Date not established
Conviction
ConcludedThe trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Delhi High Court judgment.
Conviction · Supports allegation.
Source: Crl. Appeal No. 33/1993
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CW-2009-0002North Delhi, DelhiJudgment 6 March 2009
Delhi Police Head Constable and others v. State (Delhi Admn.)
The judgment of the Delhi High Court records the following account. A Delhi man @ a Delhi man was picked up from Subzi Mandi railway station on 1 August 1980, illegally confined for five days at Andha Mugal police post, and beaten regularly to extract a confession about stolen property. On 5 August 1980 the head constable poured kerosene on him while the two constables set him on fire; he died the next day. The court relied on the magistrate-recorded dying declaration, corroborated by post-mortem evidence of extensive bruises and abrasions, rejecting the suicide defence. It dismissed the appeal, upholding life imprisonment with Rs 5,000 fine each under Sections 302/34 IPC and the additional two-year terms under Sections 330/34 IPC for the two constables, and ordered the appellants, who were on bail, to be taken into custody.
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Report card
By judgment dated 6 March 2009 in Crl. Appeal No. 33/1993, the Delhi High Court (Coram: V.B. Gupta, Badar Durrez Ahmed, JJ.) affirmed the conviction of 3 police personnel, namely: Head Constable, Police Post Andha Mugal, PS Subzi Mandi, Delhi; Constable, Police Post Andha Mugal, PS Subzi Mandi, Delhi; Constable, Police Post Andha Mugal, PS Subzi Mandi, Delhi.
- Register number
- DL 01 CW 0003
- Case reference
- Crl. Appeal No. 33/1993
- Court and date
- Delhi High Court (Coram: V.B. Gupta, Badar Durrez Ahmed, JJ.), 6 March 2009
- Officer(s) at the material time
- Head Constable, Police Post Andha Mugal, PS Subzi Mandi, Delhi; Constable, Police Post Andha Mugal, PS Subzi Mandi, Delhi; Constable, Police Post Andha Mugal, PS Subzi Mandi, Delhi
- Present service status
- Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked
- Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 34 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 330 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860
- Finding of the Court (extract)
- “The present appellants with pre-determination had put the deceased on fire knowing fully well that this would result into his death. The fact that deceased was kept in illegal custody in police post Andha Mugal from 1st August, 1980 to …” (at para 73)
- 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.
Compiled from the judgment and the cited sources. Findings are those of the court; this card adds none of its own.
Current position
The Delhi High Court judgment dated 6 March 2009 is the concluded position shown in the cited sources.
Evidence position
Recorded allegations
Custodial deathPrimary
Material fact supported
Reliable material supports a specifically documented fact relevant to that allegation, not necessarily the full allegation, causation, intent, unlawfulness, or responsibility.
Official finding: supports allegation.
Attributed to the court
What the court found
Holding not recorded separately.
“The present appellants with pre-determination had put the deceased on fire knowing fully well that this would result into his death. The fact that deceased was kept in illegal custody in police post Andha Mugal from 1st August, 1980 to …” (para 73)
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Institutional response
6 Mar 2009
Order issued
ConcludedThe Delhi High Court dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.
Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card).
Source: Crl. Appeal No. 33/1993
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Follow-up history
19 Sep 2026
(Round-8 full re-verification: published record re-checked against the judgment text (outcome, officers, quote, key facts) plus methodology-compliance pass; skills-guided adversarial re-verification of the published record against the judgment text (reverify/t1-*/adversarial-8.jsonl))
Corrections (0): No corrections recorded.
Review: Solo Staff combined review (one combined attestation) — not yet recorded.