# Maulud Ahmad v. State of Uttar Pradesh

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## Report card

By judgment dated 13 November 1962 in Criminal Appeal No. 97 of 1961, the Supreme Court of India (Coram: K. Subba Rao, J.) affirmed the conviction of the Maulud Ahmad (Head Constable).

- Register number: UP 31 CW 0001
- Case reference: Criminal Appeal No. 97 of 1961
- Court and date: Supreme Court of India (Coram: K. Subba Rao, J.), 13 November 1962
- Officer(s) at the material time: Maulud Ahmad (Head Constable)
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Section 218 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860
- Finding of the Court (extract): “In the view of the learned judge it was not established conclusively that Chauhan abetted the appellant in manipulating the record but that could not exonerate the appellant for it had been held on the evidence that the false entries …” (at para n/a)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum: Conviction upheld. Sentence: imprisonment; maximum substantive term of 2 years.
- Present status of the proceedings: No further proceedings are recorded in the cited sources; the judgment is the concluded position shown.
- Source orders: [Judgment / order (primary source)](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1288544/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-1962-0001)

**Record:** CW-1962-0001 (compiler id CWC-0500); case SWDERELI-010; aliases: CWC-1477
**Title:** Maulud Ahmad v. State of Uttar Pradesh
**Court:** Supreme Court of India; judges: K. Subba Rao
**Case number / citation:** Criminal Appeal No. 97 of 1961
**Judgment:** 1962-11-13 (1962, day precision)
**Incident date:** 1956-12-15 (1956)
**Place:** Lakhimpur Kheri, Uttar Pradesh; city town: Mailani; police station or unit: PS Mailani, Kheri; force: state_police
**Category:** Other misconduct
**Sub-category:** dereliction evidence tampering
**Outcome:** Conviction upheld (conviction_upheld)
**Sections:** IPC 218
**Officers (gated display forms):** Maulud Ahmad (Head Constable) (1 in record)
**Victims:** Mailani man; Mailani man (2 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** imprisonment; max 2 yrs
**Sentence type:** imprisonment (imprisonment)

The judgment of the Supreme Court of India records the following account. After a railway-party shoot killed a Mailani man and a Mailani man on the night of 14/15 December 1956, Head Constable Maulud Ahmad of PS Mailani entered a false antedated report in the General Diary showing Railway Guard Chauhan had deposited his gun the previous evening, creating alibi evidence to save Chauhan from prosecution. All co-accused were acquitted but the appellant alone was convicted under section 218 IPC and sentenced to two years' rigorous imprisonment, affirmed by the Allahabad High Court (Lucknow Bench). The Supreme Court held that the guard's acquittal did not exonerate the appellant since intent at the time of the false entry governed, and that section 42 of the Police Act barred only Police Act prosecutions. It dismissed the appeal, warning that manipulated police records would end honest investigation. Subcategory corrected to dereliction/evidence-tampering: the fabrication shielded an accused rather than implicating innocents. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> In the view of the learned judge it was not established conclusively that Chauhan abetted the appellant in manipulating the record but that could not exonerate the appellant for it had been held on the evidence that the false entries had been made in the record by the appellant with a view to save Chauhan.

**Sources (4):** [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1288544/); [advocatekhoj.com](https://www.advocatekhoj.com/library/judgments/index.php?go=1962/november/maulud-ahmad-vs-state-of-uttar-pradesh-insc-309-13-november-1962-11); [the-laws.com](https://www.the-laws.com/Encyclopedia/browse/Case?caseId=002691823000&title=maulud-ahmad-vs-state-of-uttar-pradesh); [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/docfragment/1288544/?formInput=%22general%20diary%22)
**Verification:** V2 · Externally reported
**Review:** Solo Staff combined review (one combined attestation) — not yet recorded
**admin category:** misconduct
**admin subcategory:** dereliction_evidence_tampering
**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'}
**anonymised:** False
**court quote para:** n/a
**display title redacted:** Maulud Ahmad v. State of Uttar Pradesh
**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
**institutional response:** {'date': None, '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': 'Criminal Appeal No. 97 of 1961', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}; {'date': '1962-11-13', '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': 'Criminal Appeal No. 97 of 1961', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1288544/', 'link_checked': None}; {'url': 'https://www.advocatekhoj.com/library/judgments/index.php?go=1962/november/maulud-ahmad-vs-state-of-uttar-pradesh-insc-309-13-november-1962-11', 'link_checked': None}; {'url': 'https://www.the-laws.com/Encyclopedia/browse/Case?caseId=002691823000&title=maulud-ahmad-vs-state-of-uttar-pradesh', 'link_checked': None}; {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/docfragment/1288544/?formInput=%22general%20diary%22', 'link_checked': None}
**retracted:** {"is_retracted": false}
**service:** police
**source assessment:** {"established": null, "basis": null}
**status:** current
**subcategory display:** dereliction evidence tampering
**tier:** Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded
**tier badge:** Externally reported
**tier history:** Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded
**verdict:** accept
**verdict note:** Head Constable's s.218 IPC conviction for antedated false GD entry upheld; 2 years RI.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Conviction upheld.

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