# Government Railway Police Superintendent of Police and Another vs State of Haryana and Others

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## Report card

By judgment dated 17 January 1996 in Writ Petitions (Crl.) Nos. 356-357 of 1993, the Supreme Court of India (Coram: K. Ramaswamy, G. B. Pattanaik, JJ.) recorded the conviction of 3 police personnel, namely: Superintendent of Police, Government Railway Police (CIA), Haryana; Sub-Inspector, Government Railway Police, Haryana; Assistant Sub-Inspector, Government Railway Police, Faridabad/Ambala, Haryana.

- Register number: HR 29 CW 0001
- Case reference: Writ Petitions (Crl.) Nos. 356-357 of 1993 / (1996) 7 SCC 397; AIR 1996 SC 2326; JT 1996 (1) 328
- Court and date: Supreme Court of India (Coram: K. Ramaswamy, G. B. Pattanaik, JJ.), 17 January 1996
- Officer(s) at the material time: Superintendent of Police, Government Railway Police (CIA), Haryana; Sub-Inspector, Government Railway Police, Haryana; Assistant Sub-Inspector, Government Railway Police, Faridabad/Ambala, Haryana
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Section 193 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Article 129 of the Constitution of India
- Finding of the Court (extract): “\[name withheld\] is unworthy to hold any office of responsibility.” (at para 72)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum: Conviction entered by Supreme Court. Sentence: imprisonment; maximum substantive term of 1 year.
- Present status of the proceedings: Supreme Court of India, 27 October 1999: conviction set aside. Supreme Court of India, 6 January 2000: conviction set aside.
- Source orders: [Judgment / order (primary source)](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/421059/); [Supreme Court of India order](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/504950/); [Supreme Court of India order](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/698665/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-1996-0013)

**Record:** CW-1996-0013 (compiler id CWC-1108); case GAP3-127-017
**Title:** Government Railway Police Superintendent of Police and Another vs State of Haryana and Others
**Court:** Supreme Court of India; judges: K. Ramaswamy; G. B. Pattanaik
**Case number / citation:** Writ Petitions (Crl.) Nos. 356-357 of 1993 / (1996) 7 SCC 397; AIR 1996 SC 2326; JT 1996 (1) 328
**Judgment:** 1996-01-17 (1996, day precision)
**Incident date:** 1993-10-12 (1993)
**Place:** Faridabad, Haryana; city town: Faridabad; police station or unit: GRP Faridabad / GRP Ambala Cantonment (CIA); force: state_police
**Category:** Other misconduct
**Sub-category:** false implication fabrication
**Outcome:** Conviction entered by Supreme Court (conviction_by_sc)
**Sections:** IPC 193; Constitution Art 129
**Officers (gated display forms):** Superintendent of Police, Government Railway Police (CIA), Haryana; Sub-Inspector, Government Railway Police, Haryana; Assistant Sub-Inspector, Government Railway Police, Faridabad/Ambala, Haryana (3 in record)
**Victims:** Faridabad man; Faridabad man (2 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** imprisonment; max 1 yrs
**Sentence type:** imprisonment (imprisonment)

The Supreme Court convicted three Haryana Government Railway Police officers for fabricating evidence in a habeas corpus case. The Court found that a CIA-GRP team hunting fraud accused \[name withheld\] had seized his minor son, a minor boy, and another boy a minor boy at Agra and kept them in wrongful confinement from mid-October 1993 till 31 October 1993. The Court held the counter-affidavits denying custody, proved false by DGP, District Judge and CBI inquiries, made out offences under Section 193 IPC and, for SP, criminal contempt. It sentenced \[name withheld\] to one year's RI plus six months for contempt (concurrent), the SI to six months and the ASI to three months, and directed the DGP to take them into custody. Later proceedings: on 27 October 1999, the Supreme Court of India set aside the conviction/order concerning \[name withheld\]; on 6 January 2000, the Supreme Court of India set aside the conviction/order concerning \[name withheld\]; the findings against the remaining officers stand as recorded in this judgment. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> \[name withheld\] is unworthy to hold any office of responsibility.

**Sources (2):** [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/421059/); [advocatekhoj.com](https://www.advocatekhoj.com/library/judgments/index.php?go=1996/january/afzal-anr-vs-state-of-haryana-ors-87)
**Verification:** V2 · Externally reported
**Review:** Solo Staff combined review (one combined attestation) — not yet recorded
**admin category:** misconduct
**admin subcategory:** false_implication_fabrication
**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
**court quote para:** 72
**display title redacted:** Government Railway Police Superintendent of Police and Another vs State of Haryana and Others
**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': '1996-01-17', '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) 7 SCC 397; AIR 1996 SC 2326; JT 1996 (1) 328', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**later proceedings:** {'court': 'Supreme Court of India', 'date': '1999-10-27', 'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/504950/', 'outcome': 'conviction_set_aside'}; {'court': 'Supreme Court of India', 'date': '2000-01-06', 'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/698665/', 'outcome': 'conviction_set_aside'}
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/421059/', 'link_checked': None}; {'url': 'https://www.advocatekhoj.com/library/judgments/index.php?go=1996/january/afzal-anr-vs-state-of-haryana-ors-87', 'link_checked': None}
**retracted:** {"is_retracted": false}
**service:** police
**source assessment:** {"established": null, "basis": null}
**status:** current
**subcategory display:** false implication fabrication
**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 convicted SP, SI and ASI under s.193 IPC (SP also Art 129 contempt) for false affidavits denying custody of two confined minors.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Conviction entered by Supreme Court.

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