# Gujarat Police Head Constable (Jamadar) v. State of Gujarat

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## Report card

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.
- Source orders: [Judgment / order (primary source)](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1464524/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-1976-0002)

**Record:** CW-1976-0002 (compiler id CWC-0440); case SWBRIBER-013
**Title:** Gujarat Police Head Constable (Jamadar) v. State of Gujarat
**Court:** Supreme Court of India; judges: R. S. Sarkaria; P. N. Shingal
**Case number / citation:** Criminal Appeal No. 250 of 1971 / (1976) 3 SCC 46; AIR 1976 SC 1497
**Judgment:** 1976-04-06 (1976, day precision)
**Incident date:** 1968-07-11 (1968)
**Place:** Surendranagar, Gujarat; city town: Zinzuwada; police station or unit: Police Station Zinzuwada; force: state_police
**Category:** Bribery & extortion
**Sub-category:** bribery pc act
**Outcome:** Conviction upheld (conviction_upheld)
**Sections:** IPC 161; PC Act 1947 s.5(2) r/w s.5(1)(d)
**Officers (gated display forms):** Head Constable (Jamadar), Police Station Zinzuwada, Gujarat Police (1 in record)
**Victims:** Zinzuwada man (1 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** imprisonment; max 2 yrs
**Sentence type:** imprisonment (imprisonment)

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.

> For the foregoing reasons, the appeal fails and is dismissed.

**Sources (1):** [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1464524/)
**Verification:** V2 · Externally reported
**Review:** Solo Staff combined review (one combined attestation) — not yet recorded
**admin category:** corruption
**admin subcategory:** bribery_pc_act
**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
**display title redacted:** Gujarat Police Head Constable (Jamadar) v. State of Gujarat
**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': '(1976) 3 SCC 46; AIR 1976 SC 1497', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}; {'date': '1976-04-06', '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': '(1976) 3 SCC 46; AIR 1976 SC 1497', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1464524/', 'link_checked': None}
**retracted:** {"is_retracted": false}
**service:** police
**source assessment:** {"established": null, "basis": null}
**status:** current
**subcategory display:** bribery pc act
**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:** SC judgment verified on Indian Kanoon; head constable's ss.161/5(2) conviction (via HC reversal) upheld.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Conviction upheld.

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