{ "record_id": "CW-2020-0017", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1192", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "State vs Delhi Police Head Constable", "display_title_redacted": "State vs Delhi Police Head Constable", "state": "Delhi", "district": "West Delhi", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "New Delhi", "police_station_or_unit": "PS Kirti Nagar", "court": "Delhi High Court", "court_as_verified": "Delhi High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "State vs Delhi Police Head Constable", "case_number": "CRL.A. 1405/2019", "citation": "AIRONLINE 2020 DEL 393", "judges": [ "Vibhu Bakhru" ], "judgment_date": "2020-03-03", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2020, "incident_date": "2003-07-02", "incident_year": 2003, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "other", "subcategory": "other", "subcategory_display": "other", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "conviction_by_hc", "sections": [ "IPC 409" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Head Constable", "unit": "PS Kirti Nagar, Delhi Police", "role": "convicted", "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": "Head Constable, PS Kirti Nagar, Delhi Police" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 0, "sentence_type": "imprisonment", "sentence_max_years": 0.5, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/107422055/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/1030895/state-vs-shamsher-singh/" ], "summary": "The Delhi High Court (Vibhu Bakhru, J.) on 3 March 2020 allowed the State's appeal and set aside the ASJ's acquittal of Head Constable of PS Kirti Nagar, restoring his conviction under Section 409 IPC for criminal breach of trust. The court recorded that a 9 mm service pistol with 10 live cartridges issued to him on 2 July 2003 was never returned despite repeated visits by police officials, and held his shifting defence versions had little credibility. It reduced the sentence from three years to six months' rigorous imprisonment, noting he had paid the full monetary value of the weapon and faced disciplinary proceedings. The respondent's name is spelled [name withheld] in the cause title and [name withheld] in the memo of parties. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Delhi High Court (Vibhu Bakhru, J.) on 3 March 2020 allowed the State's appeal and set aside the ASJ's acquittal of Head Constable of PS Kirti Nagar, restoring his conviction under Section 409 IPC for criminal breach of trust. The court recorded that a 9 mm service pistol with 10 live cartridges issued to him on 2 July 2003 was never returned despite repeated visits by police officials, and held his shifting defence versions had little credibility. It reduced the sentence from three years to six months' rigorous imprisonment, noting he had paid the full monetary value of the weapon and faced disciplinary proceedings. The respondent's name is spelled [name withheld] in the cause title and [name withheld] in the memo of parties; the agent's impugned-order date of 10.06.2018 is corrected to 10.06.2016 per the judgment.", "court_quote": "This Court finds that the learned ASJ had grossly erred in concluding that the respondent had set up a probable defence. The defence set up by the respondent has little credibility. As noticed above, he appears to be adopting different versions at different times.", "court_quote_para": "56", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC reversed ASJ acquittal and restored s.409 IPC conviction of head constable; sentence cut to 6 months RI.", "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": "Other", "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": "2020-03-03", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Delhi High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Delhi High Court entered convictions against police personnel in this judgment.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation", "source": "AIRONLINE 2020 DEL 393", "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/107422055/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/1030895/state-vs-shamsher-singh/", "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-109" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-43-001", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }