# Udhagamandalam Police Constable v. State rep. by S.D.M.

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## Report card

By judgment dated 28 April 2003 in Criminal Appeal Nos. 929-930 of 2002, the Supreme Court of India (Coram: Y. K. Sabharwal, H. K. Sema, JJ.) affirmed the conviction of the Constable, Prohibition Wing, Conoor Police Station.

- Register number: TN 43 CW 0001
- Case reference: Criminal Appeal Nos. 929-930 of 2002 / (2003) 6 SCC 73
- Court and date: Supreme Court of India (Coram: Y. K. Sabharwal, H. K. Sema, JJ.), 28 April 2003
- Officer(s) at the material time: Constable, Prohibition Wing, Conoor Police Station
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Section 346 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 366 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 376 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860
- Finding of the Court (extract): “The appellant at the relevant time was posted as a Constable in the Prohibition Wing of Conoor Police Station. The victim, PW1, was a young, recently married rustic woman. The commission of crime on the person of the victim by …”
- Verdict, sentence and quantum: Conviction upheld. Sentence: imprisonment and fine; maximum substantive term of 7 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://www.advocatekhoj.com/library/judgments/index.php?go=2003/april/visveswaran-vs-state-rep-by-s-d-m-77); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2003-0017)

**Record:** CW-2003-0017 (compiler id CWC-0905); case GAP2-57-001
**Title:** Udhagamandalam Police Constable v. State rep. by S.D.M.
**Court:** Supreme Court of India; judges: Y. K. Sabharwal; H. K. Sema
**Case number / citation:** Criminal Appeal Nos. 929-930 of 2002 / (2003) 6 SCC 73
**Judgment:** 2003-04-28 (2003, day precision)
**Incident date:** 1989-03-11 (1989)
**Place:** The Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu; city town: Udhagamandalam; police station or unit: Conoor Police Station (Prohibition Wing); force: state_police
**Category:** Violence & unlawful detention
**Sub-category:** custodial rape sexual assault
**Outcome:** Conviction upheld (conviction_upheld)
**Sections:** IPC 346; IPC 366; IPC 376
**Officers (gated display forms):** Constable, Prohibition Wing, Conoor Police Station (1 in record)
**Victims:** Udhagamandalam woman (1 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** mixed; max 7 yrs
**Sentence type:** mixed (mixed)

The judgment of the Supreme Court of India records the following account. On the night of 11-12 March 1989, a police constable took PW1 and her husband from a Kethi bus stand in a taxi on the pretext of suspicion, pushed the husband out en route, and raped PW1 in a Woodlands Hotel room at Udhagamandalam; she escaped in the morning and reported to Kethi Police Station. \[name withheld\], a constable in the Prohibition Wing of Conoor Police Station, was convicted by the trial court under Sections 346, 366 and 376 IPC and sentenced to 7 years RI with a Rs 10,000 fine, affirmed by the High Court. He challenged only his identity before the Supreme Court. The Court held identity proved by hotel booking records, his unexplained whereabouts, and his refusal to give a semen sample, and dismissed the appeals, upholding the conviction and sentence.

> The appellant at the relevant time was posted as a Constable in the Prohibition Wing of Conoor Police Station. The victim, PW1, was a young, recently married rustic woman. The commission of crime on the person of the victim by a Police Constable has also been fully established and is not a matter in issue.

**Sources (3):** [advocatekhoj.com](https://www.advocatekhoj.com/library/judgments/index.php?go=2003/april/visveswaran-vs-state-rep-by-s-d-m-77); [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1527467/); [casemine.com](https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/5609add9e4b0149711412583)
**Verification:** V2 · Externally reported
**Review:** Solo Staff combined review (one combined attestation) — not yet recorded
**admin category:** brutality
**admin subcategory:** custodial_rape_sexual_assault
**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'}
**anonymised:** False
**display title redacted:** Udhagamandalam Police Constable v. State rep. by S.D.M.
**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
**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': '(2003) 6 SCC 73', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}; {'date': '2003-04-28', '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': '(2003) 6 SCC 73', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://www.advocatekhoj.com/library/judgments/index.php?go=2003/april/visveswaran-vs-state-rep-by-s-d-m-77', 'link_checked': None}; {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1527467/', 'link_checked': None}; {'url': 'https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/5609add9e4b0149711412583', 'link_checked': None}
**retracted:** {"is_retracted": false}
**service:** police
**source assessment:** {"established": null, "basis": null}
**status:** current
**subcategory display:** custodial rape sexual assault
**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:** SC judgment verified (AdvocateKhoj + Indian Kanoon); police constable's rape conviction upheld, appeals dismissed.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Conviction upheld.

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