The judgment of the Kerala High Court records the following account. On 2 March 2010, the three appellant officers with a police force and a mobile crane came to the plaintiffs' residence and seized a car, following a traffic-fine confrontation and a Section 176 IPC case that the prosecution later withdrew. The court…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Kerala High Court records the following account. Entrusted with complainant [name withheld]'s property-dispute complaint, ASI (Grade) [name withheld] of Chavara Police Station demanded Rs 2,000 on 21 April 2009 and accepted it on 24 April 2009 in a vigilance trap, being caught red-handed. The…
Read the court recordThe Kerala High Court (single bench) confirmed the conviction of Sub-Inspector of Karikkottakkari Police Station by the Enquiry Commissioner & Special Judge, Kozhikode (CC No. 19 of 2005) for demanding and accepting Rs 3,000 in marked notes from an autorickshaw driver to avoid foisting a case on him. The Court held…
Read the court recordThe Kerala High Court held that an NRI rent-a-car worker home on 15 days' leave for his daughter's wedding was falsely implicated in Chakkarakkal Crime No. 388/2018, a chain-snatching case, arrested on 11 July 2018 and kept 54 days in custody despite CCTV identity mismatch and his impossibility plea. A DySP enquiry…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Kerala High Court records the following account. Senior CPO S. Navas of Thumba Police Station demanded Rs 1,000 from passport applicant a Thumba man on 15 November 2012, claiming a pending accident case against him, and was trapped by vigilance on 23 November 2012 accepting the marked Rs 1,000 as…
Read the court recordThe 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…
Read the court recordThe Kerala High Court (Devan Ramachandran, J.) held that Pink Police Constable illegal detention and public humiliation of 8-year-old a 8-year-old girl at Attingal on 27 August 2021, on the false allegation that the child possessed the officer own missing phone, violated the child fundamental right to live with…
Read the court recordComplainant [name withheld] was picked up and held overnight in the Ezhukone police lock-up on 8-9 February 1996, where he was beaten and burnt on the tongue with a cigarette so that he could not complain to the Magistrate; the trial court and appellate court concurrently convicted the SI and three constables under…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Kerala High Court records the following account. A Kollam man, picked up from Sanker's Hospital, Kollam, on 6 April 2005 on suspicion of mobile-phone theft, was informally detained without recording arrest and tortured by two crime-squad constables of Kollam East Police Station at the Sardar…
Read the court recordAuthor and researcher a Wayanad man was detained and interrogated by police in Wayanad on 20 May 2014 on suspicion of being a Maoist, a suspicion the court found was not based on any valid material, and his residence was thereafter searched by officers accompanied by Thunderbolt commandos without following CrPC…
Read the court recordThe Kerala High Court (Division Bench) allowed the State's petition against a Kerala Administrative Tribunal order and restored the removal from service of ex-Police Constable. 4799 [name withheld] of Mannar Police Station, Alappuzha. The Court held the charge of unauthorised absence from duty from 26 January 2006…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Supreme Court of India records the following account. ISRO scientist a Thiruvananthapuram man was maliciously arrested and subjected to custodial harassment and defamation by the Kerala Police in the fabricated 1994 ISRO espionage case. The Supreme Court held that the prosecution was initiated…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Kerala High Court records the following account. The 1st accused, a constable of Ernakulam Central Police Station, demanded Rs 25,000 from mobile-recharge trader [name withheld] over telephone from 23 January 2007, threatening to arraign him in the Crime 53/2007 theft case, and was trapped by VACB…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Kerala High Court records the following account. Former Sub-Inspector Raghavan of Vallikunnam Police Station was prosecuted for demanding and accepting Rs. 1,000 and a bottle of liquor from complainant [name withheld] to settle an assault case. The vigilance team trapped the accused at his…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Kerala High Court records the following account. In May 2012, Sub Inspector of Vadakara Police Station took 70-year-old retired teacher a Vadakara man into custody for alleged smoking in public; the victim alleged he was dragged by the collar, abused in public, lost a gold chain, and suffered a…
Read the court recordThe Kerala High Court (P. Ubaid, J.) confirmed the corruption conviction of Head Constable of Pathanapuram Police Station, caught in a 10 August 2002 VACB trap accepting Rs.1,000 after demanding a bribe to absolve complainant [name withheld] from a criminal case forwarded under Section 156(3) CrPC. The Court held…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Kerala High Court records the following account. A Vellamunda man was taken in a police jeep on 20-05-2014 by the anti-naxal squad on mere suspicion of being a Maoist, interrogated, body-searched and had his house searched and devices seized, then released without any crime registered. The court…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Kerala High Court records the following account. Head Constable, Station Writer at Fort Police Station, was trapped by the Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau on 10 December 1998 accepting two phenolphthalein-marked Rs 100 notes to release a surety's seized bicycle, watch, pen and wallet; though…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Kerala High Court records the following account. A Njarackal man, a 25-year-old lawyer returning home by motorcycle after a second-show film on the night of 14 April 2012, was intercepted by the Njarackal police vehicle-check squad on the Vypin-Munambam highway and struck in the face, losing five…
Read the court recordNaxalite leader a Thirunelli man was captured alive by a CRPF-police combing party at Thirunelli on 18 February 1970 and held in custody with hands tied, but instead of being produced, was shot dead by Constable at the command of DySP K. Lakshmana, who then lodged a false encounter complaint (Crime 28/70). The truth…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Kerala High Court records the following account. On 12 February 1988, following critical reports against the SP Kannur, police picked up a Kannur man, Editor, Printer and Publisher of the evening daily Sudhinam, from Fort Road, Kannur, and confined him in the Kannur Town lock-up from 8.30 p.m. till…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Kerala High Court records the following account. On 9 January 1985, the plaintiff, then a 10th-standard student, suffered serious head injuries inside his school campus at Vellimadukunnu, was hospitalised for nearly a month, and underwent emergency burr-hole surgery for extradural haemorrhage. He…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Kerala High Court records the following account. Sub Inspector of the Lakshadweep Police Special Branch at Cochin demanded Rs.250 from labour contractor [name withheld] for issuing the police clearance certificate needed for a Minicoy Island entry permit, and accepted it in a CBI trap in March…
Read the court recordThe Kerala High Court Division Bench (judgment by P. Bhavadasan, J.) dismissed the appeals of [name withheld], a serving Deputy Superintendent of Police, and a second accused against their life sentences imposed by the Sessions Court, Kottayam (S.C. No. 145/2005) for the gruesome murder of an Ettumanoor man, a former…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Kerala High Court records the following account. Replace 'physical and mental torture of a boy, a minor boy, in unlawful police custody' with 'physical and mental torture of a minor boy in unlawful police custody'; drop 'to the victim' name forms elsewhere. No other summary change needed. Matters…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Kerala High Court records the following account. Assistant Sub-Inspector of Pandalam Police Station was convicted for demanding and receiving illegal gratification to release an autorickshaw involved in an accident. The officer accepted Rs. 500 initially and was caught red-handed in a vigilance…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Kerala High Court records the following account. a man was taken into illegal police custody on June 29, 1999, detained for over 24 hours at Keezhvaipur Police Station without registration of any case, and died of fatal internal abdominal injuries on June 30, 1999. The Kerala High Court held that…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Kerala High Court records the following account. Head Constable of Venjaramoodu Police Station demanded Rs.500 from an accused in Crime No.17/99 for deleting his name from the accused array, and accepted Rs.300 in phenolphthalein-smeared notes in a VACB trap on 10 March 1999. The Special Judge…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Kerala High Court records the following account. On 1 June 1993, auto-rickshaw driver [name withheld] was taken to Pooyappally police station after failing to stop instantly at a constable's signal, and inside the station constable slapped him on the left ear, causing bleeding and hearing loss that…
Read the court recordThe Kerala High Court (A.K. Basheer, J.) allowed the writ petition, holding that Vanitha Police Station, Ernakulam illegally detained young housewife an Ernakulam woman for about 80 hours from 24 to 27 May 1997 without registering any crime, producing her before a Magistrate, or effecting an arrest, and lodged her…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Kerala High Court records the following account. Two Kerala police constables on patrol duty detained a Kerala man, who was carrying a large sum of money, and released him after extorting and accepting a bribe of Rs. 20,000 each. Following a departmental enquiry by the Vigilance Tribunal, both…
Read the court recordThe Kerala High Court (K.S. Radhakrishnan, J.) dismissed O.P. No. 8526 of 1997, upholding the Commissioner of Police, Cochin City order dated 04-04-1997 removing Head Constable from service following his conviction in C.C. No. 162 of 1993 (JFCM, Kochi) for cheating offences under IPC ss.419, 420 read with s.34. The…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Kerala High Court records the following account. A Cherthala man, 24, a mosaic-flooring worker who was not an accused in any case, went with his father to the Sherthala Circle Inspector's office on the morning of 5 October 1988 for questioning over stolen articles and was detained without…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Kerala High Court records the following account. On 16 October 1990, during a hartal-day riot in Mattancherry/Fort Cochin, a mob of about 100 armed persons looted the petitioner's vegetarian hotel although the police had been warned the previous day and had assured deployment. The petitioner's…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Supreme Court of India records the following account. A Thiruvananthapuram man, picked up after a quarrel with an off-duty constable over plantains on 18 December 1980, was slapped, kicked and had his head dashed against the wall inside Fort Police Station, Thiruvananthapuram, and died of the…
Read the court recordThe Kerala High Court (K.G. Balakrishnan, J.) held that Article 226 empowers compensation as a palliative where police violate Article 21, following Rudul Sah, Bhim Singh, PUDR v. State of Bihar and Sebastian Hongray. Accepting Commission evidence, medical records and affidavits for four of the 48 Thankamani…
Read the court recordThe Kerala High Court Division Bench allowed the State appeal against a Single Judge order that had quashed the dismissal of Police Constable. The Court held that the Circle Inspector who held the oral enquiry was competent under Rule 8 of the Kerala Police Departmental Enquiries, Punishment and Appeal Rules, 1958…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Kerala High Court records the following account. On 29 January 1957, head constable took the drunk a Kottayam man into custody and had him lodged at Kottayam East Police Station, where both accused head constables beat him with fists, elbows and blows to the feet until he collapsed; a Kottayam man…
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