# Kadi Police Police Head Constable vs State of Gujarat

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## Report card

By judgment dated 13 June 2007 in Criminal Appeal against Special (ACB) Case No. 3 of 1986, the Gujarat High Court (Coram: C.K. Buch, J.) affirmed the conviction of the Police Head Constable, Kadi Police Station, Mehsana.

- Register number: GJ 02 CW 0002
- Case reference: Criminal Appeal against Special (ACB) Case No. 3 of 1986 / 2007 CriLJ 3387; (2008) 1 GLR 551
- Court and date: Gujarat High Court (Coram: C.K. Buch, J.), 13 June 2007
- Officer(s) at the material time: Police Head Constable, Kadi Police Station, Mehsana
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Section 161 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 5(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1947
- Finding of the Court (extract): “For short, there is no merits in the present appeal and hence the same requires to be dismissed. Hence, the present Criminal Appeal is hereby dismissed. The impugned judgment and order of conviction and sentence passed by the trial Court …” (at para 14)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum: Conviction upheld. Sentence: imprisonment; maximum substantive term of 3 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)](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1106743/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2007-0008)

**Record:** CW-2007-0008 (compiler id CWC-0133); case GUJARA-004
**Title:** Kadi Police Police Head Constable vs State of Gujarat
**Court:** Gujarat High Court; judges: C.K. Buch
**Case number / citation:** Criminal Appeal against Special (ACB) Case No. 3 of 1986 / 2007 CriLJ 3387; (2008) 1 GLR 551
**Judgment:** 2007-06-13 (2007, day precision)
**Incident date:** 1984-10-13 (1984)
**Place:** Mehsana, Gujarat; city town: Kadi; police station or unit: Kadi Police Station, Mehsana; force: state_police
**Category:** Bribery & extortion
**Sub-category:** bribery pc act
**Outcome:** Conviction upheld (conviction_upheld)
**Sections:** IPC 161; PC Act 1947 s.5(2)
**Officers (gated display forms):** Police Head Constable, Kadi Police Station, Mehsana (1 in record)
**Victims:** Kadi man (1 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** imprisonment; max 3 yrs
**Sentence type:** imprisonment (imprisonment)

The Gujarat High Court confirmed the bribe-trap conviction of Police Head Constable, Jamadar (Investigation) of Kadi police station, who demanded Rs 500 from advocate Jashvantkumar Patel for a favourable report in a Section 202 CrPC court inquiry and was caught accepting the balance Rs 300 in an ACB trap on 13.10.1984 with marked notes recovered from his pocket. The Court held demand and wilful acceptance proved by the complainant, the independent panch and the panchnama, and rejected the defence that the notes were forcibly planted. The appeal, continued by the appellant's widow after his death, was dismissed and the sentences of 1 year RI under Section 161 IPC and 3 years RI under Section 5(2) of the 1947 PC Act were confirmed.

> For short, there is no merits in the present appeal and hence the same requires to be dismissed. Hence, the present Criminal Appeal is hereby dismissed. The impugned judgment and order of conviction and sentence passed by the trial Court is hereby confirmed.

**Sources (1):** [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1106743/)
**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:** 14
**display title redacted:** Kadi Police Police Head Constable 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': \[\]}
**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 3387; (2008) 1 GLR 551', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}; {'date': '2007-06-13', '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 3387; (2008) 1 GLR 551', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1106743/', '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 dismissed appeal of deceased head constable (widow continued) and confirmed ss.161/5(2) bribe-trap conviction.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Conviction upheld.

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