# State vs Govindpuri Police Sub-Inspector

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## Report card

By judgment dated 15 January 2010 in CRL.A. No. 176/1995, the Delhi High Court (Coram: Sanjay Kishan Kaul, Ajit Bharihoke, JJ.) recorded the conviction of the Sub-Inspector, P.S. Sriniwaspuri, and directed payment of compensation of Rs 50,000.

- Register number: DL 03 CW 0008
- Case reference: CRL.A. No. 176/1995
- Court and date: Delhi High Court (Coram: Sanjay Kishan Kaul, Ajit Bharihoke, JJ.), 15 January 2010
- Officer(s) at the material time: Sub-Inspector, P.S. Sriniwaspuri
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Section 304 Part I of the Indian Penal Code, 1860
- Finding of the Court (extract): “The result of the above discussion is that the impugned judgment of acquittal is set aside and the respondent is convicted for the offence of culpable homicide not amounting to murder under Section 304 Part 1 IPC.” (at para 37)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum: Conviction entered by High Court. Sentence: imprisonment and fine; maximum substantive term of 10 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/156141267/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2010-0002)

**Record:** CW-2010-0002 (compiler id CWC-0111); case DELHI-020
**Title:** State vs Govindpuri Police Sub-Inspector
**Court:** Delhi High Court; judges: Sanjay Kishan Kaul; Ajit Bharihoke
**Case number / citation:** CRL.A. No. 176/1995
**Judgment:** 2010-01-15 (2010, day precision)
**Incident date:** 1986-09-19 (1986)
**Place:** South East Delhi, Delhi; city town: Govindpuri; police station or unit: P.S. Sriniwaspuri; force: state_police
**Category:** Violence & unlawful detention
**Sub-category:** custodial death
**Outcome:** Conviction entered by High Court (conviction_by_hc)
**Sections:** IPC 304 Part I
**Officers (gated display forms):** Sub-Inspector, P.S. Sriniwaspuri (1 in record)
**Victims:** Govindpuri man (1 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** mixed; max 10 yrs; Rs 50,000
**Sentence type:** mixed (mixed)

The Delhi High Court set aside SI 's trial-court acquittal and convicted him of culpable homicide not amounting to murder for the custodial death of theft suspect \[name withheld\]. Picked up from his Govindpuri jhuggi on 19 September 1986 in FIR 365/1986, the victim, who had no injuries when picked up, suffered nine injuries in custody and died of coma caused by a head blow; the respondent admitted the deceased was in his custody throughout. The Court rejected the TB and jeep-jerk defences and the sanction objection, holding the officer resorted to third-degree methods to extract a confession. It imposed 10 years RI plus Rs 55,000 fine (Rs 50,000 to the closest relative; six months RI in default). Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> The result of the above discussion is that the impugned judgment of acquittal is set aside and the respondent is convicted for the offence of culpable homicide not amounting to murder under Section 304 Part 1 IPC.

**Sources (1):** [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/156141267/)
**Verification:** V2 · Externally reported
**Review:** Solo Staff combined review (one combined attestation) — not yet recorded
**admin category:** brutality
**admin subcategory:** custodial_death
**allegations:** {'category': 'Custodial death', '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:** 37
**display title redacted:** State vs Govindpuri Police Sub-Inspector
**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': '2010-01-15', 'action_type': 'Order issued', 'status': 'Concluded', 'authority': 'Delhi High Court', 'independence': 'External', 'legal_effect': 'Binding', 'description': 'The Delhi High Court entered convictions against police personnel in this judgment.', 'disposition': 'Conviction · Supports allegation', 'source': 'CRL.A. No. 176/1995', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/156141267/', 'link_checked': None}
**retracted:** {"is_retracted": false}
**service:** police
**source assessment:** {"established": null, "basis": null}
**status:** current
**subcategory display:** custodial death
**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 HC judgment verified on Indian Kanoon; trial acquittal set aside, SI convicted u/s 304-I, 10 years RI.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Conviction entered by High Court.

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