# Inspector Om Parkash v. CBI; ASI Anant Ram v. CBI; Rekha v. CBI & Ors.

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## Report card

By judgment dated 14 December 2010 in Crl.A. Nos. 795-SB and 796-SB of 1998 with Crl. Revision No. 1132 of 1999, the Punjab and Haryana High Court (Coram: A.N. Jindal, J.) affirmed the conviction of 2 police personnel, namely: Om Parkash (Inspector); Anant Ram (Assistant Sub-Inspector).

- Register number: HR 26 CW 0003
- Case reference: Crl.A. Nos. 795-SB and 796-SB of 1998 with Crl. Revision No. 1132 of 1999
- Court and date: Punjab and Haryana High Court (Coram: A.N. Jindal, J.), 14 December 2010
- Officer(s) at the material time: Om Parkash (Inspector); Anant Ram (Assistant Sub-Inspector)
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Section 304 Part II of the Indian Penal Code, 1860
- Finding of the Court (extract): “It is also well settled by now that when a person is in custody of the police and confined there, he is proved to have received injuries or died then no amount of further evidence was required to be produced …” (at para n/a)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum: Conviction upheld. Sentence: imprisonment and fine; maximum substantive term of 7 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/86217128/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2010-0012)

**Record:** CW-2010-0012 (compiler id CWC-0461); case SWCUSTOD-036
**Title:** Inspector Om Parkash v. CBI; ASI Anant Ram v. CBI; Rekha v. CBI & Ors.
**Court:** Punjab and Haryana High Court; judges: A.N. Jindal
**Case number / citation:** Crl.A. Nos. 795-SB and 796-SB of 1998 with Crl. Revision No. 1132 of 1999
**Judgment:** 2010-12-14 (2010, day precision)
**Incident date:** 1993-02-09 (1993)
**Place:** Gurugram, Haryana (district at time: Gurgaon); city town: Gurgaon; police station or unit: CIA Staff, Gurgaon; force: state_police
**Category:** Violence & unlawful detention
**Sub-category:** custodial death
**Outcome:** Conviction upheld (conviction_upheld)
**Sections:** IPC 304 Part II
**Officers (gated display forms):** Om Parkash (Inspector); Anant Ram (Assistant Sub-Inspector) (2 in record)
**Victims:** Gurgaon man (1 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** mixed; max 7 yrs
**Sentence type:** mixed (mixed)

The Punjab and Haryana High Court dismissed the appeals of a Gurgaon CIA Inspector and ASI, upholding their 7-year sentences for torturing a Gurgaon man to death in custody after he was picked up on 9 February 1993 and transferred from Delhi to CIA Staff Gurgaon. The Court relied on the jail register injury entry, the post-mortem head injury and the destruction of two MLRs, applying the custodial-death burden shift to the custodians. It held the conviction well-founded and well-reasoned. The trial acquittals of four Delhi Police officials were left undisturbed and the complainant revision was dismissed. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> It is also well settled by now that when a person is in custody of the police and confined there, he is proved to have received injuries or died then no amount of further evidence was required to be produced by the prosecution in order to establish as to how and in what manner he died or received injuries, then the onus shifts upon the officers who remained his custodians.

**Sources (1):** [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/86217128/)
**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:** n/a
**display title redacted:** Inspector Om Parkash v. CBI; ASI Anant Ram v. CBI; Rekha v. CBI & Ors.
**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': 'wrong_facts', 'corrections_applied': \[\]}
**followup status:** checked
**institutional response:** {'date': None, 'action_type': 'Conviction', 'status': 'Concluded', 'authority': 'Trial court (as recorded in the Punjab and Haryana High Court judgment)', 'independence': 'External', 'legal_effect': 'Binding', 'description': 'The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Punjab and Haryana High Court judgment.', 'disposition': 'Conviction · Supports allegation', 'source': 'Crl.A. Nos. 795-SB and 796-SB of 1998 with Crl. Revision No. 1132 of 1999', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}; {'date': '2010-12-14', 'action_type': 'Order issued', 'status': 'Concluded', 'authority': 'Punjab and Haryana High Court', 'independence': 'External', 'legal_effect': 'Binding', 'description': 'The Punjab and Haryana 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. Nos. 795-SB and 796-SB of 1998 with Crl. Revision No. 1132 of 1999', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/86217128/', '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:** HC dismissed both appeals and revision; 7-yr terms for 2 CIA Gurgaon officers upheld.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Conviction upheld.

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