Date not established
Conviction
ConcludedThe trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Telangana High Court judgment.
Conviction · Supports allegation.
Source: Criminal Appeal No. 1369 of 2008
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CW-2025-0001Yadadri Bhuvanagiri, TelanganaJudgment 19 March 2025
Sri Depa Venkat Reddy @ Venkanna vs The State of A.P.
The judgment of the Telangana High Court records the following account. Police Constable of Choutuppal Police Station intercepted a sand-laden lorry on 23 June 2003, seized its registration documents, and demanded a bribe of Rs 2,000 to return them. On 26 June 2003, during a trap laid by the Anti-Corruption Bureau, the appellant received the tainted bribe at his residence and threw the currency into an adjacent drain upon seeing the trap party. The Additional Special Judge for SPE and ACB Cases, Hyderabad, convicted him under Sections 7 and 13(1)(d) read with 13(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988, sentencing him to two years of rigorous imprisonment. The High Court found the demand, acceptance, and recovery firmly established, affirming the conviction while reducing the sentence of imprisonment to one year on each count to run concurrently. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.
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By judgment dated 19 March 2025 in Criminal Appeal No. 1369 of 2008, the Telangana High Court (Coram: K. Surender, J.) affirmed the conviction of the Depa Venkat Reddy @ Venkanna (Police Constable).
- Register number
- TG 30 CW 0002
- Case reference
- Criminal Appeal No. 1369 of 2008
- Court and date
- Telangana High Court (Coram: K. Surender, J.), 19 March 2025
- Officer(s) at the material time
- Depa Venkat Reddy @ Venkanna (Police Constable)
- Present service status
- Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked
- Section 7 of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988; Section 13(1)(d) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988; Section 13(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988
- Finding of the Court (extract)
- “The grounds raised by the learned counsel cannot be accepted to interfere with the conviction of the appellant. However, the sentence of imprisonment of two years under Section 7 and Sections 13(1)(d) r/w 13(2) of the Act is reduced to …” (at para 15)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum
- Conviction upheld. Sentence: imprisonment; maximum substantive term of 1.0 years.
- Present status of the proceedings
- Supreme Court of India, 21 July 2025: appeal pending.
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Current position
Judgment dated 19 March 2025. This judgment may still be subject to appeal; initiation or pendency of an appeal is not a finding.
Evidence position
Recorded allegations
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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 grounds raised by the learned counsel cannot be accepted to interfere with the conviction of the appellant. However, the sentence of imprisonment of two years under Section 7 and Sections 13(1)(d) r/w 13(2) of the Act is reduced to …” (para 15)
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Institutional response
19 Mar 2025
Order issued
ConcludedThe Telangana High Court dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.
Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card).
Source: Criminal Appeal No. 1369 of 2008
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21 Jul 2025
Appeal pending
PendingAs of 21 July 2025, an appeal arising from this judgment was pending before the Supreme Court of India (officers: Depa Venkat Reddy @ Venkanna); the judgment's findings had not been set aside on that date.
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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.
Review: Solo Staff combined review (one combined attestation) — not yet recorded.