Date not established
Conviction
ConcludedThe trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Kerala High Court judgment.
Conviction · Supports allegation.
Source: 2010 (1) KLD 581
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CW-2010-0024Ernakulam, KeralaJudgment 11 March 2010
Lakshadweep Police Sub Inspector of Police vs State of Kerala
The judgment of the Kerala High Court records the following account. Sub Inspector of the Lakshadweep Police Special Branch at Cochin demanded Rs.250 from labour contractor [name withheld] for issuing the police clearance certificate needed for a Minicoy Island entry permit, and accepted it in a CBI trap in March 1999. The Special Judge (SPE/CBI-II), Ernakulam convicted him under Sections 7 and 13(2) read with 13(1)(d) of the PC Act, sentencing him to 6 months and 1 year's rigorous imprisonment with fines. The Kerala High Court held the prosecution proved demand and acceptance through testimony, contemporaneous mahazars, the phenolphthalein test and the accused's conduct. The court dismissed the appeal confirming conviction and sentence, observing the trial judge had erred, if at all, on the side of leniency.
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By judgment dated 11 March 2010 in Crl.A. No. 379 of 2003, the Kerala High Court (Coram: V. Ramkumar, J.) affirmed the conviction of the Sub Inspector of Police, Lakshadweep Police Special Branch Office, Cochin.
- Register number
- KL 07 CW 0005
- Case reference
- Crl.A. No. 379 of 2003 / 2010 (1) KLD 581
- Court and date
- Kerala High Court (Coram: V. Ramkumar, J.), 11 March 2010
- Officer(s) at the material time
- Sub Inspector of Police, Lakshadweep Police Special Branch Office, Cochin
- Present service status
- Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked
- Section 7 of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988; Section 13(2) read with Section 13(1)(d) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988
- Finding of the Court (extract)
- “After a careful re-appraisal of the oral and documentary evidence and after hearing both sides, I have no hesitation to conclude that the conviction against the appellant was rightly recorded by the trial judge. I, therefore, confirm the conviction recorded …” (at para 17)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum
- Conviction upheld. Sentence: imprisonment and fine; maximum substantive term of 1 year.
- 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 Kerala High Court judgment dated 11 March 2010 is the concluded position shown in the cited sources.
Evidence position
Recorded allegations
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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.
“After a careful re-appraisal of the oral and documentary evidence and after hearing both sides, I have no hesitation to conclude that the conviction against the appellant was rightly recorded by the trial judge. I, therefore, confirm the conviction recorded …” (para 17)
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Institutional response
11 Mar 2010
Order issued
ConcludedThe Kerala High Court dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.
Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card).
Source: 2010 (1) KLD 581
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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.