# State of Karnataka vs Bengaluru Police Police Constable (PC No. 2545)

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## Report card

By judgment dated 26 October 2009 in W.P. No. 6376/2007 (S), the Karnataka High Court (Coram: B.V. Nagarathna, J.) upheld the disciplinary action taken against the Police Constable (PC No. 2545), Mico Layout Police Station, Bengaluru.

- Register number: KA 01 CW 0014
- Case reference: W.P. No. 6376/2007 (S)
- Court and date: Karnataka High Court (Coram: B.V. Nagarathna, J.), 26 October 2009
- Officer(s) at the material time: Police Constable (PC No. 2545), Mico Layout Police Station, Bengaluru
- Present service status: Recorded in the cited sources as compulsorily retired.
- Provisions invoked: Section 375 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860
- Finding of the Court (extract): “The order of dismissal imposed by the disciplinary authority is converted to one of compulsory retirement. The respondent shall be entitled to all terminal benefits but shall not be entitled to any benefit for the period from the date of …” (at para 9)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum: Disciplinary action upheld. Sentence: dismissal.
- 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/1959223/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2009-0031)

**Record:** CW-2009-0031 (compiler id CWC-1227); case GAP3-58-001
**Title:** State of Karnataka vs Bengaluru Police Police Constable (PC No. 2545)
**Court:** Karnataka High Court; judges: B.V. Nagarathna
**Case number / citation:** W.P. No. 6376/2007 (S)
**Judgment:** 2009-10-26 (2009, day precision)
**Incident date:** 1983-01-01 (1983)
**Place:** Bengaluru Urban, Karnataka (district at time: Bangalore); city town: Bengaluru; police station or unit: Mico Layout Police Station; force: state_police
**Category:** Violence & unlawful detention
**Sub-category:** custodial rape sexual assault
**Outcome:** Disciplinary action upheld (disciplinary_upheld)
**Sections:** IPC 375
**Officers (gated display forms):** Police Constable (PC No. 2545), Mico Layout Police Station, Bengaluru (1 in record)
**Victims:** Bengaluru woman (1 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** dismissal
**Sentence type:** dismissal (dismissal)

The judgment of the Karnataka High Court records the following account. Police Constable (PC No. 2545) of Mico Layout Police Station, Bengaluru, brought a helpless woman to the police station at about 1 a.m. in 1983 and sexually abused her, for which the enquiry officer found the departmental charges proved and he was dismissed on 19 August 1994. His criminal conviction had been set aside by the High Court in Crl.A. No. 154/1986 on benefit of doubt, and the Karnataka Administrative Tribunal ordered reinstatement with full benefits. The High Court held the acquittal was not honourable and the Tribunal erred, allowing the State's writ petition in part. The dismissal was converted to compulsory retirement with terminal benefits but no benefits for the dismissal-to-judgment period. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> The order of dismissal imposed by the disciplinary authority is converted to one of compulsory retirement. The respondent shall be entitled to all terminal benefits but shall not be entitled to any benefit for the period from the date of order of dismissal till today.

**Sources (1):** [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1959223/)
**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
**court quote para:** 9
**display title redacted:** State of Karnataka vs Bengaluru Police Police Constable (PC No. 2545)
**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': '2009-10-26', 'action_type': 'Order issued', 'status': 'Concluded', 'authority': 'Karnataka High Court', 'independence': 'External', 'legal_effect': 'Binding', 'description': 'The Karnataka High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.', 'disposition': 'Disciplinary action · Procedural only', 'source': 'W.P. No. 6376/2007 (S)', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1959223/', '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:** HC judgment verified on IK (OCR degraded); sexual misconduct in custody held proved, dismissal modified to compulsory retirement.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Disciplinary action upheld.

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