# Kolkata Police Special Constable vs State of West Bengal

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## Report card

By judgment dated 21 May 2002, the Calcutta High Court (Coram: P.K. Biswas, S.K. Banerjee, JJ.) affirmed the conviction of the Special Constable, Phool Bagan Police Station.

- Register number: WB 01 CW 0002
- Case reference: (2002) 3 CALLT 618
- Court and date: Calcutta High Court (Coram: P.K. Biswas, S.K. Banerjee, JJ.), 21 May 2002
- Officer(s) at the material time: Special Constable, Phool Bagan Police Station
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Section 376 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 366 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860
- Finding of the Court (extract): “The appeal preferred by the convict/appellant \[name withheld\] is dismissed on contest and the judgment of conviction and sentence passed by the learned trial Judge, so far as it relates to convict/appellant \[name withheld\] is, hereby, affirmed.”
- Verdict, sentence and quantum: Conviction upheld. Sentence: imprisonment.
- 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/536057/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2002-0013)

**Record:** CW-2002-0013 (compiler id CWC-0747); case GAP6-006
**Title:** Kolkata Police Special Constable vs State of West Bengal
**Court:** Calcutta High Court; judges: P.K. Biswas; S.K. Banerjee
**Case number / citation:** (2002) 3 CALLT 618
**Judgment:** 2002-05-21 (2002, day precision)
**Incident date:** 1992-09-23 (1992)
**Place:** Kolkata, West Bengal; city town: Kolkata; police station or unit: Phool Bagan Police Station; force: state_police
**Category:** Violence & unlawful detention
**Sub-category:** custodial rape sexual assault
**Outcome:** Conviction upheld (conviction_upheld)
**Sections:** IPC 376; IPC 366
**Officers (gated display forms):** Special Constable, Phool Bagan Police Station (1 in record)
**Victims:** Kolkata woman, age 27 (1 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** imprisonment
**Sentence type:** imprisonment (imprisonment)

The judgment of the Calcutta High Court records the following account. Around 2 a.m. on 23 September 1992, Special Constable of Phool Bagan Police Station, in plain clothes, twice came to pavement-dweller the complainant's jhupri on CIT Road, then forcibly took her in a police vehicle to the station, confined her in a mezzanine barrack room and raped her until about 4:40 a.m. The trial court sentenced him to life under Section 376 IPC with concurrent six years RI under Section 366 IPC. The Division Bench dismissed his appeal and affirmed the conviction and sentence, while acquitting the two co-appellants under Section 366 IPC for want of proof of participation. Trial reference: Sessions Trial No.1(1) of 1993, Phool Bagan P.S. Case No.108 dated 23.09.1992. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> The appeal preferred by the convict/appellant \[name withheld\] is dismissed on contest and the judgment of conviction and sentence passed by the learned trial Judge, so far as it relates to convict/appellant \[name withheld\] is, hereby, affirmed.

**Sources (1):** [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/536057/)
**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:** True
**display title redacted:** Kolkata Police Special Constable vs State of West Bengal
**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 Calcutta High Court judgment)', 'independence': 'External', 'legal_effect': 'Binding', 'description': 'The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Calcutta High Court judgment.', 'disposition': 'Conviction · Supports allegation', 'source': '(2002) 3 CALLT 618', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}; {'date': '2002-05-21', 'action_type': 'Order issued', 'status': 'Concluded', 'authority': 'Calcutta High Court', 'independence': 'External', 'legal_effect': 'Binding', 'description': 'The Calcutta High Court dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.', 'disposition': 'Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)', 'source': '(2002) 3 CALLT 618', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/536057/', '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:** Life term u/s 376 (+6y u/s 366) of Special Constable for barrack rape affirmed; co-accused acquitted.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**victims redacted:** {'age': 27, 'gender': 'female', 'descriptor': 'the complainant'}
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Conviction upheld.

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