# Kalaburagi Man and Another vs State of Karnataka and Others

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## Report card

By judgment dated 18 August 2001 in Writ Petition (number not stated in reported text), the Karnataka High Court (Coram: V. Gopala Gowda, J.) returned findings adverse to 2 police personnel, namely: Veerabhadrappa (Assistant Sub-Inspector); Police Sub-Inspector, Station Bazar PS, Gulbarga, and directed payment of compensation of Rs 2 lakh (Rs 2,00,000).

- Register number: KA 32 CW 0001
- Case reference: Writ Petition (number not stated in reported text) / ILR 2004 KAR 3052
- Court and date: Karnataka High Court (Coram: V. Gopala Gowda, J.), 18 August 2001
- Officer(s) at the material time: Veerabhadrappa (Assistant Sub-Inspector); Police Sub-Inspector, Station Bazar PS, Gulbarga
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Article 226 of the Constitution of India
- Finding of the Court (extract): “It is crystal clear that Veerabhadrappa, A.S.I., took the law into his own hands and kept a Kalaburagi man in illegal detention for more than a month without producing him before the concerned Court.” (at para 5)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum: Adverse finding + compensation. Sentence: compensation only. Compensation: Rs 2 lakh (Rs 2,00,000).
- 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/1725699/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2001-0005)

**Record:** CW-2001-0005 (compiler id CWC-0447); case SWCUSTOD-012
**Title:** Kalaburagi Man and Another vs State of Karnataka and Others
**Court:** Karnataka High Court; judges: V. Gopala Gowda
**Case number / citation:** Writ Petition (number not stated in reported text) / ILR 2004 KAR 3052
**Judgment:** 2001-08-18 (2001, day precision)
**Incident date:** 1992-06-19 (1992)
**Place:** Kalaburagi, Karnataka (district at time: Gulbarga); city town: Kalaburagi; police station or unit: Chowk Police Station and Station Bazar Police Station, Gulbarga; force: state_police
**Category:** Violence & unlawful detention
**Sub-category:** custodial death
**Outcome:** Adverse finding + compensation (adverse_finding_compensation)
**Sections:** Constitution Art. 226
**Officers (gated display forms):** Veerabhadrappa (Assistant Sub-Inspector); Police Sub-Inspector, Station Bazar PS, Gulbarga (2 in record)
**Victims:** Kalaburagi man (1 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** compensation only; Rs 2 lakh (Rs 2,00,000)
**Sentence type:** compensation only (compensation_only)

The judgment of the Karnataka High Court records the following account. A Kalaburagi man, who had demanded back Rs 25,000 paid for a promised job, was falsely implicated at the recipient's instance, illegally detained at Chowk PS from 16 May 1992, briefly escaped, was handed by the ASI to PSI, and died in the Station Bazar lock-up on 19 June 1992. On the undisputed COD report, the Karnataka High Court found month-long illegal detention without production before court in conspiracy with the complainant, and fixed tortious liability on the State. The court awarded the mother 2 lakh with 6 percent per annum interest from the date of illegal detention, ordered the State to recover proportionately from the guilty personnel, and directed disciplinary proceedings within four weeks. The pending Sessions trial against 22 charge-sheeted accused was left to proceed independently.

> It is crystal clear that Veerabhadrappa, A.S.I., took the law into his own hands and kept a Kalaburagi man in illegal detention for more than a month without producing him before the concerned Court.

**Sources (1):** [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1725699/)
**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:** Kalaburagi Man and Another vs State of Karnataka and Others
**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': '2001-08-18', 'action_type': 'Order issued', 'status': 'Concluded', 'authority': 'Karnataka High Court', 'independence': 'External', 'legal_effect': 'Binding', 'description': 'The Karnataka High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 200,000.', 'disposition': 'Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)', 'source': 'ILR 2004 KAR 3052', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1725699/', '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:** Rs 2 lakh plus 6% interest for month-long illegal detention and custodial death.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Adverse finding + compensation.

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