{ "state": "Karnataka", "slug": "karnataka", "count": 47, "url": "https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/state/karnataka", "cases": [ { "record_id": "CW-1970-0004", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1226", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Dharwad Police Police Constable vs State of Mysore", "display_title_redacted": "Dharwad Police Police Constable vs State of Mysore", "state": "Karnataka", "district": "Dharwad", "district_at_time": "Dharwar", "city_town": "Dharwad", "police_station_or_unit": "Dharwad District Police", "court": "Supreme Court of India", "court_as_verified": "Supreme Court of India", "bench": null, "case_title": "Dharwad Police Police Constable vs State of Mysore", "case_number": "Civil Appeal No. 485 of 1967", "citation": "AIR 1972 SC 32", "judges": [ "M. Hidayatullah", "A. N. Ray" ], "judgment_date": "1970-10-16", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 1970, "incident_date": "1953-01-01", "incident_year": 1953, "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": "Dharwad district 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, Dharwad district 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/1481963/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.advocatekhoj.com/library/judgments/index.php?go=1970/october/channabasappa-basappa-happali-vs-state-of-mysore-insc-220-16-october-1970-12" ], "summary": "The Supreme Court on 16 October 1970 dismissed the appeal of former police constable, sustaining his 1953 dismissal from the Mysore (now Karnataka) police. The Court found that he had overstayed sanctioned leave from January 1953 without permission and then staged a seven-day public fast near Dharwar as a demonstration against his superior officers. It held that admission of facts in a departmental enquiry amounts to a plea of guilty and that absence without leave coupled with a demonstrative fast is fully established indiscipline in a police force. The dismissal was held merited; the case involved internal indiscipline with no public victim. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Supreme Court on 16 October 1970 dismissed the appeal of former police constable, sustaining his 1953 dismissal from the Mysore (now Karnataka) police. The Court found that he had overstayed sanctioned leave from January 1953 without permission and then staged a seven-day public fast near Dharwar as a demonstration against his superior officers. It held that admission of facts in a departmental enquiry amounts to a plea of guilty and that absence without leave coupled with a demonstrative fast is fully established indiscipline in a police force. The dismissal was held merited; the case involved internal indiscipline with no public victim.", "court_quote": "If a police officer remains absent without leave and also resorts to fast as a demonstration against the action of the superior officer the indiscipline is fully established.", "court_quote_para": "n/a", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "SC upheld dismissal of constable for overstaying leave and staging a protest fast; internal indiscipline, no public victim.", "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": "1970-10-16", "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 1972 SC 32", "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/1481963/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.advocatekhoj.com/library/judgments/index.php?go=1970/october/channabasappa-basappa-happali-vs-state-of-mysore-insc-220-16-october-1970-12", "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-114", "chunk-98" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-55-001", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-1976-0003", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1103", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Mysore State Police Police Constable vs State of Mysore", "display_title_redacted": "Mysore State Police Police Constable vs State of Mysore", "state": "Karnataka", "district": "Belagavi", "district_at_time": "Belgaum", "city_town": "Belagavi", "police_station_or_unit": "Khade-bazar Police Station, Belgaum", "court": "Supreme Court of India", "court_as_verified": "Supreme Court of India", "bench": null, "case_title": "Mysore State Police Police Constable vs State of Mysore", "case_number": "Civil Appeal No. 847 of 1974", "citation": "AIR 1976 SC 1080; (1976) 3 SCC 76", "judges": [ "A. N. Ray", "M. H. Beg", "Jaswant Singh" ], "judgment_date": "1976-03-26", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 1976, "incident_date": "1960-01-01", "incident_year": 1960, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "Bombay Prohibition Act s.66(b)" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Police Constable", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "Khade-bazar Police Station, Belgaum, Mysore State 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, Khade-bazar Police Station, Belgaum, Mysore State 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/927546/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.advocatekhoj.com/library/judgments/index.php?go=1976/march/k-l-shinde-vs-state-of-mysore-insc-86-26-march-1976-50" ], "summary": "The Supreme Court on 26 March 1976 dismissed constable 's appeal, sustaining his dismissal from the Mysore (now Karnataka) police for complicity in bootlegging. The Court found that fellow constables' statements implicated him with six others in smuggling illicit liquor linked to a 1960 seizure at Khade-bazar police station, Belgaum, and that the Superintendent of Police had disagreed with the enquiry officer's lenient recommendation to impose dismissal. It held that reasonable opportunity under Article 311 was satisfied and that courts cannot reweigh evidence in domestic enquiries, which do not require criminal standards of proof. The dismissal stands with no compensation. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Supreme Court on 26 March 1976 dismissed constable 's appeal, sustaining his dismissal from the Mysore (now Karnataka) police for complicity in bootlegging. The Court found that fellow constables' statements implicated him with six others in smuggling illicit liquor linked to a 1960 seizure at Khade-bazar police station, Belgaum, and that the Superintendent of Police had disagreed with the enquiry officer's lenient recommendation to impose dismissal. It held that reasonable opportunity under Article 311 was satisfied and that courts cannot reweigh evidence in domestic enquiries, which do not require criminal standards of proof. The dismissal stands with no compensation.", "court_quote": "For the foregoing reasons, we do not find any force in the contention of counsel for the appellant that there was no evidence on the record which could justify the appellant's dismissal from service.", "court_quote_para": "n/a", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "SC upheld dismissal of constable for complicity in illicit-liquor smuggling; courts cannot reweigh enquiry evidence.", "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": "1976-03-26", "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 1976 SC 1080; (1976) 3 SCC 76", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." } ], "later_proceedings": [], "final_outcome_url": null, "followup_history": [], "followup_status": "never_checked", "last_checked": null, "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/927546/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.advocatekhoj.com/library/judgments/index.php?go=1976/march/k-l-shinde-vs-state-of-mysore-insc-86-26-march-1976-50", "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-98" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-127-012", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-1980-0004", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0805", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Birur Police Head Constable (HC 81) vs State of Karnataka", "display_title_redacted": "Birur Police Head Constable (HC 81) vs State of Karnataka", "state": "Karnataka", "district": "Chikkamagaluru", "district_at_time": "Chickmagalur", "city_town": "Birur", "police_station_or_unit": "Birur Police Station (later Sringeri Police Station)", "court": "Karnataka High Court", "court_as_verified": "Karnataka High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Birur Police Head Constable (HC 81) vs State of Karnataka", "case_number": "W.P. No. 11937 of 1978", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Rama Jois" ], "judgment_date": "1980-01-14", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 1980, "incident_date": "1974-04-04", "incident_year": 1974, "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": "Head Constable (HC 81)", "unit": "Birur Police Station", "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": "Head Constable (HC 81), Birur Police Station" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": null, "descriptor": "Birur resident" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": null, "descriptor": "Birur resident" } ], "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://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/5ac5e2c54a932619d90257ab", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Karnataka High Court (Rama Jois J., 14 January 1980) dismissed the writ of Head Constable and upheld his dismissal for bribery. The court recorded that in April 1974, while posted at Birur police station, he demanded Rs 3,000 and accepted Rs 1,000 to release two lock-up detainees on bail. It rejected his procedural challenges to the departmental enquiry and held the concurrent findings rested on clear evidence that a writ court cannot re-appreciate. The dismissal as confirmed in appeal and revision was sustained.", "summary_verified": "The Karnataka High Court (Rama Jois J., 14 January 1980) dismissed the writ of Head Constable and upheld his dismissal for bribery. The court recorded that in April 1974, while posted at Birur police station, he demanded Rs 3,000 and accepted Rs 1,000 to release two lock-up detainees on bail. It rejected his procedural challenges to the departmental enquiry and held the concurrent findings rested on clear evidence that a writ court cannot re-appreciate. The dismissal as confirmed in appeal and revision was sustained.", "court_quote": "the petitioner, who was a Head Constable in the Police Department of the State Government, has prayed for quashing the order imposing the penalty of dismissal from service against him", "court_quote_para": null, "confidence": "medium", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Writ dismissed; dismissal of bribe-taking head constable upheld (full text mirror-blocked; corroborated via indexed snippets).", "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": "1980-01-14", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Karnataka High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Karnataka High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "W.P. No. 11937 of 1978", "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.casemine.com/judgement/in/5ac5e2c54a932619d90257ab", "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-62" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP2-25-002", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-1982-0002", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0804", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Mangalore Man vs D.I.G. of Police", "display_title_redacted": "Mangalore Man vs D.I.G. of Police", "state": "Karnataka", "district": "Dakshina Kannada", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Mangalore", "police_station_or_unit": "Bajpe Airport, Mangalore (then ASI); SSB Bangalore (at dismissal)", "court": "Karnataka High Court", "court_as_verified": "Karnataka High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Mangalore Man vs D.I.G. of Police", "case_number": "Writ Petition No. 38840 of 1982", "citation": "ILR 1986 KAR 478", "judges": [ "Rama Jois" ], "judgment_date": "1982-11-08", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 1982, "incident_date": "1980-10-01", "incident_year": 1980, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "IPC 353" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Sub-Inspector of Police", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "SSB Bangalore (formerly ASI, Bajpe Airport)", "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": "Sub-Inspector of Police, SSB Bangalore (formerly ASI, Bajpe Airport)" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Mangalore man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "dismissal", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/326983/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/511306/mahalinga-appellant-hash-dig-of-police-respondent/" ], "summary": "The Karnataka High Court (Rama Jois J., 8 November 1982) rejected the writ of Sub-Inspector and sustained his dismissal from service. The court recorded that while posted as ASI at Bajpe Airport he assaulted on-duty traffic constable at Mangalore on 1 October 1980, for which the JMFC convicted him under Section 353 IPC and sentenced him to 3 months RI. The court held the dismissal validly founded on the conduct that led to the conviction, and that suspension of the sentence pending appeal did not wipe out the conviction. It found the disciplinary authority had applied its own mind and dismissed the petition. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Karnataka High Court (Rama Jois J., 8 November 1982) rejected the writ of Sub-Inspector and sustained his dismissal from service. The court recorded that while posted as ASI at Bajpe Airport he assaulted on-duty traffic constable at Mangalore on 1 October 1980, for which the JMFC convicted him under Section 353 IPC and sentenced him to 3 months RI. The court held the dismissal validly founded on the conduct that led to the conviction, and that suspension of the sentence pending appeal did not wipe out the conviction. It found the disciplinary authority had applied its own mind and dismissed the petition.", "court_quote": "This Writ Petition is by a Sub-Inspector of Police who has been dismissed from service on the basis of the conduct which has led to his conviction, on a criminal charge u/s 353 of the Indian Penal Code.", "court_quote_para": "1", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Writ rejected; dismissal of PSI for assault leading to Section 353 IPC conviction 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": "1982-11-08", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Karnataka High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Karnataka High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "ILR 1986 KAR 478", "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" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/326983/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/511306/mahalinga-appellant-hash-dig-of-police-respondent/", "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-62" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP2-25-001", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-1995-0006", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0200", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Bengaluru Woman vs The Chief Secretary & Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "Bengaluru Woman vs The Chief Secretary & Ors.", "state": "Karnataka", "district": "Bengaluru Urban", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Bengaluru", "police_station_or_unit": "Subramanyanagar Police Station", "court": "Karnataka High Court", "court_as_verified": "Karnataka High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Bengaluru Woman vs The Chief Secretary & Ors.", "case_number": null, "citation": "1995 SCC OnLine Kar 245; 1995 Cri LJ 4148; ILR 1995 KAR 2424; 1996 ACJ 1091; 1995 (6) Kar LJ 8", "judges": [], "judgment_date": "1995-07-14", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 1995, "incident_date": "1988-05-18", "incident_year": 1988, "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 Art 21", "Constitution Art 226" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Sub-Inspector of Police", "unit": "Subramanyanagar Police Station, Bengaluru", "role": "named_only", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:named_only", "key2:no", "key2_agy:no", "key2_openrouter:no", "redteam:police_witness_no_finding" ], "ledger_role": "named_only", "key2": "no", "key2_agy": "no", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "no", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.94, "jev_p_culpable": 0.05, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Sub-Inspector of Police, Subramanyanagar Police Station, Bengaluru" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Head Constable", "unit": "Subramanyanagar Police Station, Bengaluru", "role": "named_only", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:named_only", "key2:no", "key2_agy:no", "key2_openrouter:no" ], "ledger_role": "named_only", "key2": "no", "key2_agy": "no", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "no", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.94, "jev_p_culpable": 0.05, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Head Constable, Subramanyanagar Police Station, Bengaluru" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Police Constable", "unit": "Subramanyanagar Police Station, Bengaluru", "role": "named_only", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:named_only", "key2:no", "key2_agy:no", "key2_openrouter:no" ], "ledger_role": "named_only", "key2": "no", "key2_agy": "no", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "no", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.95, "jev_p_culpable": 0.06, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Police Constable, Subramanyanagar Police Station, Bengaluru" } ], "officer_count": 3, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": 40, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Bengaluru man, age 40" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 200000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/541497/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "A Bengaluru man, arrested by Subramanyanagar police for autorickshaw theft, died in the station on 18 May 1988; police claimed he hanged himself with a torn woollen rug, and a court-ordered Chief Metropolitan Magistrate enquiry accepted suicide and denied damages. The Division Bench rejected the enquiry report, holding that the police examined neither the alleged eyewitnesses nor the post-mortem doctor and discharged none of the onus on them to show absence of negligence. The court awarded Rs 2,00,000 compensation to the widow and three minor children and directed the State to work out a scheme for interim relief of not less than Rs 25,000 within one month in every custodial death. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "A Bengaluru man, arrested by Subramanyanagar police for autorickshaw theft, died in the station on 18 May 1988; police claimed he hanged himself with a torn woollen rug, and a court-ordered Chief Metropolitan Magistrate enquiry accepted suicide and denied damages. The Division Bench rejected the enquiry report, holding that the police examined neither the alleged eyewitnesses nor the post-mortem doctor and discharged none of the onus on them to show absence of negligence. The court awarded Rs 2,00,000 compensation to the widow and three minor children and directed the State to work out a scheme for interim relief of not less than Rs 25,000 within one month in every custodial death.", "court_quote": "As we have said earlier, once a prisoner is in police custody, custodial death cannot be treated in casual and cavalier fashion. We find as stated earlier, the legal heirs of the victims do not get any relief for many years.", "court_quote_para": "15", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Karnataka HC Division Bench rejected the suicide theory and CMM report in a 1988 custodial death, held police negligent, and awarded Rs 2 lakh compensation with a statewide interim-relief direction.", "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": "1995-07-14", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Karnataka High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Karnataka High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 200,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "1995 SCC OnLine Kar 245; 1995 Cri LJ 4148; ILR 1995 KAR 2424; 1996 ACJ 1091; 1995 (6) Kar LJ 8", "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/541497/", "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-06", "chunk-r04" ], "merged_case_id": "KARNAT-015", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-1997-0020", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1099", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "State of Karnataka and Others vs Karnataka Police Police Constable", "display_title_redacted": "State of Karnataka and Others vs Karnataka Police Police Constable", "state": "Karnataka", "district": "Bengaluru Urban", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Bengaluru", "police_station_or_unit": "Sheshadripuram Traffic Sub-Zone, Bengaluru City", "court": "Supreme Court of India", "court_as_verified": "Supreme Court of India", "bench": null, "case_title": "State of Karnataka and Others vs Karnataka Police Police Constable", "case_number": "Civil Appeal No. 1119 of 1990", "citation": "(1998) 9 SCC 671", "judges": [ "Sujata V. Manohar", "D. P. Wadhwa" ], "judgment_date": "1997-10-23", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 1997, "incident_date": null, "incident_year": 1985, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "corruption", "admin_subcategory": "extortion", "subcategory": "extortion", "subcategory_display": "extortion", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Police Constable", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "Sheshadripuram Traffic Sub-Zone, Bengaluru City, Karnataka 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, Sheshadripuram Traffic Sub-Zone, Bengaluru City, Karnataka 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.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/679514/state-of-karnataka-and-others-vs-h-nagaraj/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1729778/" ], "summary": "The Supreme Court on 23 October 1997 restored the dismissal of Bangalore traffic constable for gross misconduct in extorting auto-rickshaw drivers. The Court recorded that as station rider he unofficially stopped drivers daily and released them for Rs. 50-70 each, issuing police notices only to squeeze payment and withdrawing them once paid, and collecting Rs. 150-200 per traffic violation. A departmental enquiry found him guilty and dismissal was confirmed on appeal, but the Karnataka Administrative Tribunal reduced it to withholding two increments as too harsh. The Court held the choice of penalty is exclusively the competent authority's domain and set aside the Tribunal's order. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Supreme Court on 23 October 1997 restored the dismissal of Bangalore traffic constable for gross misconduct in extorting auto-rickshaw drivers. The Court recorded that as station rider he unofficially stopped drivers daily and released them for Rs. 50-70 each, issuing police notices only to squeeze payment and withdrawing them once paid, and collecting Rs. 150-200 per traffic violation. A departmental enquiry found him guilty and dismissal was confirmed on appeal, but the Karnataka Administrative Tribunal reduced it to withholding two increments as too harsh. The Court held the choice of penalty is exclusively the competent authority's domain and set aside the Tribunal's order.", "court_quote": "He was basically charged with gross misconduct in collecting money from auto rickshaw drivers. A departmental enquiry was held and he was found guilty of the charges.", "court_quote_para": "1", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "SC restored dismissal of traffic constable who extorted auto drivers daily.", "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": "1997-10-23", "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": "(1998) 9 SCC 671", "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.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/679514/state-of-karnataka-and-others-vs-h-nagaraj/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1729778/", "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": "GAP3-127-007", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2000-0006", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0186", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Bengaluru Woman vs The Chief Secretary, State of Karnataka & Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "Bengaluru Woman vs The Chief Secretary, State of Karnataka & Ors.", "state": "Karnataka", "district": "Bengaluru Urban", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Bengaluru", "police_station_or_unit": "Mahalakshmi Layout Police Station, Bengaluru", "court": "Karnataka High Court", "court_as_verified": "Karnataka High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Bengaluru Woman vs The Chief Secretary, State of Karnataka & Ors.", "case_number": null, "citation": "2001 Cri LJ 238; ILR 2001 Kant 1626", "judges": [ "V. 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"key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "no", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.94, "jev_p_culpable": 0.07, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Head Constable, Mahalakshmi Layout Police Station, Bengaluru" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Police Constable", "unit": "Mahalakshmi Layout Police Station, Bengaluru", "role": "named_only", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:named_only", "key2:no", "key2_agy:no", "key2_openrouter:no" ], "ledger_role": "named_only", "key2": "no", "key2_agy": "no", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "no", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.93, "jev_p_culpable": 0.06, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Police Constable, Mahalakshmi Layout Police Station, Bengaluru" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Police Constable", "unit": "Mahalakshmi Layout Police Station, Bengaluru", "role": "named_only", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:named_only", "key2:no", "key2_agy:no", "key2_openrouter:no" ], "ledger_role": "named_only", "key2": "no", "key2_agy": "no", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "no", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.93, "jev_p_culpable": 0.07, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Police Constable, Mahalakshmi Layout Police Station, Bengaluru" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Police Constable", "unit": "Mahalakshmi Layout Police Station, Bengaluru", "role": "named_only", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:named_only", "key2:no", "key2_agy:no", "key2_openrouter:no" ], "ledger_role": "named_only", "key2": "no", "key2_agy": "no", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "no", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.93, "jev_p_culpable": 0.07, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Police Constable, Mahalakshmi Layout Police Station, Bengaluru" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Police Constable", "unit": "Mahalakshmi Layout Police Station, Bengaluru", "role": "named_only", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:named_only", "key2:no", "key2_agy:no", "key2_openrouter:no" ], "ledger_role": "named_only", "key2": "no", "key2_agy": "no", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "no", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.94, "jev_p_culpable": 0.06, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Police Constable, Mahalakshmi Layout Police Station, Bengaluru" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Assistant Sub-Inspector / Station House Officer", "unit": "Mahalakshmi Layout Police Station, Bengaluru", "role": "named_only", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:named_only", "key2:no", "key2_agy:no", "key2_openrouter:no" ], "ledger_role": "named_only", "key2": "no", "key2_agy": "no", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "no", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.93, "jev_p_culpable": 0.08, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Assistant Sub-Inspector / Station House Officer, Mahalakshmi Layout Police Station, Bengaluru" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Police personnel", "unit": "Mahalakshmi Layout Police Station, Bengaluru", "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, Mahalakshmi Layout Police Station, Bengaluru" } ], "officer_count": 9, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": 27, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Bengaluru man, age 27" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 500000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1930301/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The judgment of the Karnataka High Court records the following account. A Bengaluru man, a 27-year-old weaver, was picked up by Mahalakshmi Layout police in February–March 1993 and died in the police lock-up on the night of 22/23 March 1993; his widow alleged illegal detention, third-degree torture and extortion while police claimed suicide by hanging. On a private complaint the CoD investigated and charge-sheeted nine police personnel (C.C. No. 16457/1998), yet the State took no disciplinary action. The High Court held the death occurred in police custody after inhuman treatment in violation of Articles 14 and 21, awarded Rs 5,00,000 compensation (including Rs 1 lakh interim relief) to the widow and minor son, directed immediate disciplinary proceedings against all nine accused personnel, and ordered recovery of the compensation from those found responsible. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "A Bengaluru man, a 27-year-old weaver, was picked up by Mahalakshmi Layout police in February–March 1993 and died in the police lock-up on the night of 22/23 March 1993; his widow alleged illegal detention, third-degree torture and extortion while police claimed suicide by hanging. On a private complaint the CoD investigated and charge-sheeted nine police personnel (C.C. No. 16457/1998), yet the State took no disciplinary action. The High Court held the death occurred in police custody after inhuman treatment in violation of Articles 14 and 21, awarded Rs 5,00,000 compensation (including Rs 1 lakh interim relief) to the widow and minor son, directed immediate disciplinary proceedings against all nine accused personnel, and ordered recovery of the compensation from those found responsible.", "court_quote": "The State Government is further directed to recover the amount of compensation awarded in this case from all the accused police personnel who are responsible for the custodial death of the petitioner's husband after fixing their liability.", "court_quote_para": "operative direction (vi) (following para 37)", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "High Court held a Bengaluru man died in police custody after inhuman treatment and awarded Rs 5 lakh compensation with disciplinary proceedings and recovery from the nine accused personnel.", "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": "2000-08-14", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Karnataka High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Karnataka High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 500,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "2001 Cri LJ 238; ILR 2001 Kant 1626", "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/1930301/", "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-05", "chunk-r04" ], "merged_case_id": "SOUTH-007", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2000-0008", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0684", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Belagavi Man and Others vs State of Karnataka and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Belagavi Man and Others vs State of Karnataka and Others", "state": "Karnataka", "district": "Belagavi", "district_at_time": "Belgaum", "city_town": "Belagavi", "police_station_or_unit": "Belgaum Central Prison / police custody", "court": "Karnataka High Court", "court_as_verified": "Karnataka High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Belagavi Man and Others vs State of Karnataka and Others", "case_number": "Writ Petition under Article 226", "citation": "2000 Cri LJ 4408; (2001) ILR Kant 1531", "judges": [ "H. L. Dattu" ], "judgment_date": "2000-09-05", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2000, "incident_date": "1992-07-07", "incident_year": 1992, "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": [], "officers": [], "officer_count": 0, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Belagavi man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 300000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/734486/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The judgment of the Karnataka High Court records the following account. A Belagavi man, an under-trial auto driver transferred from Bangalore to Belgaum Central Prison, sustained injuries in custody on 4 July 1992 and died in hospital on 7 July 1992. The authorities claimed a jail-break attempt led to a mild lathi-charge and stampede injuring 62 prisoners; the family alleged brutal beating and torture in police custody. Justice Dattu found the ADGP (Prisons) enquiry report a farce that ignored uniform contusions and a fatal cervical-spine injury consistent with deliberate beating while in custody. Citing Nilabati Behera, D.K. Basu and Kewal Pati, the Court held he died in police custody because of torture by brutal beating, allowed the petition, awarded Rs.3 lakh compensation, and directed the State to appoint an investigating agency to fix responsibility of the police personnel. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "A Belagavi man, an under-trial auto driver transferred from Bangalore to Belgaum Central Prison, sustained injuries in custody on 4 July 1992 and died in hospital on 7 July 1992. The authorities claimed a jail-break attempt led to a mild lathi-charge and stampede injuring 62 prisoners; the family alleged brutal beating and torture in police custody. Justice Dattu found the ADGP (Prisons) enquiry report a farce that ignored uniform contusions and a fatal cervical-spine injury consistent with deliberate beating while in custody. Citing Nilabati Behera, D.K. Basu and Kewal Pati, the Court held he died in police custody because of torture by brutal beating, allowed the petition, awarded Rs.3 lakh compensation, and directed the State to appoint an investigating agency to fix responsibility of the police personnel.", "court_quote": "the only inference that can be drawn is that the petitioner's husband died while he was in police custody because of torture and injury caused by police authority by their brutal beating, may be with a wooden rod.", "court_quote_para": "18", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC held under-trial beaten to death in custody; Rs.3 lakh compensation plus probe to fix police responsibility.", "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": "2000-09-05", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Karnataka High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Karnataka High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 300,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "2000 Cri LJ 4408; (2001) ILR Kant 1531", "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/734486/", "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-51" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP10-007", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2001-0005", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0447", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Kalaburagi Man and Another vs State of Karnataka and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Kalaburagi Man and Another vs State of Karnataka and Others", "state": "Karnataka", "district": "Kalaburagi", "district_at_time": "Gulbarga", "city_town": "Kalaburagi", "police_station_or_unit": "Chowk Police Station and Station Bazar Police Station, Gulbarga", "court": "Karnataka High Court", "court_as_verified": "Karnataka High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Kalaburagi Man and Another vs State of Karnataka and Others", "case_number": "Writ Petition (number not stated in reported text)", "citation": "ILR 2004 KAR 3052", "judges": [ "V. Gopala Gowda" ], "judgment_date": "2001-08-18", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2001, "incident_date": "1992-06-19", "incident_year": 1992, "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 Art. 226" ], "officers": [ { "name": "Veerabhadrappa", "rank": "Assistant Sub-Inspector", "unit": "Chowk PS, Gulbarga", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "named_safe", "gate_reasons": [], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.1, "jev_p_culpable": 0.81, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": "Veerabhadrappa", "display": "Veerabhadrappa (Assistant Sub-Inspector)" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Police Sub-Inspector", "unit": "Station Bazar PS, Gulbarga", "role": "named_only", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:named_only", "key2:no", "key2_agy:no", "key2_openrouter:no" ], "ledger_role": "named_only", "key2": "no", "key2_agy": "no", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "no", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.92, "jev_p_culpable": 0.07, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Police Sub-Inspector, Station Bazar PS, Gulbarga" } ], "officer_count": 2, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Kalaburagi man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 200000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1725699/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The judgment of the Karnataka High Court records the following account. A Kalaburagi man, who had demanded back Rs 25,000 paid for a promised job, was falsely implicated at the recipient's instance, illegally detained at Chowk PS from 16 May 1992, briefly escaped, was handed by the ASI to PSI, and died in the Station Bazar lock-up on 19 June 1992. On the undisputed COD report, the Karnataka High Court found month-long illegal detention without production before court in conspiracy with the complainant, and fixed tortious liability on the State. The court awarded the mother 2 lakh with 6 percent per annum interest from the date of illegal detention, ordered the State to recover proportionately from the guilty personnel, and directed disciplinary proceedings within four weeks. The pending Sessions trial against 22 charge-sheeted accused was left to proceed independently.", "summary_verified": "A Kalaburagi man, who had demanded back Rs 25,000 paid for a promised job, was falsely implicated at the recipient's instance, illegally detained at Chowk PS from 16 May 1992, briefly escaped, was handed by the ASI to PSI, and died in the Station Bazar lock-up on 19 June 1992. On the undisputed COD report, the Karnataka High Court found month-long illegal detention without production before court in conspiracy with the complainant, and fixed tortious liability on the State. The court awarded the mother 2 lakh with 6 percent per annum interest from the date of illegal detention, ordered the State to recover proportionately from the guilty personnel, and directed disciplinary proceedings within four weeks. The pending Sessions trial against 22 charge-sheeted accused was left to proceed independently.", "court_quote": "It is crystal clear that Veerabhadrappa, A.S.I., took the law into his own hands and kept a Kalaburagi man in illegal detention for more than a month without producing him before the concerned Court.", "court_quote_para": "5", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Rs 2 lakh plus 6% interest for month-long illegal detention and custodial death.", "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": "2001-08-18", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Karnataka High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Karnataka High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 200,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "ILR 2004 KAR 3052", "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/1725699/", "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-31" ], "merged_case_id": "SWCUSTOD-012", "officers_named_public": 1, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2002-0008", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0187", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Mysuru Woman & Anr. vs The State of Karnataka & Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "Mysuru Woman & Anr. vs The State of Karnataka & Ors.", "state": "Karnataka", "district": "Mysuru", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Mysuru", "police_station_or_unit": "Devaraja Police Station, Mysuru", "court": "Karnataka High Court", "court_as_verified": "Karnataka High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Mysuru Woman & Anr. vs The State of Karnataka & Ors.", "case_number": null, "citation": "2003 Cri LJ 1003; ILR 2002 Kant 5230", "judges": [ "R. Gururajan" ], "judgment_date": "2002-10-28", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2002, "incident_date": "1993-05-04", "incident_year": 1993, "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": [ "Article 21" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Circle Inspector of Police ('C' Division)", "unit": "Devaraja Police Station, Mysuru", "role": "named_only", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:named_only", "key2:no", "key2_agy:no", "key2_openrouter:no" ], "ledger_role": "named_only", "key2": "no", "key2_agy": "no", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "no", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.95, "jev_p_culpable": 0.05, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Circle Inspector of Police ('C' Division), Devaraja Police Station, Mysuru" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Police official", "unit": "Devaraja Police Station, Mysuru", "role": "named_only", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:named_only", "key2:no", "key2_agy:no", "key2_openrouter:no" ], "ledger_role": "named_only", "key2": "no", "key2_agy": "no", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "no", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.94, "jev_p_culpable": 0.04, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Police official, Devaraja Police Station, Mysuru" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Police official", "unit": "Devaraja Police Station, Mysuru", "role": "named_only", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:named_only", "key2:no", "key2_agy:no", "key2_openrouter:no" ], "ledger_role": "named_only", "key2": "no", "key2_agy": "no", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "no", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.95, "jev_p_culpable": 0.04, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Police official, Devaraja Police Station, Mysuru" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Woman Head Constable (WHC 88)", "unit": "Devaraja Police Station, Mysuru", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2:no", "key2_agy:no", "key2_openrouter:no" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "no", "key2_agy": "no", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "no", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.11, "jev_p_culpable": 0.88, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Woman Head Constable (WHC 88), Devaraja Police Station, Mysuru" } ], "officer_count": 4, "victims": [ { "age": 48, "gender": "female", "descriptor": "Mysuru woman, age 48", "name": null } ], "victims_redacted": [ { "age": 48, "gender": "female", "descriptor": "a woman" } ], "anonymised": true, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 200000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/778542/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The judgment of the Karnataka High Court records the following account. a woman, a 48-year-old maidservant, was taken to Devaraja Police Station on 4 May 1993 for interrogation in her employer's theft complaint and kept upstairs without a woman guard; she alleged her fingernails were pressed and she was threatened with stripping and gang rape. Fearing torture she jumped from the second floor and suffered grievous fractures leaving permanent disability in her right hand and leg, while the theft case ended in a C-report. The department exonerated three officials and let WHC [name withheld] off with a censure on appeal. The High Court found police excesses violating Article 21, awarded Rs 2,00,000 compensation (Rs 1,50,000 in fixed deposit, Rs 50,000 cash, 12% interest on default) plus Rs 5,000 costs to Samata Vedike, and directed the DGP to re-examine the departmental proceedings and take remedial action. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "Nanjamma, a 48-year-old maidservant, was taken to Devaraja Police Station on 4 May 1993 for interrogation in her employer's theft complaint and kept upstairs without a woman guard; she alleged her fingernails were pressed and she was threatened with stripping and gang rape. Fearing torture she jumped from the second floor and suffered grievous fractures leaving permanent disability in her right hand and leg, while the theft case ended in a C-report. The department exonerated three officials and let WHC [name withheld] off with a censure on appeal. The High Court found police excesses violating Article 21, awarded Rs 2,00,000 compensation (Rs 1,50,000 in fixed deposit, Rs 50,000 cash, 12% interest on default) plus Rs 5,000 costs to Samata Vedike, and directed the DGP to re-examine the departmental proceedings and take remedial action.", "court_quote": "Rule of law is the basic foundation of the democracy.", "court_quote_para": "12", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "High Court found police excesses drove maidservant Nanjamma to jump from the station's second floor and awarded Rs 2 lakh compensation plus Rs 5,000 costs, directing the DGP to re-examine departmental action.", "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": "2002-10-28", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Karnataka High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Karnataka High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 200,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "2003 Cri LJ 1003; ILR 2002 Kant 5230", "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_para" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/778542/", "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-05", "chunk-r04" ], "merged_case_id": "KARNAT-002", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2003-0004", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0190", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Koppal Man & Ors. vs State of Karnataka & Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "Koppal Man & Ors. vs State of Karnataka & Ors.", "state": "Karnataka", "district": "Koppal", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Koppal", "police_station_or_unit": "Koppal Police Station, Koppal", "court": "Karnataka High Court", "court_as_verified": "Karnataka High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Koppal Man & Ors. vs State of Karnataka & Ors.", "case_number": null, "citation": "ILR 2003 Kar 2357; 2003 (3) Kar LJ 395", "judges": [ "Chandrashekaraiah" ], "judgment_date": "2003-03-20", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2003, "incident_date": "1998-11-20", "incident_year": 1998, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "disproportionate_force", "subcategory": "disproportionate_force", "subcategory_display": "disproportionate force", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation", "sections": [ "Article 21", "Article 22(2)" ], "officers": [ { "name": "R. N. Byrappa", "rank": "Police Inspector", "unit": "Koppal Police Station, Koppal", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "named_safe", "gate_reasons": [], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.51, "jev_p_culpable": 0.58, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": "R. N. Byrappa", "display": "R. N. Byrappa (Police Inspector)" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Koppal man" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Koppal man" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Koppal man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 3, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 45000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/803602/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The judgment of the Karnataka High Court records the following account. Three men arrested on 19 November 1998 (falsely shown as arrested on 20 November to feign production within 24 hours) were handcuffed, chained and paraded in briefs only through the streets of Koppal from the police station to the Magistrate's residence on the evening of 20 November 1998. A departmental enquiry whitewashed the incident, so the High Court ordered a CBI enquiry, which proved the arrest-date falsification and the parading. The High Court held respondent No. 6, Inspector, had interfered with the petitioners' liberty and damaged their reputation in violation of Articles 21 and 22(2) and the Karnataka Police Manual, and directed him personally to pay Rs 15,000 to each petitioner (Rs 45,000 total) within three months. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "Three men arrested on 19 November 1998 (falsely shown as arrested on 20 November to feign production within 24 hours) were handcuffed, chained and paraded in briefs only through the streets of Koppal from the police station to the Magistrate's residence on the evening of 20 November 1998. A departmental enquiry whitewashed the incident, so the High Court ordered a CBI enquiry, which proved the arrest-date falsification and the parading. The High Court held respondent No. 6, Inspector, had interfered with the petitioners' liberty and damaged their reputation in violation of Articles 21 and 22(2) and the Karnataka Police Manual, and directed him personally to pay Rs 15,000 to each petitioner (Rs 45,000 total) within three months.", "court_quote": "respondent 6 has virtually interfered with the liberty of the petitioners and thereby caused damage to their reputation in handcuffing and parading in the open streets.", "court_quote_para": "12", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "High Court held Inspector personally liable for handcuffing, chaining and parading three arrestees half-naked and directed him to pay Rs 15,000 to each.", "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": "2003-03-20", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Karnataka High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Karnataka High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 45,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "ILR 2003 Kar 2357; 2003 (3) Kar LJ 395", "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_para" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/803602/", "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-05", "chunk-r04" ], "merged_case_id": "KARNAT-005", "officers_named_public": 1, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2006-0015", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0685", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Shanthamma vs Sub-Inspector of Police, Malur and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Shanthamma vs Sub-Inspector of Police, Malur and Others", "state": "Karnataka", "district": "Bengaluru Urban", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Bengaluru", "police_station_or_unit": "Indira Nagar Police Station, Bengaluru", "court": "Karnataka High Court", "court_as_verified": "Karnataka High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Shanthamma vs Sub-Inspector of Police, Malur and Others", "case_number": "W.P. No. 62/2006 (HC) (habeas corpus)", "citation": "2007(3) Kar LJ 330", "judges": [ "R. Gururajan", "N. Ananda" ], "judgment_date": "2006-08-23", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2006, "incident_date": "2006-06-23", "incident_year": 2006, "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": "Sub-Inspector", "unit": "Indira Nagar Police Station, Bengaluru", "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": "Sub-Inspector, Indira Nagar Police Station, Bengaluru" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Police Constable", "unit": "Indira Nagar Police Station, Bengaluru", "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, Indira Nagar Police Station, Bengaluru" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Police Constable", "unit": "Indira Nagar Police Station, Bengaluru", "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, Indira Nagar Police Station, Bengaluru" } ], "officer_count": 3, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Bengaluru 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/475773/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The judgment of the Karnataka High Court records the following account. A Bengaluru man was picked up around midnight on 23 June 2006 by Indiranagar police in a theft case; his mother was falsely told at Malur Police Station that he was not arrested, and he was kept in custody without production before the jurisdictional Magistrate within 24 hours, with Rs.5,000 allegedly demanded for his release. The detenu was produced on 29 June 2006, and the Registrar (Vigilance) reported illegal detention with discrepant affidavits and Station House Diary entries. The Division Bench held the detention illegal and violative of Article 21, directed the State to pay Rs.10,000 compensation within two weeks (recoverable from the officials), directed the Registrar General to file a criminal complaint against the SI and two constables for false affidavits, and directed the Commissioner of Police to hold a departmental enquiry. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "A Bengaluru man was picked up around midnight on 23 June 2006 by Indiranagar police in a theft case; his mother was falsely told at Malur Police Station that he was not arrested, and he was kept in custody without production before the jurisdictional Magistrate within 24 hours, with Rs.5,000 allegedly demanded for his release. The detenu was produced on 29 June 2006, and the Registrar (Vigilance) reported illegal detention with discrepant affidavits and Station House Diary entries. The Division Bench held the detention illegal and violative of Article 21, directed the State to pay Rs.10,000 compensation within two weeks (recoverable from the officials), directed the Registrar General to file a criminal complaint against the SI and two constables for false affidavits, and directed the Commissioner of Police to hold a departmental enquiry.", "court_quote": "the detenue was kept under illegal detention", "court_quote_para": "8", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC held illegal detention in habeas case; Rs.10,000 compensation plus criminal complaint and DE against SI and 2 PCs.", "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": "2006-08-23", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Karnataka High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Karnataka High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 10,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "2007(3) Kar LJ 330", "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_para" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/475773/", "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-51" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP10-008", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2007-0006", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0199", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Bengaluru Man vs State by K. G. Nagar Police Station & Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "Bengaluru Man vs State by K. G. Nagar Police Station & Ors.", "state": "Karnataka", "district": "Bengaluru Urban", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Bengaluru", "police_station_or_unit": "K. G. Nagar Police Station", "court": "Karnataka High Court", "court_as_verified": "Karnataka High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Bengaluru Man vs State by K. G. Nagar Police Station & Ors.", "case_number": null, "citation": "2007 (4) Kar LJ 627; AIR 2007 (NOC) 1641 (Kar); 2007 Cri LJ (NOC) 751", "judges": [ "R. Gururajan", "Anand Byrareddy" ], "judgment_date": "2007-04-19", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2007, "incident_date": "2007-01-07", "incident_year": 2007, "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": [], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Bengaluru man" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "female", "descriptor": "Bengaluru woman" } ], "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/714229/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The judgment of the Karnataka High Court records the following account. A Bengaluru man and his sister [name withheld], who had filed a private complaint against a religious seer, were assaulted by K. G. Nagar police on the night of 7 January 2007, illegally detained at the station till the evening of 8 January 2007 and treated inhumanly. On a habeas corpus petition the High Court first secured their release and then ordered a Registrar (Vigilance) enquiry, which proved the assault, illegal detention and inhuman treatment on 7-8 January 2007 while rejecting claims for the earlier dates. A Division Bench accepted the report, awarded Rs 50,000 compensation plus Rs 5,000 litigation costs payable by the State, and directed the Director General of Police to conduct an independent enquiry and proceed against the erring officials. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "A Bengaluru man and his sister [name withheld], who had filed a private complaint against a religious seer, were assaulted by K. G. Nagar police on the night of 7 January 2007, illegally detained at the station till the evening of 8 January 2007 and treated inhumanly. On a habeas corpus petition the High Court first secured their release and then ordered a Registrar (Vigilance) enquiry, which proved the assault, illegal detention and inhuman treatment on 7-8 January 2007 while rejecting claims for the earlier dates. A Division Bench accepted the report, awarded Rs 50,000 compensation plus Rs 5,000 litigation costs payable by the State, and directed the Director General of Police to conduct an independent enquiry and proceed against the erring officials.", "court_quote": "The only other finding against the police is that the police ill-treated a Bengaluru man and Smt. A Bengaluru woman on 7-1-2007. The said report is accepted by us in the light of the detailed findings given by the Registrar.", "court_quote_para": "6", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Karnataka HC Division Bench accepted Registrar (Vigilance) finding of assault, illegal detention and inhuman treatment by K.G. Nagar police, awarded Rs 50,000 compensation plus costs, and ordered DGP enquiry.", "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": "2007-04-19", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Karnataka High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Karnataka High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 50,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "2007 (4) Kar LJ 627; AIR 2007 (NOC) 1641 (Kar); 2007 Cri LJ (NOC) 751", "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/714229/", "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-06", "chunk-r04" ], "merged_case_id": "KARNAT-014", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2009-0031", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1227", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "State of Karnataka vs Bengaluru Police Police Constable (PC No. 2545)", "display_title_redacted": "State of Karnataka vs Bengaluru Police Police Constable (PC No. 2545)", "state": "Karnataka", "district": "Bengaluru Urban", "district_at_time": "Bangalore", "city_town": "Bengaluru", "police_station_or_unit": "Mico Layout Police Station", "court": "Karnataka High Court", "court_as_verified": "Karnataka High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "State of Karnataka vs Bengaluru Police Police Constable (PC No. 2545)", "case_number": "W.P. No. 6376/2007 (S)", "citation": null, "judges": [ "B.V. Nagarathna" ], "judgment_date": "2009-10-26", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2009, "incident_date": "1983-01-01", "incident_year": 1983, "category": "Custodial torture", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "custodial_rape_sexual_assault", "subcategory": "custodial_rape_sexual_assault", "subcategory_display": "custodial rape sexual assault", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "IPC 375" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Police Constable (PC No. 2545)", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "Mico Layout Police Station, Bengaluru", "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 (PC No. 2545), Mico Layout Police Station, Bengaluru" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "female", "descriptor": "Bengaluru woman" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "dismissal", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1959223/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The judgment of the Karnataka High Court records the following account. Police Constable (PC No. 2545) of Mico Layout Police Station, Bengaluru, brought a helpless woman to the police station at about 1 a.m. in 1983 and sexually abused her, for which the enquiry officer found the departmental charges proved and he was dismissed on 19 August 1994. His criminal conviction had been set aside by the High Court in Crl.A. No. 154/1986 on benefit of doubt, and the Karnataka Administrative Tribunal ordered reinstatement with full benefits. The High Court held the acquittal was not honourable and the Tribunal erred, allowing the State's writ petition in part. The dismissal was converted to compulsory retirement with terminal benefits but no benefits for the dismissal-to-judgment period. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "Police Constable (PC No. 2545) of Mico Layout Police Station, Bengaluru, brought a helpless woman to the police station at about 1 a.m. in 1983 and sexually abused her, for which the enquiry officer found the departmental charges proved and he was dismissed on 19 August 1994. His criminal conviction had been set aside by the High Court in Crl.A. No. 154/1986 on benefit of doubt, and the Karnataka Administrative Tribunal ordered reinstatement with full benefits. The High Court held the acquittal was not honourable and the Tribunal erred, allowing the State's writ petition in part. The dismissal was converted to compulsory retirement with terminal benefits but no benefits for the dismissal-to-judgment period.", "court_quote": "The order of dismissal imposed by the disciplinary authority is converted to one of compulsory retirement. The respondent shall be entitled to all terminal benefits but shall not be entitled to any benefit for the period from the date of order of dismissal till today.", "court_quote_para": "9", "confidence": "medium", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC judgment verified on IK (OCR degraded); sexual misconduct in custody held proved, dismissal modified to compulsory retirement.", "verification_status": "V2", "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported", "tier_badge": "Externally reported", "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded", "tier_history": [ "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded" ], "allegations": [ { "category": "Custodial torture", "primary": true, "position": "Material fact supported", "position_explainer": "Reliable material supports a specifically documented fact relevant to that allegation, not necessarily the full allegation, causation, intent, unlawfulness, or responsibility.", "official_finding_relation": "supports allegation" } ], "institutional_response": [ { "date": "2009-10-26", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Karnataka High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Karnataka High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "W.P. No. 6376/2007 (S)", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." } ], "later_proceedings": [], "final_outcome_url": null, "followup_history": [ { "date": "2026-09-19", "scope": "Round-8 full re-verification: published record re-checked against the judgment text (outcome, officers, quote, key facts) plus methodology-compliance pass", "method": "skills-guided adversarial re-verification of the published record against the judgment text (reverify/t1-*/adversarial-8.jsonl)", "result": "holds", "corrections_applied": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1959223/", "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-114" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-58-001", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2009-0010", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0188", "alias_merged_ids": [ "CWC-1464" ], "display_title": "Shivamogga Police Police Constable & Others vs State of Karnataka", "display_title_redacted": "Shivamogga Police Police Constable & Others vs State of Karnataka", "state": "Karnataka", "district": "Shivamogga", "district_at_time": "Shimoga", "city_town": "Shivamogga", "police_station_or_unit": "Doddapet Police Station, Shivamogga", "court": "Supreme Court of India", "court_as_verified": "Supreme Court of India", "bench": null, "case_title": "Shivamogga Police Police Constable & Others vs State of Karnataka", "case_number": "Criminal Appeal No. 382 of 2003", "citation": "2010 (3) SCR 883", "judges": [ "Harjit Singh Bedi", "J.M. Panchal" ], "judgment_date": "2009-12-03", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2009, "incident_date": "1988-01-13", "incident_year": 1988, "category": "Custodial death", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "custodial_death", "subcategory": "custodial_death", "subcategory_display": "custodial death", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "conviction_upheld", "sections": [ "IPC 304 Part II", "IPC 324", "IPC 34" ], "officers": [ { "name": "K. H. Shekarappa", "rank": "Police Constable", "unit": "Doddapet Police Station, Shimoga", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "named_safe", "gate_reasons": [], "ledger_role": "convicted", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.05, "jev_p_culpable": 0.95, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": "K. H. Shekarappa", "display": "K. H. Shekarappa (Police Constable)" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Police Constable", "unit": "Doddapet Police Station, Shimoga", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Police Constable, Doddapet Police Station, Shimoga" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Police Constable", "unit": "Doddapet Police Station, Shimoga", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Police Constable, Doddapet Police Station, Shimoga" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Head Constable", "unit": "Doddapet Police Station, Shimoga", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Head Constable, Doddapet Police Station, Shimoga" } ], "officer_count": 8, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Shivamogga man" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Shivamogga man" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Shivamogga man" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Shivamogga man" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Shivamogga man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 5, "sentence_type": "mixed", "sentence_max_years": 1, "compensation_inr": 40000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/88631322/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/68383910/" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Supreme Court of India records the following account. In the early hours of 13 January 1988, Doddapet police picked up five men over a New Year liquor-bar brawl and beat them in the lock-up and verandah — three victims were tied to stone pillars and thrashed with lathis and tyre pieces. A Shivamogga man (24 injuries) and a Shivamogga man (40 injuries) died in the station while a Shivamogga man and others were seriously injured. The trial court convicted the policemen for murder; after a split verdict in the High Court, the third judge convicted under Section 304 Part II with one year's RI. The Supreme Court dismissed the policemen's appeal, holding the deaths were caused by cruel thrashing in custody and the defence of injuries by fall was false, upholding one year's RI plus Rs 5,000 fine each (Rs 40,000 total, payable to the heirs of the two deceased).", "summary_verified": "In the early hours of 13 January 1988, Doddapet police picked up five men over a New Year liquor-bar brawl and beat them in the lock-up and verandah — three victims were tied to stone pillars and thrashed with lathis and tyre pieces. A Shivamogga man (24 injuries) and a Shivamogga man (40 injuries) died in the station while a Shivamogga man and others were seriously injured. The trial court convicted the policemen for murder; after a split verdict in the High Court, the third judge convicted under Section 304 Part II with one year's RI. The Supreme Court dismissed the policemen's appeal, holding the deaths were caused by cruel thrashing in custody and the defence of injuries by fall was false, upholding one year's RI plus Rs 5,000 fine each (Rs 40,000 total, payable to the heirs of the two deceased).", "court_quote": "A fair reading of the testimony of this witness makes it abundantly clear that the appellants had subjected the two deceased to severe beating because of which they had died in the police station. Thus by ocular version the prosecution has proved its case against the appellants beyond reasonable doubt.", "court_quote_para": "16", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Supreme Court dismissed the policemen's appeal and upheld conviction under Section 304 Part II read with Section 34 IPC with one year's rigorous imprisonment and fine for the custodial beating deaths of two detainees.", "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": null, "action_type": "Conviction", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Trial court (as recorded in the Supreme Court of India judgment)", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Supreme Court of India judgment.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation", "source": "2010 (3) SCR 883", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." }, { "date": "2009-12-03", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Supreme Court of India", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Supreme Court of India dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)", "source": "2010 (3) SCR 883", "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/88631322/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/68383910/", "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-05", "chunk-37", "chunk-r04" ], "merged_case_id": "SUPREM-035", "officers_named_public": 1, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2010-0014", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0686", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "The Deputy Commissioner, Dharwad and Others vs Shivakka w/o Aminabhavi Man and Others", "display_title_redacted": "The Deputy Commissioner, Dharwad and Others vs Shivakka w/o Aminabhavi Man and Others", "state": "Karnataka", "district": "Dharwad", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Aminabhavi", "police_station_or_unit": "Dharwad police (custody 27-29 November 2002)", "court": "Karnataka High Court", "court_as_verified": "Karnataka High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "The Deputy Commissioner, Dharwad and Others vs Shivakka w/o Aminabhavi Man and Others", "case_number": "Writ Appeal under Section 4, Karnataka High Court Act (against W.P. No. 20333/2004, 07.12.2006)", "citation": null, "judges": [ "D. V. Shylendra Kumar", "N. Ananda" ], "judgment_date": "2010-04-12", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2010, "incident_date": "2002-11-29", "incident_year": 2002, "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": [], "officers": [], "officer_count": 0, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Aminabhavi man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 300000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/155846966/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The judgment of the Karnataka High Court records the following account. Police took control of an Aminabhavi man of Aminabhavi on the evening of 27 November 2002, rescuing him from a mob assault in which he had been tied to a telephone pole and beaten, and took him to hospital where three injuries were certified. He suffered multiple fractures and died a homicidal death by shock and haemorrhage while in police power and control over 27-29 November 2002. The Single Judge awarded Rs.3 lakh compensation in 2006; the State appealed contending he was never in police custody. The Division Bench held something damaging and disastrous happened to him within the power and control of the police, found no scope to interfere, dismissed the appeal with Rs.10,000 costs, and directed Rs.2 lakh in term deposit with Rs.1 lakh plus interest released to the widow.", "summary_verified": "Police took control of an Aminabhavi man of Aminabhavi on the evening of 27 November 2002, rescuing him from a mob assault in which he had been tied to a telephone pole and beaten, and took him to hospital where three injuries were certified. He suffered multiple fractures and died a homicidal death by shock and haemorrhage while in police power and control over 27-29 November 2002. The Single Judge awarded Rs.3 lakh compensation in 2006; the State appealed contending he was never in police custody. The Division Bench held something damaging and disastrous happened to him within the power and control of the police, found no scope to interfere, dismissed the appeal with Rs.10,000 costs, and directed Rs.2 lakh in term deposit with Rs.1 lakh plus interest released to the widow.", "court_quote": "something damaging, disastrous had happened to deceased [name withheld] while he was within the power and control of the Police", "court_quote_para": null, "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "DB upheld Rs.3 lakh custodial-death award; State appeal dismissed with Rs.10,000 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 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": "2010-04-12", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Karnataka High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Karnataka High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 300,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "Writ Appeal under Section 4, Karnataka High Court Act (against W.P. No. 20333/2004, 07.12.2006)", "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/155846966/", "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-51" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP10-009", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2010-0011", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0194", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Chikkaballapur Man vs A. B. Devaiah & Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "Chikkaballapur Man vs A. B. Devaiah & Ors.", "state": "Karnataka", "district": "Chikkaballapur", "district_at_time": "Kolar", "city_town": "Chikkaballapur", "police_station_or_unit": "Town Police Station, Chikkaballapur", "court": "Karnataka High Court", "court_as_verified": "Karnataka High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Chikkaballapur Man vs A. B. Devaiah & Ors.", "case_number": "Criminal Appeal No. 1455 of 2005", "citation": null, "judges": [], "judgment_date": "2010-10-29", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2010, "incident_date": "1989-01-17", "incident_year": 1989, "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_hc", "sections": [ "IPC 341", "IPC 323", "Probation of Offenders Act 1958 s.4" ], "officers": [ { "name": "A. B. Devaiah", "rank": "Sub-Inspector of Police", "unit": "Town Police Station, Chikkaballapur", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "named_safe", "gate_reasons": [], "ledger_role": "convicted", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.13, "jev_p_culpable": 0.93, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": "A. B. Devaiah", "display": "A. B. Devaiah (Sub-Inspector of Police)" }, { "name": "Byatappa", "rank": "Police Constable", "unit": "Town Police Station, Chikkaballapur", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "named_safe", "gate_reasons": [], "ledger_role": "convicted", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.36, "jev_p_culpable": 0.79, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": "Byatappa", "display": "Byatappa (Police Constable)" }, { "name": "Nagaraj", "rank": "Police Constable", "unit": "Town Police Station, Chikkaballapur", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "named_safe", "gate_reasons": [], "ledger_role": "convicted", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.43, "jev_p_culpable": 0.75, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": "Nagaraj", "display": "Nagaraj (Police Constable)" }, { "name": "Khaleel", "rank": "Police Constable", "unit": "Town Police Station, Chikkaballapur", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "named_safe", "gate_reasons": [], "ledger_role": "convicted", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.45, "jev_p_culpable": 0.68, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": "Khaleel", "display": "Khaleel (Police Constable)" } ], "officer_count": 4, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": 42, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Chikkaballapur man, age 42" } ], "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://indiankanoon.org/doc/1768438/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The judgment of the Karnataka High Court records the following account. On 17 January 1989, complainant [name withheld] arrived at the Chikkaballapur court premises with his advocate and surety to move a bail application in a bailable case, but was apprehended by the Sub-Inspector and three constables, dragged to the police station, assaulted with fists and boots, and subjected to electric shocks. The trial Magistrate acquitted all four policemen in 2005. The Karnataka High Court reversed the acquittal, holding that the complainant had been illegally detained and assaulted despite the offence being bailable. The High Court convicted all four police officers under Sections 341 and 323 IPC, releasing them on probation under Section 4 of the Probation of Offenders Act upon executing good behaviour bonds. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "On 17 January 1989, complainant [name withheld] arrived at the Chikkaballapur court premises with his advocate and surety to move a bail application in a bailable case, but was apprehended by the Sub-Inspector and three constables, dragged to the police station, assaulted with fists and boots, and subjected to electric shocks. The trial Magistrate acquitted all four policemen in 2005. The Karnataka High Court reversed the acquittal, holding that the complainant had been illegally detained and assaulted despite the offence being bailable. The High Court convicted all four police officers under Sections 341 and 323 IPC, releasing them on probation under Section 4 of the Probation of Offenders Act upon executing good behaviour bonds.", "court_quote": "This appeal is allowed. The order of acquittal passed by the learned Magistrate is set aside. The accused 1 to 4 are convicted for the offence under Sec.341 and 323 IPC.", "court_quote_para": "18", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Karnataka HC set aside trial court acquittal and convicted Sub-Inspector and three constables under IPC 341 and 323 for custodial violence.", "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": "2010-10-29", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Karnataka High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Karnataka High Court entered convictions against police personnel in this judgment.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation", "source": "Criminal Appeal No. 1455 of 2005", "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/1768438/", "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-06" ], "merged_case_id": "KARNAT-009", "officers_named_public": 4, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2010-0037", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1228", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "City Armed Reserve Police Ex-Police Constable (PC No. 1709) vs State of Karnataka", "display_title_redacted": "City Armed Reserve Police Ex-Police Constable (PC No. 1709) vs State of Karnataka", "state": "Karnataka", "district": "Bengaluru Urban", "district_at_time": "Bangalore", "city_town": "Bengaluru", "police_station_or_unit": "A Company, City Armed Reserve Police, Bengaluru", "court": "Karnataka High Court", "court_as_verified": "Karnataka High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "City Armed Reserve Police Ex-Police Constable (PC No. 1709) vs State of Karnataka", "case_number": "W.P. No. 21975/2010 (S-KAT)", "citation": null, "judges": [ "N. Kumar", "S.N. Satyanarayana" ], "judgment_date": "2010-11-19", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2010, "incident_date": "2001-03-02", "incident_year": 2001, "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": "Ex-Police Constable (PC No. 1709)", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "A Company, City Armed Reserve Police, Bengaluru", "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": "Ex-Police Constable (PC No. 1709), A Company, City Armed Reserve Police, Bengaluru" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Bengaluru man" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Bengaluru 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/1278004/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The judgment of the Karnataka High Court records the following account. Police Constable (PC No. 1709) of A Company, City Armed Reserve, Bengaluru, abused RSI a Bengaluru man and ASI in foul language on the parade ground on 2 March 2001, assaulting the RSI and attempting to assault a Bengaluru man with a lathi before others intervened. A departmental enquiry found the misconduct proved and he was dismissed, with appeal and revision failing; the Karnataka Administrative Tribunal sustained the misconduct finding but substituted compulsory retirement noting 15+ years of service. He sought reinstatement with back wages under Articles 226/227. The High Court held four fact-finding authorities concurrently found the misconduct proved and the Tribunal's lenient penalty met the ends of justice, dismissing the writ petition. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "Police Constable (PC No. 1709) of A Company, City Armed Reserve, Bengaluru, abused RSI a Bengaluru man and ASI in foul language on the parade ground on 2 March 2001, assaulting the RSI and attempting to assault a Bengaluru man with a lathi before others intervened. A departmental enquiry found the misconduct proved and he was dismissed, with appeal and revision failing; the Karnataka Administrative Tribunal sustained the misconduct finding but substituted compulsory retirement noting 15+ years of service. He sought reinstatement with back wages under Articles 226/227. The High Court held four fact-finding authorities concurrently found the misconduct proved and the Tribunal's lenient penalty met the ends of justice, dismissing the writ petition.", "court_quote": "The Tribunal has rightly held the evidence on record clearly establish the misconduct alleged against the petitioner.", "court_quote_para": "5", "confidence": "medium", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC judgment verified on IK (OCR degraded); assault on superior officers held proved, compulsory retirement sustained.", "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": "2010-11-19", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Karnataka High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Karnataka High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "W.P. No. 21975/2010 (S-KAT)", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." } ], "later_proceedings": [], "final_outcome_url": null, "followup_history": [ { "date": "2026-09-19", "scope": "Round-8 full re-verification: published record re-checked against the judgment text (outcome, officers, quote, key facts) plus methodology-compliance pass", "method": "skills-guided adversarial re-verification of the published record against the judgment text (reverify/t1-*/adversarial-8.jsonl)", "result": "holds", "corrections_applied": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1278004/", "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-114" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-58-002", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2012-0001", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0196", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "S. B. Muniyappa vs The State of Karnataka", "display_title_redacted": "S. B. Muniyappa vs The State of Karnataka", "state": "Karnataka", "district": "Bengaluru Urban", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Bengaluru", "police_station_or_unit": "Vivek Nagar Police Station", "court": "Karnataka High Court", "court_as_verified": "Karnataka High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "S. B. Muniyappa vs The State of Karnataka", "case_number": "Criminal Appeal No. 72 of 2007", "citation": null, "judges": [ "V. Jagannathan" ], "judgment_date": "2012-02-01", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2012, "incident_date": "1998-08-03", "incident_year": 1998, "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": "conviction_upheld", "sections": [ "PC Act 1988 s.7", "PC Act 1988 s.13(1)(d)", "PC Act 1988 s.13(2)" ], "officers": [ { "name": "S. B. Muniyappa", "rank": "Police Sub-Inspector", "unit": "Vivek Nagar Police Station", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "named_safe", "gate_reasons": [], "ledger_role": "convicted", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.27, "jev_p_culpable": 0.86, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": "S. B. Muniyappa", "display": "S. B. Muniyappa (Police Sub-Inspector)" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Bengaluru man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "imprisonment", "sentence_max_years": 1, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/107004510/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The judgment of the Karnataka High Court records the following account. The appellant, S.B. Muniyappa, serving as Police Sub-Inspector at Vivek Nagar Police Station in Bengaluru, demanded a bribe of Rs 1,50,000 and accepted Rs 25,000 from the complainant to settle a cheque bounce dispute without registering a criminal case. Following a trap and investigation, the Special Court convicted him under Sections 7 and 13(1)(d) read with Section 13(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988. The Karnataka High Court dismissed his appeal against conviction, holding that demand and acceptance of illegal gratification were proven beyond reasonable doubt, while modifying the sentence under Section 13(1)(d) to one year rigorous imprisonment to run concurrently with the sentence under Section 7.", "summary_verified": "The appellant, S.B. Muniyappa, serving as Police Sub-Inspector at Vivek Nagar Police Station in Bengaluru, demanded a bribe of Rs 1,50,000 and accepted Rs 25,000 from the complainant to settle a cheque bounce dispute without registering a criminal case. Following a trap and investigation, the Special Court convicted him under Sections 7 and 13(1)(d) read with Section 13(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988. The Karnataka High Court dismissed his appeal against conviction, holding that demand and acceptance of illegal gratification were proven beyond reasonable doubt, while modifying the sentence under Section 13(1)(d) to one year rigorous imprisonment to run concurrently with the sentence under Section 7.", "court_quote": "This appeal is therefore allowed in part to the extent of modification in the sentence as indicated above. The trial court shall take necessary steps to secure the presence of the appellant for him to undergo the sentence.", "court_quote_para": "n/a", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Karnataka HC upheld conviction of Police Sub-Inspector under PC Act Sections 7 and 13(1)(d) r/w 13(2) for bribery, modifying sentence to 1 year RI.", "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": null, "action_type": "Conviction", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Trial court (as recorded in the Karnataka High Court judgment)", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Karnataka High Court judgment.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation", "source": "Criminal Appeal No. 72 of 2007", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." }, { "date": "2012-02-01", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Karnataka High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Karnataka High Court dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)", "source": "Criminal Appeal No. 72 of 2007", "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/107004510/", "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-06" ], "merged_case_id": "KARNAT-011", "officers_named_public": 1, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2012-0006", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0504", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Kalaburagi Police Head Constable v. State of Karnataka", "display_title_redacted": "Kalaburagi Police Head Constable v. State of Karnataka", "state": "Karnataka", "district": "Kalaburagi", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Kalaburagi", "police_station_or_unit": "District Armed Reserve, Gulbarga", "court": "Karnataka High Court", "court_as_verified": "Karnataka High Court", "bench": "Kalaburagi", "case_title": "Kalaburagi Police Head Constable v. State of Karnataka", "case_number": "Criminal Appeal No. 531 of 2007", "citation": "(2013) CriLJ 1040; (2012) ILR Kar 6556", "judges": [ "V. Suri Appa Rao" ], "judgment_date": "2012-04-03", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2012, "incident_date": "2004-08-15", "incident_year": 2004, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "dereliction_evidence_tampering", "subcategory": "dereliction_evidence_tampering", "subcategory_display": "dereliction evidence tampering", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "conviction_upheld", "sections": [ "IPC 221", "IPC 222", "IPC 223" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Head Constable", "role": "convicted", "unit": "District Armed Reserve, Gulbarga (attached to Central Jail)", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:unclear" ], "ledger_role": "unclear", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.08, "jev_p_culpable": 0.92, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Head Constable, District Armed Reserve, Gulbarga (attached to Central Jail)" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 0, "sentence_type": "mixed", "sentence_max_years": 0.5, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/488400/younus-khan-vs-state-of-karnataka/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The High Court confirmed the conviction of Head Constable for intentionally allowing his brother-in-law, convict Rustum Khan, to escape from lawful custody while escorting him from Central Jail Gulbarga to hospital and back, and then omitting to apprehend him. The Court disbelieved the chilly-powder escape story, noting the convict was the appellant's wife's younger brother. The sentences of six months' imprisonment plus Rs.500 fine on each of the three counts (Sections 221, 222 and 223 IPC) were sustained. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The High Court confirmed the conviction of Head Constable for intentionally allowing his brother-in-law, convict Rustum Khan, to escape from lawful custody while escorting him from Central Jail Gulbarga to hospital and back, and then omitting to apprehend him. The Court disbelieved the chilly-powder escape story, noting the convict was the appellant's wife's younger brother. The sentences of six months' imprisonment plus Rs.500 fine on each of the three counts (Sections 221, 222 and 223 IPC) were sustained.", "court_quote": "It appears that the appellant intentionally allowed the convict Rustum Khan to escape from his lawful custody.", "court_quote_para": "12", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC judgment text verified; escort-constable conviction for intentional escape of convict 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": null, "action_type": "Conviction", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Trial court (as recorded in the Karnataka High Court judgment)", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Karnataka High Court judgment.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation", "source": "(2013) CriLJ 1040; (2012) ILR Kar 6556", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." }, { "date": "2012-04-03", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Karnataka High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Karnataka High Court dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)", "source": "(2013) CriLJ 1040; (2012) ILR Kar 6556", "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.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/488400/younus-khan-vs-state-of-karnataka/", "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-39" ], "merged_case_id": "SWDERELI-016", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2012-0031", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0806", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "State by Lokayukta Police vs Malavalli Police Sub-Inspector of Police", "display_title_redacted": "State by Lokayukta Police vs Malavalli Police Sub-Inspector of Police", "state": "Karnataka", "district": "Mandya", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Malavalli", "police_station_or_unit": "Malavalli Rural Police Station, Mandya", "court": "Karnataka High Court", "court_as_verified": "Karnataka High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "State by Lokayukta Police vs Malavalli Police Sub-Inspector of Police", "case_number": "Criminal Appeal No. 1501 of 2007", "citation": null, "judges": [ "V. Jagannathan" ], "judgment_date": "2012-05-30", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2012, "incident_date": "2005-12-03", "incident_year": 2005, "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": "conviction_by_hc", "sections": [ "PC Act 1988 s.7", "PC Act 1988 s.13(1)(d) r/w s.13(2)" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Sub-Inspector of Police", "role": "convicted", "unit": "Malavalli Rural Police Station, Mandya", "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": "Sub-Inspector of Police, Malavalli Rural Police Station, Mandya" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Malavalli man" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": null, "descriptor": "Malavalli resident" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 2, "sentence_type": "mixed", "sentence_max_years": 1, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/61301808/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/92566927/" ], "summary": "The Karnataka High Court (V. Jagannathan J., 30 May 2012) allowed the Lokayukta appeal, set aside the acquittal and convicted Sub-Inspector of Malavalli Rural police station for bribery. The court recorded that he demanded and accepted Rs 1,000 from anticipatory-bail holder a Malavalli man to permit execution of his bail bond, caught in a Lokayukta trap on 3 December 2005. It held the demand and acceptance proved through the complainant, shadow witness, investigating officer and chemical test, calling the trial acquittal perverse and unreasonable. The court imposed 1 year RI plus Rs 5,000 fine under Section 7 and 1 year RI plus Rs 10,000 fine under Section 13(1)(d) r/w 13(2) of the PC Act, to run concurrently. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Karnataka High Court (V. Jagannathan J., 30 May 2012) allowed the Lokayukta appeal, set aside the acquittal and convicted Sub-Inspector of Malavalli Rural police station for bribery. The court recorded that he demanded and accepted Rs 1,000 from anticipatory-bail holder a Malavalli man to permit execution of his bail bond, caught in a Lokayukta trap on 3 December 2005. It held the demand and acceptance proved through the complainant, shadow witness, investigating officer and chemical test, calling the trial acquittal perverse and unreasonable. The court imposed 1 year RI plus Rs 5,000 fine under Section 7 and 1 year RI plus Rs 10,000 fine under Section 13(1)(d) r/w 13(2) of the PC Act, to run concurrently.", "court_quote": "No such doubt arises in the instant case to take such a view of the matter. The finding therefore is perverse and the view taken is also unreasonable.", "court_quote_para": "29", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Acquittal set aside; retired PSI convicted for Rs 1,000 station bribe; 1 yr RI concurrent.", "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": "2012-05-30", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Karnataka High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Karnataka High Court entered convictions against police personnel in this judgment.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation", "source": "Criminal Appeal No. 1501 of 2007", "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/61301808/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/92566927/", "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-62" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-59-005", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2012-0032", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0908", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Konanur Police personnel vs State of Karnataka", "display_title_redacted": "Konanur Police personnel vs State of Karnataka", "state": "Karnataka", "district": "Hassan", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Konanur", "police_station_or_unit": "Konanur Police Station", "court": "Supreme Court of India", "court_as_verified": "Supreme Court of India", "bench": null, "case_title": "Konanur Police personnel vs State of Karnataka", "case_number": "Criminal Appeal No. 1323 of 2007", "citation": "(2012) 8 SCC 527", "judges": [ "A. K. Patnaik", "Madan B. Lokur" ], "judgment_date": "2012-07-31", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2012, "incident_date": "1993-06-28", "incident_year": 1993, "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": "conviction_upheld", "sections": [ "PC Act 1988 s.7", "PC Act 1988 s.13(1)(d) r/w s.13(2)" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": null, "role": "convicted", "unit": "Konanur Police Station, Hassan district", "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 personnel, Konanur Police Station, Hassan district" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "age": null, "gender": "male", "name": null, "descriptor": "Konanur man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "mixed", "sentence_max_years": 0.25, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/158264225/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/667533/syed-ahmed-appellant-hash-state-of-karnataka-respondent/", "https://api.sci.gov.in/jonew/judis/39438.pdf" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Supreme Court of India records the following account. [name withheld], a police officer at Konanur Police Station (Hassan), allegedly demanded illegal gratification from villager a Konanur man to file a charge-sheet on a June 1993 boundary-dispute complaint; the Lokayukta laid a phenolphthalein trap on 28 June 1993 and the hand wash confirmed receipt of tainted notes. The trial court acquitted him on a vengeance-defence theory and minor discrepancies, but the Karnataka High Court reversed the acquittal and convicted him under Sections 7 and 13(1)(d) read with 13(2) of the PC Act with 3 months RI and a Rs 20,000 fine. The Supreme Court held demand and acceptance proved by the complainant and two independent trap witnesses and dismissed the appeal, while leaving the below-minimum sentence undisturbed since the State had not appealed it.", "summary_verified": "[name withheld], a police officer at Konanur Police Station (Hassan), allegedly demanded illegal gratification from villager a Konanur man to file a charge-sheet on a June 1993 boundary-dispute complaint; the Lokayukta laid a phenolphthalein trap on 28 June 1993 and the hand wash confirmed receipt of tainted notes. The trial court acquitted him on a vengeance-defence theory and minor discrepancies, but the Karnataka High Court reversed the acquittal and convicted him under Sections 7 and 13(1)(d) read with 13(2) of the PC Act with 3 months RI and a Rs 20,000 fine. The Supreme Court held demand and acceptance proved by the complainant and two independent trap witnesses and dismissed the appeal, while leaving the below-minimum sentence undisturbed since the State had not appealed it.", "court_quote": "It is while undertaking this exercise that we find from the evidence of the witnesses that there was sufficient evidence of [name withheld] demanding illegal gratification from a Konanur man and receiving and accepting it when given by him.", "court_quote_para": "n/a", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "SC judgment verified on Indian Kanoon; PC Act bribery conviction of police officer upheld, appeal 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": null, "action_type": "Conviction", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Trial court (as recorded in the Supreme Court of India judgment)", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Supreme Court of India judgment.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation", "source": "(2012) 8 SCC 527", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." }, { "date": "2012-07-31", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Supreme Court of India", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Supreme Court of India dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)", "source": "(2012) 8 SCC 527", "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/158264225/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/667533/syed-ahmed-appellant-hash-state-of-karnataka-respondent/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://api.sci.gov.in/jonew/judis/39438.pdf", "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-76" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP2-58-001", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2012-0021", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0687", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Bengaluru Police Armed Police Constable (APC-1140) vs The State of Karnataka and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Bengaluru Police Armed Police Constable (APC-1140) vs The State of Karnataka and Others", "state": "Karnataka", "district": "Bengaluru Urban", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Bengaluru", "police_station_or_unit": "City Armed Reserve (South), Bengaluru", "court": "Karnataka High Court", "court_as_verified": "Karnataka High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Bengaluru Police Armed Police Constable (APC-1140) vs The State of Karnataka and Others", "case_number": "W.P. No. 46400 of 2012 (S-KAT) (against KAT Application No. 5066/2007, 10.07.2012)", "citation": null, "judges": [ "N. K. Patil", "B. S. Indrakala" ], "judgment_date": "2012-12-03", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2012, "incident_date": "2004-08-02", "incident_year": 2004, "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": "Armed Police Constable (APC-1140)", "unit": "City Armed Reserve (South), Bengaluru", "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": "Armed Police Constable (APC-1140), City Armed Reserve (South), Bengaluru" } ], "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/7205702/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The judgment of the Karnataka High Court records the following account. Armed Police Constable of CAR (South), Bengaluru remained unauthorisedly absent from 2 August 2004, admitting 192 days absence before the enquiry officer. The Deputy Commissioner of Police imposed compulsory retirement in June 2005 considering his earlier record of absence in 18 years of service, and the appellate, revisional and KAT orders affirmed the penalty. The Division Bench held the disciplinary authority was justified in imposing compulsory retirement, calling it a lenient view, and found the 192-day absence from an essential service astonishing. Recording concurrent findings of fact, the Court held the penalty not disproportionate and dismissed the writ petition as devoid of merit. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "Armed Police Constable of CAR (South), Bengaluru remained unauthorisedly absent from 2 August 2004, admitting 192 days absence before the enquiry officer. The Deputy Commissioner of Police imposed compulsory retirement in June 2005 considering his earlier record of absence in 18 years of service, and the appellate, revisional and KAT orders affirmed the penalty. The Division Bench held the disciplinary authority was justified in imposing compulsory retirement, calling it a lenient view, and found the 192-day absence from an essential service astonishing. Recording concurrent findings of fact, the Court held the penalty not disproportionate and dismissed the writ petition as devoid of merit.", "court_quote": "justified in imposing penalty of compulsory retirement to the petitioner, which is infact a lenient view", "court_quote_para": "5", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC upheld compulsory retirement of armed constable for 192-day unauthorised absence; service-discipline matter.", "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": "2012-12-03", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Karnataka High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Karnataka High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "W.P. No. 46400 of 2012 (S-KAT) (against KAT Application No. 5066/2007, 10.07.2012)", "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/7205702/", "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-51" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP10-005", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2013-0032", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1230", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Belagavi Police Police Constable vs State of Karnataka", "display_title_redacted": "Belagavi Police Police Constable vs State of Karnataka", "state": "Karnataka", "district": "Belagavi", "district_at_time": "Belgaum", "city_town": null, "police_station_or_unit": "Belgaum Market Police Station", "court": "Karnataka High Court", "court_as_verified": "Karnataka High Court", "bench": "Dharwad", "case_title": "Belagavi Police Police Constable vs State of Karnataka", "case_number": "Writ Petition No. 78358/2013 (S-KAT)", "citation": null, "judges": [ "N. Kumar", "Aravind Kumar" ], "judgment_date": "2013-08-13", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2013, "incident_date": null, "incident_year": null, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "corruption", "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": "Belgaum Market Police Station, Belgaum", "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, Belgaum Market Police Station, Belgaum" } ], "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/62282649/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The judgment of the Karnataka High Court records the following account. Police Constable of Belgaum Market Police Station and two colleagues were charged with stealing KSRTC bus warrants and misappropriating Rs.25,670 with the connivance of Mysore depot bus conductors, leading to his removal from service on 11 March 1999 after an enquiry with 22 witnesses, affirmed on appeal. His challenge before the Karnataka Administrative Tribunal, filed 8.5 years late, was rejected on delay and merits. He contended separate enquiries for supervising officers and discriminatory punishment vitiated the order. The High Court held the inspectors faced only supervision charges justifying censure while proved theft, forgery and misappropriation warranted dismissal, dismissing the writ petition. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "Police Constable of Belgaum Market Police Station and two colleagues were charged with stealing KSRTC bus warrants and misappropriating Rs.25,670 with the connivance of Mysore depot bus conductors, leading to his removal from service on 11 March 1999 after an enquiry with 22 witnesses, affirmed on appeal. His challenge before the Karnataka Administrative Tribunal, filed 8.5 years late, was rejected on delay and merits. He contended separate enquiries for supervising officers and discriminatory punishment vitiated the order. The High Court held the inspectors faced only supervision charges justifying censure while proved theft, forgery and misappropriation warranted dismissal, dismissing the writ petition.", "court_quote": "Therefore, having regard to the nature of mis-conduct proved, the punishment imposed is just and proper.", "court_quote_para": "11", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC judgment verified on IK; removal for bus-warrant theft/forgery/misappropriation upheld as just and proper.", "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": "2013-08-13", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Karnataka High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Karnataka High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "Writ Petition No. 78358/2013 (S-KAT)", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." } ], "later_proceedings": [], "final_outcome_url": null, "followup_history": [ { "date": "2026-09-19", "scope": "Round-8 full re-verification: published record re-checked against the judgment text (outcome, officers, quote, key facts) plus methodology-compliance pass", "method": "skills-guided adversarial re-verification of the published record against the judgment text (reverify/t1-*/adversarial-8.jsonl)", "result": "holds", "corrections_applied": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/62282649/", "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-114" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-59-002", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2013-0014", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0189", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Belagavi Man & Ors. vs The State of Karnataka & Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "Belagavi Man & Ors. vs The State of Karnataka & Ors.", "state": "Karnataka", "district": "Belagavi", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Belagavi", "police_station_or_unit": "District Armed Reserve (DAR), Belagavi (escort party)", "court": "Karnataka High Court", "court_as_verified": "Karnataka High Court", "bench": "Dharwad", "case_title": "Belagavi Man & Ors. vs The State of Karnataka & Ors.", "case_number": "W.P. No. 3401/2008 (GM-Police)", "citation": "2014 (3) AKR 428", "judges": [ "H.N. Nagamohan Das" ], "judgment_date": "2013-10-10", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2013, "incident_date": "2006-11-24", "incident_year": 2006, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation", "sections": [], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Armed Reserve Sub-Inspector (ARSI)", "unit": "District Armed Reserve (DAR), Belagavi (escort party, Central Prison Hindalga)", "role": "unclear", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:unclear", "key2:no", "key2_agy:no", "key2_openrouter:no" ], "ledger_role": "unclear", "key2": "no", "key2_agy": "no", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "no", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.93, "jev_p_culpable": 0.07, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Armed Reserve Sub-Inspector (ARSI), District Armed Reserve (DAR), Belagavi (escort party, Central Prison Hindalga)" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "age": 65, "gender": "male", "name": null, "descriptor": "Belagavi man, age 65" }, { "age": 21, "gender": "male", "name": null, "descriptor": "Belagavi man, age 21" }, { "age": 34, "gender": "male", "name": null, "descriptor": "Belagavi man, age 34" }, { "age": 31, "gender": "male", "name": null, "descriptor": "Belagavi man, age 31" }, { "age": 37, "gender": "male", "name": null, "descriptor": "Belagavi man, age 37" }, { "age": 40, "gender": "male", "name": null, "descriptor": "Belagavi man, age 40" }, { "age": 38, "gender": "male", "name": null, "descriptor": "Belagavi man, age 38" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 7, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 35000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/163383470/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Karnataka High Court, Dharwad Bench (H.N. Nagamohan Das, J.) held that undertrial prisoners in Crime No. 62/2006 were produced before the JMFC, Belagavi, in handcuffs on 24.11.2006 without magisterial permission, in clear violation of the Supreme Court directions in the handcuffing cases. The Court held the admitted handcuffing infringed the petitioners dignity and human rights and directed the State to pay Rs 5,000 to each of the surviving petitioners (Rs 35,000 total), leaving it open to hold an enquiry against escort officer. Petitioner. 2 died during pendency and the petition abated as to him. The memo lists eight petitioners, so seven survivors receive compensation. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Karnataka High Court, Dharwad Bench (H.N. Nagamohan Das, J.) held that undertrial prisoners in Crime No. 62/2006 were produced before the JMFC, Belagavi, in handcuffs on 24.11.2006 without magisterial permission, in clear violation of the Supreme Court directions in the handcuffing cases. The Court held the admitted handcuffing infringed the petitioners dignity and human rights and directed the State to pay Rs 5,000 to each of the surviving petitioners (Rs 35,000 total), leaving it open to hold an enquiry against escort officer. Petitioner. 2 died during pendency and the petition abated as to him. The memo lists eight petitioners, so seven survivors receive compensation.", "court_quote": "The fact that the respondents brought the petitioners from the jail to the Court in handcuff is in clear violation of the directions issued by the Supreme Court", "court_quote_para": "7", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Verified; corrected survivors to 7 named and subcategory to other (unlawful handcuffing).", "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": "2013-10-10", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Karnataka High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Karnataka High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 35,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "2014 (3) AKR 428", "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/163383470/", "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-05", "chunk-r04" ], "merged_case_id": "KARNAT-004", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2013-0037", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1232", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Belagavi Police Police Constable and others vs State of Karnataka", "display_title_redacted": "Belagavi Police Police Constable and others vs State of Karnataka", "state": "Karnataka", "district": "Belagavi", "district_at_time": "Belgaum", "city_town": "Belagavi", "police_station_or_unit": "Belgaum Market Police Station", "court": "Karnataka High Court", "court_as_verified": "Karnataka High Court", "bench": "Dharwad", "case_title": "Belagavi Police Police Constable and others vs State of Karnataka", "case_number": "Writ Petition Nos. 70837/2012 (S-KAT) c/w 71237/2012 (S-KAT)", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Dilip B. Bhosale", "B. Manohar" ], "judgment_date": "2013-11-12", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2013, "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": [ "Karnataka State Police (Disciplinary Proceedings) Rules Rule 6 (major penalty)" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Police Constable", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "Belgaum Market Police Station, Belgaum District Unit", "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, Belgaum Market Police Station, Belgaum District Unit" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Police Constable", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "Belgaum Market Police Station, Belgaum District Unit", "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, Belgaum Market Police Station, Belgaum District Unit" } ], "officer_count": 2, "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/160500680/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The judgment of the Karnataka High Court records the following account. While posted at Belgaum Market Police Station, constables and [name withheld] stole KSRTC bus warrants from the station, forged the officer's signature on them, and encashed them in collusion with a bus conductor, misappropriating Rs.25,670. A departmental inquiry examining 22 witnesses held the charges proved, and both constables were removed from service, which the KAT confirmed. The Karnataka High Court (Dharwad Bench) held no joint inquiry with the censured supervising inspectors was required since the charges differed, found the penalty proportionate, and dismissed both writ petitions. The court ruled the criminal acquittal was no ground to unsettle the disciplinary findings; no compensation was ordered. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "While posted at Belgaum Market Police Station, constables and [name withheld] stole KSRTC bus warrants from the station, forged the officer's signature on them, and encashed them in collusion with a bus conductor, misappropriating Rs.25,670. A departmental inquiry examining 22 witnesses held the charges proved, and both constables were removed from service, which the KAT confirmed. The Karnataka High Court (Dharwad Bench) held no joint inquiry with the censured supervising inspectors was required since the charges differed, found the penalty proportionate, and dismissed both writ petitions. The court ruled the criminal acquittal was no ground to unsettle the disciplinary findings; no compensation was ordered.", "court_quote": "The petitioners being Police Constables and public servants have to maintain integrity and purity in their life and safeguard the life and property of the person and society. Being the members of disciplined force they themselves have involved in the theft, forgery as well as misappropriation.", "court_quote_para": "6", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC judgment verified on Indian Kanoon; removal of two constables for bus-warrant theft, forgery and misappropriation 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": "2013-11-12", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Karnataka High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Karnataka High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "Writ Petition Nos. 70837/2012 (S-KAT) c/w 71237/2012 (S-KAT)", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." } ], "later_proceedings": [], "final_outcome_url": null, "followup_history": [ { "date": "2026-09-19", "scope": "Round-8 full re-verification: published record re-checked against the judgment text (outcome, officers, quote, key facts) plus methodology-compliance pass", "method": "skills-guided adversarial re-verification of the published record against the judgment text (reverify/t1-*/adversarial-8.jsonl)", "result": "holds", "corrections_applied": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/160500680/", "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-115" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-59-004", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2014-0023", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1229", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Hukkeri Police Police Constable (Buckle No. 507) vs State of Karnataka", "display_title_redacted": "Hukkeri Police Police Constable (Buckle No. 507) vs State of Karnataka", "state": "Karnataka", "district": "Belagavi", "district_at_time": "Belgaum", "city_town": "Hukkeri", "police_station_or_unit": "Hukkeri Police Station", "court": "Karnataka High Court", "court_as_verified": "Karnataka High Court", "bench": "Dharwad", "case_title": "Hukkeri Police Police Constable (Buckle No. 507) vs State of Karnataka", "case_number": "Criminal Appeal No. 2889/2011", "citation": null, "judges": [ "K.N. Phaneendra" ], "judgment_date": "2014-03-14", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2014, "incident_date": "2007-05-12", "incident_year": 2007, "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": "conviction_upheld", "sections": [ "PC Act 1988 s.13(1)(d) r/w s.13(2)" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Police Constable (Buckle No. 507)", "role": "convicted", "unit": "Hukkeri Police Station, Belgaum", "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 (Buckle No. 507), Hukkeri Police Station, Belgaum" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": null, "descriptor": "Hukkeri resident" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "mixed", "sentence_max_years": 2, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/144071803/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The judgment of the Karnataka High Court records the following account. Police Constable (Buckle No. 507) of Hukkeri Police Station demanded Rs.500 from villager a Hukkeri resident in May 2007 to not harass him over a land-dispute compromise, threatening lock-up, and was caught in a Lokayukta trap with phenolphthalein-smeared notes and a positive hand wash. The Special Judge, Belgaum, convicted him under Sections 7 and 13(1)(d) r/w 13(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act on 26 November 2011. The High Court held receiving illegal remuneration he was not entitled to attracted Section 13(1)(d)(i) though no official favour was pending, and rejected the sanction challenge. It set aside the Section 7 conviction but confirmed the 2-year RI plus Rs.3,000 fine under Section 13(1)(d), directing surrender. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "Police Constable (Buckle No. 507) of Hukkeri Police Station demanded Rs.500 from villager a Hukkeri resident in May 2007 to not harass him over a land-dispute compromise, threatening lock-up, and was caught in a Lokayukta trap with phenolphthalein-smeared notes and a positive hand wash. The Special Judge, Belgaum, convicted him under Sections 7 and 13(1)(d) r/w 13(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act on 26 November 2011. The High Court held receiving illegal remuneration he was not entitled to attracted Section 13(1)(d)(i) though no official favour was pending, and rejected the sanction challenge. It set aside the Section 7 conviction but confirmed the 2-year RI plus Rs.3,000 fine under Section 13(1)(d), directing surrender.", "court_quote": "Therefore, looking to the above facts and circumstances of the case and also the evidence relied upon by the prosecution though the official favour was not in existence to be shown in favour of the complainant by the accused, nevertheless, the accused who was not entitled for any money from the complainant, he has received the said illegal remuneration from the complainant and thereby the Section 13(1)(d)(i) is definitely attracted.", "court_quote_para": "34", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC judgment verified on IK; PC Act s.13(1)(d) bribery conviction of constable confirmed (s.7 set aside), surrender ordered.", "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": null, "action_type": "Conviction", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Trial court (as recorded in the Karnataka High Court judgment)", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Karnataka High Court judgment.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation", "source": "Criminal Appeal No. 2889/2011", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." }, { "date": "2014-03-14", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Karnataka High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Karnataka High Court dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)", "source": "Criminal Appeal No. 2889/2011", "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/144071803/", "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-114" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-59-001", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2014-0024", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1231", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Pavagada Police Police Constable vs The Director General and Inspector General of Police and Another", "display_title_redacted": "Pavagada Police Police Constable vs The Director General and Inspector General of Police and Another", "state": "Karnataka", "district": "Tumakuru", "district_at_time": "Tumkur", "city_town": "Pavagada", "police_station_or_unit": "Pavagada Police Station", "court": "Karnataka High Court", "court_as_verified": "Karnataka High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Pavagada Police Police Constable vs The Director General and Inspector General of Police and Another", "case_number": "Writ Petition No. 29152 of 2010 (S-KAT)", "citation": null, "judges": [ "K.L. Manjunath", "Ravi Malimath" ], "judgment_date": "2014-03-20", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2014, "incident_date": "1987-02-15", "incident_year": 1987, "category": "Custodial torture", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "custodial_torture", "subcategory": "custodial_torture", "subcategory_display": "custodial torture", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "Karnataka State Police (Disciplinary Proceedings) Rules 1965 Rule 6(2) r/w Rule 8" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Police Constable", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "Pavagada police, Tumkur district", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "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, Pavagada police, Tumkur district" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "age": null, "gender": "female", "name": null, "descriptor": "Pavagada woman" }, { "age": null, "gender": "male", "name": null, "descriptor": "Pavagada man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 2, "sentence_type": "dismissal", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/38508783/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The judgment of the Karnataka High Court records the following account. On the night of 15 February 1987, a woman and her husband who had missed their bus in Pavagada town were stopped by three drunken police constables including [name withheld], abused and assaulted, then taken by jeep to the police station where they were inhumanly beaten and the woman was sexually humiliated. A commission of inquiry indicted the police, and a joint disciplinary proceeding held the grave-misconduct charge proved against [name withheld], leading to his removal from service. The Karnataka High Court credited the direct evidence of both victims, rejected pleas of discrimination, disproportionality and reliance on a technical criminal-trial acquittal, and dismissed the writ petition. The court sustained the removal from service; no compensation was ordered. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "On the night of 15 February 1987, a woman and her husband who had missed their bus in Pavagada town were stopped by three drunken police constables including [name withheld], abused and assaulted, then taken by jeep to the police station where they were inhumanly beaten and the woman was sexually humiliated. A commission of inquiry indicted the police, and a joint disciplinary proceeding held the grave-misconduct charge proved against [name withheld], leading to his removal from service. The Karnataka High Court credited the direct evidence of both victims, rejected pleas of discrimination, disproportionality and reliance on a technical criminal-trial acquittal, and dismissed the writ petition. The court sustained the removal from service; no compensation was ordered.", "court_quote": "Charge no.2 was held proved to the effect that the petitioner and two others assaulted [survivor] and her husband and poked at her private parts with their sticks and kicked them with the boots and thus committed grave misconduct.", "court_quote_para": "10", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC judgment verified on Indian Kanoon; removal of constable for custodial assault and sexual humiliation upheld.", "verification_status": "V2", "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported", "tier_badge": "Externally reported", "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded", "tier_history": [ "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded" ], "allegations": [ { "category": "Custodial torture", "primary": true, "position": "Material fact supported", "position_explainer": "Reliable material supports a specifically documented fact relevant to that allegation, not necessarily the full allegation, causation, intent, unlawfulness, or responsibility.", "official_finding_relation": "supports allegation" } ], "institutional_response": [ { "date": "2014-03-20", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Karnataka High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Karnataka High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "Writ Petition No. 29152 of 2010 (S-KAT)", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." } ], "later_proceedings": [], "final_outcome_url": null, "followup_history": [ { "date": "2026-09-19", "scope": "Round-8 full re-verification: published record re-checked against the judgment text (outcome, officers, quote, key facts) plus methodology-compliance pass", "method": "skills-guided adversarial re-verification of the published record against the judgment text (reverify/t1-*/adversarial-8.jsonl)", "result": "holds", "corrections_applied": [ "court_quote" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/38508783/", "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-115" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-59-003", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2014-0039", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0807", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Mandya Police Police Constable (CPC 383) vs The Inspector General of Police (South Zone) & Anr.", "display_title_redacted": "Mandya Police Police Constable (CPC 383) vs The Inspector General of Police (South Zone) & Anr.", "state": "Karnataka", "district": "Mandya", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Mandya", "police_station_or_unit": "Mandya West Police Station", "court": "Karnataka High Court", "court_as_verified": "Karnataka High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Mandya Police Police Constable (CPC 383) vs The Inspector General of Police (South Zone) & Anr.", "case_number": "Writ Petition No. 9279/2012 (S-KAT)", "citation": "(2015) 2 AKR 783 : (2015) 2 KarLJ 49 : (2015) LabIC 2682", "judges": [ "N. K. Patil", "Rathnakala" ], "judgment_date": "2014-12-18", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2014, "incident_date": "1996-08-06", "incident_year": 1996, "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 (CPC 383)", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "Mandya West Police Station", "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 (CPC 383), Mandya West Police Station" } ], "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.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/525136/narasimha-rao-s-appellant-hash-the-inspector-general-of-police-respondent/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://sooperkanoon.com/case/1173262/s-narasimha-rao-vs-inspector-general" ], "summary": "The Karnataka High Court Division Bench (N.K. Patil and Rathnakala JJ., 18 December 2014) dismissed the writ of Police Constable and confirmed his compulsory retirement. The court recorded that he remained absent without authorisation from 6 August 1996 and faced a second charge of theft of two-wheelers, though acquitted in the criminal trial. It held the departmental inquiry complied with the KSP (DP) Rules with full opportunity to contest, and that the criminal acquittal did not help in disciplinary proceedings. The court found compulsory retirement with service benefits commensurate with the proved charges. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Karnataka High Court Division Bench (N.K. Patil and Rathnakala JJ., 18 December 2014) dismissed the writ of Police Constable and confirmed his compulsory retirement. The court recorded that he remained absent without authorisation from 6 August 1996 and faced a second charge of theft of two-wheelers, though acquitted in the criminal trial. It held the departmental inquiry complied with the KSP (DP) Rules with full opportunity to contest, and that the criminal acquittal did not help in disciplinary proceedings. The court found compulsory retirement with service benefits commensurate with the proved charges.", "court_quote": "In our considered opinion also, his compulsory retirement from service with all the service benefits, commensurates with the gravity of the charges proved.", "court_quote_para": "12", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Writ dismissed; compulsory retirement for prolonged absence and theft charge confirmed.", "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": "2014-12-18", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Karnataka High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Karnataka High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "(2015) 2 AKR 783 : (2015) 2 KarLJ 49 : (2015) LabIC 2682", "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.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/525136/narasimha-rao-s-appellant-hash-the-inspector-general-of-police-respondent/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://sooperkanoon.com/case/1173262/s-narasimha-rao-vs-inspector-general", "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-62" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP2-27-001", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2015-0014", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0688", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Mysuru Police Police Constable and others vs The State of Karnataka", "display_title_redacted": "Mysuru Police Police Constable and others vs The State of Karnataka", "state": "Karnataka", "district": "Mysuru", "district_at_time": "Mysore", "city_town": "Mysuru", "police_station_or_unit": "Nazarbad Police Station, Mysuru", "court": "Karnataka High Court", "court_as_verified": "Karnataka High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Mysuru Police Police Constable and others vs The State of Karnataka", "case_number": "Criminal Appeal No. 520/2010 (against S.C. No. 174/2005, FTC-IV Mysore, 30.04.2010)", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Budihal R. B." ], "judgment_date": "2015-03-27", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2015, "incident_date": "2005-01-01", "incident_year": 2005, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "conviction_upheld", "sections": [ "IPC 324" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Police Constable", "unit": "DAR, Mysore", "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, DAR, Mysore" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Mysuru man" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "female", "descriptor": "Mysuru woman" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Mysuru man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 3, "sentence_type": null, "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/199576609/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The judgment of the Karnataka High Court records the following account. On the midnight of 1 January 2002 a quarrel near police quarters in Jyothinagar, Mysore, allegedly sparked by bursting crackers after 11 p.m., led to [name withheld], a DAR police constable, and his son assaulting neighbours with a reaper patti and a wicket; a case and counter-case were registered at Nazarbad Police Station. The Fast Track Court-IV, Mysore convicted both appellants under Section 324 IPC in 2010. Justice Budihal R.B. held the trial court's view was neither perverse nor capricious, confirmed the conviction and dismissed the appeal, finding the accused in the connected appeal were the aggressors. Accepting that accused No.1 was a first-offender government servant, the Court maintained his conviction but released him on probation of good conduct after admonition, directing the conviction should not affect his service. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The judgment of the Karnataka High Court records the following account. On the midnight of 1 January 2002 a quarrel near police quarters in Jyothinagar, Mysore, allegedly sparked by bursting crackers after 11 p.m., led to [name withheld], a DAR police constable, and his son assaulting neighbours with a reaper patti and a wicket; a case and counter-case were registered at Nazarbad Police Station. The Fast Track Court-IV, Mysore convicted both appellants under Section 324 IPC in 2010. Justice Budihal R.B. held the trial court's view was neither perverse nor capricious, confirmed the conviction and dismissed the appeal, finding the accused in the connected appeal were the aggressors. Accepting that accused No.1 was a first-offender government servant, the Court maintained his conviction but released him on probation of good conduct after admonition, directing the conviction should not affect his service. The police version is not recorded in the cited text.", "court_quote": "There are no valid and justifiable grounds for this Court to interfere into the judgment and order of conviction passed by the Trial Court and the same is hereby confirmed.", "court_quote_para": "24", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC confirmed s.324 IPC conviction of police constable but substituted fine with probation (off-duty quarrel).", "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": null, "action_type": "Conviction", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Trial court (as recorded in the Karnataka High Court judgment)", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Karnataka High Court judgment.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation", "source": "Criminal Appeal No. 520/2010 (against S.C. 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Minerals trader [name withheld] complained that Circle Inspector demanded Rs.1,00,000 as bribe for non-interference in his mines business, and the officer was caught red-handed in a Lokayukta trap. The Special Court at Chitradurga convicted him under Sections 7 and 13(1)(d) read with 13(2) of the PC Act, sentencing him to 3 and 5 years' simple imprisonment with fines. The Karnataka High Court held the demand and acceptance proved beyond reasonable doubt, rejected the jurisdictional objection to the Bengaluru Lokayukta police, and confirmed the conviction. The court reduced the sentence on health grounds to 1 year plus Rs.15,000 fine (s.7) and 2 years plus Rs.75,000 fine (s.13), concurrent. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "Minerals trader [name withheld] complained that Circle Inspector demanded Rs.1,00,000 as bribe for non-interference in his mines business, and the officer was caught red-handed in a Lokayukta trap. The Special Court at Chitradurga convicted him under Sections 7 and 13(1)(d) read with 13(2) of the PC Act, sentencing him to 3 and 5 years' simple imprisonment with fines. The Karnataka High Court held the demand and acceptance proved beyond reasonable doubt, rejected the jurisdictional objection to the Bengaluru Lokayukta police, and confirmed the conviction. The court reduced the sentence on health grounds to 1 year plus Rs.15,000 fine (s.7) and 2 years plus Rs.75,000 fine (s.13), concurrent.", "court_quote": "From all angles, the guilt of the accused in demanding and receiving of bribe of Rs.1,00,000/- is established and the learned trial Judge was right in finding the accused guilty of having committed the offence punishable under Sections 7, 13(1)(d) read with 13(2) of the P.C. Act, 1988.", "court_quote_para": "80", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC judgment verified on Indian Kanoon; PC Act bribery conviction of Circle Inspector confirmed, sentence reduced.", "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": null, "action_type": "Conviction", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Trial court (as recorded in the Karnataka High Court judgment)", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Karnataka High Court judgment.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation", "source": "Criminal Appeal No. 1360 of 2010", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." }, { "date": "2018-08-03", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Karnataka High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Karnataka High Court dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)", "source": "Criminal Appeal No. 1360 of 2010", "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": [ "officers" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/31961812/", "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-115" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-61-002", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2019-0009", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0198", "alias_merged_ids": [ "CWC-1483" ], "display_title": "[name withheld] vs The Commandant, Second Regiment, Karnataka State Reserve Police & Anr.", "display_title_redacted": "[name withheld] vs The Commandant, Second Regiment, Karnataka State Reserve Police & Anr.", "state": "Karnataka", "district": "Belagavi", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Belagavi", "police_station_or_unit": "Second Regiment, Karnataka State Reserve Police", "court": "Karnataka High Court", "court_as_verified": "Karnataka High Court", "bench": "Dharwad", "case_title": "[name withheld] vs The Commandant, Second Regiment, Karnataka State Reserve Police & Anr.", "case_number": "WP No. 104315/2018 (S-KAT)", "citation": null, "judges": [ "S. N. Satyanarayana", "P. G. M. Patil" ], "judgment_date": "2019-09-26", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2019, "incident_date": "2001-10-01", "incident_year": 2001, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "Constitution of India Art. 226", "Constitution of India Art. 227", "IPC 307", "IPC 109", "IPC 120B", "IPC 34", "Arms Act 1959 s.3", "Arms Act 1959 s.25(1)(b)(a)", "Arms Act 1959 s.28", "Arms Act 1959 s.29" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Police Constable", "unit": "Second Regiment, Karnataka State Reserve Police", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:unclear" ], "ledger_role": "unclear", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.17, "jev_p_culpable": 0.78, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Police Constable, Second Regiment, Karnataka State Reserve 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/157499296/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.livelaw.in/news-updates/karnataka-hc-upholds-dismissal-of-ksrp-constable-despite-his-acquittal-in-criminal-case-148872", "https://www.thenewsminute.com/karnataka/employee-cant-seek-benefit-acquittal-disciplinary-authority-karnataka-hc-110553" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Karnataka High Court records the following account. Petitioner [name withheld], a constable in the Second Regiment of the Karnataka State Reserve Police (KSRP) at Belagavi, was dismissed from service in November 2003 following a departmental enquiry into gross misconduct arising from his arrest in Crime No. 78/2001 for attempt to murder and Arms Act offences. After being acquitted in the criminal trial (S.C. No. 126/2003) in 2005, he challenged his dismissal before the Karnataka State Administrative Tribunal and subsequently before the High Court. The Dharwad Bench of the Karnataka High Court dismissed his writ petition and upheld the dismissal from service, holding that departmental proceedings operate under different standards of proof from criminal trials and that an acquittal recorded long after conclusion of disciplinary proceedings does not vitiate the penalty. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "Petitioner [name withheld], a constable in the Second Regiment of the Karnataka State Reserve Police (KSRP) at Belagavi, was dismissed from service in November 2003 following a departmental enquiry into gross misconduct arising from his arrest in Crime No. 78/2001 for attempt to murder and Arms Act offences. After being acquitted in the criminal trial (S.C. No. 126/2003) in 2005, he challenged his dismissal before the Karnataka State Administrative Tribunal and subsequently before the High Court. The Dharwad Bench of the Karnataka High Court dismissed his writ petition and upheld the dismissal from service, holding that departmental proceedings operate under different standards of proof from criminal trials and that an acquittal recorded long after conclusion of disciplinary proceedings does not vitiate the penalty.", "court_quote": "Under these circumstances, we are of the considered opinion that there are no grounds to interfere with the impugned order passed by the KSAT in application No.2960/2005. Therefore, the petition being devoid of merits is liable to be dismissed. Accordingly, it is dismissed.", "court_quote_para": "17", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Karnataka HC upheld dismissal of KSRP police constable for misconduct despite subsequent criminal trial acquittal.", "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": "2019-09-26", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Karnataka High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Karnataka High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "WP No. 104315/2018 (S-KAT)", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." } ], "later_proceedings": [], "final_outcome_url": null, "followup_history": [ { "date": "2026-09-19", "scope": "Round-8 full re-verification: published record re-checked against the judgment text (outcome, officers, quote, key facts) plus methodology-compliance pass", "method": "skills-guided adversarial re-verification of the published record against the judgment text (reverify/t1-*/adversarial-8.jsonl)", "result": "holds", "corrections_applied": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/157499296/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/news-updates/karnataka-hc-upholds-dismissal-of-ksrp-constable-despite-his-acquittal-in-criminal-case-148872", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.thenewsminute.com/karnataka/employee-cant-seek-benefit-acquittal-disciplinary-authority-karnataka-hc-110553", "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-06", "chunk-46" ], "merged_case_id": "KARNAT-013", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2019-0018", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0689", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Bhalki Man vs The State of Maharashtra and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Bhalki Man vs The State of Maharashtra and Others", "state": "Karnataka", "district": "Bidar", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Bhalki", "police_station_or_unit": "Bhalki (Rural) Police Station, Bidar, Karnataka", "court": "Bombay High Court", "court_as_verified": "Bombay High Court", "bench": "Aurangabad", "case_title": "Bhalki Man vs The State of Maharashtra and Others", "case_number": "Criminal Writ Petition No. 1778 of 2018", "citation": null, "judges": [ "T.V. Nalawade", "K.K. Sonawane" ], "judgment_date": "2019-10-17", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2019, "incident_date": "2018-10-14", "incident_year": 2018, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "brutality", "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": "Circle Police Inspector", "unit": "Bidar, Karnataka", "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": "Circle Police Inspector, Bidar, Karnataka" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Police", "unit": "Bhalki (Rural) Police Station, Bidar", "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, Bhalki (Rural) Police Station, Bidar" } ], "officer_count": 2, "victims": [ { "age": null, "gender": "male", "name": null, "descriptor": "Bhalki man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 50000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/62360503/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The judgment of the Bombay High Court (Aurangabad Bench) records the following account. The petitioner, a Pardhi-community woman of Jintur (Parbhani, Maharashtra), alleged her husband, a farmer, was picked up without stated reason by Karnataka police from Parbhani railway station on 14 October 2018 along with his car, gold ornaments and cash, kept at Bhalki (Rural) police station till 24 October 2018, and subjected to third-degree torture. The Bhalki police replied that he was picked up at Parbhani only on 23 October 2018 in Crime No.18 of 2018, produced before the Bhalki Circle Inspector that night and formally arrested on 24 October 2018, denying torture or seizure of valuables. The Court held that even on the police's own case the detention from 23 October 2018 till production before the Bhalki Magistrate on 24 October 2018 was illegal and unauthorised, called the 14-October version also probable, allowed the petition, and directed the Karnataka respondents to pay Rs.50,000 compensation within 45 days (8% interest on default). It sent copies to both State governments, expected departmental inquiry and action, and permitted recovery from the officers concerned. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The judgment of the Bombay High Court (Aurangabad Bench) records the following account. The petitioner, a Pardhi-community woman of Jintur (Parbhani, Maharashtra), alleged her husband, a farmer, was picked up without stated reason by Karnataka police from Parbhani railway station on 14 October 2018 along with his car, gold ornaments and cash, kept at Bhalki (Rural) police station till 24 October 2018, and subjected to third-degree torture. The Bhalki police replied that he was picked up at Parbhani only on 23 October 2018 in Crime No.18 of 2018, produced before the Bhalki Circle Inspector that night and formally arrested on 24 October 2018, denying torture or seizure of valuables. The Court held that even on the police's own case the detention from 23 October 2018 till production before the Bhalki Magistrate on 24 October 2018 was illegal and unauthorised, called the 14-October version also probable, allowed the petition, and directed the Karnataka respondents to pay Rs.50,000 compensation within 45 days (8% interest on default). It sent copies to both State governments, expected departmental inquiry and action, and permitted recovery from the officers concerned.", "court_quote": "The Karnataka police (Respondent Nos.4 to 6) are hereby directed to pay compensation of Rs.50,000/- (Rupees Fifty Thousand Only) to the husband of Petitioner.", "court_quote_para": "Order II", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC judgment verified; 10-day inter-state detention by Karnataka police held illegal, Rs. 50,000 awarded.", "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": "2019-10-17", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Bombay High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Bombay High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 50,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "Criminal Writ Petition No. 1778 of 2018", "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", "summary" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/62360503/", "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-49" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP4-008", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2021-0011", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0690", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Bidar Police Civil Police Constable (CPC 1100) vs The Superintendent of Police, Bidar and Another", "display_title_redacted": "Bidar Police Civil Police Constable (CPC 1100) vs The Superintendent of Police, Bidar and Another", "state": "Karnataka", "district": "Bidar", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Bidar", "police_station_or_unit": "Janavada Police Station, Bidar", "court": "Karnataka High Court", "court_as_verified": "Karnataka High Court", "bench": "Kalaburagi", "case_title": "Bidar Police Civil Police Constable (CPC 1100) vs The Superintendent of Police, Bidar and Another", "case_number": "Writ Petition No. 200927/2021 (S-KAT) (against KSAT Application No. 4115/2008, 24.07.2018)", "citation": null, "judges": [ "S. G. Pandit", "M. G. S. Kamal" ], "judgment_date": "2021-06-30", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2021, "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": [ "Karnataka Civil Services (Conduct) Rules 1966 r.28" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Civil Police Constable (CPC 1100)", "unit": "Janavada Police Station, Bidar", "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": "Civil Police Constable (CPC 1100), Janavada Police Station, Bidar" } ], "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/194416707/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The judgment of the Karnataka High Court records the following account. Civil Police Constable, who joined in 1992 and served at Janavada Police Station, Bidar, faced a charge memo dated 7 August 2005 alleging he contracted a second marriage with Farzana Begum while his first wife [name withheld] was living, violating Rule 28 of the Karnataka Civil Services (Conduct) Rules, 1966. The disciplinary authority removed him from service in January 2007; the appellate authority modified the penalty to compulsory retirement in April 2007, and the KSAT dismissed his application in 2018. The Division Bench found no infirmity or illegality by the respondents or the KSAT, noting compulsory retirement is the prescribed penalty for second marriage, and dismissed the writ petition as devoid of merits. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "Civil Police Constable, who joined in 1992 and served at Janavada Police Station, Bidar, faced a charge memo dated 7 August 2005 alleging he contracted a second marriage with Farzana Begum while his first wife [name withheld] was living, violating Rule 28 of the Karnataka Civil Services (Conduct) Rules, 1966. The disciplinary authority removed him from service in January 2007; the appellate authority modified the penalty to compulsory retirement in April 2007, and the KSAT dismissed his application in 2018. The Division Bench found no infirmity or illegality by the respondents or the KSAT, noting compulsory retirement is the prescribed penalty for second marriage, and dismissed the writ petition as devoid of merits.", "court_quote": "we do not find any infirmity or illegality having been committed either by the respondents or by the KSAT", "court_quote_para": "12", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC upheld compulsory retirement of constable for bigamy; service-discipline matter, no civilian victim.", "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 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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/194416707/", "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-51" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP10-004", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2022-0009", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0192", "alias_merged_ids": [ "CWC-1466" ], "display_title": "Chikodi Man vs The State of Karnataka & Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "Chikodi Man vs The State of Karnataka & Ors.", "state": "Karnataka", "district": "Belagavi", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Chikodi", "police_station_or_unit": "Ankali Police Station", "court": "Karnataka High Court", "court_as_verified": "Karnataka High Court", "bench": "Dharwad", "case_title": "Chikodi Man vs The State of Karnataka & Ors.", "case_number": "Writ Petition No. 115362 of 2019 (GM-Police)", "citation": "2022 SCC OnLine Kar 1121", "judges": [ "Suraj Govindaraj" ], "judgment_date": "2022-06-10", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2022, "incident_date": "2019-04-10", "incident_year": 2019, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "brutality", "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. 226", "CrPC s.46", "CrPC s.49" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Police Sub-Inspector", "unit": "Ankali Police Station", "role": "named_only", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no", "key2_openrouter:unclear" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": "no", "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "unclear", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Police Sub-Inspector, Ankali Police Station" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Police Sub-Inspector", "unit": "Chikodi Police Station", "role": "named_only", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no", "key2_openrouter:unclear" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": "no", "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "unclear", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Police Sub-Inspector, Chikodi Police Station" } ], "officer_count": 2, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": 30, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Chikodi man, age 30" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 200000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/144592799/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.livelaw.in/news-updates/karnataka-high-court-body-cameras-handcuffing-guidelines-accused-201502", "https://www.scconline.com/blog/post/2022/07/06/karnataka-high-court-grants-compensation-to-a-law-student-who-was-arrested-and-handcuffed/", "https://www.barandbench.com/news/litigation/arrested-accused-undertrial-prisoner-can-be-handcuffed-only-in-extreme-circumstances-after-recording-reasons-karnataka-high-court", "https://www.livelaw.in/amp/news-updates/karnataka-high-court-handcuffing-accused-extreme-circumstance-guidelines-compensation-202583" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Karnataka High Court records the following account. The petitioner, a 30-year-old law student, was arrested pursuant to a non-bailable warrant in a cheque bounce case, handcuffed without justification, paraded in Ankali market place, and transported in a public KSRTC bus in handcuffs. The Dharwad Bench of the Karnataka High Court held that routine handcuffing without recorded reasons violates Article 21 and Supreme Court precedents in Prem Shankar Shukla and Sunil Batra. The High Court awarded Rs 2,00,000 compensation to the petitioner with liberty to the State to recover it from the delinquent officers, and issued statewide mandatory directions on handcuffing, video conferencing, and body-worn cameras for arresting officers. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The petitioner, a 30-year-old law student, was arrested pursuant to a non-bailable warrant in a cheque bounce case, handcuffed without justification, paraded in Ankali market place, and transported in a public KSRTC bus in handcuffs. The Dharwad Bench of the Karnataka High Court held that routine handcuffing without recorded reasons violates Article 21 and Supreme Court precedents in Prem Shankar Shukla and Sunil Batra. The High Court awarded Rs 2,00,000 compensation to the petitioner with liberty to the State to recover it from the delinquent officers, and issued statewide mandatory directions on handcuffing, video conferencing, and body-worn cameras for arresting officers.", "court_quote": "In the present case, there being no justification which has been provided by the respondents for handcuffing the petitioner since neither any objections are filed nor is any affidavit filed by the Arresting Officer.", "court_quote_para": "13.5", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Karnataka HC held illegal handcuffing and public parading of accused violated Art 21, awarded Rs 2 lakh compensation, and directed recovery from delinquent officers.", "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": "2022-06-10", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Karnataka High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Karnataka High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 200,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "2022 SCC OnLine Kar 1121", "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/144592799/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/news-updates/karnataka-high-court-body-cameras-handcuffing-guidelines-accused-201502", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.scconline.com/blog/post/2022/07/06/karnataka-high-court-grants-compensation-to-a-law-student-who-was-arrested-and-handcuffed/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.barandbench.com/news/litigation/arrested-accused-undertrial-prisoner-can-be-handcuffed-only-in-extreme-circumstances-after-recording-reasons-karnataka-high-court", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/amp/news-updates/karnataka-high-court-handcuffing-accused-extreme-circumstance-guidelines-compensation-202583", "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-06", "chunk-32", "chunk-40" ], "merged_case_id": "SWDISPRO-008", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2022-0010", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0481", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "CISF Constable and others v. 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null, "rank": "Constable", "unit": "CISF unit, BRBNMPL, Mysuru", "role": "unclear", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:unclear" ], "ledger_role": "unclear", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.86, "jev_p_culpable": 0.4, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Constable, CISF unit, BRBNMPL, Mysuru" } ], "officer_count": 8, "victims": [ { "age": null, "gender": "female", "name": null, "descriptor": "Mysuru woman" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "dismissal", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "central_armed", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/28837634/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.livelaw.in/news-updates/karnataka-high-court-cisf-constables-dismissal-from-service-sexual-harassment-202028" ], "summary": "add: appellants were acquitted in the criminal trial but the Division Bench held (para 23) criminal acquittal does not vitiate the disciplinary finding of misconduct; date range of incidents per complaint is March-June 2015, not only May-June. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "add: appellants were acquitted in the criminal trial but the Division Bench held (para 23) criminal acquittal does not vitiate the disciplinary finding of misconduct; date range of incidents per complaint is March-June 2015, not only May-June", "court_quote": "In view of preceding analysis, we do not find any merit in this appeal, the same fails and is hereby dismissed.", "court_quote_para": null, "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC dismissed writ appeal; dismissal of 8 CISF constables 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": "2022-06-15", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Karnataka High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Karnataka High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "W.A. 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Ltd. (in liquidation)", "display_title_redacted": "Sri Bengaluru Man vs Official Liquidator of M/s India Holiday (Pvt.) Ltd. (in liquidation)", "state": "Karnataka", "district": "Bengaluru Urban", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Bengaluru", "police_station_or_unit": null, "court": "Karnataka High Court", "court_as_verified": "Karnataka High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Sri Bengaluru Man vs Official Liquidator of M/s India Holiday (Pvt.) Ltd. (in liquidation)", "case_number": "Company Application No. 96 of 2022 in Company Petition No. 26 of 2008", "citation": "2022 SCC OnLine Kar 1162", "judges": [ "Suraj Govindaraj" ], "judgment_date": "2022-07-07", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2022, "incident_date": null, "incident_year": 2022, "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", "Companies (Court) Rules 1959 r.6", "Companies (Court) Rules 1959 r.9" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Police Officer", "unit": null, "role": "named_only", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no", "key2_openrouter:unclear" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": "no", "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "unclear", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Police Officer" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": 56, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Bengaluru man, age 56" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 500000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/55329810/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.livelaw.in/news-updates/karnataka-high-court-5-lakh-compensation-innocent-person-arrested-warrant-sop-dgp-203507" ], "summary": "The Karnataka High Court awarded Rs 5,00,000 compensation to a 56-year-old man who was wrongfully arrested by police under a company court warrant issued against an ex-director of a company in liquidation, solely because the applicant shared a similar father's name. Despite the applicant's explicit protests that he was not the person named in the warrant, the police failed to verify his identity. The court held that arresting an innocent person without identity verification violates Article 21, directed the State to pay compensation with liberty to recover from the arresting officers, and ordered the DGP Karnataka to frame SOP guidelines and train arresting officers on identity verification. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Karnataka High Court awarded Rs 5,00,000 compensation to a 56-year-old man who was wrongfully arrested by police under a company court warrant issued against an ex-director of a company in liquidation, solely because the applicant shared a similar father's name. Despite the applicant's explicit protests that he was not the person named in the warrant, the police failed to verify his identity. The court held that arresting an innocent person without identity verification violates Article 21, directed the State to pay compensation with liberty to recover from the arresting officers, and ordered the DGP Karnataka to frame SOP guidelines and train arresting officers on identity verification.", "court_quote": "It is rather shocking that a person has been arrested without ascertaining whether he was the person who was required to be arrested and that the warrant had been issued against him. Though the arrestee had disputed that he was the person named in the warrant and the applicability of the warrant to him, his identification was not cross-checked and verified resulting an innocent person being arrested.", "court_quote_para": "2", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Karnataka HC awarded Rs 5 lakh compensation for illegal arrest of wrong person on warrant without identity verification, with liberty to recover from arresting police officers.", "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": "2022-07-07", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Karnataka High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Karnataka High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 500,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "2022 SCC OnLine Kar 1162", "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/55329810/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/news-updates/karnataka-high-court-5-lakh-compensation-innocent-person-arrested-warrant-sop-dgp-203507", "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-06" ], "merged_case_id": "SWILLEGA-018", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2023-0002", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0191", "alias_merged_ids": [ "CWC-1465" ], "display_title": "Belthangady Man v. State of Karnataka and others", "display_title_redacted": "Belthangady Man v. State of Karnataka and others", "state": "Karnataka", "district": "Dakshina Kannada", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Belthangady", "police_station_or_unit": "Punjalkatte Police Station", "court": "Karnataka High Court", "court_as_verified": "Karnataka High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Belthangady Man v. State of Karnataka and others", "case_number": "Writ Petition No. 24832 of 2022 (GM-POLICE)", "citation": null, "judges": [ "M. Nagaprasanna" ], "judgment_date": "2023-01-19", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2023, "incident_date": "2022-12-02", "incident_year": 2022, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "brutality", "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. 226", "Constitution Art. 21", "CrPC s.41", "CrPC s.41A" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Sub-Inspector of Police", "unit": "Punjalkatte Police Station", "role": "named_only", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2:no", "key2_openrouter:unclear" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "no", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "unclear", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": "no", "jev_risk": 0.57, "jev_p_culpable": 0.39, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Sub-Inspector of Police, Punjalkatte Police Station" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": 23, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Belthangady man, age 23" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 300000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/advocate-454997.pdf", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.barandbench.com/news/litigation/karnataka-high-court-orders-3-lakh-compensation-grossly-illegal-arrest-assault-advocate-police", "https://www.livelaw.in/news-updates/karnataka-high-court-directs-state-govt-to-pay-3-lakh-to-advocate-arrested-illegally-by-police-219658", "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/12477038/" ], "summary": "Advocate Kuldeep (23) of Puthila village, Belthangady, who held a civil-court injunction protecting his road access, was dragged from his home on 2 December 2022 when the Sub-Inspector caught him by the neck, dragged and booted him to Punjalkatte station, registering Crime 94/2022 (Sections 447/379 IPC) only afterwards. The bail court recorded the assault and ill-treatment during arrest, and the advocate's 9 December 2022 complaint against the officers was registered as Crime 1/2023 only after the High Court's intervention. The High Court held the arrest grossly illegal and violative of Arnesh Kumar safeguards, awarded Rs 3,00,000 compensation payable within two weeks, and ordered a departmental enquiry against the SI and his cohorts with recovery of compensation from the guilty officers' salaries. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "Advocate Kuldeep (23) of Puthila village, Belthangady, who held a civil-court injunction protecting his road access, was dragged from his home on 2 December 2022 when the Sub-Inspector caught him by the neck, dragged and booted him to Punjalkatte station, registering Crime 94/2022 (Sections 447/379 IPC) only afterwards. The bail court recorded the assault and ill-treatment during arrest, and the advocate's 9 December 2022 complaint against the officers was registered as Crime 1/2023 only after the High Court's intervention. The High Court held the arrest grossly illegal and violative of Arnesh Kumar safeguards, awarded Rs 3,00,000 compensation payable within two weeks, and ordered a departmental enquiry against the SI and his cohorts with recovery of compensation from the guilty officers' salaries.", "court_quote": "The arrest of the petitioner is held to be illegal in view of the preceding analysis and contrary to the guidelines issued by the Apex Court in the case of ARNESH KUMAR, the petitioner becomes entitled to compensation to be paid by the State which is assessed at Rs.3,00,000/-.", "court_quote_para": "18", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC judgment text verified from judgment PDF; arrest held illegal, Rs 3 lakh compensation with DE ordered.", "verification_status": "V2", "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported", "tier_badge": "Externally reported", "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded", "tier_history": [ "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded" ], "allegations": [ { "category": "Other", "primary": true, "position": "Material fact supported", "position_explainer": "Reliable material supports a specifically documented fact relevant to that allegation, not necessarily the full allegation, causation, intent, unlawfulness, or responsibility.", "official_finding_relation": "supports allegation" } ], "institutional_response": [ { "date": "2023-01-19", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Karnataka High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Karnataka High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 300,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "Writ Petition No. 24832 of 2022 (GM-POLICE)", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." } ], "later_proceedings": [], "final_outcome_url": null, "followup_history": [], "followup_status": "never_checked", "last_checked": null, "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/advocate-454997.pdf", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.barandbench.com/news/litigation/karnataka-high-court-orders-3-lakh-compensation-grossly-illegal-arrest-assault-advocate-police", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/news-updates/karnataka-high-court-directs-state-govt-to-pay-3-lakh-to-advocate-arrested-illegally-by-police-219658", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/12477038/", "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-06", "chunk-40", "chunk-45" ], "merged_case_id": "SWDISPRO-021", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2024-0028", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0691", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Bengaluru Police Police Head Constable (HC-126) vs The State of Karnataka and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Bengaluru Police Police Head Constable (HC-126) vs The State of Karnataka and Others", "state": "Karnataka", "district": "Bengaluru Urban", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Bengaluru", "police_station_or_unit": "1st Battalion, KSRP", "court": "Karnataka High Court", "court_as_verified": "Karnataka High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Bengaluru Police Police Head Constable (HC-126) vs The State of Karnataka and Others", "case_number": "Writ Petition No. 31065 of 2019 (S), NC: 2024:KHC:35037-DB (against KSAT Application No. 7479/2010, 28.02.2019)", "citation": null, "judges": [ "S. G. Pandit", "C. M. Poonacha" ], "judgment_date": "2024-08-30", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2024, "incident_date": "2006-03-12", "incident_year": 2006, "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 Head Constable (HC-126)", "unit": "1st Battalion, KSRP", "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 Head Constable (HC-126), 1st Battalion, KSRP" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 0, "sentence_type": null, "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/159226099/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The judgment of the Karnataka High Court records the following account. KSRP Head Constable contracted a first marriage in 1999 and a second marriage with Nagarathna on 12 March 2006 while the first subsisted, without divorce (obtained later in 2007) or government permission. The enquiry proved the charge on the first wife's evidence plus the kalyana mantap receipt and invitation card. The Commandant dismissed him; the appellate authority substituted reduction of pay to the minimum of the PC scale for five years, affirmed in revision and by the KSAT. The Division Bench held the bigamy charge proved on preponderance of probabilities, ruled acquittal in the Section 498A criminal case immaterial, noted the 2001 circular prescribes compulsory retirement so the pay-cut was lenient, and rejected the writ petition as without merit. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "KSRP Head Constable contracted a first marriage in 1999 and a second marriage with Nagarathna on 12 March 2006 while the first subsisted, without divorce (obtained later in 2007) or government permission. The enquiry proved the charge on the first wife's evidence plus the kalyana mantap receipt and invitation card. The Commandant dismissed him; the appellate authority substituted reduction of pay to the minimum of the PC scale for five years, affirmed in revision and by the KSAT. The Division Bench held the bigamy charge proved on preponderance of probabilities, ruled acquittal in the Section 498A criminal case immaterial, noted the 2001 circular prescribes compulsory retirement so the pay-cut was lenient, and rejected the writ petition as without merit.", "court_quote": "We do not find any merit in the writ petition and accordingly writ petition stands rejected.", "court_quote_para": "13", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC upheld pay-cut penalty for KSRP constable's bigamy; service-discipline matter, no civilian victim.", "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": "2024-08-30", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Karnataka High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Karnataka High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "Writ Petition No. 31065 of 2019 (S), NC: 2024:KHC:35037-DB (against KSAT Application No. 7479/2010, 28.02.2019)", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." } ], "later_proceedings": [], "final_outcome_url": null, "followup_history": [ { "date": "2026-09-19", "scope": "Round-8 full re-verification: published record re-checked against the judgment text (outcome, officers, quote, key facts) plus methodology-compliance pass", "method": "skills-guided adversarial re-verification of the published record against the judgment text (reverify/t1-*/adversarial-8.jsonl)", "result": "holds", "corrections_applied": [ "court_quote_para" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/159226099/", "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-51" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP10-006", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2025-0031", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0692", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Bengaluru Police Head Constable vs The State of Karnataka", "display_title_redacted": "Bengaluru Police Head Constable vs The State of Karnataka", "state": "Karnataka", "district": "Bengaluru Urban", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Bengaluru", "police_station_or_unit": "Bagalagunte Police Station, Bengaluru", "court": "Karnataka High Court", "court_as_verified": "Karnataka High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Bengaluru Police Head Constable vs The State of Karnataka", "case_number": "Criminal Appeal No. 1562/2021 (against Spl.C.C. No. 383/2018, Special Judge (PC Act), Bengaluru, 29.09.2021)", "citation": null, "judges": [ "H. P. Sandesh" ], "judgment_date": "2025-05-02", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2025, "incident_date": "2017-07-15", "incident_year": 2017, "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": "conviction_upheld", "sections": [ "PC Act s.8", "PC Act s.13(1)(d) r/w 13(2)" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Head Constable", "unit": "Bagalagunte Police Station, Bengaluru", "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": "Head Constable, Bagalagunte Police Station, Bengaluru" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": null, "descriptor": "Bengaluru resident" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "imprisonment", "sentence_max_years": 4, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/47081662/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The judgment of the Karnataka High Court records the following account. Head Constable of Bagalagunte Police Station demanded Rs.20,000, settled at Rs.10,000, from an accused in Crime No.238/2017 to compromise the matter, receiving Rs.1,000 on 30 June 2017. The complainant recorded the conversation and approached the ACB, which laid a trap on 15 July 2017 in which the accused pocketed marked notes and both hand washes turned pink. The Special Court convicted him in 2021, imposing 3 years RI with Rs.50,000 fine under Section 8 and 4 years RI with Rs.50,000 fine under Section 13(1)(d) read with 13(2) of the PC Act. Justice Sandesh dismissed the appeal, holding demand and acceptance proved through the complainant, panch and trap witnesses, call records and the FSL voice-comparison report, with minor discrepancies not shaking the prosecution case.", "summary_verified": "Head Constable of Bagalagunte Police Station demanded Rs.20,000, settled at Rs.10,000, from an accused in Crime No.238/2017 to compromise the matter, receiving Rs.1,000 on 30 June 2017. The complainant recorded the conversation and approached the ACB, which laid a trap on 15 July 2017 in which the accused pocketed marked notes and both hand washes turned pink. The Special Court convicted him in 2021, imposing 3 years RI with Rs.50,000 fine under Section 8 and 4 years RI with Rs.50,000 fine under Section 13(1)(d) read with 13(2) of the PC Act. Justice Sandesh dismissed the appeal, holding demand and acceptance proved through the complainant, panch and trap witnesses, call records and the FSL voice-comparison report, with minor discrepancies not shaking the prosecution case.", "court_quote": "there is a material with regard to the demand and acceptance and the same is also spoken by P.W.2, P.W.4 and P.W.6", "court_quote_para": "46", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC dismissed appeal; ACB-trap bribery conviction of head constable (3+4 years RI) confirmed.", "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": null, "action_type": "Conviction", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Trial court (as recorded in the Karnataka High Court judgment)", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Karnataka High Court judgment.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation", "source": "Criminal Appeal No. 1562/2021 (against Spl.C.C. No. 383/2018, Special Judge (PC Act), Bengaluru, 29.09.2021)", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." }, { "date": "2025-05-02", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Karnataka High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Karnataka High Court dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)", "source": "Criminal Appeal No. 1562/2021 (against Spl.C.C. No. 383/2018, Special Judge (PC Act), Bengaluru, 29.09.2021)", "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/47081662/", "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-51" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP10-003", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2025-0062", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1342", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Dakshina Kannada Man vs State Of Karnataka", "display_title_redacted": "Dakshina Kannada Man vs State Of Karnataka", "state": "Karnataka", "district": "Dakshina Kannada", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": null, "police_station_or_unit": "Dharmasthala Police Station, Bantwal Division", "court": "High Court of Karnataka at Bengaluru", "court_as_verified": "High Court of Karnataka at Bengaluru", "bench": null, "case_title": "Dakshina Kannada Man vs State Of Karnataka", "case_number": "WP No. 11260 of 2025 (GM-POLICE)", "citation": null, "judges": [ "M. Nagaprasanna" ], "judgment_date": "2025-09-09", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2025, "incident_date": "2022-12-17", "incident_year": 2022, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "dereliction_evidence_tampering", "subcategory": "dereliction_evidence_tampering", "subcategory_display": "dereliction evidence tampering", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "adverse_finding", "sections": [ "Sections 302, 323, 392 r/w 34 IPC", "Sections 3(2)(v) and 3(2)(va) of SC/ST (POA) Act" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Deputy Superintendent of Police", "role": "named_in_finding", "unit": "Bantwal Division, Dakshina Kannada", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "name_public": null, "display": "Deputy Superintendent of Police, Bantwal Division, Dakshina Kannada" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Deputy Superintendent of Police", "role": "named_in_finding", "unit": "DCRB, S.P. Office, Dakshina Kannada, Mangalore", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "name_public": null, "display": "Deputy Superintendent of Police, DCRB, S.P. Office, Dakshina Kannada, Mangalore" } ], "officer_count": 2, "victims": [ { "name": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Dakshina Kannada man" }, { "name": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Dakshina Kannada man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 2, "sentence_type": null, "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/155259619/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The High Court allowed the writ petition holding the investigation in Crime No.91 of 2022 (Dharmasthala) was absolutely shoddy and directed re-investigation by a Special Investigation Team to be constituted within 4 weeks, to file its final report within 4 months, staying further proceedings in Special Case No.60 of 2023 till then.", "summary_verified": "The High Court allowed the writ petition holding the investigation in Crime No.91 of 2022 (Dharmasthala) was absolutely shoddy and directed re-investigation by a Special Investigation Team to be constituted within 4 weeks, to file its final report within 4 months, staying further proceedings in Special Case No.60 of 2023 till then.", "court_quote": "what would unmistakably emerge is, absolute shoddy investigation.", "court_quote_para": "Judgment reasoning", "confidence": "medium", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "summary names two officers in violation of no-names rule; court_quote is petitioner's representation extracted at pages 14-15 ('at para 13 to 16 has passed strictures'), not the judge's own words; summary falsely claims reinvestigation by CID and departmental inquiry ordered - operative order constitutes Special Investigation Team (SIT), expressly not CBI/CID, with no departmental direction in closing directions", "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": "2025-09-09", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "High Court of Karnataka at Bengaluru", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The High Court of Karnataka at Bengaluru recorded adverse findings against police personnel.", "disposition": "adverse finding compensation", "source": "WP No. 11260 of 2025 (GM-POLICE)", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." } ], "later_proceedings": [], "final_outcome_url": null, "followup_history": [ { "date": "2026-09-24", "scope": "Swarm scout and independent verification pass (Muse Spark)." } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-24", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/155259619/", "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": [ "swarm-verify-cop-ka-hc" ], "merged_case_id": "cop-ka-hc-2", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2026-0005", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0195", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Bengaluru Woman vs The State of Karnataka & Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "Bengaluru Woman vs The State of Karnataka & Ors.", "state": "Karnataka", "district": "Bengaluru Urban", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Bengaluru", "police_station_or_unit": "Gangammana Gudi Police Station", "court": "Karnataka High Court", "court_as_verified": "Karnataka High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Bengaluru Woman vs The State of Karnataka & Ors.", "case_number": "W.P.H.C. No. 113/2025", "citation": "2026:KHC:3951-DB", "judges": [ "Anu Sivaraman", "Vijaykumar A. Patil" ], "judgment_date": "2026-01-23", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2026, "incident_date": "2025-10-14", "incident_year": 2025, "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. 226", "CrPC s.41", "CrPC s.57", "CrPC s.167" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Police Sub-Inspector", "unit": "Gangammana Gudi Police Station", "role": "named_only", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2:no", "key2_agy:no", "key2_union:no", "key2_openrouter:no" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "no", "key2_agy": "no", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "no", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "no", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.73, "jev_p_culpable": 0.19, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Police Sub-Inspector, Gangammana Gudi Police Station" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Police Inspector", "unit": "Gangammana Gudi Police Station", "role": "named_only", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no", "key2_agy:no", "key2_union:unclear", "key2_openrouter:no" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": "no", "key2_agy": "no", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "unclear", "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "no", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Police Inspector, Gangammana Gudi Police Station" } ], "officer_count": 2, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Bengaluru man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 200000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/116434690/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "In a habeas corpus petition filed by the wife of the detenue, the Karnataka High Court found that the detenue, a Bengaluru man, was illegally picked up and detained in custody at Gangammana Gudi Police Station from 14 October 2025 before an FIR was registered. The Division Bench declared the pre-FIR detention unlawful and violative of the constitutional safeguards under Article 21 and the statutory arrest procedures. The court ordered the State to pay Rs 2,00,000 in compensation along with Rs 50,000 in costs to the petitioner, granting liberty to recover the sums from the delinquent police officers following a departmental enquiry. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "In a habeas corpus petition filed by the wife of the detenue, the Karnataka High Court found that the detenue, a Bengaluru man, was illegally picked up and detained in custody at Gangammana Gudi Police Station from 14 October 2025 before an FIR was registered. The Division Bench declared the pre-FIR detention unlawful and violative of the constitutional safeguards under Article 21 and the statutory arrest procedures. The court ordered the State to pay Rs 2,00,000 in compensation along with Rs 50,000 in costs to the petitioner, granting liberty to recover the sums from the delinquent police officers following a departmental enquiry.", "court_quote": "It is declared that the arrest of the husband of the petitioner (detenue) from 14.10.2025 till the filing of the first information report is illegal and contrary to the procedure of arrest.", "court_quote_para": "16", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Karnataka HC Division Bench held pre-FIR detention of petitioner husband illegal, awarded Rs 2 lakh compensation plus Rs 50,000 costs with recovery from erring officers.", "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": "2026-01-23", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Karnataka High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Karnataka High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 200,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "2026:KHC:3951-DB", "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", "court_quote_para" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/116434690/", "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-06" ], "merged_case_id": "KARNAT-010", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2026-0046", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0808", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "State of Karnataka & Ors. vs Munirabad Police Police Head Constable", "display_title_redacted": "State of Karnataka & Ors. vs Munirabad Police Police Head Constable", "state": "Karnataka", "district": "Koppal", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Munirabad", "police_station_or_unit": "Indian Reserve Battalion / Special Reserve Force, Munirabad", "court": "Karnataka High Court", "court_as_verified": "Karnataka High Court", "bench": "Dharwad", "case_title": "State of Karnataka & Ors. vs Munirabad Police Police Head Constable", "case_number": "Writ Petition No. 106139 of 2024 (S-KAT)", "citation": "2026:KHC-D:2846-DB", "judges": [ "M. I. Arun", "B. Muralidhara Pai" ], "judgment_date": "2026-02-23", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2026, "incident_date": "2017-01-11", "incident_year": 2017, "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 Head Constable", "unit": "Special Reserve Force (disciplinary authority: Commandant, Indian Reserve Battalion, Munirabad)", "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 Head Constable, Special Reserve Force (disciplinary authority: Commandant, Indian Reserve Battalion, Munirabad)" } ], "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/162113100/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Karnataka High Court Division Bench at Dharwad (M.I. Arun and B. Muralidhara Pai JJ., 23 February 2026) allowed the State writ, set aside the KAT relief and sustained the compulsory retirement of Head Constable. The court recorded his admitted continuous absence from 11 January 2017 to 15 March 2022, over five years, attributed only to matrimonial discord and depression. It held such long absence must be treated as wilful, that unauthorised absence in a disciplined force must be viewed very seriously, and that compulsory retirement rather than dismissal was just, fair and reasonable. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Karnataka High Court Division Bench at Dharwad (M.I. Arun and B. Muralidhara Pai JJ., 23 February 2026) allowed the State writ, set aside the KAT relief and sustained the compulsory retirement of Head Constable. The court recorded his admitted continuous absence from 11 January 2017 to 15 March 2022, over five years, attributed only to matrimonial discord and depression. It held such long absence must be treated as wilful, that unauthorised absence in a disciplined force must be viewed very seriously, and that compulsory retirement rather than dismissal was just, fair and reasonable.", "court_quote": "the fact that he was continuously absent from 11.01.2017 to 15.03.2022 i.e., for a period of more than five years, has to be considered as willful absence.", "court_quote_para": "13", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "State's writ allowed; Tribunal relief set aside; compulsory retirement for 5+ years absence sustained.", "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": "2026-02-23", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Karnataka High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Karnataka High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "2026:KHC-D:2846-DB", "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": [ "officers" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/162113100/", "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-62" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP2-28-001", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2026-0029", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0600", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Kutta Man v. State of Karnataka and Another", "display_title_redacted": "Kutta Man v. State of Karnataka and Another", "state": "Karnataka", "district": "Kodagu", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Kutta", "police_station_or_unit": "Kutta Police Station", "court": "Karnataka High Court", "court_as_verified": "Karnataka High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Kutta Man v. State of Karnataka and Another", "case_number": "CRL.P No. 7712 of 2026", "citation": "2026 LiveLaw (Kar) 248", "judges": [ "M. Nagaprasanna" ], "judgment_date": "2026-07-15", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2026, "incident_date": "2026-04-19", "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_compensation", "sections": [ "BNS 64(1)", "BNS 238", "BNS 239", "BNS 351", "BNS 3(5)" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Arresting / Investigating Officer(s)", "role": "named_only", "unit": "Kutta Police Station, Kodagu", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:named_only", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": "named_only", "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": "Arresting / Investigating Officer(s), Kutta Police Station, Kodagu" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "age": 55, "gender": "male", "name": null, "descriptor": "Kutta man, age 55" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 500000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/2026/07/15/kahc0103716320261-686997.pdf", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/karnataka-high-court/illegal-arrest-5-lakh-compensation-kodagu-homestay-owner-us-tourist-rape-541365", "https://www.barandbench.com/news/litigation/karnataka-hc-orders-5-lakh-compensation-to-coorg-homestay-owner-illegally-arrested-for-not-reporting-rape-of-tourist", "https://www.livelaw.in/top-stories/supreme-court-refuses-interfere-compensation-awarded-illegal-arrest-kodagu-homestay-case-551569" ], "summary": "The Karnataka High Court held that a Kodagu homestay owner's arrest by Kutta Police in April 2026, in a case over the alleged rape of a foreign guest, was illegal: the offences alleged against him personally were non-cognizable, he was not present when the alleged offence occurred, and the arrest did not comply with the safeguards in Arnesh Kumar and Sections 41/41A. He had been held for 13 days before bail. The High Court declined to quash the FIR but ordered the State to pay him Rs. 5,00,000 as compensation. On 22.09.2026 the Supreme Court dismissed the State of Karnataka's special leave petition against that order.", "summary_verified": "The Karnataka High Court held that a Kodagu homestay owner's arrest by Kutta Police in April 2026, in a case over the alleged rape of a foreign guest, was illegal: the offences alleged against him personally were non-cognizable, he was not present when the alleged offence occurred, and the arrest did not comply with the safeguards in Arnesh Kumar and Sections 41/41A. He had been held for 13 days before bail. The High Court declined to quash the FIR but ordered the State to pay him Rs. 5,00,000 as compensation. On 22.09.2026 the Supreme Court dismissed the State of Karnataka's special leave petition against that order.", "court_quote": "In the case at hand, in view of the preceding analysis, the arrest of the petitioner is held to be manifestly illegal and in patent violation of the guidelines laid down by the Apex Court in ARNESH KUMAR supra. The inevitable legal consequence of such a finding is that the petitioner becomes entitled to compensation payable by the State for the unlawful invasion of his liberty and dignity. This Court deems it appropriate to assess such compensation at ₹5,00,000/-, to be paid by the State to the petitioner.", "court_quote_para": "21", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Primary order verified: arrest declared illegal; Rs.5 lakh compensation; FIR quash refused.", "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": "2026-07-15", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Karnataka High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Karnataka High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 500,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "2026 LiveLaw (Kar) 248", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." } ], "later_proceedings": [ { "court": "Supreme Court of India", "date": "2026-09-22", "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/2026/09/23/51123202622374625order22-sep-2026-702080.pdf", "outcome": "dismissed" } ], "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", "court_quote", "court_quote_para" ] }, { "date": "2026-09-25", "scope": "Later proceedings: Supreme Court order of 22.09.2026 in SLP (Crl.) No. 16734/2026 read; summary rewritten from the High Court findings (the previous text was a verifier note)." } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-25", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/2026/07/15/kahc0103716320261-686997.pdf", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/karnataka-high-court/illegal-arrest-5-lakh-compensation-kodagu-homestay-owner-us-tourist-rape-541365", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.barandbench.com/news/litigation/karnataka-hc-orders-5-lakh-compensation-to-coorg-homestay-owner-illegally-arrested-for-not-reporting-rape-of-tourist", "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-44" ], "merged_case_id": "SWILLEGA-021", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2026-0034", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0598", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Bengaluru Man and Another v. R. Shruthi and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Bengaluru Man and Another v. R. Shruthi and Others", "state": "Karnataka", "district": "Bengaluru Urban", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Bengaluru", "police_station_or_unit": "Vidyaranyapura Police Station", "court": "Karnataka High Court", "court_as_verified": "Karnataka High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Bengaluru Man and Another v. R. Shruthi and Others", "case_number": "WP No. 30608 of 2015 (GM-POLICE)", "citation": "2026:KHC:40856", "judges": [ "Suraj Govindaraj" ], "judgment_date": "2026-08-04", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2026, "incident_date": "2014-08-16", "incident_year": 2014, "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": [ "CrPC 41", "CrPC 41A", "CrPC 438(3)", "Passports Act 1967" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Inspector of Police", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "Vidyaranyapura Police Station, Bengaluru", "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, Vidyaranyapura Police Station, Bengaluru" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "age": 68, "gender": "male", "name": null, "descriptor": "Bengaluru man, age 68" }, { "age": 31, "gender": "male", "name": null, "descriptor": "Bengaluru man, age 31" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 2, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 900000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://thebarbulletin.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/P-Javara-Setty-vs-R-Shruthi.pdf", "secondary_sources": [ "https://thebarbulletin.com/karnataka-hc-compensation-illegal-arrest-anticipatory-bail/", "https://lawtrend.in/karnataka-high-court-mandates-14-day-inquiry-before-matrimonial-dispute-arrests/", "https://shoebhakim.com/karnataka-high-court-matrimonial-disputes-arrest-guidelines-2026-adv-shoeb-hakim/" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Karnataka High Court records the following account. A Bengaluru man, protected by a subsisting anticipatory-bail order in a matrimonial complaint, was apprehended at Bengaluru airport on 16-08-2014 on a Look Out Circular, handed to the Vidyaranyapura Inspector, detained despite producing the bail order, and had his passport seized. The court held the LOC, arrest, detention and passport seizure illegal and violative of Sections 41, 41-A and 438(3) CrPC, the Passports Act and Article 21. It ordered the Commissioner of Police to pay Rs. 5 lakh to petitioner. 2 and Rs. 4 lakh to petitioner. 1 within twelve weeks, with liberty to recover from the Inspector after hearing. It also directed reconsideration of departmental action against the Inspector and statewide circulation of arrest safeguards for matrimonial disputes. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "A Bengaluru man, protected by a subsisting anticipatory-bail order in a matrimonial complaint, was apprehended at Bengaluru airport on 16-08-2014 on a Look Out Circular, handed to the Vidyaranyapura Inspector, detained despite producing the bail order, and had his passport seized. The court held the LOC, arrest, detention and passport seizure illegal and violative of Sections 41, 41-A and 438(3) CrPC, the Passports Act and Article 21. It ordered the Commissioner of Police to pay Rs. 5 lakh to petitioner. 2 and Rs. 4 lakh to petitioner. 1 within twelve weeks, with liberty to recover from the Inspector after hearing. It also directed reconsideration of departmental action against the Inspector and statewide circulation of arrest safeguards for matrimonial disputes.", "court_quote": "It is declared that the issuance of the Look Out Circular against Petitioner2, his arrest and detention on 16.08.2014, and the seizure of his passport, were illegal and in violation of Sections 41, 41-A and 438(3) of the Code of Criminal Procedure, the Passports Act, 1967, and the fundamental right of Petitioner2 to personal liberty under Article 21 of the Constitution.", "court_quote_para": "order cl.(ii)", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Primary order verified: LOC/arrest/detention declared illegal; Rs.9 lakh total 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": "2026-08-04", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Karnataka High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Karnataka High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 900,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "2026:KHC:40856", "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://thebarbulletin.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/P-Javara-Setty-vs-R-Shruthi.pdf", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://thebarbulletin.com/karnataka-hc-compensation-illegal-arrest-anticipatory-bail/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://lawtrend.in/karnataka-high-court-mandates-14-day-inquiry-before-matrimonial-dispute-arrests/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://shoebhakim.com/karnataka-high-court-matrimonial-disputes-arrest-guidelines-2026-adv-shoeb-hakim/", "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-44" ], "merged_case_id": "SWILLEGA-019", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2026-0037", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0763", "alias_merged_ids": [ "CWC-0197", "CWC-1467" ], "display_title": "Bengaluru Man vs State of Karnataka & Anr.", "display_title_redacted": "Bengaluru Man vs State of Karnataka & Anr.", "state": "Karnataka", "district": "Bengaluru Urban", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Bengaluru", "police_station_or_unit": "Whitefield Police Station", "court": "Karnataka High Court", "court_as_verified": "Karnataka High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Bengaluru Man vs State of Karnataka & Anr.", "case_number": "Criminal Petition No. 13117 of 2026", "citation": "CNR: KAHC010598672026", "judges": [ "M. Nagaprasanna" ], "judgment_date": "2026-08-27", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2026, "incident_date": "2026-08-25", "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_compensation", "sections": [ "BNSS 2023 s.35", "BNSS 2023 s.528", "CrPC s.482", "Constitution Art. 21", "BNS s.61", "BNS s.338", "BNS s.340(2)" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Investigating Officer", "unit": "Whitefield Police Station", "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": "Investigating Officer, Whitefield Police Station" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Assistant Commissioner of Police", "unit": "Whitefield Sub-Division", "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": "Assistant Commissioner of Police, Whitefield Sub-Division" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Deputy Commissioner of Police", "unit": "Whitefield Division", "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": "Deputy Commissioner of Police, Whitefield Division" } ], "officer_count": 3, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Bengaluru man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 300000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://s3.courtbook.in/2026/08/mr_k_n_mohan_reddy_v_state_of_karnataka_anot.pdf", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/2026/08/28/oral-order-crl-p-13117-of-2026-696716.pdf", "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/karnataka-high-court/karnataka-high-court-police-arresting-witness-will-despite-notice-appear-later-547615", "https://www.barandbench.com/news/karnataka-high-court-slams-police-raj-imposes-3-lakh-costs-on-whitefield-police-for-illegal-arrest" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Karnataka High Court records the following account. Petitioner a Bengaluru man, an attesting witness to a disputed Will, was issued a notice under Section 35(3) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) on 25 August 2026 directing him to appear for inquiry on 27 August 2026, but the Whitefield Police arrested him on the same day prior to the scheduled appearance date. The Karnataka High Court declared the arrest illegal and an abuse of coercive power, holding that Section 35(3) BNSS explicitly prohibits arrest of a noticee before the appearance date unless reasoned non-compliance occurs. The court imposed exemplary costs of Rs 3,00,000 payable directly to the petitioner personally by the Investigating Officer, Assistant Commissioner of Police, and Deputy Commissioner of Police rather than the State exchequer, and directed departmental scrutiny of the officers. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "Petitioner a Bengaluru man, an attesting witness to a disputed Will, was issued a notice under Section 35(3) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) on 25 August 2026 directing him to appear for inquiry on 27 August 2026, but the Whitefield Police arrested him on the same day prior to the scheduled appearance date. The Karnataka High Court declared the arrest illegal and an abuse of coercive power, holding that Section 35(3) BNSS explicitly prohibits arrest of a noticee before the appearance date unless reasoned non-compliance occurs. The court imposed exemplary costs of Rs 3,00,000 payable directly to the petitioner personally by the Investigating Officer, Assistant Commissioner of Police, and Deputy Commissioner of Police rather than the State exchequer, and directed departmental scrutiny of the officers.", "court_quote": "The costs are, therefore, quantified at `3,00,000/- (Rupees Three Lakhs only) and shall be paid to the petitioner by the Investigating Officer, the Assistant Commissioner of Police and Deputy Commissioner of Police, who are responsible for directing, permitting or facilitating the illegal arrest.", "court_quote_para": "22", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Karnataka HC declared arrest prior to BNSS s.35(3) notice appearance date illegal, imposing Rs 3 lakh exemplary costs personally on IO, ACP, and DCP.", "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": "2026-08-27", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Karnataka High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Karnataka High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 300,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "CNR: KAHC010598672026", "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://s3.courtbook.in/2026/08/mr_k_n_mohan_reddy_v_state_of_karnataka_anot.pdf", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/2026/08/28/oral-order-crl-p-13117-of-2026-696716.pdf", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/karnataka-high-court/karnataka-high-court-police-arresting-witness-will-despite-notice-appear-later-547615", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.barandbench.com/news/karnataka-high-court-slams-police-raj-imposes-3-lakh-costs-on-whitefield-police-for-illegal-arrest", "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-06", "chunk-44", "chunk-51" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP10-001", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2026-0069", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1341", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Sri Dakshina Kannada Man vs State Of Karnataka", "display_title_redacted": "Sri Dakshina Kannada Man vs State Of Karnataka", "state": "Karnataka", "district": "Dakshina Kannada (Mangaluru)", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": null, "police_station_or_unit": "Kankanadi Town Police Station, Mangaluru City", "court": "High Court of Karnataka at Bengaluru", "court_as_verified": "High Court of Karnataka at Bengaluru", "bench": null, "case_title": "Sri Dakshina Kannada Man vs State Of Karnataka", "case_number": "WP No. 27908 of 2026 (GM-RES)", "citation": "NC: 2026:KHC:47995", "judges": [ "M. Nagaprasanna" ], "judgment_date": "2026-09-02", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2026, "incident_date": "2026-07-25", "incident_year": 2026, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "dereliction_evidence_tampering", "subcategory": "dereliction_evidence_tampering", "subcategory_display": "dereliction evidence tampering", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "adverse_finding", "sections": [ "Sections 79 and 80 of the Karnataka Police Act, 1963" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Station House Officer", "role": "named_in_finding", "unit": "Kankanadi Town Police Station, Mangaluru City", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "name_public": null, "display": "Station House Officer, Kankanadi Town Police Station, Mangaluru City" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Police Sub-Inspector", "role": "named_in_finding", "unit": "Kankanadi Town Police Station, Mangaluru City", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "name_public": null, "display": "Police Sub-Inspector, Kankanadi Town Police Station, Mangaluru City" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Police Sub-Inspector", "role": "named_in_finding", "unit": "Kankanadi Town Police Station, Mangaluru City", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "name_public": null, "display": "Police Sub-Inspector, Kankanadi Town Police Station, Mangaluru City" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Police Constable", "role": "named_in_finding", "unit": "Kankanadi Town Police Station, Mangaluru City", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "name_public": null, "display": "Police Constable, Kankanadi Town Police Station, Mangaluru City" } ], "officer_count": 4, "victims": [ { "name": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Dakshina Kannada man" }, { "name": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Dakshina Kannada man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 2, "sentence_type": null, "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/91571849/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The High Court allowed the writ petition in part, quashed FIR in Crime No.102/2026 by Kankanadi Town Police Station qua the petitioners on the ground that Andar Bahar is a game of skill, quashed the JMFC (VI Court) Mangaluru remand order in N.C.No.02 of 2026 dated 25.07.2026, and directed return of illegally seized money/items/valuables under Property List No.116 of 2026 to petitioner2 following the unauthorized raid on 25.07.2026. No departmental/disciplinary action was ordered in the operative directions.", "summary_verified": "The High Court allowed the writ petition in part, quashed FIR in Crime No.102/2026 by Kankanadi Town Police Station qua the petitioners on the ground that Andar Bahar is a game of skill, quashed the JMFC (VI Court) Mangaluru remand order in N.C.No.02 of 2026 dated 25.07.2026, and directed return of illegally seized money/items/valuables under Property List No.116 of 2026 to petitioner2 following the unauthorized raid on 25.07.2026. No departmental/disciplinary action was ordered in the operative directions.", "court_quote": "Mandamus issues to respondent Nos.4, 5 and 6 are directed to forthwith return the illegally seized money,", "court_quote_para": "Operative direction", "confidence": "medium", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "court_quote is petitioner's prayer not the court's operative order and names an officer (Mr. [name withheld]) in violation of no-names rule; summary falsely claims court issued mandamus for strict departmental/disciplinary action and for deliberate concealment/fabrication and D.K. Basu/Arnesh Kumar violation - operative order is 'Writ Petition is allowed in part' with only 4 directions and no disciplinary direction; outcome_type strictures unsupported - no strictures/disciplinary ordered; supported adverse finding is quashing plus return of illegally seized money/unauthorized raid", "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": "2026-09-02", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "High Court of Karnataka at Bengaluru", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The High Court of Karnataka at Bengaluru recorded adverse findings against police personnel.", "disposition": "adverse finding compensation", "source": "NC: 2026:KHC:47995", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." } ], "later_proceedings": [], "final_outcome_url": null, "followup_history": [ { "date": "2026-09-24", "scope": "Swarm scout and independent verification pass (Muse Spark)." } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-24", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/91571849/", "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": [ "swarm-verify-cop-ka-hc" ], "merged_case_id": "cop-ka-hc-0", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" } ] }