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: AIR 1994 SC 565
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CW-1993-0005Thiruvananthapuram, KeralaJudgment 24 November 1993
Thiruvananthapuram Police Police Constable (A1) And Another vs State Of Kerala
The judgment of the Supreme Court of India records the following account. A Thiruvananthapuram man, picked up after a quarrel with an off-duty constable over plantains on 18 December 1980, was slapped, kicked and had his head dashed against the wall inside Fort Police Station, Thiruvananthapuram, and died of the injuries. The trial court convicted only two of the 21 accused policemen under Section 304 Part II IPC with five years rigorous imprisonment each, and the Kerala High Court dismissed both the accused's and the State's appeals. The Supreme Court accepted the eyewitness account of PWs 5 and 6 corroborated by medical evidence, dismissed the appeal, and ordered the convicted constables, who were on bail, to surrender and serve the remaining sentence.
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By judgment dated 24 November 1993 in Criminal Appeal No. 48 of 1986, the Supreme Court of India (Coram: K. Jayachandra Reddy, G. N. Ray, JJ.) affirmed the conviction of 2 police personnel, namely: Police Constable (A1), Fort Police Station, Thiruvananthapuram; Police Constable (A4), Central Crime Station, Thiruvananthapuram.
- Register number
- KL 01 CW 0001
- Case reference
- Criminal Appeal No. 48 of 1986 / AIR 1994 SC 565
- Court and date
- Supreme Court of India (Coram: K. Jayachandra Reddy, G. N. Ray, JJ.), 24 November 1993
- Officer(s) at the material time
- Police Constable (A1), Fort Police Station, Thiruvananthapuram; Police Constable (A4), Central Crime Station, Thiruvananthapuram
- Present service status
- Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked
- Section 304 Part II of the Indian Penal Code, 1860
- Finding of the Court (extract)
- “The two courts below have concurrently held that the evidence of P.W.5 as corroborated by the evidence of P.W.6 establishes the guilt of the appellants beyond all reasonable doubt and we see no grounds to come to a different conclusion. …” (at para 5)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum
- Conviction upheld. Sentence: imprisonment; 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.
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Current position
The Supreme Court of India judgment dated 24 November 1993 is the concluded position shown in the cited sources.
Evidence position
Recorded allegations
Custodial deathPrimary
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.
“The two courts below have concurrently held that the evidence of P.W.5 as corroborated by the evidence of P.W.6 establishes the guilt of the appellants beyond all reasonable doubt and we see no grounds to come to a different conclusion. …” (para 5)
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Institutional response
24 Nov 1993
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: AIR 1994 SC 565
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Follow-up history
19 Sep 2026
(Round-8 full re-verification: published record re-checked against the judgment text (outcome, officers, quote, key facts) plus methodology-compliance pass; skills-guided adversarial re-verification of the published record against the judgment text (reverify/t1-*/adversarial-8.jsonl))
Corrections (0): No corrections recorded.
Review: Solo Staff combined review (one combined attestation) — not yet recorded.