# Bhiwani Man vs \[name withheld\]

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## Report card

By judgment dated 31 January 1984 in Criminal Revision No. 10 of 1982, the Punjab and Haryana High Court (Coram: B.S. Yadav, J.) affirmed the conviction of the Station House Officer, Police Station City Bhiwani, Haryana Police.

- Register number: HR 16 CW 0001
- Case reference: Criminal Revision No. 10 of 1982 / (1984) 01 P&H CK 0029
- Court and date: Punjab and Haryana High Court (Coram: B.S. Yadav, J.), 31 January 1984
- Officer(s) at the material time: Station House Officer, Police Station City Bhiwani, Haryana Police
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Section 330 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 323 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 4(2) of the Probation of Offenders Act, 1958
- Finding of the Court (extract): “After completion of the trial, the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate convicted the respondent under section 330 and 323 of the Code and gave him benefit of Probation of Offenders Act, 1958 (for short the Act) and released him on probation …” (at para 2)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum: Conviction upheld.
- 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://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/133391/laxmi-narain-appellant-hash-ram-chander-respondent/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-1984-0001)

**Record:** CW-1984-0001 (compiler id CWC-0890); case GAP2-49-005
**Title:** Bhiwani Man vs \[name withheld\]
**Court:** Punjab and Haryana High Court; judges: B.S. Yadav
**Case number / citation:** Criminal Revision No. 10 of 1982 / (1984) 01 P&H CK 0029
**Judgment:** 1984-01-31 (1984, day precision)
**Incident date:** 1980-05-03 (1980)
**Place:** Bhiwani, Haryana; city town: Bhiwani; police station or unit: Police Station City Bhiwani, Haryana Police; force: state_police
**Category:** Violence & unlawful detention
**Sub-category:** custodial torture
**Outcome:** Conviction upheld (conviction_upheld)
**Sections:** IPC 330; IPC 323; Probation of Offenders Act 1958 s.4(2)
**Officers (gated display forms):** Station House Officer, Police Station City Bhiwani, Haryana Police (1 in record)
**Victims:** Bhiwani man (1 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** None ordered

SHO of Police Station City Bhiwani arrested complainant \[name withheld\] on 3 May 1980 after a gold-smuggling search of his shop and house recovered nothing, and the judgment records that the SHO tortured him in custody to extort money before handing him to Central Excise inspectors who also beat him. The Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bhiwani, convicted the SHO under Sections 330 and 323 IPC on 17 November 1980 but released him on one year's probation, and both sides' appeals were dismissed by the Additional Sessions Judge. In revision the High Court held that probation had been granted without calling for the Probation Officer's report, in breach of the mandatory Section 4(2) of the Probation of Offenders Act, 1958. It left the conviction undisturbed, set aside the probation orders, and remanded the case to the trial court for fresh orders on sentence. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> After completion of the trial, the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate convicted the respondent under section 330 and 323 of the Code and gave him benefit of Probation of Offenders Act, 1958 (for short the Act) and released him on probation for one year.

**Sources (2):** [courtkutchehry.com](https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/133391/laxmi-narain-appellant-hash-ram-chander-respondent/); [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1782919/)
**Verification:** V2 · Externally reported
**Review:** Solo Staff combined review (one combined attestation) — not yet recorded
**admin category:** brutality
**admin subcategory:** custodial_torture
**allegations:** {'category': 'Custodial torture', '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:** 2
**display title redacted:** Bhiwani Man vs \[name withheld\]
**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 Punjab and Haryana High Court judgment)', 'independence': 'External', 'legal_effect': 'Binding', 'description': 'The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Punjab and Haryana High Court judgment.', 'disposition': 'Conviction · Supports allegation', 'source': '(1984) 01 P&H CK 0029', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}; {'date': '1984-01-31', 'action_type': 'Order issued', 'status': 'Concluded', 'authority': 'Punjab and Haryana High Court', 'independence': 'External', 'legal_effect': 'Binding', 'description': 'The Punjab and Haryana High Court dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.', 'disposition': 'Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)', 'source': '(1984) 01 P&H CK 0029', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/133391/laxmi-narain-appellant-hash-ram-chander-respondent/', 'link_checked': None}; {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1782919/', 'link_checked': None}
**retracted:** {"is_retracted": false}
**service:** police
**source assessment:** {"established": null, "basis": null}
**status:** current
**subcategory display:** custodial torture
**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:** Conviction u/ss 330/323 IPC left intact; probation set aside and remanded for fresh sentence — conviction_upheld.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Conviction upheld.

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