# Cheeka Police Sub-Inspector and others vs State of Haryana

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## Report card

By judgment dated 28 April 1993 in Criminal Appeal (arising from Punjab and Haryana High Court Criminal Appeal No. 10-DBA of 1988), the Supreme Court of India (Coram: K. Jayachandra Reddy, N.P. Singh, JJ.) affirmed the conviction of 4 police personnel, namely: Sub-Inspector, Police Post Cheeka, Guhla; Assistant Sub-Inspector, Police Post Cheeka, Guhla; Constable, Police Post Cheeka, Guhla; Constable, Police Post Cheeka, Guhla.

- Register number: HR 08 CW 0001
- Case reference: Criminal Appeal (arising from Punjab and Haryana High Court Criminal Appeal No. 10-DBA of 1988) / (1993) Supp (3) SCC 336; AIR 1993 SC 2302; 1993 Cri LJ 2092
- Court and date: Supreme Court of India (Coram: K. Jayachandra Reddy, N.P. Singh, JJ.), 28 April 1993
- Officer(s) at the material time: Sub-Inspector, Police Post Cheeka, Guhla; Assistant Sub-Inspector, Police Post Cheeka, Guhla; Constable, Police Post Cheeka, Guhla; Constable, Police Post Cheeka, Guhla
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Section 304 Part II of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 34 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 323 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 324 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 343 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860
- Finding of the Court (extract): “This is yet another case of death in police custody.” (at para 1)
- 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.
- Source orders: [Judgment / order (primary source)](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1240824/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-1993-0007)

**Record:** CW-1993-0007 (compiler id CWC-0681); case GAP1-001
**Title:** Cheeka Police Sub-Inspector and others vs State of Haryana
**Court:** Supreme Court of India; judges: K. Jayachandra Reddy; N.P. Singh
**Case number / citation:** Criminal Appeal (arising from Punjab and Haryana High Court Criminal Appeal No. 10-DBA of 1988) / (1993) Supp (3) SCC 336; AIR 1993 SC 2302; 1993 Cri LJ 2092
**Judgment:** 1993-04-28 (1993, day precision)
**Incident date:** 1986-09-15 (1986)
**Place:** Kaithal, Haryana (district at time: Kurukshetra); city town: Cheeka; police station or unit: Police Post Cheeka / CIA Staff Cheeka, Guhla; force: state_police
**Category:** Violence & unlawful detention
**Sub-category:** custodial death
**Outcome:** Conviction upheld (conviction_upheld)
**Sections:** IPC 304 Part II; IPC 34; IPC 323; IPC 324; IPC 343
**Officers (gated display forms):** Sub-Inspector, Police Post Cheeka, Guhla; Assistant Sub-Inspector, Police Post Cheeka, Guhla; Constable, Police Post Cheeka, Guhla; Constable, Police Post Cheeka, Guhla (4 in record)
**Victims:** Cheeka man (1 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** imprisonment; max 5 yrs
**Sentence type:** imprisonment (imprisonment)

A Cheeka man, a theft suspect re-arrested on 8 September 1986, was held in the Cheeka police lock-up where his father, uncle and the village Sarpanch saw all four accused policemen beat him over several days. On 15 September 1986 the police threw his body under a bus to fake a road accident; the post-mortem found 15 injuries with fractured ribs and injuries to the liver, spleen and testes. The Sessions Court had let the officers off on probation, but the Punjab and Haryana High Court convicted them under Section 304 Part I IPC with 10 years' rigorous imprisonment. The Supreme Court held the custodial beating proved beyond reasonable doubt, treated the officers' failure to explain the custody death as fatal, but altered the conviction to Section 304 Part II read with Section 34 IPC (knowledge, not intention) and reduced each sentence to 5 years' rigorous imprisonment. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> This is yet another case of death in police custody.

**Sources (1):** [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1240824/)
**Verification:** V2 · Externally reported
**Review:** Solo Staff combined review (one combined attestation) — not yet recorded
**admin category:** brutality
**admin subcategory:** custodial_death
**allegations:** {'category': 'Custodial death', '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:** 1
**display title redacted:** Cheeka Police Sub-Inspector and others vs State of Haryana
**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': \['court_quote_para'\]}
**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': '(1993) Supp (3) SCC 336; AIR 1993 SC 2302; 1993 Cri LJ 2092', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}; {'date': '1993-04-28', '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': '(1993) Supp (3) SCC 336; AIR 1993 SC 2302; 1993 Cri LJ 2092', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1240824/', 'link_checked': None}
**retracted:** {"is_retracted": false}
**service:** police
**source assessment:** {"established": null, "basis": null}
**status:** current
**subcategory display:** custodial death
**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; custodial death by police beating upheld, conviction modified to IPC 304 Part II with 5 years RI each.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Conviction upheld.

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