# The Secretary, Hailakandi Bar Association vs State of Assam and Anr.

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## Report card

By judgment dated 9 May 1996 in Writ Petition (Crl.) No. 209 of 1993, the Supreme Court of India (Coram: S.C. Sen, A.M. Ahmadi, JJ.) recorded the conviction of the Superintendent of Police, Hailakandi, Assam.

- Register number: AS 24 CW 0001
- Case reference: Writ Petition (Crl.) No. 209 of 1993 / 1996 AIR 1925, JT 1996 (5) 88, 1996 SCALE (4) 290
- Court and date: Supreme Court of India (Coram: S.C. Sen, A.M. Ahmadi, JJ.), 9 May 1996
- Officer(s) at the material time: Superintendent of Police, Hailakandi, Assam
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Article 129 of the Constitution of India; Section 12 of the Contempt of Courts Act, 1971; Article 32 of the Constitution of India
- Finding of the Court (extract): “We hold him guilty of contempt under Article 129 of the Constitution read with Section 12 of the Contempt of Courts Act, 1971. Having regard to the gravity of the case, we sentence the contemner \[name withheld\] to undergo simple …”
- Verdict, sentence and quantum: Conviction entered by Supreme Court. Sentence: imprisonment; maximum substantive term of 0.25 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/350151/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-1996-0002)

**Record:** CW-1996-0002 (compiler id CWC-0015); case ASSAM-001
**Title:** The Secretary, Hailakandi Bar Association vs State of Assam and Anr.
**Court:** Supreme Court of India; judges: S.C. Sen; A.M. Ahmadi
**Case number / citation:** Writ Petition (Crl.) No. 209 of 1993 / 1996 AIR 1925, JT 1996 (5) 88, 1996 SCALE (4) 290
**Judgment:** 1996-05-09 (1996, day precision)
**Incident date:** 1993-03-09 (1993)
**Place:** Hailakandi, Assam; city town: Hailakandi; police station or unit: Office of the Superintendent of Police, Hailakandi; force: state_police
**Category:** Other misconduct
**Sub-category:** dereliction evidence tampering
**Outcome:** Conviction entered by Supreme Court (conviction_by_sc)
**Sections:** Constitution of India Art. 129; Contempt of Courts Act 1971 s.12; Constitution of India Art. 32
**Officers (gated display forms):** Superintendent of Police, Hailakandi, Assam (1 in record)
**Victims:** Hailakandi man, age 35 (1 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** imprisonment; max 0.25 yrs
**Sentence type:** imprisonment (imprisonment)

remove/replace final sentence; SP report + affidavit + apology recorded and rejected by the Court. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> We hold him guilty of contempt under Article 129 of the Constitution read with Section 12 of the Contempt of Courts Act, 1971. Having regard to the gravity of the case, we sentence the contemner \[name withheld\] to undergo simple imprisonment for a term of three months.

**Sources (1):** [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/350151/)
**Verification:** V2 · Externally reported
**Review:** Solo Staff combined review (one combined attestation) — not yet recorded
**admin category:** misconduct
**admin subcategory:** dereliction_evidence_tampering
**allegations:** {'category': 'Other', '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
**display title redacted:** The Secretary, Hailakandi Bar Association vs State of Assam and Anr.
**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': \['summary'\]}
**followup status:** checked
**institutional response:** {'date': '1996-05-09', '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': '1996 AIR 1925, JT 1996 (5) 88, 1996 SCALE (4) 290', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/350151/', 'link_checked': None}
**retracted:** {"is_retracted": false}
**service:** police
**source assessment:** {"established": null, "basis": null}
**status:** current
**subcategory display:** dereliction evidence tampering
**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:** Supreme Court convicted SP Hailakandi of criminal contempt for false report/affidavit covering up custodial death of undertrial a Hailakandi man; 3 months simple imprisonment.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Conviction entered by Supreme Court.

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