The High Court recorded that it had granted a man interim protection from arrest on 21.04.2026, extended on 23.04.2026 and 27.04.2026, in an FIR registered at Saroor Nagar Police Station, and that he was nevertheless arrested on 28.04.2026 and produced before the Magistrate, who refused remand. The High Court rejected…
Read the court recordThe High Court examined a Section 94 BNSS notice sent to X seeking the petitioner's user details in Crime No. 404 of 2026. The High Court held that the FIR contained no reference to the petitioner in any way. The High Court held that there was no basis for issuing the notice against the petitioner. The High Court set…
Read the court recordThe High Court dealt with contempt petitions alleging HYDRAA staff entered the petitioner's Lothukunta land with police presence and machinery despite restraining orders and an undertaking. The High Court held that detaining the petitioner's representative and registering an FIR were not denied and that the conduct…
Read the court recordThe High Court examined three FIRs registered over social media posts mocking the ruling party on complaints by third parties. The High Court held that the posts were plainly political criticism and satire and disclosed no cognizable offence. The High Court held that continuation of the proceedings would amount to an…
Read the court recordThe Supreme Court examined the arrest and eight-day custody of a 70-year-old accused in a civil sale-deed dispute under FIR No. 771 of 2020. The Supreme Court held that the complainant was misusing the process of police investigation so as to entangle the accused. The Supreme Court held that the arrest in a civil…
Read the court recordThe 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…
Read the court recordThe Telangana High Court upheld the conviction of Head Constable Syed Allauddin Baber of the MGBS police outpost for demanding and accepting a Rs 500 bribe from an ex-Air Force man turned bank clerk. The Court found the officer had stopped the complainant at the bus station on 23 December 2003 on a false solicitation…
Read the court recordThe Telangana High Court allowed a Section 482 petition and quashed the proceedings against four accused in a Bachupally land-trespass case (C.C. No. 33 of 2019). The Court found the charge sheet was filed without any basis: the petitioners were named neither in the FIR nor the private complaint nor by any witness…
Read the court recordThe Telangana High Court dismissed the writ petition of Reserve Sub-Inspector challenging the major penalty imposed after a woman complainant alleged he tried to outrage her modesty on the pretext of coaching her for police-constable recruitment (Crime No. 357 of 2019, Malkajgiri). The Court held the departmental…
Read the court recordThe Telangana High Court dismissed the appeal of Traffic Inspector Gangireddy Rami Reddy, then in charge of Mattewada police station, confirming one year rigorous imprisonment on each PC Act count. The Court found he had detained a lorry and its driver in the station for nine days after a road accident without…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Telangana High Court records the following account. In Crime 488/2020 (Jubilee Hills PS, matrimonial/dowry FIR under Sections 498-A/506 IPC and the Dowry Prohibition Act), West Zone police issued a Look Out Circular and procured non-bailable warrants showing the accused absconding without ever…
Read the court recordThe Telangana High Court dismissed the appeal of Sub-Inspector of Karkhana Police Station, Secunderabad and confirmed his conviction by the Principal Special Judge for SPE and ACB Cases, Hyderabad dated 15.10.2009 in C.C. No. 18 of 2005. The Court found he demanded Rs 1,000 from complainant [name withheld] for issuing…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Telangana High Court records the following account. Assistant Sub-Inspector of Police Saduq Ali of Balanagar Police Station detained a scrap dealer and his father in March 2000, threatening them with false implication in a theft case unless scrap metals and a bribe of Rs 50,000 were paid. After…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Supreme Court of India records the following account. On 4 January 1994 the two traffic policemen stopped lorry driver [name withheld]. A Hyderabad man at Santoshnagar crossroads, Hyderabad, on the pretext of a no-entry violation, seized his vehicle documents and demanded Rs. 100 to return them…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Andhra Pradesh High Court records the following account. Sub-Inspector of Tiryani police station, Adilabad district, faced a departmental enquiry on the charge of misusing his position by collecting Rs 6,500 from villagers of Burudagudem to favour accused in Crime No. 2 of 1995. The Inspector…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Supreme Court of India records the following account. Head Constable of Shamshabad Police Station was on bandobast duty at the Oracle office in Hi-Tech City, Hyderabad, during the March 2000 US Presidential visit when he was alleged to have removed a CCTV lens from the office ceiling. The Court…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Andhra Pradesh High Court records the following account. A Makthal man of Karni village was apprehended on 9 May 2001 by Sub-Inspector and staff of Makthal Police Station as a suspect in his first wife death and held in unrecorded, illegal lock-up for five days without being produced before a…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Andhra Pradesh High Court records the following account. A Moinabad man was arrested by Moinabad and Narsingi police on suspicion of murdering his missing brother-in-law, detained unlawfully across different police stations for 42 days, and subjected to severe custodial torture including being…
Read the court recordThe Andhra Pradesh High Court (pre-bifurcation; incident in present-day Telangana) dismissed the appeal of Detective Sub-Inspector of Shamshabad Police Station and confirmed his conviction by the Additional Special Judge for SPE and ACB Cases, Hyderabad. The Court found he demanded Rs 500 from workshop owner [name…
Read the court recordThe Andhra Pradesh High Court (treating the petitioner's letter to the CJI as an Article 226 petition) held that a woman advocate picked up on 6 March 1995 was beaten, made to sign blank papers, and shuttled between police stations for over 26 hours without FIR, crime number or prompt production before a Magistrate.…
Read the court recordThe Andhra Pradesh High Court (pre-bifurcation; incident in present-day Telangana) held that a Mahabubnagar man, a rickshaw puller detained at Rural Police Station, Mahaboobnagar from 07-08-1990 to 11-08-1990, died of custodial torture. The Court relied on the magisterial and CBCID enquiry reports and post-mortem…
Read the court recordThe High Court of Andhra Pradesh allowed the State's appeal against acquittal in part, reversing the trial court order and convicting two Sub-Inspectors and three Police Constables of Mathwada Police Station and Central Crime Station, Warangal. Suspect a Warangal man had been detained and severely tortured through the…
Read the court recordThe Supreme Court maintained the convictions of Reserve Inspector Aftab Ahmad Khan, who with a police party seized two villagers at Rajole on 13 September 1948, shot dead one person and injured others at Korivi, confined the two villagers overnight, and released them on 14 September only after extorting Rs 200. The…
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