# Chakardah village Police Constable (Black Commando trained) v. State of Bihar

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## Report card

By judgment dated 7 November 2003 in Criminal Appeal No. 190 of 2002, the Supreme Court of India (Coram: S. Rajendra Babu, P. Venkatarama Reddi, JJ.) affirmed the conviction of the Constable (Black Commando trained), Narhi police camp, Bhojpur.

- Register number: BR 03 CW 0001
- Case reference: Criminal Appeal No. 190 of 2002 / (2003) 12 SCC 516; AIR 2004 SC 210
- Court and date: Supreme Court of India (Coram: S. Rajendra Babu, P. Venkatarama Reddi, JJ.), 7 November 2003
- Officer(s) at the material time: Constable (Black Commando trained), Narhi police camp, Bhojpur
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 27 (conviction set aside by SC) of the Arms Act, 1959
- Finding of the Court (extract): “We, therefore, set aside the judgment under appeal insofar as it has confirmed the sentence of death while maintaining the conviction under Section 302 IPC.” (at para n/a)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum: Conviction upheld. Sentence: imprisonment and fine.
- 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/153691/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2003-0011)

**Record:** CW-2003-0011 (compiler id CWC-0352); case SUPREM-039
**Title:** Chakardah village Police Constable (Black Commando trained) v. State of Bihar
**Court:** Supreme Court of India; judges: S. Rajendra Babu; P. Venkatarama Reddi
**Case number / citation:** Criminal Appeal No. 190 of 2002 / (2003) 12 SCC 516; AIR 2004 SC 210
**Judgment:** 2003-11-07 (2003, day precision)
**Incident date:** 1996-04-09 (1996)
**Place:** Bhojpur, Bihar; city town: Chakardah village; police station or unit: Narhi police camp; force: state_police
**Category:** Other misconduct
**Sub-category:** other
**Outcome:** Conviction upheld (conviction_upheld)
**Sections:** IPC 302; Arms Act 1959 s.27 (conviction set aside by SC)
**Officers (gated display forms):** Constable (Black Commando trained), Narhi police camp, Bhojpur (1 in record)
**Victims:** Chakardah village man; Chakardah village man; Chakardah village man (3 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** mixed
**Sentence type:** mixed (mixed)

The Supreme Court maintained the murder conviction of Bihar Police constable for shooting dead three colleagues at the Narhi police camp in Bhojpur on 9 April 1996, after seizing a Hawaldar's sten-gun. The Court found that the killing of Hawaldar a Chakardah village man, who had reprimanded him, was driven by anger and panic, and the killing of the other two policemen was done in a state of frenzy without premeditation. It held the indiscriminate killing of fellow policemen by a disciplined-force member aggravating but offset by mitigating circumstances, and therefore set aside the death sentence while sentencing him to life imprisonment with a fine of Rs. 1,000. The Court also set aside his conviction under Section 27 of the Arms Act for want of proof that the sten-gun was a prohibited arm. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> We, therefore, set aside the judgment under appeal insofar as it has confirmed the sentence of death while maintaining the conviction under Section 302 IPC.

**Sources (2):** [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/153691/); [casemine.com](https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/5609adcae4b0149711412475)
**Verification:** V2 · Externally reported
**Review:** Solo Staff combined review (one combined attestation) — not yet recorded
**admin category:** brutality
**admin subcategory:** other
**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:** n/a
**display title redacted:** Chakardah village Police Constable (Black Commando trained) v. State of Bihar
**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': '(2003) 12 SCC 516; AIR 2004 SC 210', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}; {'date': '2003-11-07', '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': '(2003) 12 SCC 516; AIR 2004 SC 210', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/153691/', 'link_checked': None}; {'url': 'https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/5609adcae4b0149711412475', 'link_checked': None}
**retracted:** {"is_retracted": false}
**service:** police
**source assessment:** {"established": null, "basis": null}
**status:** current
**subcategory display:** other
**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 on Indian Kanoon; constable's s.302 conviction maintained, death commuted to life.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Conviction upheld.

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