# Rajgarh Police Investigating Head Constable and others v. State of Himachal Pradesh

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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.
- Source orders: [Judgment / order (primary source)](https://www.legal-tools.org/doc/a3164f/pdf/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-1995-0009)

**Record:** CW-1995-0009 (compiler id CWC-0906); case GAP2-57-002
**Title:** Rajgarh Police Investigating Head Constable and others v. State of Himachal Pradesh
**Court:** Supreme Court of India; judges: Madan Mohan Punchhi; K. Jayachandra Reddy
**Case number / citation:** Criminal Appeal Nos. 108 and 335 of 1987 / AIR 1995 SC 1965
**Judgment:** 1995-01-10 (1995, day precision)
**Incident date:** Not stated
**Place:** Sirmaur, Himachal Pradesh; city town: Rajgarh; police station or unit: Rajgarh Police Station; force: state_police
**Category:** Violence & unlawful detention
**Sub-category:** custodial rape sexual assault
**Outcome:** Conviction upheld (conviction_upheld)
**Sections:** IPC 451; IPC 342; IPC 376; IPC 376 r/w 109
**Officers (gated display forms):** Investigating Head Constable, Rajgarh Police Station; Constable, Rajgarh Police Station (2 in record)
**Victims:** Rajgarh woman, age 19 (1 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** imprisonment; max 7 yrs
**Sentence type:** imprisonment (imprisonment)

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.

> 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 years rigorous imprisonment and \[name withheld\] appellant to two years rigorous imprisonment which has given rise to these appeals.

**Sources (3):** [legal-tools.org](https://www.legal-tools.org/doc/a3164f/pdf/); [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1083421/); [courtkutchehry.com](https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/678253/ram-kumar-and-nain-singh-vs-state-of-hp/)
**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:** False
**court quote para:** 1
**display title redacted:** Rajgarh Police Investigating Head Constable and others v. State of Himachal Pradesh
**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 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': 'AIR 1995 SC 1965', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}; {'date': '1995-01-10', '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': 'AIR 1995 SC 1965', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://www.legal-tools.org/doc/a3164f/pdf/', 'link_checked': None}; {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1083421/', 'link_checked': None}; {'url': 'https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/678253/ram-kumar-and-nain-singh-vs-state-of-hp/', '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 judgment verified (Legal Tools PDF + Indian Kanoon); custodial-rape convictions of two policemen upheld.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Conviction upheld.

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