{ "state": "Telangana", "slug": "telangana", "count": 23, "url": "https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/state/telangana", "cases": [ { "record_id": "CW-1954-0002", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0540", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Aftab Ahmad Khan v. The State of Hyderabad", "display_title_redacted": "Aftab Ahmad Khan v. The State of Hyderabad", "state": "Telangana", "district": "Warangal", "district_at_time": "Warangal (then Hyderabad State)", "city_town": "Rajole", "police_station_or_unit": null, "court": "Supreme Court of India", "court_as_verified": "Supreme Court of India", "bench": null, "case_title": "Aftab Ahmad Khan v. The State of Hyderabad", "case_number": null, "citation": "1954 AIR 436; 1955 SCR 588", "judges": [ "Ghulam Hasan", "B.K. Mukherjea", "Vivian Bose" ], "judgment_date": "1954-05-06", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 1954, "incident_date": "1948-09-13", "incident_year": 1948, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "corruption", "admin_subcategory": "extortion", "subcategory": "extortion", "subcategory_display": "extortion", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "conviction_upheld", "sections": [ "IPC 302", "IPC 307", "IPC 347", "IPC 384" ], "officers": [ { "name": "Aftab Ahmad Khan", "rank": "Reserve Inspector of Police", "unit": "Hyderabad State Police", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "named_safe", "gate_reasons": [], "ledger_role": "convicted", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.05, "jev_p_culpable": 0.98, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": "Aftab Ahmad Khan", "display": "Aftab Ahmad Khan (Reserve Inspector of Police)" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Rajole man" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": null, "descriptor": "Rajole resident" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": null, "descriptor": "Rajole resident" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 3, "sentence_type": "imprisonment", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1576995/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Supreme Court maintained the convictions of Reserve Inspector Aftab Ahmad Khan, who with a police party seized two villagers at Rajole on 13 September 1948, shot dead one person and injured others at Korivi, confined the two villagers overnight, and released them on 14 September only after extorting Rs 200. The Special Judge, Warangal, had sentenced him to death for murder, life for attempt to murder, and two years each for confinement and extortion, affirmed by the Hyderabad High Court via third-judge reference after a split. The Supreme Court upheld the joint trial under Section 235 CrPC as one transaction and, by convention where High Court judges had divided, commuted only the death sentence to transportation for life with all sentences concurrent. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Supreme Court maintained the convictions of Reserve Inspector Aftab Ahmad Khan, who with a police party seized two villagers at Rajole on 13 September 1948, shot dead one person and injured others at Korivi, confined the two villagers overnight, and released them on 14 September only after extorting Rs 200. The Special Judge, Warangal, had sentenced him to death for murder, life for attempt to murder, and two years each for confinement and extortion, affirmed by the Hyderabad High Court via third-judge reference after a split. The Supreme Court upheld the joint trial under Section 235 CrPC as one transaction and, by convention where High Court judges had divided, commuted only the death sentence to transportation for life with all sentences concurrent.", "court_quote": "He released P. W. 3 and P. W. 4 on the intercession of certain persons but kept P. W. 5 and P. W. 9 in wrongful confinement and released them only next morning after extorting Rs. 200 from P. W. 5.", "court_quote_para": "n/a", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Supreme Court maintained Reserve Inspector's convictions for murder, attempt, confinement and extortion, commuting only the death sentence to transportation for life.", "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": "1954 AIR 436; 1955 SCR 588", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." }, { "date": "1954-05-06", "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": "1954 AIR 436; 1955 SCR 588", "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/1576995/", "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-16", "chunk-r09" ], "merged_case_id": "SWEXTORT-003", "officers_named_public": 1, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-1963-0003", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0386", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Public Prosecutor vs Warangal Police Sub-Inspector of Police and others", "display_title_redacted": "Public Prosecutor vs Warangal Police Sub-Inspector of Police and others", "state": "Telangana", "district": "Warangal", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Warangal", "police_station_or_unit": "Mathwada Police Station / Central Crime Station Warangal", "court": "Andhra Pradesh High Court", "court_as_verified": "Andhra Pradesh High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Public Prosecutor vs Warangal Police Sub-Inspector of Police and others", "case_number": null, "citation": "AIR 1964 AP 548", "judges": [ "Basi Reddy" ], "judgment_date": "1963-11-26", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 1963, "incident_date": "1961-04-24", "incident_year": 1961, "category": "Custodial death", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "custodial_death", "subcategory": "custodial_death", "subcategory_display": "custodial death", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "conviction_by_hc", "sections": [ "IPC 330", "IPC 109", "IPC 201" ], "officers": [ { "name": "Syed Hasan Ali", "rank": "Sub-Inspector of Police", "unit": "Central Crime Station, Warangal", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "named_safe", "gate_reasons": [], "ledger_role": "convicted", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.11, "jev_p_culpable": 0.95, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": "Syed Hasan Ali", "display": "Syed Hasan Ali (Sub-Inspector of Police)" }, { "name": "C. Janardhanrao", "rank": "Sub-Inspector of Police", "unit": "Central Crime Station, Warangal", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "named_safe", "gate_reasons": [], "ledger_role": "convicted", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.1, "jev_p_culpable": 0.95, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": "C. Janardhanrao", "display": "C. Janardhanrao (Sub-Inspector of Police)" }, { "name": "Ahmed Ali", "rank": "Police Constable", "unit": "Mathwada Police Station, Warangal", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "named_safe", "gate_reasons": [], "ledger_role": "convicted", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.33, "jev_p_culpable": 0.86, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": "Ahmed Ali", "display": "Ahmed Ali (Police Constable)" }, { "name": "G.K. Narasimhamurthy", "rank": "Police Constable", "unit": "Mathwada Police Station, Warangal", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "named_safe", "gate_reasons": [], "ledger_role": "convicted", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.13, "jev_p_culpable": 0.91, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": "G.K. Narasimhamurthy", "display": "G.K. Narasimhamurthy (Police Constable)" }, { "name": "K. Ramaiah", "rank": "Police Constable", "unit": "Central Crime Station, Warangal", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "named_safe", "gate_reasons": [], "ledger_role": "convicted", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.15, "jev_p_culpable": 0.91, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": "K. Ramaiah", "display": "K. Ramaiah (Police Constable)" } ], "officer_count": 5, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Warangal man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "imprisonment", "sentence_max_years": 3, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1311171/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The High Court of Andhra Pradesh allowed the State's appeal against acquittal in part, reversing the trial court order and convicting two Sub-Inspectors and three Police Constables of Mathwada Police Station and Central Crime Station, Warangal. Suspect a Warangal man had been detained and severely tortured through the night of 24 April 1961 to extort a confession, resulting in his death and the subsequent clandestine disposal of his body. While finding that murderous intent was not established beyond reasonable doubt, the High Court held that the officers voluntarily caused hurt to extort confessions. The Court convicted the two Sub-Inspectors under IPC 330 read with 109, the three Constables under IPC 330, and one Sub-Inspector additionally under IPC 201, sentencing each of them to three years' rigorous imprisonment. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The High Court of Andhra Pradesh allowed the State's appeal against acquittal in part, reversing the trial court order and convicting two Sub-Inspectors and three Police Constables of Mathwada Police Station and Central Crime Station, Warangal. Suspect a Warangal man had been detained and severely tortured through the night of 24 April 1961 to extort a confession, resulting in his death and the subsequent clandestine disposal of his body. While finding that murderous intent was not established beyond reasonable doubt, the High Court held that the officers voluntarily caused hurt to extort confessions. The Court convicted the two Sub-Inspectors under IPC 330 read with 109, the three Constables under IPC 330, and one Sub-Inspector additionally under IPC 201, sentencing each of them to three years' rigorous imprisonment.", "court_quote": "torturing suspects with a view to extorting information from them, is a crude, barbarous and reprehensible method of investigating and detecting crime. Those who are entrusted with the duty of enforcing the law, must learn to obey the law.", "court_quote_para": "113", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Andhra Pradesh HC reversed trial court acquittals, convicting 2 Sub-Inspectors and 3 Constables to 3 years RI under IPC 330/109/201 for custodial torture and 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": "1963-11-26", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Andhra Pradesh High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Andhra Pradesh High Court entered convictions against police personnel in this judgment.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation", "source": "AIR 1964 AP 548", "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/1311171/", "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-16" ], "merged_case_id": "TELANG-009", "officers_named_public": 5, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-1996-0004", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0378", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Mahabubnagar Woman vs Govt. of A.P. and Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "Mahabubnagar Woman vs Govt. of A.P. and Ors.", "state": "Telangana", "district": "Mahabubnagar", "district_at_time": "Mahaboobnagar", "city_town": "Mahabubnagar", "police_station_or_unit": "Rural Police Station, Mahaboobnagar", "court": "Andhra Pradesh High Court", "court_as_verified": "Andhra Pradesh High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Mahabubnagar Woman vs Govt. of A.P. and Ors.", "case_number": "W.P. No. 8405 of 1994", "citation": "1996(2) ALT 850", "judges": [ "Motilal B. Naik, J." ], "judgment_date": "1996-06-04", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 1996, "incident_date": "1990-08-11", "incident_year": 1990, "category": "Custodial death", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "custodial_death", "subcategory": "custodial_death", "subcategory_display": "custodial death", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation", "sections": [ "Constitution of India Article 21", "Constitution of India Article 226" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": null, "unit": "Rural Police Station, Mahaboobnagar", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Police personnel, Rural Police Station, Mahaboobnagar" } ], "officer_count": 0, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Mahabubnagar man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 100000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1321816/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/703894/smt-ratlavat-chandi-vs-govt-of-ap-and-others/", "https://sooperkanoon.com/case/443236/smt-ratlavat-chandi-vs-secretary-department" ], "summary": "The Andhra Pradesh High Court (pre-bifurcation; incident in present-day Telangana) held that a Mahabubnagar man, a rickshaw puller detained at Rural Police Station, Mahaboobnagar from 07-08-1990 to 11-08-1990, died of custodial torture. The Court relied on the magisterial and CBCID enquiry reports and post-mortem injuries (one abrasion and four contusions), disproving the police story of an insect bite, corroborated by a negative viscera report. It allowed the writ petition, directed the State to pay Rs 1 lakh compensation within two months apportioned equally among the widow and four minor children, plus Rs 10,000 costs, and ordered enquiries to identify the responsible personnel with liberty to take action including recovery of the compensation from them. No individual officer was named or fixed with liability in the judgment. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Andhra Pradesh High Court (pre-bifurcation; incident in present-day Telangana) held that a Mahabubnagar man, a rickshaw puller detained at Rural Police Station, Mahaboobnagar from 07-08-1990 to 11-08-1990, died of custodial torture. The Court relied on the magisterial and CBCID enquiry reports and post-mortem injuries (one abrasion and four contusions), disproving the police story of an insect bite, corroborated by a negative viscera report. It allowed the writ petition, directed the State to pay Rs 1 lakh compensation within two months apportioned equally among the widow and four minor children, plus Rs 10,000 costs, and ordered enquiries to identify the responsible personnel with liberty to take action including recovery of the compensation from them. No individual officer was named or fixed with liability in the judgment.", "court_quote": "In order to unearth the mystery in this case, the first respondent shall cause necessary enquiries as to who are the police personnel of Rural Police Station, Mahaboobnagar, responsible for the injuries found on the body of the deceased [name withheld] as is evident from the post mortem report and take appropriate action against such personnel including that of recovery of the compensation amount to be paid to the petitioner as directed above.", "court_quote_para": "30", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "AP High Court held a Mahabubnagar man died of custodial torture at Rural PS Mahaboobnagar; Rs 1 lakh compensation plus Rs 10,000 costs; State to identify and act against 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": "1996-06-04", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Andhra Pradesh High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Andhra Pradesh High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 100,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "1996(2) ALT 850", "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/1321816/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/703894/smt-ratlavat-chandi-vs-govt-of-ap-and-others/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://sooperkanoon.com/case/443236/smt-ratlavat-chandi-vs-secretary-department", "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-12", "chunk-r08" ], "merged_case_id": "TELANG-001", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-1996-0016", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0910", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Hyderabad Woman v. [name withheld] and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Hyderabad Woman v. [name withheld] and Others", "state": "Telangana", "district": "Hyderabad", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Hyderabad", "police_station_or_unit": "Nallakunta Police Station", "court": "Andhra Pradesh High Court", "court_as_verified": "Andhra Pradesh High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Hyderabad Woman v. [name withheld] and Others", "case_number": "W.P. No. 21340 of 1995", "citation": "1996(4) ALD 150", "judges": [ "P.S. Mishra", "Syed Saadatulla Hussaini" ], "judgment_date": "1996-08-08", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 1996, "incident_date": "1995-03-06", "incident_year": 1995, "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", "CrPC s.173(2)" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Inspector of Police", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "Nallakunta Police Station, Hyderabad", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Inspector of Police, Nallakunta Police Station, Hyderabad" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "female", "descriptor": "Hyderabad woman" } ], "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://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/5608f75be4b014971113fbcf", "secondary_sources": [ "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1065173/" ], "summary": "The Andhra Pradesh High Court (treating the petitioner's letter to the CJI as an Article 226 petition) held that a woman advocate picked up on 6 March 1995 was beaten, made to sign blank papers, and shuttled between police stations for over 26 hours without FIR, crime number or prompt production before a Magistrate. The Court found the arrest was procured by the then Public Prosecutor to pressure her to withdraw a habeas corpus petition and was executed by the Inspector of Nallakunta Police Station. It ordered the State to pay Rs 50,000 as exemplary public-law compensation (moderated as the petitioner was not free of wrongdoing) and called for Section 173(2) CrPC reports in the seven cases registered against her. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Andhra Pradesh High Court (treating the petitioner's letter to the CJI as an Article 226 petition) held that a woman advocate picked up on 6 March 1995 was beaten, made to sign blank papers, and shuttled between police stations for over 26 hours without FIR, crime number or prompt production before a Magistrate. The Court found the arrest was procured by the then Public Prosecutor to pressure her to withdraw a habeas corpus petition and was executed by the Inspector of Nallakunta Police Station. It ordered the State to pay Rs 50,000 as exemplary public-law compensation (moderated as the petitioner was not free of wrongdoing) and called for Section 173(2) CrPC reports in the seven cases registered against her.", "court_quote": "there is no manner of doubt the petitioner's right under Article 21 of the Constitution of India has been infringed by the third respondent and other officials, who arrested her and kept her under detention without complying with the requirements of law", "court_quote_para": "9", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "AP HC (pre-bifurcation; Hyderabad now in Telangana) held Article 21 violated by Inspector-led illegal detention/beating; Rs 50,000 compensation.", "verification_status": "V2", "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported", "tier_badge": "Externally reported", "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded", "tier_history": [ "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded" ], "allegations": [ { "category": "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": "1996-08-08", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Andhra Pradesh High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Andhra Pradesh High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 50,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "1996(4) ALD 150", "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://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/5608f75be4b014971113fbcf", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1065173/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-56" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP2-5-001", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-1997-0021", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0926", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Shamshabad Police Detective Sub-Inspector vs State of A.P.", "display_title_redacted": "Shamshabad Police Detective Sub-Inspector vs State of A.P.", "state": "Telangana", "district": "Rangareddy", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Shamshabad", "police_station_or_unit": "Shamshabad Police Station", "court": "Andhra Pradesh High Court", "court_as_verified": "Andhra Pradesh High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Shamshabad Police Detective Sub-Inspector vs State of A.P.", "case_number": "Crl.A. No. 657 of 1993", "citation": "1998(2) ALD 333", "judges": [ "D.H. Nasir, J." ], "judgment_date": "1997-12-08", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 1997, "incident_date": "1989-10-09", "incident_year": 1989, "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.11", "PC Act 1988 s.13(1)(d)", "PC Act 1988 s.13(2)" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Detective Sub-Inspector", "unit": "Shamshabad 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": "Detective Sub-Inspector, Shamshabad Police Station" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Shamshabad man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "mixed", "sentence_max_years": 1.0, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1754715/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/721992/ka-hassan-vs-state-of-ap/", "https://sooperkanoon.com/case/432890/k-a-hassan-vs-state-a-p" ], "summary": "The Andhra Pradesh High Court (pre-bifurcation; incident in present-day Telangana) dismissed the appeal of Detective Sub-Inspector of Shamshabad Police Station and confirmed his conviction by the Additional Special Judge for SPE and ACB Cases, Hyderabad. The Court found he demanded Rs 500 from workshop owner [name withheld] as a motive for not foisting a stolen-property case on him, after earlier extracting two electric motors, and was caught in an ACB trap on 09-10-1989 with tainted currency recovered from his hip pocket and a positive phenolphthalein hand wash. It held the trap, demand and recovery proved by the complainant, mediators and official witnesses despite minor discrepancies, confirming one year rigorous imprisonment plus Rs 1,000 fine on each count (concurrent), with six months simple imprisonment in default of fine per count. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Andhra Pradesh High Court (pre-bifurcation; incident in present-day Telangana) dismissed the appeal of Detective Sub-Inspector of Shamshabad Police Station and confirmed his conviction by the Additional Special Judge for SPE and ACB Cases, Hyderabad. The Court found he demanded Rs 500 from workshop owner [name withheld] as a motive for not foisting a stolen-property case on him, after earlier extracting two electric motors, and was caught in an ACB trap on 09-10-1989 with tainted currency recovered from his hip pocket and a positive phenolphthalein hand wash. It held the trap, demand and recovery proved by the complainant, mediators and official witnesses despite minor discrepancies, confirming one year rigorous imprisonment plus Rs 1,000 fine on each count (concurrent), with six months simple imprisonment in default of fine per count.", "court_quote": "no cause survives to interfere with the decision of the trial Court convicting the appellant for the offences punishable under Sections 7, 11 and 13(1)(d)(i) and (ii) read with Section 13(2) of the Act. Hence, the appeal is dismissed.", "court_quote_para": "25", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "AP High Court dismissed appeal and confirmed conviction and sentence of Detective SI for Rs 500 bribe trap at Shamshabad.", "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 Andhra Pradesh High Court judgment)", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Andhra Pradesh High Court judgment.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation", "source": "1998(2) ALD 333", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." }, { "date": "1997-12-08", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Andhra Pradesh High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Andhra Pradesh High Court dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)", "source": "1998(2) ALD 333", "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/1754715/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/721992/ka-hassan-vs-state-of-ap/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://sooperkanoon.com/case/432890/k-a-hassan-vs-state-a-p", "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-12" ], "merged_case_id": "TELANG-002", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2001-0010", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0384", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Moinabad Man vs SHO, Narsingi Police Station and Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "Moinabad Man vs SHO, Narsingi Police Station and Ors.", "state": "Telangana", "district": "Rangareddy", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Moinabad", "police_station_or_unit": "Moinabad Police Station", "court": "Andhra Pradesh High Court", "court_as_verified": "Andhra Pradesh High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Moinabad Man vs SHO, Narsingi Police Station and Ors.", "case_number": null, "citation": "2002 (1) ALD 80", "judges": [ "S.B. Sinha" ], "judgment_date": "2001-11-20", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2001, "incident_date": "2001-08-01", "incident_year": 2001, "category": "Custodial torture", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "custodial_torture", "subcategory": "custodial_torture", "subcategory_display": "custodial torture", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation", "sections": [ "Constitution of India Art. 226" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Inspector of Police", "unit": "Narsingi Police Circle", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2_openrouter:no" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "no", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.18, "jev_p_culpable": 0.78, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Inspector of Police, Narsingi Police Circle" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Sub-Inspector of Police", "unit": "Moinabad Police Station", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2_openrouter:no" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "no", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.27, "jev_p_culpable": 0.77, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Sub-Inspector of Police, Moinabad Police Station" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Head Constable (HC 469)", "unit": "Moinabad Police Station", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2_openrouter:no" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "no", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.32, "jev_p_culpable": 0.73, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Head Constable (HC 469), Moinabad Police Station" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Constable (PC 1754)", "unit": "Moinabad Police Station", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2_openrouter:no" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "no", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.3, "jev_p_culpable": 0.79, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Constable (PC 1754), Moinabad Police Station" } ], "officer_count": 4, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": 26, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Moinabad man, age 26" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 100000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1847341/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The judgment of the Andhra Pradesh High Court records the following account. A Moinabad man was arrested by Moinabad and Narsingi police on suspicion of murdering his missing brother-in-law, detained unlawfully across different police stations for 42 days, and subjected to severe custodial torture including being kicked with boots and forced to drink urine to extract a confession. The torture ceased only after the supposedly deceased brother-in-law was found alive and working in a factory. On a taken-up writ petition prompted by a press report, the High Court directed an enquiry by the District Judge, which confirmed the illegal detention and brutal third-degree torture by the Inspector, Sub-Inspector, and constables. The High Court ordered the State to pay Rs 1,00,000 in compensation to the victim, with liberty to recover the sum from the guilty police officers, and directed the Superintendent of Police to initiate departmental and criminal proceedings. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "A Moinabad man was arrested by Moinabad and Narsingi police on suspicion of murdering his missing brother-in-law, detained unlawfully across different police stations for 42 days, and subjected to severe custodial torture including being kicked with boots and forced to drink urine to extract a confession. The torture ceased only after the supposedly deceased brother-in-law was found alive and working in a factory. On a taken-up writ petition prompted by a press report, the High Court directed an enquiry by the District Judge, which confirmed the illegal detention and brutal third-degree torture by the Inspector, Sub-Inspector, and constables. The High Court ordered the State to pay Rs 1,00,000 in compensation to the victim, with liberty to recover the sum from the guilty police officers, and directed the Superintendent of Police to initiate departmental and criminal proceedings.", "court_quote": "A case is made out that a Moinabad man was detained for 42 days. It is also the finding of the learned District and Sessions Judge, Ranga Reddy, that the officers named hereinabove practised atrocities and ill-treatment against a Moinabad man", "court_quote_para": "10", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "High Court awarded Rs 1 lakh compensation under Art. 226 for 42 days illegal detention and third-degree custodial torture, recoverable from guilty 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": "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": "2001-11-20", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Andhra Pradesh High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Andhra Pradesh High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 100,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "2002 (1) ALD 80", "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/1847341/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-13" ], "merged_case_id": "TELANG-007", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2003-0001", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0385", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Makthal Woman vs [name withheld] and Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "Makthal Woman vs [name withheld] and Ors.", "state": "Telangana", "district": "Narayanpet", "district_at_time": "Mahbubnagar", "city_town": "Makthal", "police_station_or_unit": "Makthal Police Station", "court": "Andhra Pradesh High Court", "court_as_verified": "Andhra Pradesh High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Makthal Woman vs [name withheld] and Ors.", "case_number": null, "citation": "2003 (2) ALD 49", "judges": [ "V.V.S. Rao" ], "judgment_date": "2003-01-29", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2003, "incident_date": "2001-05-14", "incident_year": 2001, "category": "Custodial death", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "custodial_death", "subcategory": "custodial_death", "subcategory_display": "custodial death", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation", "sections": [ "Constitution of India Art. 226", "IPC 302" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Sub-Inspector of Police", "unit": "Makthal Police Station", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2_openrouter:no" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "no", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.39, "jev_p_culpable": 0.7, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Sub-Inspector of Police, Makthal Police Station" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Police Constable", "unit": "Makthal Police Station", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Police Constable, Makthal Police Station" } ], "officer_count": 2, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Makthal man" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "female", "descriptor": "Makthal 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/1786570/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The judgment of the Andhra Pradesh High Court records the following account. A Makthal man of Karni village was apprehended on 9 May 2001 by Sub-Inspector and staff of Makthal Police Station as a suspect in his first wife death and held in unrecorded, illegal lock-up for five days without being produced before a magistrate. On 14 May 2001, while under severe mental strain and fleeing police custody, he climbed a 60-foot electric transmission tower and jumped to his death. On a writ petition by his widow, the High Court held that the deceased was subjected to unconstitutional, degrading detention violating fundamental rights and D.K. Basu guidelines. The Court ordered the State to pay Rs 50,000 in compensation to the widow (recoverable from the Sub-Inspector), directed the Superintendent of Police to register a murder case under Section 302 IPC and initiate disciplinary proceedings, and initiated suo motu contempt proceedings against the officer. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "A Makthal man of Karni village was apprehended on 9 May 2001 by Sub-Inspector and staff of Makthal Police Station as a suspect in his first wife death and held in unrecorded, illegal lock-up for five days without being produced before a magistrate. On 14 May 2001, while under severe mental strain and fleeing police custody, he climbed a 60-foot electric transmission tower and jumped to his death. On a writ petition by his widow, the High Court held that the deceased was subjected to unconstitutional, degrading detention violating fundamental rights and D.K. Basu guidelines. The Court ordered the State to pay Rs 50,000 in compensation to the widow (recoverable from the Sub-Inspector), directed the Superintendent of Police to register a murder case under Section 302 IPC and initiate disciplinary proceedings, and initiated suo motu contempt proceedings against the officer.", "court_quote": "A Makthal man was subjected to unreasonable inhuman and degrading pre-trial and pre-remand detention which is ex facie unconstitutional.", "court_quote_para": "44", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "High Court awarded Rs 50,000 compensation under Art. 226 for illegal 5-day lock-up preceding detainee death, ordered s.302 FIR and 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 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": "2003-01-29", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Andhra Pradesh High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Andhra Pradesh High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 50,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "2003 (2) ALD 49", "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/1786570/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-13" ], "merged_case_id": "TELANG-008", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2006-0018", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0924", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Government of Andhra Pradesh & Ors. vs Shamshabad Police Head Constable", "display_title_redacted": "Government of Andhra Pradesh & Ors. vs Shamshabad Police Head Constable", "state": "Telangana", "district": "Ranga Reddy", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Shamshabad", "police_station_or_unit": "Shamshabad Police Station", "court": "Supreme Court of India", "court_as_verified": "Supreme Court of India", "bench": null, "case_title": "Government of Andhra Pradesh & Ors. vs Shamshabad Police Head Constable", "case_number": "Civil Appeal No. 1318 of 2005", "citation": "(2006) 2 SCC 373; AIR 2006 SC 1214", "judges": [ "H.K. Sema", "A.R. Lakshmanan" ], "judgment_date": "2006-01-31", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2006, "incident_date": "2000-03-01", "incident_year": 2000, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "Constitution Art. 226" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Head Constable", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "Shamshabad 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, Shamshabad 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": "http://indiankanoon.org/doc/1584936/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/658563/govt-of-ap-and-others-vs-mohd-narsullah-khan/" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Supreme Court of India records the following account. Head Constable of Shamshabad Police Station was on bandobast duty at the Oracle office in Hi-Tech City, Hyderabad, during the March 2000 US Presidential visit when he was alleged to have removed a CCTV lens from the office ceiling. The Court recorded that electrician G. Sridhar saw the removal on the monitor, confronted him, and the lens was recovered, leading to a DSP-led disciplinary inquiry and dismissal in September 2000, confirmed on departmental appeal and by the A.P. Administrative Tribunal. The Andhra Pradesh High Court had quashed the dismissal and ordered reinstatement with full back wages. The Supreme Court held the High Court exceeded Article 226 review by re-appreciating inquiry evidence like an appellate authority, allowed the State appeal, and restored the dismissal without back wages.", "summary_verified": "Head Constable of Shamshabad Police Station was on bandobast duty at the Oracle office in Hi-Tech City, Hyderabad, during the March 2000 US Presidential visit when he was alleged to have removed a CCTV lens from the office ceiling. The Court recorded that electrician G. Sridhar saw the removal on the monitor, confronted him, and the lens was recovered, leading to a DSP-led disciplinary inquiry and dismissal in September 2000, confirmed on departmental appeal and by the A.P. Administrative Tribunal. The Andhra Pradesh High Court had quashed the dismissal and ordered reinstatement with full back wages. The Supreme Court held the High Court exceeded Article 226 review by re-appreciating inquiry evidence like an appellate authority, allowed the State appeal, and restored the dismissal without back wages.", "court_quote": "We entirely agree with the inquiry officer that the charges are serious in nature, being committed by a member of Disciplinary Force, who deserved stringent punishment. To instill the confidence of the public in the Establishment, the only appropriate punishment in such cases is dismissal from service, which has been correctly awarded.", "court_quote_para": "15", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "SC restored dismissal of head constable for theft on duty; site now in Telangana (Andhra Pradesh at the time).", "verification_status": "V2", "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported", "tier_badge": "Externally reported", "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded", "tier_history": [ "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded" ], "allegations": [ { "category": "Other", "primary": true, "position": "Material fact supported", "position_explainer": "Reliable material supports a specifically documented fact relevant to that allegation, not necessarily the full allegation, causation, intent, unlawfulness, or responsibility.", "official_finding_relation": "supports allegation" } ], "institutional_response": [ { "date": "2006-01-31", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Supreme Court of India", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Supreme Court of India upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "(2006) 2 SCC 373; AIR 2006 SC 1214", "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": "http://indiankanoon.org/doc/1584936/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/658563/govt-of-ap-and-others-vs-mohd-narsullah-khan/", "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-77" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP2-58-003", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2007-0023", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1082", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Tiryani Police Sub-Inspector v. Inspector General of Police, Warangal Range and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Tiryani Police Sub-Inspector v. Inspector General of Police, Warangal Range and Others", "state": "Telangana", "district": "Komaram Bheem Asifabad", "district_at_time": "Adilabad", "city_town": "Tiryani", "police_station_or_unit": "Tiryani Police Station, Adilabad", "court": "Andhra Pradesh High Court", "court_as_verified": "Andhra Pradesh High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Tiryani Police Sub-Inspector v. Inspector General of Police, Warangal Range and Others", "case_number": "Writ Petition No. 8019 of 2007", "citation": "(2007) 5 ALD 314", "judges": [ "G.S. Singhvi", "C.V. Nagarjuna Reddy" ], "judgment_date": "2007-04-24", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2007, "incident_date": "1995-01-01", "incident_year": 1995, "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": [ "AP Civil Services (CCA) Rules 1991", "APCS (Conduct) Rules 1964 Rule 3", "IPC 324", "IPC 366", "IPC 504", "IPC 34", "Constitution Art. 226" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Sub-Inspector", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "Tiryani Police Station, Adilabad", "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, Tiryani Police Station, Adilabad" } ], "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/708452/t-srinivas-appellant-hash-inspector-general-of-police-warangal-range-and-others-respondent/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/492379/" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Andhra Pradesh High Court records the following account. Sub-Inspector of Tiryani police station, Adilabad district, faced a departmental enquiry on the charge of misusing his position by collecting Rs 6,500 from villagers of Burudagudem to favour accused in Crime No. 2 of 1995. The Inspector General of Police, Warangal Range imposed compulsory retirement in August 2001, affirmed in departmental appeal and revision, and the AP Administrative Tribunal refused to interfere. The Division Bench found the enquiry evidence, including the middleman who collected and passed the bribe to the SI, proved the charge, drawing support from the three-day detention followed by release of the accused. It held the Tribunal committed no error in refusing to interfere with the punishment, and dismissed the writ petition. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "Sub-Inspector of Tiryani police station, Adilabad district, faced a departmental enquiry on the charge of misusing his position by collecting Rs 6,500 from villagers of Burudagudem to favour accused in Crime No. 2 of 1995. The Inspector General of Police, Warangal Range imposed compulsory retirement in August 2001, affirmed in departmental appeal and revision, and the AP Administrative Tribunal refused to interfere. The Division Bench found the enquiry evidence, including the middleman who collected and passed the bribe to the SI, proved the charge, drawing support from the three-day detention followed by release of the accused. It held the Tribunal committed no error in refusing to interfere with the punishment, and dismissed the writ petition.", "court_quote": "In our opinion, the allegation levelled against the petitioner that he misused his official position in collecting Rs. 6,500/- from the villagers for releasing the accused persons has rightly been treated as proved because the money has, in fact, been collected by his agents and absence of direct evidence regarding collecting of money by himself is not sufficient to absolve him of the charge.", "court_quote_para": "22", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Judgment text verified; SI's compulsory retirement for Rs 6,500 bribe-taking 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": "2007-04-24", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Andhra Pradesh High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Andhra Pradesh High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "(2007) 5 ALD 314", "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/708452/t-srinivas-appellant-hash-inspector-general-of-police-warangal-range-and-others-respondent/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/492379/", "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-95" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-12-001", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2013-0018", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0741", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Hyderabad Police Traffic police vs State of Andhra Pradesh", "display_title_redacted": "Hyderabad Police Traffic police vs State of Andhra Pradesh", "state": "Telangana", "district": "Hyderabad", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Hyderabad", "police_station_or_unit": "Yakutpura Traffic Police Station, Hyderabad", "court": "Supreme Court of India", "court_as_verified": "Supreme Court of India", "bench": null, "case_title": "Hyderabad Police Traffic police vs State of Andhra Pradesh", "case_number": "Criminal Appeal No. 539 of 2013 (arising out of SLP (Crl.) No. 6354 of 2012)", "citation": "AIR 2013 SC 1677", "judges": [ "Dipak Misra", "K. S. Radhakrishnan" ], "judgment_date": "2013-04-05", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2013, "incident_date": "1994-01-04", "incident_year": 1994, "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)", "IPC 34" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Traffic police", "unit": "Yakutpura Traffic Police Station, Hyderabad", "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": "Traffic police, Yakutpura Traffic Police Station, Hyderabad" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Traffic police", "unit": "Yakutpura Traffic Police Station, Hyderabad", "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": "Traffic police, Yakutpura Traffic Police Station, Hyderabad" } ], "officer_count": 2, "victims": [ { "age": null, "gender": "male", "name": null, "descriptor": "Hyderabad 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/88786044/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The judgment of the Supreme Court of India records the following account. On 4 January 1994 the two traffic policemen stopped lorry driver [name withheld]. A Hyderabad man at Santoshnagar crossroads, Hyderabad, on the pretext of a no-entry violation, seized his vehicle documents and demanded Rs. 100 to return them without booking a case. An ACB trap caught the co-accused accepting the marked Rs. 100 inside Yakutpura Traffic Police Station in the appellant's presence. The Special Judge convicted both, and the Andhra Pradesh High Court maintained the conviction while reducing sentence. The Supreme Court dismissed the appeal, holding the appellant intercepted the vehicle, was on duty at the spot and shared common intention under Section 34 IPC, sustaining 6 months' SI under Section 7 and 1 year's SI under Section 13 PC Act.", "summary_verified": "On 4 January 1994 the two traffic policemen stopped lorry driver [name withheld]. A Hyderabad man at Santoshnagar crossroads, Hyderabad, on the pretext of a no-entry violation, seized his vehicle documents and demanded Rs. 100 to return them without booking a case. An ACB trap caught the co-accused accepting the marked Rs. 100 inside Yakutpura Traffic Police Station in the appellant's presence. The Special Judge convicted both, and the Andhra Pradesh High Court maintained the conviction while reducing sentence. The Supreme Court dismissed the appeal, holding the appellant intercepted the vehicle, was on duty at the spot and shared common intention under Section 34 IPC, sustaining 6 months' SI under Section 7 and 1 year's SI under Section 13 PC Act.", "court_quote": "The accused had demanded a bribe of Rs.100/- for not booking a case for traffic violation and, in fact, no case was registered.", "court_quote_para": "8", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "SC judgment verified; PC Act bribery conviction of two Hyderabad traffic policemen upheld (state now Telangana).", "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": "AIR 2013 SC 1677", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." }, { "date": "2013-04-05", "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": "AIR 2013 SC 1677", "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/88786044/", "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": "GAP2-003", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2018-0015", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0382", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Saduq Ali vs State ACB rep. by Inspector of Police", "display_title_redacted": "Saduq Ali vs State ACB rep. by Inspector of Police", "state": "Telangana", "district": "Hyderabad", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Hyderabad", "police_station_or_unit": "Balanagar Police Station", "court": "Telangana High Court", "court_as_verified": "Telangana High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Saduq Ali vs State ACB rep. by Inspector of Police", "case_number": "Criminal Appeal No. 799 of 2006", "citation": null, "judges": [ "T. Rajani" ], "judgment_date": "2018-09-27", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2018, "incident_date": "2000-03-22", "incident_year": 2000, "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)(i)", "PC Act 1988 s.13(1)(d)(ii)", "PC Act 1988 s.13(2)" ], "officers": [ { "name": "Saduq Ali", "rank": "Assistant Sub-Inspector of Police", "unit": "Balanagar Police Station", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "named_safe", "gate_reasons": [], "ledger_role": "convicted", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": null, "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": "Saduq Ali", "display": "Saduq Ali (Assistant Sub-Inspector of Police)" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Hyderabad man" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Hyderabad man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 2, "sentence_type": "mixed", "sentence_max_years": 1.0, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/63079089/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The judgment of the Telangana High Court records the following account. Assistant Sub-Inspector of Police Saduq Ali of Balanagar Police Station detained a scrap dealer and his father in March 2000, threatening them with false implication in a theft case unless scrap metals and a bribe of Rs 50,000 were paid. After releasing the complainant, the officer demanded an immediate installment of Rs 20,000 and visited the scrap shop to collect the sum. On 22 March 2000, the Anti-Corruption Bureau laid a trap at the shop, catching the appellant red-handed upon receiving the bribe amount. The Additional Special Judge for SPE and ACB Cases, Hyderabad, convicted him under Sections 7 and 13(1)(d) read with 13(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988, sentencing him to two years of rigorous imprisonment and a fine of Rs 2,000. The High Court affirmed the conviction based on consistent testimony from subordinate constables and mediators, reducing the sentence of imprisonment to one year while leaving the fine undisturbed. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "Assistant Sub-Inspector of Police Saduq Ali of Balanagar Police Station detained a scrap dealer and his father in March 2000, threatening them with false implication in a theft case unless scrap metals and a bribe of Rs 50,000 were paid. After releasing the complainant, the officer demanded an immediate installment of Rs 20,000 and visited the scrap shop to collect the sum. On 22 March 2000, the Anti-Corruption Bureau laid a trap at the shop, catching the appellant red-handed upon receiving the bribe amount. The Additional Special Judge for SPE and ACB Cases, Hyderabad, convicted him under Sections 7 and 13(1)(d) read with 13(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988, sentencing him to two years of rigorous imprisonment and a fine of Rs 2,000. The High Court affirmed the conviction based on consistent testimony from subordinate constables and mediators, reducing the sentence of imprisonment to one year while leaving the fine undisturbed.", "court_quote": "The criminal appeal is partly allowed confirming the conviction imposed by the trial court. However, the sentence of imprisonment, imposed by the trial court, is reduced from two years rigorous imprisonment to one year rigorous imprisonment.", "court_quote_para": "18", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Telangana High Court confirmed PC Act conviction of ASI Saduq Ali, reducing sentence from 2 years to 1 year RI while maintaining fine.", "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 Telangana High Court judgment)", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Telangana High Court judgment.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation", "source": "Criminal Appeal No. 799 of 2006", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." }, { "date": "2018-09-27", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Telangana High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Telangana 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. 799 of 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/63079089/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-13" ], "merged_case_id": "TELANG-005", "officers_named_public": 1, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2018-0030", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0927", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Secunderabad Police Sub-Inspector of Police vs The State of A.P. thru ACB, City Range-I", "display_title_redacted": "Secunderabad Police Sub-Inspector of Police vs The State of A.P. thru ACB, City Range-I", "state": "Telangana", "district": "Hyderabad", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Secunderabad", "police_station_or_unit": "Karkhana Police Station, Secunderabad", "court": "Telangana High Court", "court_as_verified": "Telangana High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Secunderabad Police Sub-Inspector of Police vs The State of A.P. thru ACB, City Range-I", "case_number": "Crl.A. No. 1507 of 2009", "citation": null, "judges": [ "T. Rajani, J." ], "judgment_date": "2018-12-12", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2018, "incident_date": "2004-02-25", "incident_year": 2004, "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": null, "rank": "Sub-Inspector of Police", "unit": "Karkhana Police Station, Secunderabad", "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, Karkhana Police Station, Secunderabad" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Secunderabad man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "mixed", "sentence_max_years": 1.0, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/188131163/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Telangana High Court dismissed the appeal of Sub-Inspector of Karkhana Police Station, Secunderabad and confirmed his conviction by the Principal Special Judge for SPE and ACB Cases, Hyderabad dated 15.10.2009 in C.C. No. 18 of 2005. The Court found he demanded Rs 1,000 from complainant [name withheld] for issuing a police certificate for lost LLB and transfer certificates, and was caught in an ACB trap on 25-02-2004 (Cr. No. 6/RCT-CR1/2004) with tainted currency recovered from him. Holding guilt proved beyond reasonable doubt, it confirmed one year rigorous imprisonment plus Rs 1,000 fine (one month in default) under each of Section 7 and Section 13(1)(d) read with Section 13(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Telangana High Court dismissed the appeal of Sub-Inspector of Karkhana Police Station, Secunderabad and confirmed his conviction by the Principal Special Judge for SPE and ACB Cases, Hyderabad dated 15.10.2009 in C.C. No. 18 of 2005. The Court found he demanded Rs 1,000 from complainant [name withheld] for issuing a police certificate for lost LLB and transfer certificates, and was caught in an ACB trap on 25-02-2004 (Cr. No. 6/RCT-CR1/2004) with tainted currency recovered from him. Holding guilt proved beyond reasonable doubt, it confirmed one year rigorous imprisonment plus Rs 1,000 fine (one month in default) under each of Section 7 and Section 13(1)(d) read with Section 13(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988.", "court_quote": "this court holds that the prosecution proved the guilt of the accused beyond all reasonable doubt and hence, the judgment of the court below needs no interference.", "court_quote_para": "18", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Telangana High Court dismissed appeal and confirmed conviction and sentence of SI for Rs 1,000 bribe trap at Karkhana PS.", "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 Telangana High Court judgment)", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Telangana High Court judgment.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation", "source": "Crl.A. No. 1507 of 2009", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." }, { "date": "2018-12-12", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Telangana High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Telangana High Court dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)", "source": "Crl.A. No. 1507 of 2009", "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/188131163/", "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-12" ], "merged_case_id": "TELANG-003", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2022-0008", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0657", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Hyderabad Man & Anr. v. [name withheld] & Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "Hyderabad Man & Anr. v. [name withheld] & Ors.", "state": "Telangana", "district": "Hyderabad", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Hyderabad", "police_station_or_unit": "Jubilee Hills Police Station", "court": "Telangana High Court", "court_as_verified": "Telangana High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Hyderabad Man & Anr. v. [name withheld] & Ors.", "case_number": "Contempt Case No. 826 of 2021", "citation": "2022 LiveLaw (Tel) 47", "judges": [ "G. Radha Rani" ], "judgment_date": "2022-06-06", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2022, "incident_date": null, "incident_year": 2020, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "conviction_by_hc", "sections": [ "IPC 498-A", "IPC 506" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Deputy Commissioner of Police", "role": "convicted", "unit": "West Zone, Hyderabad City Police", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2_openrouter:unclear" ], "ledger_role": "convicted", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "unclear", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.08, "jev_p_culpable": 0.94, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Deputy Commissioner of Police, West Zone, Hyderabad City Police" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Assistant Commissioner of Police", "role": "convicted", "unit": null, "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" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Circle Inspector", "role": "convicted", "unit": "Jubilee Hills 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": "Circle Inspector, Jubilee Hills Police Station" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Sub-Inspector", "role": "convicted", "unit": "Jubilee Hills 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": "Sub-Inspector, Jubilee Hills Police Station" } ], "officer_count": 4, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": 49, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Hyderabad man, age 49" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "female", "descriptor": "Hyderabad woman" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 2, "sentence_type": "mixed", "sentence_max_years": 0.077, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/telangana-hc-contempt-ips-421255.pdf", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.livelaw.in/top-stories/arrest-guidelines-telangana-high-court-sentences-ips-officer-contempt-of-court-201164", "https://www.barandbench.com/news/litigation/violation-of-arnesh-kumar-guidelines-telangana-high-court-holds-four-police-officials-guilty-contempt-of-court" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Telangana High Court records the following account. In Crime 488/2020 (Jubilee Hills PS, matrimonial/dowry FIR under Sections 498-A/506 IPC and the Dowry Prohibition Act), West Zone police issued a Look Out Circular and procured non-bailable warrants showing the accused absconding without ever serving Section 41-A CrPC notices, ignoring their emails and WhatsApp messages and concealing their representation from the Magistrate. The High Court held DCP and three subordinate officers (respondent Nos. 2 to 4 - the LOC forwarding authority, the station officer-in-charge and the investigating officer) guilty of wilful, deliberate disobedience of Arnesh Kumar. Each was sentenced to four weeks' imprisonment plus Rs 2,000 fine (suspended six weeks), with subsistence allowance and disciplinary action directed against all four. The respondents contested the case through counsel and counter-affidavits. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The judgment of the Telangana High Court records the following account. In Crime 488/2020 (Jubilee Hills PS, matrimonial/dowry FIR under Sections 498-A/506 IPC and the Dowry Prohibition Act), West Zone police issued a Look Out Circular and procured non-bailable warrants showing the accused absconding without ever serving Section 41-A CrPC notices, ignoring their emails and WhatsApp messages and concealing their representation from the Magistrate. The High Court held DCP and three subordinate officers (respondent Nos. 2 to 4 - the LOC forwarding authority, the station officer-in-charge and the investigating officer) guilty of wilful, deliberate disobedience of Arnesh Kumar. Each was sentenced to four weeks' imprisonment plus Rs 2,000 fine (suspended six weeks), with subsistence allowance and disciplinary action directed against all four. The respondents contested the case through counsel and counter-affidavits.", "court_quote": "As issuance of LOC or NBWs against the petitioners without issuing any notice to them, without giving them an opportunity to prove their bonafides and without enquiring them, was in violation of the guidelines issued by the Hon'ble Apex Court, I hold that the respondents had wilfully disobeyed the judgment of the Hon'ble Apex Court and therefore, they are liable to be punished for contempt of court.", "court_quote_para": "17", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC contempt judgment verified from primary PDF; all four officers incl. IPS DCP convicted, 4 weeks + fine.", "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": "2022-06-06", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Telangana High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Telangana High Court entered convictions against police personnel in this judgment.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation", "source": "2022 LiveLaw (Tel) 47", "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", "summary" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/telangana-hc-contempt-ips-421255.pdf", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/top-stories/arrest-guidelines-telangana-high-court-sentences-ips-officer-contempt-of-court-201164", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.barandbench.com/news/litigation/violation-of-arnesh-kumar-guidelines-telangana-high-court-holds-four-police-officials-guilty-contempt-of-court", "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-45" ], "merged_case_id": "SWOTHERM-021", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2022-0019", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0388", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Gangireddy Rami Reddy vs The State of AP rep. by its Spl. PP Hyd., for ACB", "display_title_redacted": "Gangireddy Rami Reddy vs The State of AP rep. by its Spl. PP Hyd., for ACB", "state": "Telangana", "district": "Warangal", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Warangal", "police_station_or_unit": "Mattewada Police Station", "court": "Telangana High Court", "court_as_verified": "Telangana High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Gangireddy Rami Reddy vs The State of AP rep. by its Spl. PP Hyd., for ACB", "case_number": "Criminal Appeal No. 1740 of 2007", "citation": null, "judges": [ "K. Surender" ], "judgment_date": "2022-09-20", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2022, "incident_date": "2000-07-29", "incident_year": 2000, "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": "Gangireddy Rami Reddy", "rank": "Traffic Inspector", "unit": "Mattewada Police Station, Warangal", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "named_safe", "gate_reasons": [], "ledger_role": "convicted", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.11, "jev_p_culpable": 0.97, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "pending_appeal", "name_public": "Gangireddy Rami Reddy", "display": "Gangireddy Rami Reddy (Traffic Inspector)" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Warangal man" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Warangal man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 2, "sentence_type": "imprisonment", "sentence_max_years": 1, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/187179343/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/112676980/" ], "summary": "The Telangana High Court dismissed the appeal of Traffic Inspector Gangireddy Rami Reddy, then in charge of Mattewada police station, confirming one year rigorous imprisonment on each PC Act count. The Court found he had detained a lorry and its driver in the station for nine days after a road accident without producing either before a magistrate, and demanded Rs 8,000 from the lorry owner for their release. The ACB Warangal trap of 29 July 2000 succeeded when he took the tainted notes into his table drawer and his right-hand wash tested positive. It held the unexplained detention corroborated the demand, rejected the planted-money defence, and sustained the Special Court judgment. An SLP against the judgment was filed in the Supreme Court in January 2023. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Telangana High Court dismissed the appeal of Traffic Inspector Gangireddy Rami Reddy, then in charge of Mattewada police station, confirming one year rigorous imprisonment on each PC Act count. The Court found he had detained a lorry and its driver in the station for nine days after a road accident without producing either before a magistrate, and demanded Rs 8,000 from the lorry owner for their release. The ACB Warangal trap of 29 July 2000 succeeded when he took the tainted notes into his table drawer and his right-hand wash tested positive. It held the unexplained detention corroborated the demand, rejected the planted-money defence, and sustained the Special Court judgment. An SLP against the judgment was filed in the Supreme Court in January 2023.", "court_quote": "The presence of the lorry and driver in the police station indicates that the appellant, who was in charge of the police station had detained the lorry and P.W.8 for a period of eight days without following due procedure under Code of Criminal Procedure. In the said circumstances, the claim of P.W.1 that the appellant demanded amount is believable. It cannot be said that a false complaint was made against the appellant.", "court_quote_para": "7", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "9-day illegal detention corroborated bribe demand; 1y RI on both PC Act counts 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 Telangana High Court judgment)", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Telangana High Court judgment.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation", "source": "Criminal Appeal No. 1740 of 2007", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." }, { "date": "2022-09-20", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Telangana High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Telangana 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. 1740 of 2007", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." }, { "date": "2023-01-18", "action_type": "Appeal pending", "status": "Pending", "authority": "Supreme Court of India", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "As of 18 January 2023, an appeal arising from this judgment was pending before the Supreme Court of India (officers: Gangireddy Rami Reddy); the judgment's findings had not been set aside on that date.", "disposition": "Later proceeding · Appeal pending", "source": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/112676980/", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." } ], "later_proceedings": [ { "court": "Supreme Court of India", "date": "2023-01-18", "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/112676980/", "outcome": "pending_appeal" } ], "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/187179343/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/112676980/", "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-30" ], "merged_case_id": "TELANG-011", "officers_named_public": 1, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2023-0037", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0928", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Rachakonda Police Reserve Sub-Inspector v. The Commissioner of Police, Rachakonda & Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "Rachakonda Police Reserve Sub-Inspector v. The Commissioner of Police, Rachakonda & Ors.", "state": "Telangana", "district": "Medchal-Malkajgiri", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Malkajgiri", "police_station_or_unit": "Rachakonda Police Commissionerate", "court": "Telangana High Court", "court_as_verified": "Telangana High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Rachakonda Police Reserve Sub-Inspector v. The Commissioner of Police, Rachakonda & Ors.", "case_number": "Writ Petition No. 24577 of 2022", "citation": null, "judges": [ "N.V. Shravan Kumar" ], "judgment_date": "2023-03-03", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2023, "incident_date": "2019-05-24", "incident_year": 2019, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "disciplinary_upheld", "sections": [ "IPC s.354-D", "Telangana Civil Services (Conduct) Rules 1964 r.3", "CCA Rules r.9(vi)-(x), r.21(5)", "Constitution Art.226" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Reserve Sub-Inspector", "unit": "Rachakonda Police Commissionerate", "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": "Reserve Sub-Inspector, Rachakonda Police Commissionerate" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "female", "descriptor": "Malkajgiri woman" } ], "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/78879004/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Telangana High Court dismissed the writ petition of Reserve Sub-Inspector challenging the major penalty imposed after a woman complainant alleged he tried to outrage her modesty on the pretext of coaching her for police-constable recruitment (Crime No. 357 of 2019, Malkajgiri). The Court held the departmental charge proved on preponderance of probabilities, that his explanation was not genuine, that the criminal acquittal on hostile witnesses had no bearing on the departmental finding, and that he had violated Rule 3 of the Conduct Rules. It sustained the postponement of increments for three years with effect on future increments and pension, with the suspension period treated as not on duty. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Telangana High Court dismissed the writ petition of Reserve Sub-Inspector challenging the major penalty imposed after a woman complainant alleged he tried to outrage her modesty on the pretext of coaching her for police-constable recruitment (Crime No. 357 of 2019, Malkajgiri). The Court held the departmental charge proved on preponderance of probabilities, that his explanation was not genuine, that the criminal acquittal on hostile witnesses had no bearing on the departmental finding, and that he had violated Rule 3 of the Conduct Rules. It sustained the postponement of increments for three years with effect on future increments and pension, with the suspension period treated as not on duty.", "court_quote": "The petitioner did not maintain absolute integrity towards his job and he got involved in a criminal case in Cr.No.357 of 2019 under Section 354-D IPC of Malkajgiri PS., which is derogatory to the image of Police department in the eyes of general public.", "court_quote_para": "para 32", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Telangana HC dismissed RSI's writ; major penalty (3-year increment stoppage) for sexual misconduct toward woman trainee 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": "2023-03-03", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Telangana High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Telangana High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.", "disposition": "Disciplinary action · Procedural only", "source": "Writ Petition No. 24577 of 2022", "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/78879004/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-56" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP2-8-004", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2023-0044", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0929", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Bachupally Resident & Ors. v. State of Telangana", "display_title_redacted": "Bachupally Resident & Ors. v. State of Telangana", "state": "Telangana", "district": "Medchal-Malkajgiri", "district_at_time": "Ranga Reddy", "city_town": "Bachupally", "police_station_or_unit": null, "court": "Telangana High Court", "court_as_verified": "Telangana High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Bachupally Resident & Ors. v. State of Telangana", "case_number": "Criminal Petition No. 6096 of 2019", "citation": null, "judges": [ "M. Laxman" ], "judgment_date": "2023-06-30", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2023, "incident_date": "2009-01-24", "incident_year": 2009, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "false_implication_fabrication", "subcategory": "false_implication_fabrication", "subcategory_display": "false implication fabrication", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation", "sections": [ "IPC s.447", "IPC s.427", "CrPC s.482" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": null, "role": "held_liable", "unit": null, "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" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": null, "descriptor": "Bachupally resident" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": null, "descriptor": "Bachupally resident" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": null, "descriptor": "Bachupally resident" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": null, "descriptor": "Bachupally resident" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 4, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 25000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://www.verdictum.in/pdf_upload/koduluri-ramu-ors-vs-state-of-telangana-1521904.pdf", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.livelaw.in/amp/high-court/telangana-high-court/telangana-high-court-cost-wrong-implication-trespass-case-232835" ], "summary": "The Telangana High Court allowed a Section 482 petition and quashed the proceedings against four accused in a Bachupally land-trespass case (C.C. No. 33 of 2019). The Court found the charge sheet was filed without any basis: the petitioners were named neither in the FIR nor the private complaint nor by any witness, while the person actually named by the complainant was deleted without reasons. Holding this a clear case of abuse of process causing needless prosecution and mental agony through improper investigation, the Court awarded Rs 25,000 exemplary costs payable by the State with liberty to recover the sum from the investigating officer who filed the charge sheet. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Telangana High Court allowed a Section 482 petition and quashed the proceedings against four accused in a Bachupally land-trespass case (C.C. No. 33 of 2019). The Court found the charge sheet was filed without any basis: the petitioners were named neither in the FIR nor the private complaint nor by any witness, while the person actually named by the complainant was deleted without reasons. Holding this a clear case of abuse of process causing needless prosecution and mental agony through improper investigation, the Court awarded Rs 25,000 exemplary costs payable by the State with liberty to recover the sum from the investigating officer who filed the charge sheet.", "court_quote": "This is a clear case of abuse of process. On account of improper investigation, the petitioners were unnecessarily subjected to criminal prosecution and undergone mental agony.", "court_quote_para": "para 4", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Telangana HC quashed prosecution as abuse of process from improper investigation; Rs 25,000 exemplary costs, recoverable from IO.", "verification_status": "V2", "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported", "tier_badge": "Externally reported", "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded", "tier_history": [ "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded" ], "allegations": [ { "category": "Other", "primary": true, "position": "Material fact supported", "position_explainer": "Reliable material supports a specifically documented fact relevant to that allegation, not necessarily the full allegation, causation, intent, unlawfulness, or responsibility.", "official_finding_relation": "supports allegation" } ], "institutional_response": [ { "date": "2023-06-30", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Telangana High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Telangana High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 25,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "Criminal Petition No. 6096 of 2019", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." } ], "later_proceedings": [], "final_outcome_url": null, "followup_history": [ { "date": "2026-09-19", "scope": "Round-8 full re-verification: published record re-checked against the judgment text (outcome, officers, quote, key facts) plus methodology-compliance pass", "method": "skills-guided adversarial re-verification of the published record against the judgment text (reverify/t1-*/adversarial-8.jsonl)", "result": "holds", "corrections_applied": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://www.verdictum.in/pdf_upload/koduluri-ramu-ors-vs-state-of-telangana-1521904.pdf", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/amp/high-court/telangana-high-court/telangana-high-court-cost-wrong-implication-trespass-case-232835", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-56" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP2-8-001", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2024-0012", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0387", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Syed Allauddin Baber vs The State of A.P. rep. by its Spl. P.P. Hyd., for ACB", "display_title_redacted": "Syed Allauddin Baber vs The State of A.P. rep. by its Spl. P.P. Hyd., for ACB", "state": "Telangana", "district": "Hyderabad", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Hyderabad", "police_station_or_unit": "Police outpost, Mahatma Gandhi Bus Station (MGBS)", "court": "Telangana High Court", "court_as_verified": "Telangana High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Syed Allauddin Baber vs The State of A.P. rep. by its Spl. P.P. Hyd., for ACB", "case_number": "Criminal Appeal No. 1234 of 2010", "citation": null, "judges": [ "K. Surender" ], "judgment_date": "2024-07-05", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2024, "incident_date": "2004-01-08", "incident_year": 2004, "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": "Syed Allauddin Baber", "rank": "Head Constable", "unit": "Police outpost, MGBS, Hyderabad", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "named_safe", "gate_reasons": [], "ledger_role": "convicted", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.13, "jev_p_culpable": 0.97, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "pending_appeal", "name_public": "Syed Allauddin Baber", "display": "Syed Allauddin Baber (Head Constable)" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Hyderabad man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "imprisonment", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/148043179/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Telangana High Court upheld the conviction of Head Constable Syed Allauddin Baber of the MGBS police outpost for demanding and accepting a Rs 500 bribe from an ex-Air Force man turned bank clerk. The Court found the officer had stopped the complainant at the bus station on 23 December 2003 on a false solicitation pretext, seized his driving licence and CAT card, and insisted on Rs 500 for their return. The ACB trapped him on 8 January 2004 when he took the tainted notes and his right-hand wash tested positive. It held demand and acceptance proved by the complainant, the mediator and the seized documents found in his possession, dismissed the appeal, and directed him to surrender to serve the remaining sentence with Section 428 set-off.", "summary_verified": "The Telangana High Court upheld the conviction of Head Constable Syed Allauddin Baber of the MGBS police outpost for demanding and accepting a Rs 500 bribe from an ex-Air Force man turned bank clerk. The Court found the officer had stopped the complainant at the bus station on 23 December 2003 on a false solicitation pretext, seized his driving licence and CAT card, and insisted on Rs 500 for their return. The ACB trapped him on 8 January 2004 when he took the tainted notes and his right-hand wash tested positive. It held demand and acceptance proved by the complainant, the mediator and the seized documents found in his possession, dismissed the appeal, and directed him to surrender to serve the remaining sentence with Section 428 set-off.", "court_quote": "The version of P.W.1, P.W.2 and Exs.P1 and P2, being found in possession of the appellant, gives credibility to the case of the prosecution that the appellant demanded and accepted the bribe from P.W.1. There are no grounds to interfere with the finding of the Special Court.", "court_quote_para": "10", "confidence": "medium", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "PC Act trap conviction of head constable upheld; appeal dismissed (operative para per agent quotes).", "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 Telangana High Court judgment)", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Telangana High Court judgment.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation", "source": "Criminal Appeal No. 1234 of 2010", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." }, { "date": "2024-07-05", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Telangana High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Telangana 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. 1234 of 2010", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." }, { "date": "2024-09-30", "action_type": "Appeal pending", "status": "Pending", "authority": "Supreme Court of India", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "As of 30 September 2024, an appeal arising from this judgment was pending before the Supreme Court of India (officers: Syed Allauddin Baber); the judgment's findings had not been set aside on that date.", "disposition": "Later proceeding · Appeal pending", "source": "https://api.sci.gov.in/jonew/cl/2025-11-20/M_R_1.pdf", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." }, { "date": "2025-11-20", "action_type": "Appeal pending", "status": "Pending", "authority": "Supreme Court of India", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "As of 20 November 2025, an appeal arising from this judgment was pending before the Supreme Court of India (officers: Syed Allauddin Baber); the judgment's findings had not been set aside on that date.", "disposition": "Later proceeding · Appeal pending", "source": "https://api.sci.gov.in/jonew/cl/2025-11-20/M_R_1.pdf", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." } ], "later_proceedings": [ { "court": "Supreme Court of India", "date": "2024-09-30", "url": "https://api.sci.gov.in/jonew/cl/2025-11-20/M_R_1.pdf", "outcome": "pending_appeal" }, { "court": "Supreme Court of India", "date": "2025-11-20", "url": "https://api.sci.gov.in/jonew/cl/2025-11-20/M_R_1.pdf", "outcome": "pending_appeal" } ], "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/148043179/", "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-30" ], "merged_case_id": "TELANG-010", "officers_named_public": 1, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2025-0001", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0381", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Sri Depa Venkat Reddy @ Venkanna vs The State of A.P.", "display_title_redacted": "Sri Depa Venkat Reddy @ Venkanna vs The State of A.P.", "state": "Telangana", "district": "Yadadri Bhuvanagiri", "district_at_time": "Nalgonda", "city_town": "Choutuppal", "police_station_or_unit": "Choutuppal Police Station", "court": "Telangana High Court", "court_as_verified": "Telangana High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Sri Depa Venkat Reddy @ Venkanna vs The State of A.P.", "case_number": "Criminal Appeal No. 1369 of 2008", "citation": null, "judges": [ "K. Surender" ], "judgment_date": "2025-03-19", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2025, "incident_date": "2003-06-26", "incident_year": 2003, "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": "Depa Venkat Reddy @ Venkanna", "rank": "Police Constable", "unit": "Choutuppal Police Station", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "named_safe", "gate_reasons": [], "ledger_role": "convicted", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.09, "jev_p_culpable": 0.97, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "pending_appeal", "name_public": "Depa Venkat Reddy @ Venkanna", "display": "Depa Venkat Reddy @ Venkanna (Police Constable)" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Choutuppal man" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Choutuppal man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 2, "sentence_type": "imprisonment", "sentence_max_years": 1.0, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/162843668/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The judgment of the Telangana High Court records the following account. Police Constable of Choutuppal Police Station intercepted a sand-laden lorry on 23 June 2003, seized its registration documents, and demanded a bribe of Rs 2,000 to return them. On 26 June 2003, during a trap laid by the Anti-Corruption Bureau, the appellant received the tainted bribe at his residence and threw the currency into an adjacent drain upon seeing the trap party. The Additional Special Judge for SPE and ACB Cases, Hyderabad, convicted him under Sections 7 and 13(1)(d) read with 13(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988, sentencing him to two years of rigorous imprisonment. The High Court found the demand, acceptance, and recovery firmly established, affirming the conviction while reducing the sentence of imprisonment to one year on each count to run concurrently. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "Police Constable of Choutuppal Police Station intercepted a sand-laden lorry on 23 June 2003, seized its registration documents, and demanded a bribe of Rs 2,000 to return them. On 26 June 2003, during a trap laid by the Anti-Corruption Bureau, the appellant received the tainted bribe at his residence and threw the currency into an adjacent drain upon seeing the trap party. The Additional Special Judge for SPE and ACB Cases, Hyderabad, convicted him under Sections 7 and 13(1)(d) read with 13(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988, sentencing him to two years of rigorous imprisonment. The High Court found the demand, acceptance, and recovery firmly established, affirming the conviction while reducing the sentence of imprisonment to one year on each count to run concurrently.", "court_quote": "The grounds raised by the learned counsel cannot be accepted to interfere with the conviction of the appellant. However, the sentence of imprisonment of two years under Section 7 and Sections 13(1)(d) r/w 13(2) of the Act is reduced to one year under both counts.", "court_quote_para": "15", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Telangana High Court confirmed PC Act conviction of Police Constable, reducing sentence from 2 years 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 Telangana High Court judgment)", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Telangana High Court judgment.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation", "source": "Criminal Appeal No. 1369 of 2008", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." }, { "date": "2025-03-19", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Telangana High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Telangana 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. 1369 of 2008", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." }, { "date": "2025-07-21", "action_type": "Appeal pending", "status": "Pending", "authority": "Supreme Court of India", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "As of 21 July 2025, an appeal arising from this judgment was pending before the Supreme Court of India (officers: Depa Venkat Reddy @ Venkanna); the judgment's findings had not been set aside on that date.", "disposition": "Later proceeding · Appeal pending", "source": "https://api.sci.gov.in/jonew/cl/2025-07-21/M_C_1.pdf", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." } ], "later_proceedings": [ { "court": "Supreme Court of India", "date": "2025-07-21", "url": "https://api.sci.gov.in/jonew/cl/2025-07-21/M_C_1.pdf", "outcome": "pending_appeal" } ], "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/162843668/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-13" ], "merged_case_id": "TELANG-004", "officers_named_public": 1, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2025-0077", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1382", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Telangana Woman & Anr. vs State of Telangana & Anr.", "display_title_redacted": "Telangana Woman & Anr. vs State of Telangana & Anr.", "state": "Telangana", "district": null, "district_at_time": null, "city_town": null, "police_station_or_unit": "Gachibowli Police Station, Cyberabad", "court": "Supreme Court of India", "court_as_verified": "Supreme Court of India", "bench": null, "case_title": "Telangana Woman & Anr. vs State of Telangana & Anr.", "case_number": "Criminal Appeal arising out of SLP (Crl.) 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The Supreme Court held that the complainant was misusing the process of police investigation so as to entangle the accused. The Supreme Court held that the arrest in a civil dispute clearly showed the complainant company's clout on the police agency. The Supreme Court quashed the FIR and all subsequent proceedings as a gross abuse of the process of law.", "summary_verified": "The Supreme Court examined the arrest and eight-day custody of a 70-year-old accused in a civil sale-deed dispute under FIR No. 771 of 2020. The Supreme Court held that the complainant was misusing the process of police investigation so as to entangle the accused. The Supreme Court held that the arrest in a civil dispute clearly showed the complainant company's clout on the police agency. The Supreme Court quashed the FIR and all subsequent proceedings as a gross abuse of the process of law.", "court_quote": "clearly shows the clout of the company of which the complainant is an agent, on the police agency", "court_quote_para": "as summarized from judgment text", "confidence": "medium", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Verified against the cited judgment.", "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": "2025-07-18", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Supreme Court of India", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Supreme Court of India recorded adverse findings against police personnel.", "disposition": "adverse finding compensation", "source": "2025 INSC 870", "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/189554683/", "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-tg-hc" ], "merged_case_id": "cop-tg-hc-3", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2025-0076", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1381", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Telangana Man vs The State of Telangana", "display_title_redacted": "Telangana Man vs The State of Telangana", "state": "Telangana", "district": null, "district_at_time": null, "city_town": null, "police_station_or_unit": "Telangana Police (FIR Nos. 8, 13 and 146 of 2025)", "court": "High Court for the State of Telangana", "court_as_verified": "High Court for the State of Telangana", "bench": null, "case_title": "Telangana Man vs The State of Telangana", "case_number": "Criminal Petition Nos. 4905, 4903 and 8416 of 2025", "citation": null, "judges": [ "N. Tukaramji" ], "judgment_date": "2025-09-10", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2025, "incident_date": null, "incident_year": null, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "false_implication_fabrication", "subcategory": "false_implication_fabrication", "subcategory_display": "false implication fabrication", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "adverse_finding", "sections": [ "Section 176(1) of the BNSS" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Investigating officers", "role": "named_in_finding", "unit": "Telangana Police", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "name_public": null, "display": "Investigating officers, Telangana Police" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Telangana man" } ], "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/25907023/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.barandbench.com/news/police-action-against-social-media-posts-supreme-court-upholds-telangana-hc-safeguards" ], "summary": "The High Court examined three FIRs registered over social media posts mocking the ruling party on complaints by third parties. The High Court held that the posts were plainly political criticism and satire and disclosed no cognizable offence. The High Court held that continuation of the proceedings would amount to an abuse of process. The High Court quashed all three FIRs and directed detailed guidelines for police to follow before registering FIRs over speech, with a copy to the DGP.", "summary_verified": "The High Court examined three FIRs registered over social media posts mocking the ruling party on complaints by third parties. The High Court held that the posts were plainly political criticism and satire and disclosed no cognizable offence. The High Court held that continuation of the proceedings would amount to an abuse of process. The High Court quashed all three FIRs and directed detailed guidelines for police to follow before registering FIRs over speech, with a copy to the DGP.", "court_quote": "continuation of proceedings would amount to an abuse of process.", "court_quote_para": "para 28", "confidence": "medium", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Verified against the cited judgment.", "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": "2025-09-10", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "High Court for the State of Telangana", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The High Court for the State of Telangana recorded adverse findings against police personnel.", "disposition": "adverse finding compensation", "source": "Criminal Petition Nos. 4905, 4903 and 8416 of 2025", "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/25907023/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.barandbench.com/news/police-action-against-social-media-posts-supreme-court-upholds-telangana-hc-safeguards", "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-tg-hc" ], "merged_case_id": "cop-tg-hc-2", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2026-0094", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1380", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "M/s [name withheld] vs [name withheld]", "display_title_redacted": "M/s [name withheld] vs [name withheld]", "state": "Telangana", "district": "Medchal-Malkajgiri", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": null, "police_station_or_unit": "HYDRAA with Hyderabad police support", "court": "High Court for the State of Telangana", "court_as_verified": "High Court for the State of Telangana", "bench": null, "case_title": "M/s [name withheld] vs [name withheld]", "case_number": "Contempt Case Nos. 3482 and 3483 of 2026", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Anil Kumar Jukanti" ], "judgment_date": "2026-07-27", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2026, "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": "adverse_finding", "sections": [], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Commissioner (IPS officer)", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "Hyderabad Disaster Response and Assets Protection Agency (HYDRAA)", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "name_public": null, "display": "Commissioner (IPS officer), Hyderabad Disaster Response and Assets Protection Agency (HYDRAA)" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 0, "sentence_type": "imprisonment", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/27710886/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.barandbench.com/news/here-is-why-telangana-high-court-ordered-removal-of-ips-officer-as-hydraa-commissioner" ], "summary": "The High Court dealt with contempt petitions alleging HYDRAA staff entered the petitioner's Lothukunta land with police presence and machinery despite restraining orders and an undertaking. The High Court held that detaining the petitioner's representative and registering an FIR were not denied and that the conduct met the test for defiance. The High Court rejected the apology as shorn of penitence. The High Court held the officer guilty of civil contempt and directed that he be relieved as Commissioner of HYDRAA.", "summary_verified": "The High Court dealt with contempt petitions alleging HYDRAA staff entered the petitioner's Lothukunta land with police presence and machinery despite restraining orders and an undertaking. The High Court held that detaining the petitioner's representative and registering an FIR were not denied and that the conduct met the test for defiance. The High Court rejected the apology as shorn of penitence. The High Court held the officer guilty of civil contempt and directed that he be relieved as Commissioner of HYDRAA.", "court_quote": "willful, deliberate, intentional disobedience to the restraining orders of this Court and breach of an undertaking given", "court_quote_para": "para 57", "confidence": "medium", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Verified against the cited judgment.", "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": "2026-07-27", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "High Court for the State of Telangana", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The High Court for the State of Telangana recorded adverse findings against police personnel.", "disposition": "adverse finding compensation", "source": "Contempt Case Nos. 3482 and 3483 of 2026", "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/27710886/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.barandbench.com/news/here-is-why-telangana-high-court-ordered-removal-of-ips-officer-as-hydraa-commissioner", "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-tg-hc" ], "merged_case_id": "cop-tg-hc-1", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2026-0093", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1379", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Telangana Resident vs The State of Telangana", "display_title_redacted": "Telangana Resident vs The State of Telangana", "state": "Telangana", "district": null, "district_at_time": null, "city_town": null, "police_station_or_unit": "Falaknuma Police Station", "court": "High Court for the State of Telangana", "court_as_verified": "High Court for the State of Telangana", "bench": null, "case_title": "Telangana Resident vs The State of Telangana", "case_number": "W.P. No. 26326 of 2026", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Tangirala Madhavi Devi" ], "judgment_date": "2026-08-07", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2026, "incident_date": null, "incident_year": null, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "false_implication_fabrication", "subcategory": "false_implication_fabrication", "subcategory_display": "false implication fabrication", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "adverse_finding", "sections": [ "Section 94 of BNSS" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Investigating officer", "role": "named_in_finding", "unit": "Falaknuma Police Station", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "name_public": null, "display": "Investigating officer, Falaknuma Police Station" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "gender": null, "descriptor": "Telangana resident" } ], "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/75788034/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.barandbench.com/news/user-not-named-in-fir-cited-by-police-telangana-hc-quashes-police-notice-seeking-x-account-details" ], "summary": "The High Court examined a Section 94 BNSS notice sent to X seeking the petitioner's user details in Crime No. 404 of 2026. The High Court held that the FIR contained no reference to the petitioner in any way. The High Court held that there was no basis for issuing the notice against the petitioner. The High Court set aside the notice so far as it treated the petitioner as involved and restrained coercive steps without due process.", "summary_verified": "The High Court examined a Section 94 BNSS notice sent to X seeking the petitioner's user details in Crime No. 404 of 2026. The High Court held that the FIR contained no reference to the petitioner in any way. The High Court held that there was no basis for issuing the notice against the petitioner. The High Court set aside the notice so far as it treated the petitioner as involved and restrained coercive steps without due process.", "court_quote": "there is no basis for the issuance of the notice under Section 94 of BNSS to X (Twitter).", "court_quote_para": "para 4", "confidence": "medium", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Verified against the cited judgment.", "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": "2026-08-07", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "High Court for the State of Telangana", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The High Court for the State of Telangana recorded adverse findings against police personnel.", "disposition": "adverse finding compensation", "source": "W.P. No. 26326 of 2026", "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/75788034/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.barandbench.com/news/user-not-named-in-fir-cited-by-police-telangana-hc-quashes-police-notice-seeking-x-account-details", "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-tg-hc" ], "merged_case_id": "cop-tg-hc-0", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }, { "record_id": "CW-2026-0096", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1386", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Ranga Reddy Man vs Investigating Officer, Saroor Nagar Police Station & Anr", "display_title_redacted": "Ranga Reddy Man vs Investigating Officer, Saroor Nagar Police Station & Anr", "state": "Telangana", "district": "Ranga Reddy", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": null, "police_station_or_unit": "Saroor Nagar Police Station", "court": "High Court for the State of Telangana", "court_as_verified": "High Court for the State of Telangana", "bench": null, "case_title": "Ranga Reddy Man vs Investigating Officer, Saroor Nagar Police Station & Anr", "case_number": "Contempt Case No. 2485 of 2026", "citation": null, "judges": [ "K. Sujana" ], "judgment_date": "2026-09-18", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2026, "incident_date": "2026-04-28", "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": "conviction_by_hc", "sections": [ "Sections 10, 11 and 12 of the Contempt of Courts Act, 1971" ], "officers": [ { "rank": "Investigating Officer (reported as an Assistant Commissioner of Police)", "role": "convicted", "unit": "Saroor Nagar Police Station, Telangana Police", "name": null, "publish_grade": "unnamed", "name_public": null, "display": "Investigating Officer (reported as an Assistant Commissioner of Police), Saroor Nagar Police Station, Telangana Police" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Ranga Reddy man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": true, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "imprisonment", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/2026/09/24/160-katta-vamsi-702308.pdf", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.livelaw.in/telangana-high-court/telangana-high-court-police-officer-ignored-arrest-protection-order-551732" ], "summary": "The High Court recorded that it had granted a man interim protection from arrest on 21.04.2026, extended on 23.04.2026 and 27.04.2026, in an FIR registered at Saroor Nagar Police Station, and that he was nevertheless arrested on 28.04.2026 and produced before the Magistrate, who refused remand. The High Court rejected the investigating officer's apology and his explanation that he did not know of the extension, holding that he knew of the first protection order and should have verified its status, including from the court's website. The High Court held the investigating officer guilty of wilful disobedience and sentenced him to one month's imprisonment and a fine of Rs. 2,000; the contempt case against a sub-inspector was dismissed because he had no role in the arrest. At the Public Prosecutor's request the sentence was suspended till 19.10.2026 to allow an appeal.", "summary_verified": "The High Court recorded that it had granted a man interim protection from arrest on 21.04.2026, extended on 23.04.2026 and 27.04.2026, in an FIR registered at Saroor Nagar Police Station, and that he was nevertheless arrested on 28.04.2026 and produced before the Magistrate, who refused remand. The High Court rejected the investigating officer's apology and his explanation that he did not know of the extension, holding that he knew of the first protection order and should have verified its status, including from the court's website. The High Court held the investigating officer guilty of wilful disobedience and sentenced him to one month's imprisonment and a fine of Rs. 2,000; the contempt case against a sub-inspector was dismissed because he had no role in the arrest. At the Public Prosecutor's request the sentence was suspended till 19.10.2026 to allow an appeal.", "court_quote": "This Court holds that respondent No.1 has willfully disobeyed the orders passed by this Court and is, therefore, liable to be punished for contempt.", "court_quote_para": "18", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Checked against the order dated 18.09.2026 (LiveLaw PDF of Contempt Case No. 2485 of 2026). The order text calls the officer the Investigating Officer; the rank of Assistant Commissioner of Police comes from news reports.", "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": "Court finding", "position_explainer": "A court has made a finding on this allegation.", "official_finding_relation": "supports allegation" } ], "institutional_response": [ { "date": "2026-09-18", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "High Court for the State of Telangana", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The High Court held the investigating officer guilty of contempt and sentenced him to one month's imprisonment and a fine of Rs. 2,000, suspended till 19.10.2026.", "disposition": "conviction by HC (contempt)", "source": "Contempt Case No. 2485 of 2026", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." } ], "later_proceedings": [], "final_outcome_url": null, "followup_history": [ { "date": "2026-09-25", "scope": "Past-week sweep: record written from the order text; quote checked verbatim against the order." }, { "date": "2026-09-25", "scope": "Official source added: Telangana High Court order in C.C. No. 2485 of 2026 dated 18.09.2026 (copy hosted by LiveLaw); quote checked verbatim, sentence of one month and Rs 2,000 fine confirmed, suspended till 19.10.2026 for appeal." } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-25", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/telangana-high-court/telangana-high-court-police-officer-ignored-arrest-protection-order-551732", "link_checked": "2026-09-25" } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "claude-opus-5.5-week-0925" ], "merged_case_id": null, "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" } ] }