Date not established
Conviction
ConcludedThe trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Supreme Court of India judgment.
Conviction · Supports allegation.
Source: (2011) 6 SCC 1; AIR 2011 SC 1748
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CW-2011-0007New Delhi, DelhiJudgment 2 May 2011
Delhi Police Assistant Commissioner of Police vs State thr. CBI
The Supreme Court (Harjit Singh Bedi, J.) dismissed the appeals of ten Delhi Police Crime Branch officials and upheld their life sentences for the Connaught Place fake encounter of 31 March 1997. Tracking wanted criminal Mohd. Yaseen, Inspector mistook bearded businessman [name withheld] for him; two police parties surrounded the victims' Maruti Esteem at the Barakhamba Road red light and fired 34 shots, killing two occupants and grievously injuring the third. The CBI exposed the cover-up — no shot was fired from inside the car, the 7.65mm pistol was planted, and the policemen's injuries came from police cross-fire — and the Court held the firing was with common intention to annihilate the occupants, spurred by hopes of reward and promotion, rejecting self-defence, superior-orders, sanction and Section 140 Delhi Police Act pleas. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.
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By judgment dated 2 May 2011 in Crl. Appeal Nos. 2231, 2476, 2477-2483 and 2484 of 2009, the Supreme Court of India (Coram: Harjit Singh Bedi, C.K. Prasad, JJ.) affirmed the conviction of 10 police personnel, namely: Assistant Commissioner of Police, Inter-State Cell, Crime Branch, Delhi Police; Inspector, Inter-State Cell, Crime Branch, Delhi Police; Sub-Inspector, Inter-State Cell, Crime Branch, Delhi Police; Head Constable, Inter-State Cell, Crime Branch, Delhi Police; Head Constable, Inter-State Cell, Crime Branch, Delhi Police; Head Constable, Inter-State Cell, Crime Branch, Delhi Police; Constable, Inter-State Cell, Crime Branch, Delhi Police; Constable, Inter-State Cell, Crime Branch, Delhi Police; Constable, Inter-State Cell, Crime Branch, Delhi Police; Constable, Inter-State Cell, Crime Branch, Delhi Police.
- Register number
- DL 02 CW 0005
- Case reference
- Crl. Appeal Nos. 2231, 2476, 2477-2483 and 2484 of 2009 / (2011) 6 SCC 1; AIR 2011 SC 1748
- Court and date
- Supreme Court of India (Coram: Harjit Singh Bedi, C.K. Prasad, JJ.), 2 May 2011
- Officer(s) at the material time
- Assistant Commissioner of Police, Inter-State Cell, Crime Branch, Delhi Police; Inspector, Inter-State Cell, Crime Branch, Delhi Police; Sub-Inspector, Inter-State Cell, Crime Branch, Delhi Police; Head Constable, Inter-State Cell, Crime Branch, Delhi Police; Head Constable, Inter-State Cell, Crime Branch, Delhi Police; Head Constable, Inter-State Cell, Crime Branch, Delhi Police; Constable, Inter-State Cell, Crime Branch, Delhi Police; Constable, Inter-State Cell, Crime Branch, Delhi Police; Constable, Inter-State Cell, Crime Branch, Delhi Police; Constable, Inter-State Cell, Crime Branch, Delhi Police
- 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 307 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 193 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 201 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 203 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860
- Finding of the Court (extract)
- “On an overall view of the evidence in the case and in the light of the arguments raised by the learned counsel for the parties, we find no fault with the judgments of the trial court as well as the …” (at para 86)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum
- Conviction upheld. Sentence: imprisonment.
- Present status of the proceedings
- No further proceedings are recorded in the cited sources; the judgment is the concluded position shown.
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Current position
The Supreme Court of India judgment dated 2 May 2011 is the concluded position shown in the cited sources.
Evidence position
Recorded allegations
OtherPrimary
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.
“On an overall view of the evidence in the case and in the light of the arguments raised by the learned counsel for the parties, we find no fault with the judgments of the trial court as well as the …” (para 86)
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Institutional response
2 May 2011
Order issued
ConcludedThe Supreme Court of India dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.
Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card).
Source: (2011) 6 SCC 1; AIR 2011 SC 1748
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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.