# State of Maharashtra v. Chandraprakash Kewalchand Jain

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## Report card

By judgment dated 18 January 1990, the Supreme Court of India (Coram: A.M. Ahmadi, M. Fathima Beevi, JJ.) recorded the conviction of the Chandraprakash Kewalchand Jain (Sub-Inspector).

- Register number: MH 31 CW 0001
- Case reference: (1990) 1 SCC 550; AIR 1990 SC 658
- Court and date: Supreme Court of India (Coram: A.M. Ahmadi, M. Fathima Beevi, JJ.), 18 January 1990
- Officer(s) at the material time: Chandraprakash Kewalchand Jain (Sub-Inspector)
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Section 376 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860
- Finding of the Court (extract): “We allow this appeal, set aside the order of the High Court acquitting the respondent and restore the order of conviction and sentence passed on the respondent by the trial court.”
- Verdict, sentence and quantum: Conviction entered by Supreme Court. Sentence: imprisonment and fine; maximum substantive term of 5 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/199575/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-1990-0002)

**Record:** CW-1990-0002 (compiler id CWC-0480); case SWCUSTOD-010
**Title:** State of Maharashtra v. Chandraprakash Kewalchand Jain
**Court:** Supreme Court of India; judges: A.M. Ahmadi; M. Fathima Beevi
**Case number / citation:** (1990) 1 SCC 550; AIR 1990 SC 658
**Judgment:** 1990-01-18 (1990, day precision)
**Incident date:** 1981-08-22 (1981)
**Place:** Nagpur, Maharashtra; city town: Nagpur; force: state_police
**Category:** Violence & unlawful detention
**Sub-category:** custodial rape sexual assault
**Outcome:** Conviction entered by Supreme Court (conviction_by_sc)
**Sections:** IPC 376
**Officers (gated display forms):** Chandraprakash Kewalchand Jain (Sub-Inspector) (1 in record)
**Victims:** Nagpur woman (1 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** mixed; max 5 yrs
**Sentence type:** mixed (mixed)

The Supreme Court allowed the State appeal, set aside the Bombay High Court acquittal and restored the trial court's conviction of Sub-Inspector for raping newly-wed the complainant twice after isolating her from her husband on the night of 22 August 1981. The Court held a prosecutrix is a victim, not an accomplice, needing no corroboration, and refused to reduce the 5-year RI sentence, observing that punishment for rape by a person in uniform must be exemplary. The respondent was ordered to surrender forthwith and serve out the sentence. The trial acquittal under Section 342 was not disturbed. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> We allow this appeal, set aside the order of the High Court acquitting the respondent and restore the order of conviction and sentence passed on the respondent by the trial court.

**Sources (1):** [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/199575/)
**Verification:** V2 · Externally reported
**Review:** Solo Staff combined review (one combined attestation) — not yet recorded
**admin category:** brutality
**admin subcategory:** custodial_rape_sexual_assault
**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:** True
**display title redacted:** State of Maharashtra v. Chandraprakash Kewalchand Jain
**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': '1990-01-18', 'action_type': 'Order issued', 'status': 'Concluded', 'authority': 'Supreme Court of India', 'independence': 'External', 'legal_effect': 'Binding', 'description': 'The Supreme Court of India entered convictions against police personnel in this judgment.', 'disposition': 'Conviction · Supports allegation', 'source': '(1990) 1 SCC 550; AIR 1990 SC 658', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/199575/', 'link_checked': None}
**retracted:** {"is_retracted": false}
**service:** police
**source assessment:** {"established": null, "basis": null}
**status:** current
**subcategory display:** custodial rape sexual assault
**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 set aside HC acquittal; restored 376 conviction (5 yrs RI + fine).
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**victims redacted:** {'age': None, 'gender': 'female', 'descriptor': 'the complainant'}
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Conviction entered by Supreme Court.

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