# Pavagada Police Police Constable vs The Director General and Inspector General of Police and Another

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## Report card

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.
- Source orders: [Judgment / order (primary source)](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/38508783/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2014-0024)

**Record:** CW-2014-0024 (compiler id CWC-1231); case GAP3-59-003
**Title:** Pavagada Police Police Constable vs The Director General and Inspector General of Police and Another
**Court:** Karnataka High Court; judges: K.L. Manjunath; Ravi Malimath
**Case number / citation:** Writ Petition No. 29152 of 2010 (S-KAT)
**Judgment:** 2014-03-20 (2014, day precision)
**Incident date:** 1987-02-15 (1987)
**Place:** Tumakuru, Karnataka (district at time: Tumkur); city town: Pavagada; police station or unit: Pavagada Police Station; force: state_police
**Category:** Violence & unlawful detention
**Sub-category:** custodial torture
**Outcome:** Disciplinary action upheld (disciplinary_upheld)
**Sections:** Karnataka State Police (Disciplinary Proceedings) Rules 1965 Rule 6(2) r/w Rule 8
**Officers (gated display forms):** Police Constable, Pavagada police, Tumkur district (1 in record)
**Victims:** Pavagada woman; Pavagada man (2 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** dismissal
**Sentence type:** dismissal (dismissal)

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.

> 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.

**Sources (1):** [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/38508783/)
**Verification:** V2 · Externally reported
**Review:** Solo Staff combined review (one combined attestation) — not yet recorded
**admin category:** brutality
**admin subcategory:** custodial_torture
**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:** 10
**display title redacted:** Pavagada Police Police Constable vs The Director General and Inspector General of Police and Another
**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': \['court_quote'\]}
**followup status:** checked
**institutional response:** {'date': '2014-03-20', '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': 'Writ Petition No. 29152 of 2010 (S-KAT)', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/38508783/', 'link_checked': None}
**retracted:** {"is_retracted": false}
**service:** police
**source assessment:** {"established": null, "basis": null}
**status:** current
**subcategory display:** custodial torture
**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 Indian Kanoon; removal of constable for custodial assault and sexual humiliation upheld.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Disciplinary action upheld.

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