# Gangireddy Rami Reddy vs The State of AP rep. by its Spl. PP Hyd., for ACB

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## Report card

By judgment dated 20 September 2022 in Criminal Appeal No. 1740 of 2007, the Telangana High Court (Coram: K. Surender, J.) affirmed the conviction of the Gangireddy Rami Reddy (Traffic Inspector).

- Register number: TG 03 CW 0003
- Case reference: Criminal Appeal No. 1740 of 2007
- Court and date: Telangana High Court (Coram: K. Surender, J.), 20 September 2022
- Officer(s) at the material time: Gangireddy Rami Reddy (Traffic Inspector)
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Section 7 of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988; Section 13(1)(d) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988; Section 13(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988
- Finding of the Court (extract): “The presence of the lorry and driver in the police station indicates that the appellant, who was in charge of the police station had detained the lorry and P.W.8 for a period of eight days without following due procedure under …” (at para 7)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum: Conviction upheld. Sentence: imprisonment; maximum substantive term of 1 year.
- Present status of the proceedings: Supreme Court of India, 18 January 2023: appeal pending.
- Source orders: [Judgment / order (primary source)](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/187179343/); [Supreme Court of India order](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/112676980/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2022-0019)

**Record:** CW-2022-0019 (compiler id CWC-0388); case TELANG-011
**Title:** Gangireddy Rami Reddy vs The State of AP rep. by its Spl. PP Hyd., for ACB
**Court:** Telangana High Court; judges: K. Surender
**Case number / citation:** Criminal Appeal No. 1740 of 2007
**Judgment:** 2022-09-20 (2022, day precision)
**Incident date:** 2000-07-29 (2000)
**Place:** Warangal, Telangana; city town: Warangal; police station or unit: Mattewada Police Station; force: state_police
**Category:** Bribery & extortion
**Sub-category:** bribery pc act
**Outcome:** Conviction upheld (conviction_upheld)
**Sections:** PC Act 1988 s.7; PC Act 1988 s.13(1)(d); PC Act 1988 s.13(2)
**Officers (gated display forms):** Gangireddy Rami Reddy (Traffic Inspector) (1 in record)
**Victims:** Warangal man; Warangal man (2 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** imprisonment; max 1 yrs
**Sentence type:** imprisonment (imprisonment)

The Telangana High Court dismissed the appeal of Traffic Inspector Gangireddy Rami Reddy, then in charge of Mattewada police station, confirming one year rigorous imprisonment on each PC Act count. The Court found he had detained a lorry and its driver in the station for nine days after a road accident without producing either before a magistrate, and demanded Rs 8,000 from the lorry owner for their release. The ACB Warangal trap of 29 July 2000 succeeded when he took the tainted notes into his table drawer and his right-hand wash tested positive. It held the unexplained detention corroborated the demand, rejected the planted-money defence, and sustained the Special Court judgment. An SLP against the judgment was filed in the Supreme Court in January 2023. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> The presence of the lorry and driver in the police station indicates that the appellant, who was in charge of the police station had detained the lorry and P.W.8 for a period of eight days without following due procedure under Code of Criminal Procedure. In the said circumstances, the claim of P.W.1 that the appellant demanded amount is believable. It cannot be said that a false complaint was made against the appellant.

**Sources (2):** [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/187179343/); [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/112676980/)
**Verification:** V2 · Externally reported
**Review:** Solo Staff combined review (one combined attestation) — not yet recorded
**admin category:** corruption
**admin subcategory:** bribery_pc_act
**allegations:** {'category': 'Other', '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:** 7
**display title redacted:** Gangireddy Rami Reddy vs The State of AP rep. by its Spl. PP Hyd., for ACB
**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': None, 'action_type': 'Conviction', 'status': 'Concluded', 'authority': 'Trial court (as recorded in the Telangana High Court judgment)', 'independence': 'External', 'legal_effect': 'Binding', 'description': 'The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Telangana High Court judgment.', 'disposition': 'Conviction · Supports allegation', 'source': 'Criminal Appeal No. 1740 of 2007', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}; {'date': '2022-09-20', 'action_type': 'Order issued', 'status': 'Concluded', 'authority': 'Telangana High Court', 'independence': 'External', 'legal_effect': 'Binding', 'description': 'The Telangana High Court dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.', 'disposition': 'Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)', 'source': 'Criminal Appeal No. 1740 of 2007', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}; {'date': '2023-01-18', 'action_type': 'Appeal pending', 'status': 'Pending', 'authority': 'Supreme Court of India', 'independence': 'External', 'legal_effect': 'Binding', 'description': "As of 18 January 2023, an appeal arising from this judgment was pending before the Supreme Court of India (officers: Gangireddy Rami Reddy); the judgment's findings had not been set aside on that date.", 'disposition': 'Later proceeding · Appeal pending', 'source': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/112676980/', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**later proceedings:** {'court': 'Supreme Court of India', 'date': '2023-01-18', 'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/112676980/', 'outcome': 'pending_appeal'}
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/187179343/', 'link_checked': None}; {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/112676980/', 'link_checked': None}
**retracted:** {"is_retracted": false}
**service:** police
**source assessment:** {"established": null, "basis": null}
**status:** current
**subcategory display:** bribery pc act
**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:** 9-day illegal detention corroborated bribe demand; 1y RI on both PC Act counts confirmed.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Conviction upheld.

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