{ "record_id": "CW-2009-0002", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0092", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Delhi Police Head Constable and others v. State (Delhi Admn.)", "display_title_redacted": "Delhi Police Head Constable and others v. State (Delhi Admn.)", "state": "Delhi", "district": "North Delhi", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Delhi", "police_station_or_unit": "Police Post Andha Mugal, PS Subzi Mandi, Delhi", "court": "Delhi High Court", "court_as_verified": "Delhi High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Delhi Police Head Constable and others v. State (Delhi Admn.)", "case_number": "Crl. Appeal No. 33/1993", "citation": null, "judges": [ "V.B. Gupta", "Badar Durrez Ahmed" ], "judgment_date": "2009-03-06", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2009, "incident_date": "1980-08-06", "incident_year": 1980, "category": "Custodial death", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "custodial_death", "subcategory": "custodial_death", "subcategory_display": "custodial death", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "conviction_upheld", "sections": [ "IPC 302", "IPC 34", "IPC 330" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Head Constable", "unit": "Police Post Andha Mugal, PS Subzi Mandi, Delhi", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2_gemapi:unclear" ], "ledger_role": "convicted", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": "unclear", "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": "yes", "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.04, "jev_p_culpable": 0.97, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Head Constable, Police Post Andha Mugal, PS Subzi Mandi, Delhi" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "unit": "Police Post Andha Mugal, PS Subzi Mandi, Delhi", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2_gemapi:unclear" ], "ledger_role": "convicted", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": "unclear", "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": "yes", "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.13, "jev_p_culpable": 0.93, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Constable, Police Post Andha Mugal, PS Subzi Mandi, Delhi" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Constable", "unit": "Police Post Andha Mugal, PS Subzi Mandi, Delhi", "role": "convicted", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2_gemapi:unclear" ], "ledger_role": "convicted", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": "yes", "key2_gemapi": "unclear", "key2_openrouter": "yes", "key2_gpt56": "yes", "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.11, "jev_p_culpable": 0.94, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Constable, Police Post Andha Mugal, PS Subzi Mandi, Delhi" } ], "officer_count": 3, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Delhi man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "mixed", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/5987865/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The judgment of the Delhi High Court records the following account. A Delhi man @ a Delhi man was picked up from Subzi Mandi railway station on 1 August 1980, illegally confined for five days at Andha Mugal police post, and beaten regularly to extract a confession about stolen property. On 5 August 1980 the head constable poured kerosene on him while the two constables set him on fire; he died the next day. The court relied on the magistrate-recorded dying declaration, corroborated by post-mortem evidence of extensive bruises and abrasions, rejecting the suicide defence. It dismissed the appeal, upholding life imprisonment with Rs 5,000 fine each under Sections 302/34 IPC and the additional two-year terms under Sections 330/34 IPC for the two constables, and ordered the appellants, who were on bail, to be taken into custody.", "summary_verified": "A Delhi man @ a Delhi man was picked up from Subzi Mandi railway station on 1 August 1980, illegally confined for five days at Andha Mugal police post, and beaten regularly to extract a confession about stolen property. On 5 August 1980 the head constable poured kerosene on him while the two constables set him on fire; he died the next day. The court relied on the magistrate-recorded dying declaration, corroborated by post-mortem evidence of extensive bruises and abrasions, rejecting the suicide defence. It dismissed the appeal, upholding life imprisonment with Rs 5,000 fine each under Sections 302/34 IPC and the additional two-year terms under Sections 330/34 IPC for the two constables, and ordered the appellants, who were on bail, to be taken into custody.", "court_quote": "The present appellants with pre-determination had put the deceased on fire knowing fully well that this would result into his death. The fact that deceased was kept in illegal custody in police post Andha Mugal from 1st August, 1980 to 5th August, 1980 has also been duly proved on record.", "court_quote_para": "73", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Crl A 33/1993 verified on Indian Kanoon; appeal dismissed, life terms 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 death", "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 Delhi High Court judgment)", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Delhi High Court judgment.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation", "source": "Crl. Appeal No. 33/1993", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." }, { "date": "2009-03-06", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Delhi High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Delhi High Court dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)", "source": "Crl. Appeal No. 33/1993", "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://indiankanoon.org/doc/5987865/", "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-03", "chunk-r02", "chunk-r10" ], "merged_case_id": "DELHI-001", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }