# Delhi Police Constable v. State (Crl.A. No. 740/2001, part of Khem Chand batch)

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## Report card

By judgment dated 7 July 2008 in Crl.A. No. 740/2001 (with Crl.A. Nos. 5/2000, 813/2001 and 719/2002), the Delhi High Court (Coram: Manmohan Sarin, S.L. Bhayana, JJ.) affirmed the conviction of the Constable, Delhi Police, and directed payment of compensation of Rs 50,000.

- Register number: DL 00 CW 0023
- Case reference: Crl.A. No. 740/2001 (with Crl.A. Nos. 5/2000, 813/2001 and 719/2002)
- Court and date: Delhi High Court (Coram: Manmohan Sarin, S.L. Bhayana, JJ.), 7 July 2008
- Officer(s) at the material time: Constable, Delhi Police
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Section 376 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 354 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860
- Finding of the Court (extract): “We, accordingly, uphold the conviction but reduce the sentence to a net term of 12 years of RI exclusive of remissions.” (at para n/a (paras unnumbered in this judgment; operative order at p.16 of 56))
- Verdict, sentence and quantum: Conviction upheld. Sentence: imprisonment and fine; maximum substantive term of 12 years. Compensation: Rs 50,000.
- 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/18498179/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2008-0012)

**Record:** CW-2008-0012 (compiler id CWC-0485); case SWCUSTOD-017
**Title:** Delhi Police Constable v. State (Crl.A. No. 740/2001, part of Khem Chand batch)
**Court:** Delhi High Court; judges: Manmohan Sarin; S.L. Bhayana
**Case number / citation:** Crl.A. No. 740/2001 (with Crl.A. Nos. 5/2000, 813/2001 and 719/2002)
**Judgment:** 2008-07-07 (2008, day precision)
**Incident date:** Not stated
**Place:** Delhi; city town: Shikarpur village; force: state_police
**Category:** Other misconduct
**Sub-category:** other
**Outcome:** Conviction upheld (conviction_upheld)
**Sections:** IPC 376; IPC 354
**Officers (gated display forms):** Constable, Delhi Police (1 in record)
**Victims:** Shikarpur village girl, age 3 (1 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** mixed; max 12 yrs; Rs 50,000
**Sentence type:** mixed (mixed)

The judgment of the Delhi High Court records the following account. Delhi Police Constable brutally raped his three-and-a-half-year-old neighbour 'V' in Shikarpur village, leaving vaginal tears that hospitalised the child for eleven days. The trial court convicted him under sections 376 and 354 IPC and sentenced him to life imprisonment with a Rs 50,000 fine as victim compensation. The High Court held that the appellant, himself a member of the law-enforcing agency, had perpetrated a ghastly crime on a helpless child, and upheld the conviction. It reduced the sentence to a net twelve years' rigorous imprisonment without remission, recording his undertaking to pay the fine, shift his family out of Shikarpur and never contact the victim's family. Scope note: a neighbourhood (non-custodial) rape by a serving constable, so the subcategory is recorded as other rather than custodial rape. The convicted Delhi Police constable in this record is a different man from the convicted Delhi Police constable of Andha Mugal police post covered in companion records of this dataset; this judgment gives the unit only as Delhi Police. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> We, accordingly, uphold the conviction but reduce the sentence to a net term of 12 years of RI exclusive of remissions.

**Sources (1):** [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/18498179/)
**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:** True
**court quote para:** n/a (paras unnumbered in this judgment; operative order at p.16 of 56)
**display title redacted:** Delhi Police Constable v. State (Crl.A. No. 740/2001, part of Khem Chand batch)
**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': \['court_quote', 'court_quote_para'\]}
**followup status:** checked
**institutional response:** {'date': None, 'action_type': 'Conviction', 'status': 'Concluded', 'authority': 'Trial court (as recorded in the Delhi High Court judgment)', 'independence': 'External', 'legal_effect': 'Binding', 'description': 'The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Delhi High Court judgment.', 'disposition': 'Conviction · Supports allegation', 'source': 'Crl.A. No. 740/2001 (with Crl.A. Nos. 5/2000, 813/2001 and 719/2002)', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}; {'date': '2008-07-07', 'action_type': 'Order issued', 'status': 'Concluded', 'authority': 'Delhi High Court', 'independence': 'External', 'legal_effect': 'Binding', 'description': 'The Delhi High Court dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.', 'disposition': 'Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)', 'source': 'Crl.A. No. 740/2001 (with Crl.A. Nos. 5/2000, 813/2001 and 719/2002)', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/18498179/', '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:** Delhi Police constable's child-rape conviction upheld; life cut to net 12 years RI plus Rs 50,000 to victim.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**victims redacted:** {'age': 3, 'gender': 'female', 'descriptor': 'a 3-year-old girl'}
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Conviction upheld.

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