# Thiruvananthapuram Police Police Constable (A1) And Another vs State Of Kerala

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## Report card

By judgment dated 24 November 1993 in Criminal Appeal No. 48 of 1986, the Supreme Court of India (Coram: K. Jayachandra Reddy, G. N. Ray, JJ.) affirmed the conviction of 2 police personnel, namely: Police Constable (A1), Fort Police Station, Thiruvananthapuram; Police Constable (A4), Central Crime Station, Thiruvananthapuram.

- Register number: KL 01 CW 0001
- Case reference: Criminal Appeal No. 48 of 1986 / AIR 1994 SC 565
- Court and date: Supreme Court of India (Coram: K. Jayachandra Reddy, G. N. Ray, JJ.), 24 November 1993
- Officer(s) at the material time: Police Constable (A1), Fort Police Station, Thiruvananthapuram; Police Constable (A4), Central Crime Station, Thiruvananthapuram
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Section 304 Part II of the Indian Penal Code, 1860
- Finding of the Court (extract): “The two courts below have concurrently held that the evidence of P.W.5 as corroborated by the evidence of P.W.6 establishes the guilt of the appellants beyond all reasonable doubt and we see no grounds to come to a different conclusion. …” (at para 5)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum: Conviction upheld. Sentence: imprisonment; maximum substantive term of 5 years.
- 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/143296/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-1993-0005)

**Record:** CW-1993-0005 (compiler id CWC-0202); case KERALA-002
**Title:** Thiruvananthapuram Police Police Constable (A1) And Another vs State Of Kerala
**Court:** Supreme Court of India; judges: K. Jayachandra Reddy; G. N. Ray
**Case number / citation:** Criminal Appeal No. 48 of 1986 / AIR 1994 SC 565
**Judgment:** 1993-11-24 (1993, day precision)
**Incident date:** 1980-12-18 (1980)
**Place:** Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala; city town: Thiruvananthapuram; police station or unit: Fort Police Station, Thiruvananthapuram; force: state_police
**Category:** Violence & unlawful detention
**Sub-category:** custodial death
**Outcome:** Conviction upheld (conviction_upheld)
**Sections:** IPC 304 Part II
**Officers (gated display forms):** Police Constable (A1), Fort Police Station, Thiruvananthapuram; Police Constable (A4), Central Crime Station, Thiruvananthapuram (2 in record)
**Victims:** Thiruvananthapuram man (1 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** imprisonment; max 5 yrs
**Sentence type:** imprisonment (imprisonment)

The judgment of the Supreme Court of India records the following account. A Thiruvananthapuram man, picked up after a quarrel with an off-duty constable over plantains on 18 December 1980, was slapped, kicked and had his head dashed against the wall inside Fort Police Station, Thiruvananthapuram, and died of the injuries. The trial court convicted only two of the 21 accused policemen under Section 304 Part II IPC with five years rigorous imprisonment each, and the Kerala High Court dismissed both the accused's and the State's appeals. The Supreme Court accepted the eyewitness account of PWs 5 and 6 corroborated by medical evidence, dismissed the appeal, and ordered the convicted constables, who were on bail, to surrender and serve the remaining sentence.

> The two courts below have concurrently held that the evidence of P.W.5 as corroborated by the evidence of P.W.6 establishes the guilt of the appellants beyond all reasonable doubt and we see no grounds to come to a different conclusion. Accordingly the appeal is dismissed.

**Sources (2):** [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/143296/); [courtkutchehry.com](https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/676541/sadasivan-mohanachandran-and-another-vs-state-of-kerala/)
**Verification:** V2 · Externally reported
**Review:** Solo Staff combined review (one combined attestation) — not yet recorded
**admin category:** brutality
**admin subcategory:** custodial_death
**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'}
**anonymised:** False
**court quote para:** 5
**display title redacted:** Thiruvananthapuram Police Police Constable (A1) And Another vs State Of Kerala
**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': None, '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 1994 SC 565', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}; {'date': '1993-11-24', '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 1994 SC 565', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/143296/', 'link_checked': None}; {'url': 'https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/676541/sadasivan-mohanachandran-and-another-vs-state-of-kerala/', 'link_checked': None}
**retracted:** {"is_retracted": false}
**service:** police
**source assessment:** {"established": null, "basis": null}
**status:** current
**subcategory display:** custodial death
**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 dismissed appeal of two Kerala police constables, upholding 5-year RI conviction under s.304 Part II for beating a Thiruvananthapuram man to death inside Fort Police Station.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Conviction upheld.

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