20 Mar 2014
Order issued
ConcludedThe Karnataka High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.
Disciplinary action · Procedural only.
Source: Writ Petition No. 29152 of 2010 (S-KAT)
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CW-2014-0024Tumakuru, KarnatakaJudgment 20 March 2014
Pavagada Police Police Constable vs The Director General and Inspector General of Police and Another
The judgment of the Karnataka High Court records the following account. On the night of 15 February 1987, a woman and her husband who had missed their bus in Pavagada town were stopped by three drunken police constables including [name withheld], abused and assaulted, then taken by jeep to the police station where they were inhumanly beaten and the woman was sexually humiliated. A commission of inquiry indicted the police, and a joint disciplinary proceeding held the grave-misconduct charge proved against [name withheld], leading to his removal from service. The Karnataka High Court credited the direct evidence of both victims, rejected pleas of discrimination, disproportionality and reliance on a technical criminal-trial acquittal, and dismissed the writ petition. The court sustained the removal from service; no compensation was ordered. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.
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By judgment dated 20 March 2014 in Writ Petition No. 29152 of 2010 (S-KAT), the Karnataka High Court (Coram: K.L. Manjunath, Ravi Malimath, JJ.) upheld the disciplinary action taken against the Police Constable, Pavagada police, Tumkur district.
- Register number
- KA 06 CW 0001
- Case reference
- Writ Petition No. 29152 of 2010 (S-KAT)
- Court and date
- Karnataka High Court (Coram: K.L. Manjunath, Ravi Malimath, JJ.), 20 March 2014
- Officer(s) at the material time
- Police Constable, Pavagada police, Tumkur district
- Present service status
- Recorded in the cited sources as removed from service.
- Provisions invoked
- Rule 6(2) read with Rule 8 of the Karnataka State Police (Disciplinary Proceedings) Rules, 1965
- Finding of the Court (extract)
- “Charge no.2 was held proved to the effect that the petitioner and two others assaulted [survivor] and her husband and poked at her private parts with their sticks and kicked them with the boots and thus committed grave misconduct.” (at para 10)
- 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.
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Current position
The Karnataka High Court judgment dated 20 March 2014 is the concluded position shown in the cited sources.
Evidence position
Recorded allegations
Custodial torturePrimary
Material fact supported
Reliable material supports a specifically documented fact relevant to that allegation, not necessarily the full allegation, causation, intent, unlawfulness, or responsibility.
Official finding: supports allegation.
Attributed to the court
What the court found
Holding not recorded separately.
“Charge no.2 was held proved to the effect that the petitioner and two others assaulted [survivor] and her husband and poked at her private parts with their sticks and kicked them with the boots and thus committed grave misconduct.” (para 10)
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Follow-up history
19 Sep 2026
(Round-8 full re-verification: published record re-checked against the judgment text (outcome, officers, quote, key facts) plus methodology-compliance pass; skills-guided adversarial re-verification of the published record against the judgment text (reverify/t1-*/adversarial-8.jsonl))
Corrections (0): No corrections recorded.
Review: Solo Staff combined review (one combined attestation) — not yet recorded.