Date not established
Conviction
ConcludedThe trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Supreme Court of India judgment.
Conviction · Supports allegation.
Source: (1976) 3 SCC 46; AIR 1976 SC 1497
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CW-1976-0002Surendranagar, GujaratJudgment 6 April 1976
Gujarat Police Head Constable (Jamadar) v. State of Gujarat
The Supreme Court dismissed Head Constable's appeal, upholding his conviction by the Gujarat High Court under Section 161 IPC and Section 5(2) read with Section 5(1)(d) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1947, after the trial court had acquitted both accused. The Court accepted that a Zinzuwada man, produced at the police station on 11 July 1968 in an abduction-matter investigation, was threatened with handcuffing, lock-up and parading unless he paid, and that an anthracene-powder trap caught the appellant accepting Rs. 500 the next evening. It upheld the statutory presumption under Section 4(1) of the 1947 Act and rejected the objection under Section 537 CrPC 1898 to conviction under Section 161 simpliciter. The sentence of two years' rigorous imprisonment stands, with no separate sentence under Section 161, and the co-accused-Inspector's acquittal was left undisturbed. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.
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By judgment dated 6 April 1976 in Criminal Appeal No. 250 of 1971, the Supreme Court of India (Coram: R. S. Sarkaria, P. N. Shingal, JJ.) affirmed the conviction of the Head Constable (Jamadar), Police Station Zinzuwada, Gujarat Police.
- Register number
- GJ 13 CW 0001
- Case reference
- Criminal Appeal No. 250 of 1971 / (1976) 3 SCC 46; AIR 1976 SC 1497
- Court and date
- Supreme Court of India (Coram: R. S. Sarkaria, P. N. Shingal, JJ.), 6 April 1976
- Officer(s) at the material time
- Head Constable (Jamadar), Police Station Zinzuwada, Gujarat Police
- Present service status
- Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked
- Section 161 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 5(2) read with Section 5(1)(d) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1947
- Finding of the Court (extract)
- “For the foregoing reasons, the appeal fails and is dismissed.”
- 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.
Compiled from the judgment and the cited sources. Findings are those of the court; this card adds none of its own.
Current position
The Supreme Court of India judgment dated 6 April 1976 is the concluded position shown in the cited sources.
Evidence position
Recorded allegations
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Material fact supported
Reliable material supports a specifically documented fact relevant to that allegation, not necessarily the full allegation, causation, intent, unlawfulness, or responsibility.
Official finding: supports allegation.
Attributed to the court
What the court found
Holding not recorded separately.
“For the foregoing reasons, the appeal fails and is dismissed.”
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Institutional response
6 Apr 1976
Order issued
ConcludedThe Supreme Court of India dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.
Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card).
Source: (1976) 3 SCC 46; AIR 1976 SC 1497
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Follow-up history
19 Sep 2026
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Corrections (0): No corrections recorded.
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