Date not established
Conviction
ConcludedThe trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Gujarat High Court judgment.
Conviction · Supports allegation.
Source: Criminal Appeal No. 303 of 1998
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CW-2011-0010Ahmedabad, GujaratJudgment 15 June 2011
RPF personnel vs State of Gujarat
The Gujarat High Court dismissed the appeal of RPF man Ajaysing Yadav and confirmed his Section 331 IPC conviction for custodial torture leading to the death of an Ahmedabad man The Court found an Ahmedabad man was picked up from his Girdharnagar house on 4 April 1990 for a cement-theft inquiry and beaten by RPF personnel at the railway line and RPF Post, Ahmedabad, sustaining 20 external and 7 internal injuries, dying on 5 April 1990. It discarded the defence story of a fall while fleeing and relied on the mother eyewitness identification, the station-diary entry in the appellant own hand, and medical evidence ruling out a fall. Treating RPF custody as police custody throughout, the Court confirmed 7 years RI plus Rs 10,000 fine payable in full to the mother, leaving the acquittal of accused 2 to 5 and on Section 302 undisturbed. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.
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Report card
By judgment dated 15 June 2011 in Criminal Appeal No. 303 of 1998, the Gujarat High Court (Coram: Z. K. Saiyed, J.) affirmed the conviction of the Police personnel, RPF Post, Ahmedabad, and directed payment of compensation of Rs 10,000.
- Register number
- GJ 01 CW 0017
- Case reference
- Criminal Appeal No. 303 of 1998
- Court and date
- Gujarat High Court (Coram: Z. K. Saiyed, J.), 15 June 2011
- Officer(s) at the material time
- Police personnel, RPF Post, Ahmedabad
- Present service status
- Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked
- Section 331 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 34 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860
- Finding of the Court (extract)
- “It means that at the time when Prahlad was taken to the Hospital, he had already expired and it can be said that it was a custodial death. Injuries were caused to the deceased in between 1.30 P.M. on 4.4.1990 …” (at para 34)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum
- Conviction upheld. Sentence: imprisonment and fine; maximum substantive term of 7 years. Compensation: Rs 10,000.
- 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 Gujarat High Court judgment dated 15 June 2011 is the concluded position shown in the cited sources.
Evidence position
Recorded allegations
Custodial deathPrimary
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.
“It means that at the time when Prahlad was taken to the Hospital, he had already expired and it can be said that it was a custodial death. Injuries were caused to the deceased in between 1.30 P.M. on 4.4.1990 …” (para 34)
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Institutional response
15 Jun 2011
Order issued
ConcludedThe Gujarat High Court dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.
Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card).
Source: Criminal Appeal No. 303 of 1998
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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.