Date not established
Conviction
ConcludedThe trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Supreme Court of India judgment.
Conviction · Supports allegation.
Source: (2003) 6 SCC 73
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CW-2003-0017The Nilgiris, Tamil NaduJudgment 28 April 2003
Udhagamandalam Police Constable v. State rep. by S.D.M.
The judgment of the Supreme Court of India records the following account. On the night of 11-12 March 1989, a police constable took PW1 and her husband from a Kethi bus stand in a taxi on the pretext of suspicion, pushed the husband out en route, and raped PW1 in a Woodlands Hotel room at Udhagamandalam; she escaped in the morning and reported to Kethi Police Station. [name withheld], a constable in the Prohibition Wing of Conoor Police Station, was convicted by the trial court under Sections 346, 366 and 376 IPC and sentenced to 7 years RI with a Rs 10,000 fine, affirmed by the High Court. He challenged only his identity before the Supreme Court. The Court held identity proved by hotel booking records, his unexplained whereabouts, and his refusal to give a semen sample, and dismissed the appeals, upholding the conviction and sentence.
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By judgment dated 28 April 2003 in Criminal Appeal Nos. 929-930 of 2002, the Supreme Court of India (Coram: Y. K. Sabharwal, H. K. Sema, JJ.) affirmed the conviction of the Constable, Prohibition Wing, Conoor Police Station.
- Register number
- TN 43 CW 0001
- Case reference
- Criminal Appeal Nos. 929-930 of 2002 / (2003) 6 SCC 73
- Court and date
- Supreme Court of India (Coram: Y. K. Sabharwal, H. K. Sema, JJ.), 28 April 2003
- Officer(s) at the material time
- Constable, Prohibition Wing, Conoor Police Station
- Present service status
- Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked
- Section 346 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 366 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 376 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860
- Finding of the Court (extract)
- “The appellant at the relevant time was posted as a Constable in the Prohibition Wing of Conoor Police Station. The victim, PW1, was a young, recently married rustic woman. The commission of crime on the person of the victim by …”
- Verdict, sentence and quantum
- Conviction upheld. Sentence: imprisonment and fine; maximum substantive term of 7 years.
- 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 Supreme Court of India judgment dated 28 April 2003 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.
“The appellant at the relevant time was posted as a Constable in the Prohibition Wing of Conoor Police Station. The victim, PW1, was a young, recently married rustic woman. The commission of crime on the person of the victim by …”
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Institutional response
28 Apr 2003
Order issued
ConcludedThe Supreme Court of India dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.
Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card).
Source: (2003) 6 SCC 73
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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.
Review: Solo Staff combined review (one combined attestation) — not yet recorded.