The Supreme Court dismissed the appeals of police accused Nos. 2 to 4 and affirmed their convictions and 7-year sentences for the custodial death of a Puducherry man @ a Puducherry man, who was brutally beaten at Odiansalai police station on 29 December 1993 and died of multiple blunt-force injuries. The Court held the Madras High Court was justified in affirming the trial court's judgment, while allowing the appeals of accused Nos. 6 to 8. In the companion appeal it upheld the doctor's Section 201 Part II conviction for the false first post-mortem but modified his one-year sentence to a Rs 1,00,000 fine payable to the Puducherry Legal Services Authority. Officer names and ranks are not stated in the available Supreme Court text.
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How verification works →By judgment dated 17 September 2025 in Crl.A. Nos. 1169-1172 of 2019 (with Crl.A. No. 17 of 2019), the Supreme Court of India (Coram: B.V. Nagarathna, R. Mahadevan, JJ.) affirmed the conviction of 3 police personnel, namely: Police officer, Odiansalai Police Station, Puducherry Police; Police officer, Odiansalai Police Station, Puducherry Police; Police officer, Odiansalai Police Station, Puducherry Police.
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Judgment dated 17 September 2025. This judgment may still be subject to appeal; initiation or pendency of an appeal is not a finding.
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“We find that the High Court was justified in affirming the judgment of conviction and sentence insofar as the appellants/accused Nos.2, 3 and 4 are concerned.”
The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Supreme Court of India judgment.
The Supreme Court of India dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.
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Corrections (0): No corrections recorded.
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