# Ahmedabad Police Police Sub-Inspector vs State of Gujarat

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## Report card

By judgment dated 1 September 2006 in Criminal Appeal (Special Case No. 28 of 1986, Special Judge, Ahmedabad), the Gujarat High Court (Coram: J. R. Vora, J.) affirmed the conviction of the Police Sub-Inspector, Odhav Police Station, Ahmedabad.

- Register number: GJ 01 CW 0009
- Case reference: Criminal Appeal (Special Case No. 28 of 1986, Special Judge, Ahmedabad) / 2007 CriLJ 728
- Court and date: Gujarat High Court (Coram: J. R. Vora, J.), 1 September 2006
- Officer(s) at the material time: Police Sub-Inspector, Odhav Police Station, Ahmedabad
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Section 161 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 5(1)(d) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1947; Section 5(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1947
- Finding of the Court (extract): “While maintaining the conviction awarded by the Trial Court to the appellant for the offences punishable under Section 161 of the Indian Penal Code and for the offence under Section 5(1)(d) to read with Section 5(2) of the Prevention of …” (at para 27)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum: Conviction upheld. Sentence: imprisonment and fine; maximum substantive term of 0.03 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)](http://indiankanoon.org/doc/1091097/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2006-0009)

**Record:** CW-2006-0009 (compiler id CWC-0140); case GUJARA-011
**Title:** Ahmedabad Police Police Sub-Inspector vs State of Gujarat
**Court:** Gujarat High Court; judges: J. R. Vora
**Case number / citation:** Criminal Appeal (Special Case No. 28 of 1986, Special Judge, Ahmedabad) / 2007 CriLJ 728
**Judgment:** 2006-09-01 (2006, day precision)
**Incident date:** 1985-10-19 (1985)
**Place:** Ahmedabad, Gujarat; city town: Ahmedabad; police station or unit: Odhav Police Station, Ahmedabad; force: state_police
**Category:** Bribery & extortion
**Sub-category:** bribery pc act
**Outcome:** Conviction upheld (conviction_upheld)
**Sections:** IPC 161; PC Act 1947 s.5(1)(d); PC Act 1947 s.5(2)
**Officers (gated display forms):** Police Sub-Inspector, Odhav Police Station, Ahmedabad (1 in record)
**Victims:** Not stated (0 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** mixed; max 0.03 yrs
**Sentence type:** mixed (mixed)

The Gujarat High Court maintained the corruption conviction of PSI of Odhav police station, caught in an ACB decoy trap on the night of 18/19 October 1985 extorting truck drivers on highways around Ahmedabad city. The Court rejected defences of false trap, panch contradictions and defective sanction, holding the Rs 20 bribe-taking proved by ultraviolet-lamp anthracene marks. While maintaining conviction under Section 161 IPC and Sections 5(1)(d)/5(2) of the 1947 PC Act, it cut the sentence from one year's RI to 10 days' RI given the petty amount and two decades' lapse, retaining the Rs 100 fine with surrender by 1 November 2006. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> While maintaining the conviction awarded by the Trial Court to the appellant for the offences punishable under Section 161 of the Indian Penal Code and for the offence under Section 5(1)(d) to read with Section 5(2) of the Prevention of the Corruption Act, 1947, the appellant is sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment of 10 days instead of rigorous imprisonment of one year as awarded by the Trial Court.

**Sources (1):** [indiankanoon.org](http://indiankanoon.org/doc/1091097/)
**Verification:** V2 · Externally reported
**Review:** Solo Staff combined review (one combined attestation) — not yet recorded
**admin category:** corruption
**admin subcategory:** bribery_pc_act
**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:** 27
**display title redacted:** Ahmedabad Police Police Sub-Inspector vs State of Gujarat
**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': None, 'action_type': 'Conviction', 'status': 'Concluded', 'authority': 'Trial court (as recorded in the Gujarat High Court judgment)', 'independence': 'External', 'legal_effect': 'Binding', 'description': 'The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Gujarat High Court judgment.', 'disposition': 'Conviction · Supports allegation', 'source': '2007 CriLJ 728', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}; {'date': '2006-09-01', 'action_type': 'Order issued', 'status': 'Concluded', 'authority': 'Gujarat High Court', 'independence': 'External', 'legal_effect': 'Binding', 'description': 'The Gujarat High Court dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.', 'disposition': 'Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)', 'source': '2007 CriLJ 728', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'http://indiankanoon.org/doc/1091097/', 'link_checked': None}
**retracted:** {"is_retracted": false}
**service:** police
**source assessment:** {"established": null, "basis": null}
**status:** current
**subcategory display:** bribery pc act
**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:** HC judgment verified: decoy-trap bribery conviction maintained; sentence cut 1 yr to 10 days RI.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Conviction upheld.

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