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remove/replace final sentence; police version is recorded at para 5 (Aadhar blur / 2006 impression). Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.
Read the court recordremove/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.
Read the court recordremove/replace final sentence; department case is recorded in the judgment (paras 2-10). Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.
Read the court recordremove/replace final sentence; respondents' counters (denial + police-department ownership claim) are recorded and rejected for want of material. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.
Read the court recordremove/replace final sentence; police version (arrest + recovery theory) is recorded at paras 8, 21-22. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.
Read the court recordremove/replace final sentence; appellants' (police) case is recorded via counter affidavit before APAT. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.
Read the court recordThe High Court found that the Sub-Inspectors of T. Narasapuram and Chintalapudi Police Stations maliciously foisted false extortion and robbery charges against practicing advocate a Chintalapudi man in retaliation for filing a private complaint against police brutality. The police arrested him at 2 a.m., misled the…
Read the court recordThe Andhra Pradesh High Court held that a K. Kotapadu man, arrested on 24 August 1993 with a suspected stolen motorcycle, bore injuries sustained only after being brought to the police station, where he was chained by the leg to a window rod in the lockup. The Court found that in all probability he hanged himself on…
Read the court recordThe High Court found that police personnel of II Town Police Station, Rajahmundry dragged a Rajahmundry man from his house on 8 August 1999, illegally detained him, and beat him with lathis for about four hours in the station causing multiple injuries. Accepting the enquiry report of the Chief Judicial Magistrate…
Read the court recordThe High Court dismissed the writ petition filed by Sub-Inspector, upholding his dismissal from service for corrupt misconduct. The officer had illegally detained two traders, a Pakala man and a Pakala man, on false allegations of possessing stolen copper wire, and demanded and received bribes of Rs 1,400 and Rs 3,000…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Andhra Pradesh High Court records the following account. The petitioner, a woman, was arrested and charge-sheeted for the murder of her husband under Section 302 IPC after he died during an epileptic seizure in November 1989. Despite forensic reports establishing that the deceased died from Mader…
Read the court recordThe Supreme Court dismissed the State appeals, affirming the Andhra Pradesh High Court direction to pay Rs 20,000 compensation for the one-month illegal and unauthorised detention of a Kurnool man His relatives filed habeas corpus on 15 October 1992 alleging detention since 26 September 1992; police claimed arrest…
Read the court recordActing on newspaper reports in Eenadu, the High Court held that a Tadipatri man, a poor coolie, was illegally detained at Tadipatri Rural Police Station on 31 August 1997 and tortured to death by police personnel after failing to satisfy their demands. The CID investigation and post-mortem report confirmed severe…
Read the court recordThe High Court found that the Sub-Inspector of Vissannapeta Police Station unlawfully detained 70-year-old a Vissannapeta man from 29 October 1996 to 31 October 1996 without registering any crime. The detention was executed to pressure a Vissannapeta man regarding a civil loan dispute involving his son. Based on a CID…
Read the court recordThe High Court found that the Sub-Inspector of Penamaluru Police Station illegally detained a Vijayawada woman, a hospital aaya, for eight days from 23 March 1997 to 31 March 1997 without any General Diary entry, solely to pressure her absconding son to surrender. Accepting the inquiry report of the Principal District…
Read the court recordThe Supreme Court on 28 April 1997 confirmed the dismissal of Andhra Pradesh Inspector for demanding and accepting Rs. 3,000 to refrain from registering a complaint and launching a prosecution. The disciplinary tribunal found the charge proved and the Government dismissed him in July 1995, but the Administrative…
Read the court recordThe High Court found that the petitioners son, 22-year-old a Madanapalle man, died on account of beating and torture by police personnel of I Town Police Station, Madanapalle while in custody between 23-8-1991 and 24-8-1991. The Court rejected the police defense that the victim was beaten by a mob for saree theft and…
Read the court recordActing on a habeas corpus petition filed by a law professor, the High Court held that Andhra Pradesh police abducted a Tirupati man from his village in Tamil Nadu on 2 October 1993 and illegally detained him in Tirupati until 21 October 1993. The Court found that the subsequent registration of a gold-chain theft case…
Read the court recordThe High Court found that police officers illegally abducted a Nellore man and two others from their homes on 30 January 1992, detained them in III-Town Police Station, Nellore, and subjected a Nellore man to custodial beatings to discover the whereabouts of an SI daughter who had entered into an interfaith marriage.…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Andhra Pradesh High Court records the following account. The deceased and his son, accused in a 1977 Owk PS case, were lodged in Cell No.7 of Koilkuntla Sub-Jail; on the night of 5-6 May 1977 miscreants entered the jail and hurled bombs into the cell, killing the father while the son escaped with…
Read the court recordThe Supreme Court set aside the High Court order acquitting three police officers and convicted all of them under Section 330 IPC for torturing a Kadiri man to extort information regarding stolen property. A Kadiri man was taken into custody on 6 January 1957 and subsequently found dead with multiple injuries. The…
Read the court recordThe Supreme Court restored the removal from service of Sub-Inspector, officer in charge of Kodur Police Station, for reprehensible conduct in wrongfully confining theft suspect [name withheld] in the station from the night of 5 March 1954 to 7 March 1954 without a magistrate remand, diary entry, or written…
Read the court recordThe 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…
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