28 Jul 1959
Order issued
ConcludedThe Andhra Pradesh High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.
Disciplinary action · Procedural only.
Source: AIR 1960 AP 259
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CW-1959-0002Andhra PradeshJudgment 28 July 1959
The Deputy Inspector General of Police vs [name withheld] and Ors.
The High Court allowed the Government writ appeals and restored the October 1953 dismissal of Sub-Inspector and the constables serving under him, who stood convicted of moral-turpitude offences under Sections 331 and 348 IPC for custodial hurt and wrongful confinement to extort a confession. The Court held the January 1954 general amnesty on formation of Andhra State remitted only the sentences and did not wipe out the convictions, and that the Article 311(2) proviso permits dismissal on the ground of conduct leading to a criminal conviction. Since the officers had withdrawn their criminal appeals as not pressed, the Court held the convictions stood finally upheld and set aside the single Judge orders quashing the dismissals. The judgment does not name the station, district, victim, or offence date. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.
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By judgment dated 28 July 1959 in Writ Appeal No. 90 of 1956 and connected appeal, the Andhra Pradesh High Court (Coram: Chandra Reddy, J.) upheld the disciplinary action taken against 2 police personnel, namely: Sub-Inspector of Police; Police Constables, served under the Sub-Inspector.
- Register number
- AP 39 CW 0001
- Case reference
- Writ Appeal No. 90 of 1956 and connected appeal / AIR 1960 AP 259
- Court and date
- Andhra Pradesh High Court (Coram: Chandra Reddy, J.), 28 July 1959
- Officer(s) at the material time
- Sub-Inspector of Police; Police Constables, served under the Sub-Inspector
- Present service status
- Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked
- Section 331 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 348 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860
- Finding of the Court (extract)
- “In the result, the appeals filed by the Government are allowed and the Writ Petitions are dismissed.” (at para 26)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum
- Disciplinary action upheld. Sentence: dismissal.
- 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 Andhra Pradesh High Court judgment dated 28 July 1959 is the concluded position shown in the cited sources.
Evidence position
Recorded allegations
Custodial torturePrimary
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 result, the appeals filed by the Government are allowed and the Writ Petitions are dismissed.” (para 26)
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Institutional response
Continuing record
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.
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