# Mandi Police personnel v. State of H.P. & Anr.

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## Report card

By judgment dated 30 August 2007, the Himachal Pradesh High Court (Coram: Surjit Singh, Kuldip Singh, JJ.) affirmed the conviction of the Police personnel, PS Sadar, Mandi.

- Register number: HP 05 CW 0001
- Case reference: 2008 Cri LJ 1350
- Court and date: Himachal Pradesh High Court (Coram: Surjit Singh, Kuldip Singh, JJ.), 30 August 2007
- Officer(s) at the material time: Police personnel, PS Sadar, Mandi
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Section 376(2) of the Indian Penal Code, 1860
- Finding of the Court (extract): “The result of the above discussion, judgment of conviction and sentence passed against the accused by the learned Sessions Judge, Mandi on 18/19-8-2003, is upheld and the appeal is dismissed.” (at para 35)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum: Conviction upheld. Sentence: imprisonment and fine; maximum substantive term of 10 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/1147113/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2007-0010)

**Record:** CW-2007-0010 (compiler id CWC-0484); case SWCUSTOD-016
**Title:** Mandi Police personnel v. State of H.P. & Anr.
**Court:** Himachal Pradesh High Court; judges: Surjit Singh; Kuldip Singh
**Case number / citation:** 2008 Cri LJ 1350
**Judgment:** 2007-08-30 (2007, day precision)
**Incident date:** 1994-08-30 (1994)
**Place:** Mandi, Himachal Pradesh; city town: Mandi; police station or unit: PS Sadar, Mandi; force: state_police
**Category:** Violence & unlawful detention
**Sub-category:** custodial rape sexual assault
**Outcome:** Conviction upheld (conviction_upheld)
**Sections:** IPC 376(2)
**Officers (gated display forms):** Police personnel, PS Sadar, Mandi (1 in record)
**Victims:** Mandi woman (1 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** mixed; max 10 yrs
**Sentence type:** mixed (mixed)

The Himachal Pradesh High Court upheld the conviction and sentence of the in-charge of PS Sadar Mandi, who summoned a village woman to the station on 30 August 1994, bolted the upper-storey room and raped her after threatening to implicate her family in a poisoning case he was investigating. The Court refused leniency since he took undue advantage of his position as station in-charge, sustaining 10 years RI with the Rs 20,000 fine payable to the prosecutrix. The appeal was dismissed. The prosecutrix had secured justice only through a Section 156(3) application after even the SP failed to help. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> The result of the above discussion, judgment of conviction and sentence passed against the accused by the learned Sessions Judge, Mandi on 18/19-8-2003, is upheld and the appeal is dismissed.

**Sources (2):** [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1147113/); [sooperkanoon.com](https://sooperkanoon.com/case/891569/gulzar-muhamad-vs-state-h-p-anr)
**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:** False
**court quote para:** 35
**display title redacted:** Mandi Police personnel v. State of H.P. & Anr.
**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 Himachal Pradesh High Court judgment)', 'independence': 'External', 'legal_effect': 'Binding', 'description': 'The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Himachal Pradesh High Court judgment.', 'disposition': 'Conviction · Supports allegation', 'source': '2008 Cri LJ 1350', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}; {'date': '2007-08-30', 'action_type': 'Order issued', 'status': 'Concluded', 'authority': 'Himachal Pradesh High Court', 'independence': 'External', 'legal_effect': 'Binding', 'description': 'The Himachal Pradesh High Court dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.', 'disposition': 'Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)', 'source': '2008 Cri LJ 1350', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1147113/', 'link_checked': None}; {'url': 'https://sooperkanoon.com/case/891569/gulzar-muhamad-vs-state-h-p-anr', '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:** HC upheld 376(2) conviction (10 yrs RI + fine) of PS in-charge; appeal dismissed.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Conviction upheld.

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