# Bachupally Resident & Ors. v. State of Telangana

HTML version: [https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2023-0044](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2023-0044)

## Report card

By judgment dated 30 June 2023 in Criminal Petition No. 6096 of 2019, the Telangana High Court (Coram: M. Laxman, J.) returned findings adverse to the Police personnel, and directed payment of compensation of Rs 25,000.

- Register number: TG 08 CW 0002
- Case reference: Criminal Petition No. 6096 of 2019
- Court and date: Telangana High Court (Coram: M. Laxman, J.), 30 June 2023
- Officer(s) at the material time: Police personnel
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Section 447 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 427 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973
- Finding of the Court (extract): “This is a clear case of abuse of process. On account of improper investigation, the petitioners were unnecessarily subjected to criminal prosecution and undergone mental agony.” (at para para 4)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum: Adverse finding + compensation. Sentence: compensation only. Compensation: Rs 25,000.
- 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.verdictum.in/pdf_upload/koduluri-ramu-ors-vs-state-of-telangana-1521904.pdf); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2023-0044)

**Record:** CW-2023-0044 (compiler id CWC-0929); case GAP2-8-001
**Title:** Bachupally Resident & Ors. v. State of Telangana
**Court:** Telangana High Court; judges: M. Laxman
**Case number / citation:** Criminal Petition No. 6096 of 2019
**Judgment:** 2023-06-30 (2023, day precision)
**Incident date:** 2009-01-24 (2009)
**Place:** Medchal-Malkajgiri, Telangana (district at time: Ranga Reddy); city town: Bachupally; force: state_police
**Category:** Other misconduct
**Sub-category:** false implication fabrication
**Outcome:** Adverse finding + compensation (adverse_finding_compensation)
**Sections:** IPC s.447; IPC s.427; CrPC s.482
**Officers (gated display forms):** Police personnel (1 in record)
**Victims:** Bachupally resident; Bachupally resident; Bachupally resident; Bachupally resident (4 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** compensation only; Rs 25,000
**Sentence type:** compensation only (compensation_only)

The Telangana High Court allowed a Section 482 petition and quashed the proceedings against four accused in a Bachupally land-trespass case (C.C. No. 33 of 2019). The Court found the charge sheet was filed without any basis: the petitioners were named neither in the FIR nor the private complaint nor by any witness, while the person actually named by the complainant was deleted without reasons. Holding this a clear case of abuse of process causing needless prosecution and mental agony through improper investigation, the Court awarded Rs 25,000 exemplary costs payable by the State with liberty to recover the sum from the investigating officer who filed the charge sheet. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> This is a clear case of abuse of process. On account of improper investigation, the petitioners were unnecessarily subjected to criminal prosecution and undergone mental agony.

**Sources (2):** [verdictum.in](https://www.verdictum.in/pdf_upload/koduluri-ramu-ors-vs-state-of-telangana-1521904.pdf); [livelaw.in](https://www.livelaw.in/amp/high-court/telangana-high-court/telangana-high-court-cost-wrong-implication-trespass-case-232835)
**Verification:** V2 · Externally reported
**Review:** Solo Staff combined review (one combined attestation) — not yet recorded
**admin category:** misconduct
**admin subcategory:** false_implication_fabrication
**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:** para 4
**display title redacted:** Bachupally Resident & Ors. v. State of Telangana
**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': '2023-06-30', 'action_type': 'Order issued', 'status': 'Concluded', 'authority': 'Telangana High Court', 'independence': 'External', 'legal_effect': 'Binding', 'description': 'The Telangana High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 25,000.', 'disposition': 'Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)', 'source': 'Criminal Petition No. 6096 of 2019', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://www.verdictum.in/pdf_upload/koduluri-ramu-ors-vs-state-of-telangana-1521904.pdf', 'link_checked': None}; {'url': 'https://www.livelaw.in/amp/high-court/telangana-high-court/telangana-high-court-cost-wrong-implication-trespass-case-232835', 'link_checked': None}
**retracted:** {"is_retracted": false}
**service:** police
**source assessment:** {"established": null, "basis": null}
**status:** current
**subcategory display:** false implication fabrication
**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:** Telangana HC quashed prosecution as abuse of process from improper investigation; Rs 25,000 exemplary costs, recoverable from IO.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Adverse finding + compensation.

[Open CW-2023-0044](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2023-0044)