10 Apr 1963
Order issued
ConcludedThe Supreme Court of India upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.
Disciplinary action · Procedural only.
Source: AIR 1963 SC 1723, 1964 SCR (3) 25
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CW-1963-0001Anakapalli, Andhra PradeshJudgment 10 April 1963
State of Andhra Pradesh vs Kodur Police Sub-Inspector of Police (Station House Officer)
The Supreme Court restored the removal from service of Sub-Inspector, officer in charge of Kodur Police Station, for reprehensible conduct in wrongfully confining theft suspect [name withheld] in the station from the night of 5 March 1954 to 7 March 1954 without a magistrate remand, diary entry, or written acknowledgment. The Court found the departmental enquiry regularly proved the charge and rejected the officer defence that a Kodur man had escaped from village servants en route. Holding that the High Court had no jurisdiction under Article 226 to reappreciate departmental evidence by the criminal standard of proof beyond reasonable doubt, the Court set aside the High Court order quashing the DIG dismissal (modified to removal by the IGP) and dismissed the officer writ petition. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.
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By judgment dated 10 April 1963, the Supreme Court of India (Coram: J.C. Shah, B.P. Sinha, N. Rajagopala Ayyangar, JJ.) upheld the disciplinary action taken against the Sub-Inspector of Police (Station House Officer), Kodur Police Station.
- Register number
- AP 39 CW 0002
- Case reference
- AIR 1963 SC 1723, 1964 SCR (3) 25
- Court and date
- Supreme Court of India (Coram: J.C. Shah, B.P. Sinha, N. Rajagopala Ayyangar, JJ.), 10 April 1963
- Officer(s) at the material time
- Sub-Inspector of Police (Station House Officer), Kodur Police Station
- Present service status
- Recorded in the cited sources as removed from service.
- Provisions invoked
- Not stated in the cited sources
- Finding of the Court (extract)
- “The charge against the respondent was that he had wrongfully confined a Kodur man on March 5, 1954, to March 7, 1954, in the police station.” (at para n/a)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum
- Disciplinary action upheld. Sentence: removal.
- Present status of the proceedings
- No further proceedings are recorded in the cited sources; the judgment is the concluded position shown.
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Current position
The Supreme Court of India judgment dated 10 April 1963 is the concluded position shown in the cited sources.
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“The charge against the respondent was that he had wrongfully confined a Kodur man on March 5, 1954, to March 7, 1954, in the police station.” (para n/a)
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Follow-up history
19 Sep 2026
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Corrections (0): No corrections recorded.
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