# Puducherry Police Police officer and Others vs State by Superintendent of Police

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## Report card

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.

- Register number: PY 01 CW 0004
- Case reference: Crl.A. Nos. 1169-1172 of 2019 (with Crl.A. No. 17 of 2019)
- Court and date: Supreme Court of India (Coram: B.V. Nagarathna, R. Mahadevan, JJ.), 17 September 2025
- Officer(s) at the material time: Police officer, Odiansalai Police Station, Puducherry Police; Police officer, Odiansalai Police Station, Puducherry Police; Police officer, Odiansalai Police Station, Puducherry Police
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Not stated in the cited sources
- Finding of the Court (extract): “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.”
- Verdict, sentence and quantum: Conviction upheld. Sentence: imprisonment; maximum substantive term of 7 years.
- Present status of the proceedings: The judgment is recent and may be subject to appeal; the pendency of an appeal is not a finding.
- Source orders: [Judgment / order (primary source)](https://api.sci.gov.in/supremecourt/2018/43383/43383_2018_5_102_64274_Order_17-Sep-2025.pdf); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2025-0018)

**Record:** CW-2025-0018 (compiler id CWC-0295); case PUDUCH-003
**Title:** Puducherry Police Police officer and Others vs State by Superintendent of Police
**Court:** Supreme Court of India; judges: B.V. Nagarathna; R. Mahadevan
**Case number / citation:** Crl.A. Nos. 1169-1172 of 2019 (with Crl.A. No. 17 of 2019)
**Judgment:** 2025-09-17 (2025, day precision)
**Incident date:** 1993-12-29 (1993)
**Place:** Puducherry, Puducherry; city town: Puducherry; police station or unit: Odiansalai Police Station, Puducherry Police; force: state_police
**Category:** Violence & unlawful detention
**Sub-category:** custodial death
**Outcome:** Conviction upheld (conviction_upheld)
**Officers (gated display forms):** Police officer, Odiansalai Police Station, Puducherry Police; Police officer, Odiansalai Police Station, Puducherry Police; Police officer, Odiansalai Police Station, Puducherry Police (3 in record)
**Victims:** Puducherry man (1 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** imprisonment; max 7 yrs
**Sentence type:** imprisonment (imprisonment)

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.

> 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.

**Sources (2):** [api.sci.gov.in](https://api.sci.gov.in/supremecourt/2018/43383/43383_2018_5_102_64274_Order_17-Sep-2025.pdf); [latestly.com](https://www.latestly.com/agency-news/hc-upholds-conviction-of-cops-doctor-in-custodial-death-case-461488.html)
**Verification:** V2 · Externally reported
**Review:** Solo Staff combined review (one combined attestation) — not yet recorded
**admin category:** brutality
**admin subcategory:** custodial_death
**allegations:** {'category': 'Custodial death', '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
**display title redacted:** Puducherry Police Police officer and Others vs State by Superintendent of Police
**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 Supreme Court of India judgment)', 'independence': 'External', 'legal_effect': 'Binding', 'description': 'The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Supreme Court of India judgment.', 'disposition': 'Conviction · Supports allegation', 'source': 'Crl.A. Nos. 1169-1172 of 2019 (with Crl.A. No. 17 of 2019)', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}; {'date': '2025-09-17', 'action_type': 'Order issued', 'status': 'Concluded', 'authority': 'Supreme Court of India', 'independence': 'External', 'legal_effect': 'Binding', 'description': 'The Supreme Court of India dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.', 'disposition': 'Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)', 'source': 'Crl.A. Nos. 1169-1172 of 2019 (with Crl.A. No. 17 of 2019)', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://api.sci.gov.in/supremecourt/2018/43383/43383_2018_5_102_64274_Order_17-Sep-2025.pdf', 'link_checked': None}; {'url': 'https://www.latestly.com/agency-news/hc-upholds-conviction-of-cops-doctor-in-custodial-death-case-461488.html', 'link_checked': None}
**retracted:** {"is_retracted": false}
**service:** police
**source assessment:** {"established": null, "basis": null}
**status:** current
**subcategory display:** custodial death
**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:** Supreme Court dismissed appeals of police accused A2-A4, affirming convictions for custodial death; matches conviction_upheld.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Conviction upheld.

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