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 1995 SC 1965
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CW-1995-0009Sirmaur, Himachal PradeshJudgment 10 January 1995
Rajgarh Police Investigating Head Constable and others v. State of Himachal Pradesh
The judgment of the Supreme Court of India records the following account. Around midnight, [name withheld] (Investigating Head Constable) and [name withheld] (Constable) of Rajgarh Police Station forcibly took a 19-year-old woman and her husband from a house at Rajgarh to the police station on the false pretext of a wireless message from Chandigarh, confined them in separate rooms, and [name withheld] raped her while [name withheld] guarded the husband. The Sessions Court acquitted both, but the Himachal Pradesh High Court reversed the acquittal, sentencing [name withheld] to 7 years RI and [name withheld] to 2 years RI for abetment. The Supreme Court held the prosecutrix reliable and corroborated, found [name withheld]'s conduct consistent with aiding and abetting, and dismissed both appeals, directing the appellants to surrender forthwith.
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Report card
By judgment dated 10 January 1995 in Criminal Appeal Nos. 108 and 335 of 1987, the Supreme Court of India (Coram: Madan Mohan Punchhi, K. Jayachandra Reddy, JJ.) affirmed the conviction of 2 police personnel, namely: Investigating Head Constable, Rajgarh Police Station; Constable, Rajgarh Police Station.
- Register number
- HP 16 CW 0001
- Case reference
- Criminal Appeal Nos. 108 and 335 of 1987 / AIR 1995 SC 1965
- Court and date
- Supreme Court of India (Coram: Madan Mohan Punchhi, K. Jayachandra Reddy, JJ.), 10 January 1995
- Officer(s) at the material time
- Investigating Head Constable, Rajgarh Police Station; Constable, Rajgarh Police Station
- Present service status
- Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked
- Section 451 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 342 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 376 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 376 read with Section 109 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860
- Finding of the Court (extract)
- “This case relates to a custodial rape. The Court of Session acquitted the two appellants herein of the crime but the High Court recorded convictions under more than one heads, besides rape and sentenced substantively [name withheld] appellant to seven …” (at para 1)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum
- Conviction upheld. Sentence: imprisonment; maximum substantive term of 7 years.
- Present status of the proceedings
- No further proceedings are recorded in the cited sources; the judgment is the concluded position shown.
Compiled from the judgment and the cited sources. Findings are those of the court; this card adds none of its own.
Current position
The Supreme Court of India judgment dated 10 January 1995 is the concluded position shown in the cited sources.
Evidence position
Recorded allegations
Custodial torturePrimary
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.
“This case relates to a custodial rape. The Court of Session acquitted the two appellants herein of the crime but the High Court recorded convictions under more than one heads, besides rape and sentenced substantively [name withheld] appellant to seven …” (para 1)
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Institutional response
10 Jan 1995
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 1995 SC 1965
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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.