4 Sep 2024
Order issued
ConcludedThe Kerala High Court entered convictions against police personnel in this judgment.
Conviction · Supports allegation.
Source: Kerala High Court judgment 2024-09-04
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CW-2024-0016Palakkad, KeralaJudgment 4 September 2024
Alathur Man v. V. R. Raneesh
The judgment of the Kerala High Court records the following account. Advocate an Alathur man complained that Sub-Inspector V. R. Raneesh of Alathur Police Station insulted him with abusive language and expletives and threatened physical abuse when he visited the station to comply with a Magistrate's order, in violation of the Court's earlier directions against derogatory police language. The officer tendered an apology and submitted to the contempt jurisdiction. Justice Devan Ramachandran convicted him of criminal contempt, imposed two months' simple imprisonment suspended for one year on condition of good conduct, and said the sentence should be an example to all officers. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.
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Report card
By judgment dated 4 September 2024, the Kerala High Court (Coram: Devan Ramachandran, J.) recorded the conviction of the V. R. Raneesh (Sub-Inspector).
- Register number
- KL 09 CW 0002
- Case reference
- Not stated
- Court and date
- Kerala High Court (Coram: Devan Ramachandran, J.), 4 September 2024
- Officer(s) at the material time
- V. R. Raneesh (Sub-Inspector)
- Present service status
- Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked
- the Contempt of Courts Act, 1971
- Finding of the Court (extract)
- “In the afore circumstances, I order this Contempt of Court Case, sentencing the first respondent to two months of simple imprisonment under the provisions of Contempt of Court Act; however, suspending the same for a period of one year.” (at para 36)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum
- Conviction entered by High Court. Sentence: imprisonment; maximum substantive term of 0.167 years.
- Present status of the proceedings
- No further proceedings are recorded in the cited sources; the judgment is the concluded position shown.
Compiled from the judgment and the cited sources. Findings are those of the court; this card adds none of its own.
Current position
The Kerala High Court judgment dated 4 September 2024 is the concluded position shown in the cited sources.
Evidence position
Recorded allegations
OtherPrimary
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.
“In the afore circumstances, I order this Contempt of Court Case, sentencing the first respondent to two months of simple imprisonment under the provisions of Contempt of Court Act; however, suspending the same for a period of one year.” (para 36)
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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.