time": "Guntur", "city_town": "Piduguralla", "police_station_or_unit": "Piduguralla Police Station", "court": "Andhra Pradesh High Court", "court_as_verified": "Andhra Pradesh High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Piduguralla Resident & Ors. v. The Collector & District Magistrate, Guntur & Ors.", "case_number": "Writ Petition No. 19858 of 2013", "citation": "APHC010522062013", "judges": [ "K. Manmadha Rao" ], "judgment_date": "2024-04-04", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2024, "incident_date": "2013-01-01", "incident_year": 2013, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation", "sections": [ "Constitution Art. 21", "Constitution Art. 226" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Inspector", "unit": "Piduguralla Police Station", "role": "named_only", "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": "Inspector, Piduguralla Police Station" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": null, "descriptor": "Piduguralla resident" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 11, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 275000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/189028730/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.the-laws.com/Encyclopedia/Browse/Case?CaseId=404202016000&Title=SHAIK-JAMAL-Vs.-COLLECTOR-AND-DISTRICT-MAGISTRATE" ], "summary": "remove/replace final sentence; respondents' counters (denial + police-department ownership claim) are recorded and rejected for want of material. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "remove/replace final sentence; respondents' counters (denial + police-department ownership claim) are recorded and rejected for want of material", "court_quote": "Having regard to the facts and circumstances of the case, it is observed that, the respondents without following due process of law, have high handedly demolished the houses of the petitioners is declared as illegal and arbitrary.", "court_quote_para": "12", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "AP HC judgment verified; police demolition declared illegal with Rs.25,000 compensation per petitioner (adverse_finding_compensation).", "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": "2024-04-04", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Andhra Pradesh High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Andhra Pradesh High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 275,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "APHC010522062013", "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": [ "summary" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/189028730/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.the-laws.com/Encyclopedia/Browse/Case?CaseId=404202016000&Title=SHAIK-JAMAL-Vs.-COLLECTOR-AND-DISTRICT-MAGISTRATE", "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-101" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-18-002", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2025-0049", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1125", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "The Director General, CISF & Ors. v. CISF Constable and others", "display_title_redacted": "The Director General, CISF & Ors. v. CISF Constable and others", "state": "Andhra Pradesh", "district": "Tirupati", "district_at_time": "Nellore", "city_town": "Sriharikota", "police_station_or_unit": "Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), SHAR Centre, Sriharikota", "court": "Andhra Pradesh High Court", "court_as_verified": "Andhra Pradesh High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "The Director General, CISF & Ors. v. CISF Constable and others", "case_number": "Writ Appeal No. 48 of 2025", "citation": "2025 LiveLaw (AP) 176; APHC010603432024", "judges": [ "Battu Devanand", "A. Hari Haranadha Sarma" ], "judgment_date": "2025-11-07", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2025, "incident_date": null, "incident_year": null, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "CCS (Conduct) Rules 1964 Rule 21", "CISF Rules 2001 Rule 18(b)" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "unit": "Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), SHAR Centre, Sriharikota", "role": "held_liable", "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": "Constable, Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), SHAR Centre, Sriharikota" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 0, "sentence_type": "dismissal", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "central_armed", "primary_source_url": "https://livelaw-bennett.refread.com/pdf_upload/the-director-general-cisf-ors-vs-kudipudi-suri-babu-632702.pdf", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.verdictum.in/court-updates/high-courts/andhra-pradesh-high-court/the-director-general-cisf-v-kudipudi-suri-babu-compulsory-retirement-1599112", "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/andhra-pradesh-high-court/andhra-pradesh-high-court-upholds-dismissal-cisf-personnel-second-marriage-case-311005" ], "summary": "remove/replace final sentence; department case is recorded in the judgment (paras 2-10). Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "remove/replace final sentence; department case is recorded in the judgment (paras 2-10)", "court_quote": "The punishment of compulsory retirement ordered for opting conscious bigamous marriage by the writ petitioner is not disproportionate.", "court_quote_para": "21", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "AP HC judgment verified; CISF constable's compulsory retirement for bigamous marriage restored (disciplinary_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": "2025-11-07", "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": "2025 LiveLaw (AP) 176; APHC010603432024", "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": [ "summary" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://livelaw-bennett.refread.com/pdf_upload/the-director-general-cisf-ors-vs-kudipudi-suri-babu-632702.pdf", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.verdictum.in/court-updates/high-courts/andhra-pradesh-high-court/the-director-general-cisf-v-kudipudi-suri-babu-compulsory-retirement-1599112", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/andhra-pradesh-high-court/andhra-pradesh-high-court-upholds-dismissal-cisf-personnel-second-marriage-case-311005", "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-101" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-18-001", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2025-0026", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0013", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Vijayawada Man vs The State of Andhra Pradesh and Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "Vijayawada Man vs The State of Andhra Pradesh and Ors.", "state": "Andhra Pradesh", "district": "NTR", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Vijayawada", "police_station_or_unit": "Cyber Crime Police Station, NTR Police Commissionerate, Vijayawada", "court": "Andhra Pradesh High Court", "court_as_verified": "Andhra Pradesh High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Vijayawada Man vs The State of Andhra Pradesh and Ors.", "case_number": "W.P. No. 25601 of 2024", "citation": null, "judges": [ "R. Raghunandan Rao", "T.C.D. Sekhar" ], "judgment_date": "2025-11-10", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2025, "incident_date": "2024-11-06", "incident_year": 2024, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "illegal_detention_false_imprisonment", "subcategory": "illegal_detention_false_imprisonment", "subcategory_display": "illegal detention false imprisonment", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation", "sections": [ "Constitution Art. 21", "Constitution Art. 22", "Constitution Art. 226" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Inspector of Police (Station House Officer)", "unit": "NTR Police Station (Cyber Crime), Vijayawada", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2_openrouter:no", "key2_gpt:unclear" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": "yes", "key2_openrouter": "no", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": "no", "jev_risk": 0.33, "jev_p_culpable": 0.61, "key2_gpt": "unclear", "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Inspector of Police (Station House Officer), NTR Police Station (Cyber Crime), Vijayawada" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Vijayawada man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 10000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/15499929/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "remove/replace final sentence; police claim (detenu attended on notice) recorded and disbelieved; SHO examined in court. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "remove/replace final sentence; police claim (detenu attended on notice) recorded and disbelieved; SHO examined in court", "court_quote": "The fundamental rights of the detenue, guaranteed under Article 21 and Article 22 of the Constitution of India, protecting him against arbitrary detention and assuring him of being produced before a magistrate, within 24 hours of such detention have clearly been breached.", "court_quote_para": "20", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Division Bench held Cyber Crime PS Vijayawada illegally detained detenu 3 days without magistrate production and ordered SHO personally to pay Rs 10,000 compensation.", "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": "2025-11-10", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Andhra Pradesh High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Andhra Pradesh High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 10,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "W.P. No. 25601 of 2024", "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": [ "summary" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/15499929/", "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-01", "chunk-r01" ], "merged_case_id": "ANDHRA-013", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2026-0056", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0766", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Mortha Boy v. State of Andhra Pradesh & Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "Mortha Boy v. State of Andhra Pradesh & Ors.", "state": "Andhra Pradesh", "district": "East Godavari", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Mortha", "police_station_or_unit": "Samisragudem Police Station", "court": "Andhra Pradesh High Court", "court_as_verified": "Andhra Pradesh High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Mortha Boy v. State of Andhra Pradesh & Ors.", "case_number": "Writ Petition No. 24721 of 2026", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Ninala Jayasurya", "T.C.D. Sekhar" ], "judgment_date": "2026-08-31", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2026, "incident_date": "2026-08-19", "incident_year": 2026, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "illegal_detention_false_imprisonment", "subcategory": "illegal_detention_false_imprisonment", "subcategory_display": "illegal detention false imprisonment", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "adverse_finding", "sections": [ "BNS s.331(4)", "BNS s.305-A", "JJ Act 2015", "Constitution Art.226" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "SHO", "unit": "Samisragudem Police Station, East Godavari District", "role": "held_liable", "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": "SHO, Samisragudem Police Station, East Godavari District" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": 17, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Mortha boy, age 17" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": null, "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://s3.courtbook.in/2026/09/veligatla_venkata_narayana_v_state_of_andhra_pradesh_ors.pdf", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.livelaw.in/amp/high-court/andhra-pradesh-high-court/ap-high-court-orders-release-minor-treated-adult-imposes-personal-costs-police-officer-548698" ], "summary": "remove/replace final sentence; police version is recorded at para 5 (Aadhar blur / 2006 impression). Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "remove/replace final sentence; police version is recorded at para 5 (Aadhar blur / 2006 impression)", "court_quote": "This Court is of the considered opinion that it is a fit case to impose costs. Therefore, respondent No.4/SHO, Samisragudem Police Station, East Godavari District, shall personally pay costs of Rs.10,000/- to the A.P.High Court Legal Services Committee, Amaravati, within a period of one (1) week, from the date of receipt of a copy of this order.", "court_quote_para": "para 8", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "AP HC held minor's remand to Central Prison illegal and without jurisdiction; SHO personally to pay Rs 10,000 costs to HCLSC.", "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": "2026-08-31", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Andhra Pradesh High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Andhra Pradesh High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered compensation in an amount stated in the judgment.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "Writ Petition No. 24721 of 2026", "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": [ "summary" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://s3.courtbook.in/2026/09/veligatla_venkata_narayana_v_state_of_andhra_pradesh_ors.pdf", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/amp/high-court/andhra-pradesh-high-court/ap-high-court-orders-release-minor-treated-adult-imposes-personal-costs-police-officer-548698", "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-56" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP2-8-002", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" } ] }