# Delhi Police Assistant Commissioner of Police vs State thr. CBI

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## Report card

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.
- Source orders: [Judgment / order (primary source)](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/708584/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2011-0007)

**Record:** CW-2011-0007 (compiler id CWC-0099); case DELHI-008
**Title:** Delhi Police Assistant Commissioner of Police vs State thr. CBI
**Court:** Supreme Court of India; judges: Harjit Singh Bedi; C.K. Prasad
**Case number / citation:** Crl. Appeal Nos. 2231, 2476, 2477-2483 and 2484 of 2009 / (2011) 6 SCC 1; AIR 2011 SC 1748
**Judgment:** 2011-05-02 (2011, day precision)
**Incident date:** 1997-03-31 (1997)
**Place:** New Delhi, Delhi; city town: New Delhi (Connaught Place); police station or unit: Inter-State Cell, Crime Branch, Delhi Police; force: state_police
**Category:** Violence & unlawful detention
**Sub-category:** fake encounter extrajudicial killing
**Outcome:** Conviction upheld (conviction_upheld)
**Sections:** IPC 302; IPC 34; IPC 307; IPC 193; IPC 201; IPC 203
**Officers (gated display forms):** 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 (10 in record)
**Victims:** New Delhi man; New Delhi man; New Delhi man (3 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** imprisonment
**Sentence type:** imprisonment (imprisonment)

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.

> 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 High Court. We, accordingly, dismiss all these appeals.

**Sources (2):** [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/708584/); [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/30424145/)
**Verification:** V2 · Externally reported
**Review:** Solo Staff combined review (one combined attestation) — not yet recorded
**admin category:** brutality
**admin subcategory:** fake_encounter_extrajudicial_killing
**allegations:** {'category': 'Other', '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:** 86
**display title redacted:** Delhi Police Assistant Commissioner of Police vs State thr. CBI
**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': \['court_quote_para', 'sections'\]}
**followup status:** checked
**institutional response:** {'date': None, 'action_type': 'Conviction', 'status': 'Concluded', 'authority': 'Trial court (as recorded in the Supreme Court of India judgment)', 'independence': 'External', 'legal_effect': 'Binding', 'description': 'The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Supreme Court of India judgment.', 'disposition': 'Conviction · Supports allegation', 'source': '(2011) 6 SCC 1; AIR 2011 SC 1748', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}; {'date': '2011-05-02', 'action_type': 'Order issued', 'status': 'Concluded', 'authority': 'Supreme Court of India', 'independence': 'External', 'legal_effect': 'Binding', 'description': 'The Supreme Court of India dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.', 'disposition': 'Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)', 'source': '(2011) 6 SCC 1; AIR 2011 SC 1748', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/708584/', 'link_checked': None}; {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/30424145/', 'link_checked': None}
**retracted:** {"is_retracted": false}
**service:** police
**source assessment:** {"established": null, "basis": null}
**status:** current
**subcategory display:** fake encounter extrajudicial killing
**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:** Primary judgment verified: SC dismissed all appeals; 10 policemen's life sentences for fake encounter upheld.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Conviction upheld.

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