# State of Andhra Pradesh vs Kodur Police Sub-Inspector of Police (Station House Officer)

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## Report card

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.
- Source orders: [Judgment / order (primary source)](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1763592/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-1963-0001)

**Record:** CW-1963-0001 (compiler id CWC-0012); case ANDHRA-012
**Title:** State of Andhra Pradesh vs Kodur Police Sub-Inspector of Police (Station House Officer)
**Court:** Supreme Court of India; judges: J.C. Shah; B.P. Sinha; N. Rajagopala Ayyangar
**Case number / citation:** AIR 1963 SC 1723, 1964 SCR (3) 25
**Judgment:** 1963-04-10 (1963, day precision)
**Incident date:** 1954-03-05 (1954)
**Place:** Anakapalli, Andhra Pradesh (district at time: Visakhapatnam); city town: Kodur; police station or unit: Kodur Police Station; force: state_police
**Category:** Violence & unlawful detention
**Sub-category:** illegal detention false imprisonment
**Outcome:** Disciplinary action upheld (disciplinary_upheld)
**Officers (gated display forms):** Sub-Inspector of Police (Station House Officer), Kodur Police Station (1 in record)
**Victims:** Kodur man (1 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** removal
**Sentence type:** removal (removal)

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.

> 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.

**Sources (1):** [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1763592/)
**Verification:** V2 · Externally reported
**Review:** Solo Staff combined review (one combined attestation) — not yet recorded
**admin category:** misconduct
**admin subcategory:** illegal_detention_false_imprisonment
**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'}
**anonymised:** False
**court quote para:** n/a
**display title redacted:** State of Andhra Pradesh vs Kodur Police Sub-Inspector of Police (Station House Officer)
**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
**institutional response:** {'date': '1963-04-10', 'action_type': 'Order issued', 'status': 'Concluded', 'authority': 'Supreme Court of India', 'independence': 'External', 'legal_effect': 'Binding', 'description': 'The Supreme Court of India upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.', 'disposition': 'Disciplinary action · Procedural only', 'source': 'AIR 1963 SC 1723, 1964 SCR (3) 25', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1763592/', 'link_checked': None}
**retracted:** {"is_retracted": false}
**service:** police
**source assessment:** {"established": null, "basis": null}
**status:** current
**subcategory display:** illegal detention false imprisonment
**tier:** Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded
**tier badge:** Externally reported
**tier history:** Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded
**verdict:** accept
**verdict note:** Supreme Court set aside HC quashing and restored removal of SHO for wrongfully confining a Kodur man in Kodur PS for 3 days without remand.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Disciplinary action upheld.

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