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: (2003) 1 SCC 534; AIR 2003 SC 215
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CW-2002-0016Kancheepuram, Tamil NaduJudgment 1 November 2002
Wallajahbad Police Sub-Inspector vs State rep. by Inspector of Police, Chennai
A Wallajahbad man, a suspect in a double-murder case, was brought to Wallajahbad Police Station on 5 March 1985, beaten in custody by the appellant officers, driven away in a police jeep and found dead the next morning; the officers falsely claimed he had escaped. A habeas corpus petition led the Madras High Court to order a CBCID probe, after which the Sessions Judge, Chengalpattu convicted the officers and the High Court confirmed the conviction. The Supreme Court held the circumstantial chain of last-seen evidence, the false escape story and identification of the body proved custodial murder beyond doubt. It dismissed the appeals, sustaining life imprisonment under Section 302 read with Section 34 IPC plus concurrent terms under Sections 330, 348 and 201 IPC.
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By judgment dated 1 November 2002 in Criminal Appeal Nos. 105-106 of 2002, the Supreme Court of India (Coram: N. Santosh Hegde, K.G. Balakrishnan, JJ.) affirmed the conviction of 2 police personnel, namely: Sub-Inspector, Wallajahbad Police Station; Sub-Inspector, Wallajahbad Police Station.
- Register number
- TN 21 CW 0001
- Case reference
- Criminal Appeal Nos. 105-106 of 2002 / (2003) 1 SCC 534; AIR 2003 SC 215
- Court and date
- Supreme Court of India (Coram: N. Santosh Hegde, K.G. Balakrishnan, JJ.), 1 November 2002
- Officer(s) at the material time
- Sub-Inspector, Wallajahbad Police Station; Sub-Inspector, Wallajahbad Police Station
- Present service status
- Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked
- Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 34 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 330 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 348 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 201 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860
- Finding of the Court (extract)
- “Torturing a person and using third degree methods are of medieval nature and they are barbaric and contrary to law.”
- 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.
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Current position
The Supreme Court of India judgment dated 1 November 2002 is the concluded position shown in the cited sources.
Evidence position
Recorded allegations
Custodial deathPrimary
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.
“Torturing a person and using third degree methods are of medieval nature and they are barbaric and contrary to law.”
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Institutional response
1 Nov 2002
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: (2003) 1 SCC 534; AIR 2003 SC 215
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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.