{ "record_id": "CW-1995-0009", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0906", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Rajgarh Police Investigating Head Constable and others v. State of Himachal Pradesh", "display_title_redacted": "Rajgarh Police Investigating Head Constable and others v. State of Himachal Pradesh", "state": "Himachal Pradesh", "district": "Sirmaur", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Rajgarh", "police_station_or_unit": "Rajgarh Police Station", "court": "Supreme Court of India", "court_as_verified": "Supreme Court of India", "bench": null, "case_title": "Rajgarh Police Investigating Head Constable and others v. State of Himachal Pradesh", "case_number": "Criminal Appeal Nos. 108 and 335 of 1987", "citation": "AIR 1995 SC 1965", "judges": [ "Madan Mohan Punchhi", "K. Jayachandra Reddy" ], "judgment_date": "1995-01-10", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 1995, "incident_date": null, "incident_year": null, "category": "Custodial torture", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "custodial_rape_sexual_assault", "subcategory": "custodial_rape_sexual_assault", "subcategory_display": "custodial rape sexual assault", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "conviction_upheld", "sections": [ "IPC 451", "IPC 342", "IPC 376", "IPC 376 r/w 109" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Investigating Head Constable", "role": "convicted", "unit": "Rajgarh Police Station", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Investigating Head Constable, Rajgarh Police Station" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "role": "convicted", "unit": "Rajgarh Police Station", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Constable, Rajgarh Police Station" } ], "officer_count": 2, "victims": [ { "age": 19, "gender": "female", "name": null, "descriptor": "Rajgarh woman, age 19" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "imprisonment", "sentence_max_years": 7, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://www.legal-tools.org/doc/a3164f/pdf/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1083421/", "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/678253/ram-kumar-and-nain-singh-vs-state-of-hp/" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Supreme Court of India records the following account. Around midnight, [name withheld] (Investigating Head Constable) and [name withheld] (Constable) of Rajgarh Police Station forcibly took a 19-year-old woman and her husband from a house at Rajgarh to the police station on the false pretext of a wireless message from Chandigarh, confined them in separate rooms, and [name withheld] raped her while [name withheld] guarded the husband. The Sessions Court acquitted both, but the Himachal Pradesh High Court reversed the acquittal, sentencing [name withheld] to 7 years RI and [name withheld] to 2 years RI for abetment. The Supreme Court held the prosecutrix reliable and corroborated, found [name withheld]'s conduct consistent with aiding and abetting, and dismissed both appeals, directing the appellants to surrender forthwith.", "summary_verified": "Around midnight, [name withheld] (Investigating Head Constable) and [name withheld] (Constable) of Rajgarh Police Station forcibly took a 19-year-old woman and her husband from a house at Rajgarh to the police station on the false pretext of a wireless message from Chandigarh, confined them in separate rooms, and [name withheld] raped her while [name withheld] guarded the husband. The Sessions Court acquitted both, but the Himachal Pradesh High Court reversed the acquittal, sentencing [name withheld] to 7 years RI and [name withheld] to 2 years RI for abetment. The Supreme Court held the prosecutrix reliable and corroborated, found [name withheld]'s conduct consistent with aiding and abetting, and dismissed both appeals, directing the appellants to surrender forthwith.", "court_quote": "This case relates to a custodial rape. The Court of Session acquitted the two appellants herein of the crime but the High Court recorded convictions under more than one heads, besides rape and sentenced substantively [name withheld] appellant to seven years rigorous imprisonment and [name withheld] appellant to two years rigorous imprisonment which has given rise to these appeals.", "court_quote_para": "1", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "SC judgment verified (Legal Tools PDF + Indian Kanoon); custodial-rape convictions of two policemen upheld.", "verification_status": "V2", "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported", "tier_badge": "Externally reported", "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded", "tier_history": [ "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded" ], "allegations": [ { "category": "Custodial torture", "primary": true, "position": "Material fact supported", "position_explainer": "Reliable material supports a specifically documented fact relevant to that allegation, not necessarily the full allegation, causation, intent, unlawfulness, or responsibility.", "official_finding_relation": "supports allegation" } ], "institutional_response": [ { "date": null, "action_type": "Conviction", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Trial court (as recorded in the Supreme Court of India judgment)", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Supreme Court of India judgment.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation", "source": "AIR 1995 SC 1965", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." }, { "date": "1995-01-10", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Supreme Court of India", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Supreme Court of India dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)", "source": "AIR 1995 SC 1965", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." } ], "later_proceedings": [], "final_outcome_url": null, "followup_history": [ { "date": "2026-09-19", "scope": "Round-8 full re-verification: published record re-checked against the judgment text (outcome, officers, quote, key facts) plus methodology-compliance pass", "method": "skills-guided adversarial re-verification of the published record against the judgment text (reverify/t1-*/adversarial-8.jsonl)", "result": "holds", "corrections_applied": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://www.legal-tools.org/doc/a3164f/pdf/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1083421/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/678253/ram-kumar-and-nain-singh-vs-state-of-hp/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-76" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP2-57-002", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }