The High Court allowed the writ petition in part, quashed FIR in Crime No.102/2026 by Kankanadi Town Police Station qua the petitioners on the ground that Andar Bahar is a game of skill, quashed the JMFC (VI Court) Mangaluru remand order in N.C.No.02 of 2026 dated 25.07.2026, and directed return of illegally seized…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Karnataka High Court records the following account. Petitioner a Bengaluru man, an attesting witness to a disputed Will, was issued a notice under Section 35(3) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) on 25 August 2026 directing him to appear for inquiry on 27 August 2026, but the…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Karnataka High Court records the following account. A Bengaluru man, protected by a subsisting anticipatory-bail order in a matrimonial complaint, was apprehended at Bengaluru airport on 16-08-2014 on a Look Out Circular, handed to the Vidyaranyapura Inspector, detained despite producing the bail…
Read the court recordThe Karnataka High Court held that a Kodagu homestay owner's arrest by Kutta Police in April 2026, in a case over the alleged rape of a foreign guest, was illegal: the offences alleged against him personally were non-cognizable, he was not present when the alleged offence occurred, and the arrest did not comply with…
Read the court recordThe Karnataka High Court Division Bench at Dharwad (M.I. Arun and B. Muralidhara Pai JJ., 23 February 2026) allowed the State writ, set aside the KAT relief and sustained the compulsory retirement of Head Constable. The court recorded his admitted continuous absence from 11 January 2017 to 15 March 2022, over five…
Read the court recordIn a habeas corpus petition filed by the wife of the detenue, the Karnataka High Court found that the detenue, a Bengaluru man, was illegally picked up and detained in custody at Gangammana Gudi Police Station from 14 October 2025 before an FIR was registered. The Division Bench declared the pre-FIR detention unlawful…
Read the court recordThe High Court allowed the writ petition holding the investigation in Crime No.91 of 2022 (Dharmasthala) was absolutely shoddy and directed re-investigation by a Special Investigation Team to be constituted within 4 weeks, to file its final report within 4 months, staying further proceedings in Special Case No.60 of…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Karnataka High Court records the following account. Head Constable of Bagalagunte Police Station demanded Rs.20,000, settled at Rs.10,000, from an accused in Crime No.238/2017 to compromise the matter, receiving Rs.1,000 on 30 June 2017. The complainant recorded the conversation and approached the…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Karnataka High Court records the following account. KSRP Head Constable contracted a first marriage in 1999 and a second marriage with Nagarathna on 12 March 2006 while the first subsisted, without divorce (obtained later in 2007) or government permission. The enquiry proved the charge on the first…
Read the court recordAdvocate Kuldeep (23) of Puthila village, Belthangady, who held a civil-court injunction protecting his road access, was dragged from his home on 2 December 2022 when the Sub-Inspector caught him by the neck, dragged and booted him to Punjalkatte station, registering Crime 94/2022 (Sections 447/379 IPC) only…
Read the court recordThe Karnataka High Court awarded Rs 5,00,000 compensation to a 56-year-old man who was wrongfully arrested by police under a company court warrant issued against an ex-director of a company in liquidation, solely because the applicant shared a similar father's name. Despite the applicant's explicit protests that he…
Read the court recordadd: appellants were acquitted in the criminal trial but the Division Bench held (para 23) criminal acquittal does not vitiate the disciplinary finding of misconduct; date range of incidents per complaint is March-June 2015, not only May-June. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Karnataka High Court records the following account. The petitioner, a 30-year-old law student, was arrested pursuant to a non-bailable warrant in a cheque bounce case, handcuffed without justification, paraded in Ankali market place, and transported in a public KSRTC bus in handcuffs. The Dharwad…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Karnataka High Court records the following account. Civil Police Constable, who joined in 1992 and served at Janavada Police Station, Bidar, faced a charge memo dated 7 August 2005 alleging he contracted a second marriage with Farzana Begum while his first wife [name withheld] was living, violating…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Bombay High Court (Aurangabad Bench) records the following account. The petitioner, a Pardhi-community woman of Jintur (Parbhani, Maharashtra), alleged her husband, a farmer, was picked up without stated reason by Karnataka police from Parbhani railway station on 14 October 2018 along with his car…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Karnataka High Court records the following account. Petitioner [name withheld], a constable in the Second Regiment of the Karnataka State Reserve Police (KSRP) at Belagavi, was dismissed from service in November 2003 following a departmental enquiry into gross misconduct arising from his arrest in…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Karnataka High Court records the following account. Minerals trader [name withheld] complained that Circle Inspector demanded Rs.1,00,000 as bribe for non-interference in his mines business, and the officer was caught red-handed in a Lokayukta trap. The Special Court at Chitradurga convicted him…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Karnataka High Court records the following account. On the midnight of 1 January 2002 a quarrel near police quarters in Jyothinagar, Mysore, allegedly sparked by bursting crackers after 11 p.m., led to [name withheld], a DAR police constable, and his son assaulting neighbours with a reaper patti…
Read the court recordThe Karnataka High Court Division Bench (N.K. Patil and Rathnakala JJ., 18 December 2014) dismissed the writ of Police Constable and confirmed his compulsory retirement. The court recorded that he remained absent without authorisation from 6 August 1996 and faced a second charge of theft of two-wheelers, though…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Karnataka High Court records the following account. On the night of 15 February 1987, a woman and her husband who had missed their bus in Pavagada town were stopped by three drunken police constables including [name withheld], abused and assaulted, then taken by jeep to the police station where…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Karnataka High Court records the following account. Police Constable (Buckle No. 507) of Hukkeri Police Station demanded Rs.500 from villager a Hukkeri resident in May 2007 to not harass him over a land-dispute compromise, threatening lock-up, and was caught in a Lokayukta trap with…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Karnataka High Court records the following account. While posted at Belgaum Market Police Station, constables and [name withheld] stole KSRTC bus warrants from the station, forged the officer's signature on them, and encashed them in collusion with a bus conductor, misappropriating Rs.25,670. A…
Read the court recordThe Karnataka High Court, Dharwad Bench (H.N. Nagamohan Das, J.) held that undertrial prisoners in Crime No. 62/2006 were produced before the JMFC, Belagavi, in handcuffs on 24.11.2006 without magisterial permission, in clear violation of the Supreme Court directions in the handcuffing cases. The Court held the…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Karnataka High Court records the following account. Police Constable of Belgaum Market Police Station and two colleagues were charged with stealing KSRTC bus warrants and misappropriating Rs.25,670 with the connivance of Mysore depot bus conductors, leading to his removal from service on 11 March…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Karnataka High Court records the following account. Armed Police Constable of CAR (South), Bengaluru remained unauthorisedly absent from 2 August 2004, admitting 192 days absence before the enquiry officer. The Deputy Commissioner of Police imposed compulsory retirement in June 2005 considering his…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Supreme Court of India records the following account. [name withheld], a police officer at Konanur Police Station (Hassan), allegedly demanded illegal gratification from villager a Konanur man to file a charge-sheet on a June 1993 boundary-dispute complaint; the Lokayukta laid a phenolphthalein…
Read the court recordThe Karnataka High Court (V. Jagannathan J., 30 May 2012) allowed the Lokayukta appeal, set aside the acquittal and convicted Sub-Inspector of Malavalli Rural police station for bribery. The court recorded that he demanded and accepted Rs 1,000 from anticipatory-bail holder a Malavalli man to permit execution of his…
Read the court recordThe High Court confirmed the conviction of Head Constable for intentionally allowing his brother-in-law, convict Rustum Khan, to escape from lawful custody while escorting him from Central Jail Gulbarga to hospital and back, and then omitting to apprehend him. The Court disbelieved the chilly-powder escape story…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Karnataka High Court records the following account. The appellant, S.B. Muniyappa, serving as Police Sub-Inspector at Vivek Nagar Police Station in Bengaluru, demanded a bribe of Rs 1,50,000 and accepted Rs 25,000 from the complainant to settle a cheque bounce dispute without registering a criminal…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Karnataka High Court records the following account. Police Constable (PC No. 1709) of A Company, City Armed Reserve, Bengaluru, abused RSI a Bengaluru man and ASI in foul language on the parade ground on 2 March 2001, assaulting the RSI and attempting to assault a Bengaluru man with a lathi before…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Karnataka High Court records the following account. On 17 January 1989, complainant [name withheld] arrived at the Chikkaballapur court premises with his advocate and surety to move a bail application in a bailable case, but was apprehended by the Sub-Inspector and three constables, dragged to the…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Karnataka High Court records the following account. Police took control of an Aminabhavi man of Aminabhavi on the evening of 27 November 2002, rescuing him from a mob assault in which he had been tied to a telephone pole and beaten, and took him to hospital where three injuries were certified. He…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Supreme Court of India records the following account. In the early hours of 13 January 1988, Doddapet police picked up five men over a New Year liquor-bar brawl and beat them in the lock-up and verandah — three victims were tied to stone pillars and thrashed with lathis and tyre pieces. A…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Karnataka High Court records the following account. Police Constable (PC No. 2545) of Mico Layout Police Station, Bengaluru, brought a helpless woman to the police station at about 1 a.m. in 1983 and sexually abused her, for which the enquiry officer found the departmental charges proved and he was…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Karnataka High Court records the following account. A Bengaluru man and his sister [name withheld], who had filed a private complaint against a religious seer, were assaulted by K. G. Nagar police on the night of 7 January 2007, illegally detained at the station till the evening of 8 January 2007…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Karnataka High Court records the following account. A Bengaluru man was picked up around midnight on 23 June 2006 by Indiranagar police in a theft case; his mother was falsely told at Malur Police Station that he was not arrested, and he was kept in custody without production before the…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Karnataka High Court records the following account. Three men arrested on 19 November 1998 (falsely shown as arrested on 20 November to feign production within 24 hours) were handcuffed, chained and paraded in briefs only through the streets of Koppal from the police station to the Magistrate's…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Karnataka High Court records the following account. a woman, a 48-year-old maidservant, was taken to Devaraja Police Station on 4 May 1993 for interrogation in her employer's theft complaint and kept upstairs without a woman guard; she alleged her fingernails were pressed and she was threatened…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Karnataka High Court records the following account. A Kalaburagi man, who had demanded back Rs 25,000 paid for a promised job, was falsely implicated at the recipient's instance, illegally detained at Chowk PS from 16 May 1992, briefly escaped, was handed by the ASI to PSI, and died in the Station…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Karnataka High Court records the following account. A Belagavi man, an under-trial auto driver transferred from Bangalore to Belgaum Central Prison, sustained injuries in custody on 4 July 1992 and died in hospital on 7 July 1992. The authorities claimed a jail-break attempt led to a mild…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Karnataka High Court records the following account. A Bengaluru man, a 27-year-old weaver, was picked up by Mahalakshmi Layout police in February–March 1993 and died in the police lock-up on the night of 22/23 March 1993; his widow alleged illegal detention, third-degree torture and extortion while…
Read the court recordThe Supreme Court on 23 October 1997 restored the dismissal of Bangalore traffic constable for gross misconduct in extorting auto-rickshaw drivers. The Court recorded that as station rider he unofficially stopped drivers daily and released them for Rs. 50-70 each, issuing police notices only to squeeze payment and…
Read the court recordA Bengaluru man, arrested by Subramanyanagar police for autorickshaw theft, died in the station on 18 May 1988; police claimed he hanged himself with a torn woollen rug, and a court-ordered Chief Metropolitan Magistrate enquiry accepted suicide and denied damages. The Division Bench rejected the enquiry report…
Read the court recordThe Karnataka High Court (Rama Jois J., 8 November 1982) rejected the writ of Sub-Inspector and sustained his dismissal from service. The court recorded that while posted as ASI at Bajpe Airport he assaulted on-duty traffic constable at Mangalore on 1 October 1980, for which the JMFC convicted him under Section 353…
Read the court recordThe Karnataka High Court (Rama Jois J., 14 January 1980) dismissed the writ of Head Constable and upheld his dismissal for bribery. The court recorded that in April 1974, while posted at Birur police station, he demanded Rs 3,000 and accepted Rs 1,000 to release two lock-up detainees on bail. It rejected his…
Read the court recordThe Supreme Court on 26 March 1976 dismissed constable 's appeal, sustaining his dismissal from the Mysore (now Karnataka) police for complicity in bootlegging. The Court found that fellow constables' statements implicated him with six others in smuggling illicit liquor linked to a 1960 seizure at Khade-bazar police…
Read the court recordThe Supreme Court on 16 October 1970 dismissed the appeal of former police constable, sustaining his 1953 dismissal from the Mysore (now Karnataka) police. The Court found that he had overstayed sanctioned leave from January 1953 without permission and then staged a seven-day public fast near Dharwar as a…
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