# Vijayawada Man vs The State of Andhra Pradesh and Ors.

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## Report card

By judgment dated 10 November 2025 in W.P. No. 25601 of 2024, the Andhra Pradesh High Court (Coram: R. Raghunandan Rao, T.C.D. Sekhar, JJ.) returned findings adverse to the Inspector of Police (Station House Officer), NTR Police Station (Cyber Crime), Vijayawada, and directed payment of compensation of Rs 10,000.

- Register number: AP 39 CW 0042
- Case reference: W.P. No. 25601 of 2024
- Court and date: Andhra Pradesh High Court (Coram: R. Raghunandan Rao, T.C.D. Sekhar, JJ.), 10 November 2025
- Officer(s) at the material time: Inspector of Police (Station House Officer), NTR Police Station (Cyber Crime), Vijayawada
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Article 21 of the Constitution of India; Article 22 of the Constitution of India; Article 226 of the Constitution of India
- Finding of the Court (extract): “The fundamental rights of the detenue, guaranteed under Article 21 and Article 22 of the Constitution of India, protecting him against arbitrary detention and assuring him of being produced before a magistrate, within 24 hours of such detention have clearly …” (at para 20)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum: Adverse finding + compensation. Sentence: compensation only. Compensation: Rs 10,000.
- 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://indiankanoon.org/doc/15499929/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2025-0026)

**Record:** CW-2025-0026 (compiler id CWC-0013); case ANDHRA-013
**Title:** Vijayawada Man vs The State of Andhra Pradesh and Ors.
**Court:** Andhra Pradesh High Court; judges: R. Raghunandan Rao; T.C.D. Sekhar
**Case number / citation:** W.P. No. 25601 of 2024
**Judgment:** 2025-11-10 (2025, day precision)
**Incident date:** 2024-11-06 (2024)
**Place:** NTR, Andhra Pradesh; city town: Vijayawada; police station or unit: Cyber Crime Police Station, NTR Police Commissionerate, Vijayawada; force: state_police
**Category:** Violence & unlawful detention
**Sub-category:** illegal detention false imprisonment
**Outcome:** Adverse finding + compensation (adverse_finding_compensation)
**Sections:** Constitution Art. 21; Constitution Art. 22; Constitution Art. 226
**Officers (gated display forms):** Inspector of Police (Station House Officer), NTR Police Station (Cyber Crime), Vijayawada (1 in record)
**Victims:** Vijayawada man (1 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** compensation only; Rs 10,000
**Sentence type:** compensation only (compensation_only)

remove/replace final sentence; police claim (detenu attended on notice) recorded and disbelieved; SHO examined in court. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> The fundamental rights of the detenue, guaranteed under Article 21 and Article 22 of the Constitution of India, protecting him against arbitrary detention and assuring him of being produced before a magistrate, within 24 hours of such detention have clearly been breached.

**Sources (1):** [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/15499929/)
**Verification:** V2 · Externally reported
**Review:** Solo Staff combined review (one combined attestation) — not yet recorded
**admin category:** misconduct
**admin subcategory:** illegal_detention_false_imprisonment
**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:** 20
**display title redacted:** Vijayawada Man vs The State of Andhra Pradesh and Ors.
**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': \['summary'\]}
**followup status:** checked
**institutional response:** {'date': '2025-11-10', 'action_type': 'Order issued', 'status': 'Concluded', 'authority': 'Andhra Pradesh High Court', 'independence': 'External', 'legal_effect': 'Binding', 'description': 'The Andhra Pradesh High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 10,000.', 'disposition': 'Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)', 'source': 'W.P. No. 25601 of 2024', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/15499929/', 'link_checked': None}
**retracted:** {"is_retracted": false}
**service:** police
**source assessment:** {"established": null, "basis": null}
**status:** current
**subcategory display:** illegal detention false imprisonment
**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:** Division Bench held Cyber Crime PS Vijayawada illegally detained detenu 3 days without magistrate production and ordered SHO personally to pay Rs 10,000 compensation.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Adverse finding + compensation.

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