# Delhi Police personnel vs C.B.I.

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## Report card

By judgment dated 2 April 2013 in CRL.A. No. 630 of 2002, the Delhi High Court (Coram: Mukta Gupta, J.) affirmed the conviction of the Police personnel, Police Post Usmanpur, Delhi Police.

- Register number: DL 05 CW 0013
- Case reference: CRL.A. No. 630 of 2002 / (2013) 4 AD 492 : (2013) 2 JCC 1143
- Court and date: Delhi High Court (Coram: Mukta Gupta, J.), 2 April 2013
- Officer(s) at the material time: Police personnel, Police Post Usmanpur, Delhi Police
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Section 7 of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988; Section 13(1)(d) read with Section 13(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988
- Finding of the Court (extract): “Further since the factum of demand, acceptance and recovery of Rs.200/- as bribe has been proved beyond reasonable doubt. Further in view of acceptance being proved the presumption is raised against the Appellant under Section 20 of the PC Act …” (at para 11)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum: Conviction upheld. Sentence: imprisonment and fine; maximum substantive term of 4 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/106936822/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2013-0022)

**Record:** CW-2013-0022 (compiler id CWC-0793); case GAP2-19-004
**Title:** Delhi Police personnel vs C.B.I.
**Court:** Delhi High Court; judges: Mukta Gupta
**Case number / citation:** CRL.A. No. 630 of 2002 / (2013) 4 AD 492 : (2013) 2 JCC 1143
**Judgment:** 2013-04-02 (2013, day precision)
**Incident date:** 1994-09-07 (1994)
**Place:** North East, Delhi; city town: Delhi; police station or unit: Police Post Usmanpur; force: state_police
**Category:** Bribery & extortion
**Sub-category:** bribery pc act
**Outcome:** Conviction upheld (conviction_upheld)
**Sections:** PC Act 1988 s.7; PC Act 1988 s.13(1)(d) r/w s.13(2)
**Officers (gated display forms):** Police personnel, Police Post Usmanpur, Delhi Police (1 in record)
**Victims:** Delhi resident (1 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** mixed; max 4 yrs
**Sentence type:** mixed (mixed)

The Delhi High Court dismissed the appeal of police-post official \[name withheld\] of Police Post Usmanpur and confirmed his conviction for demanding and accepting a Rs.200 bribe (balance of a Rs.500 demand) from complainant \[name withheld\]. A Delhi resident to release his seized welding machine and drop a challan. The CBI trap on 7 September 1994 recovered the treated notes from his shirt pocket. The court held the complainant's testimony, corroborated by the shadow and recovery witnesses, proved demand, acceptance and recovery beyond reasonable doubt, raising the Section 20 presumption which the appellant failed to rebut. It rejected the handshake explanation and held the co-accused constable's acquittal did not enure to the appellant, confirming the 4-year RI sentence. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> Further since the factum of demand, acceptance and recovery of Rs.200/- as bribe has been proved beyond reasonable doubt. Further in view of acceptance being proved the presumption is raised against the Appellant under Section 20 of the PC Act for offence under Section 7 PC Act and thereafter the onus shifts on the Appellant to prove that the said money was as legal remuneration which the Appellant failed to prove.

**Sources (1):** [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/106936822/)
**Verification:** V2 · Externally reported
**Review:** Solo Staff combined review (one combined attestation) — not yet recorded
**admin category:** corruption
**admin subcategory:** bribery_pc_act
**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:** 11
**display title redacted:** Delhi Police personnel vs C.B.I.
**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': 'holds', 'corrections_applied': \[\]}
**followup status:** checked
**institutional response:** {'date': None, 'action_type': 'Conviction', 'status': 'Concluded', 'authority': 'Trial court (as recorded in the Delhi High Court judgment)', 'independence': 'External', 'legal_effect': 'Binding', 'description': 'The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Delhi High Court judgment.', 'disposition': 'Conviction · Supports allegation', 'source': '(2013) 4 AD 492 : (2013) 2 JCC 1143', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}; {'date': '2013-04-02', 'action_type': 'Order issued', 'status': 'Concluded', 'authority': 'Delhi High Court', 'independence': 'External', 'legal_effect': 'Binding', 'description': 'The Delhi High Court dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.', 'disposition': 'Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)', 'source': '(2013) 4 AD 492 : (2013) 2 JCC 1143', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/106936822/', 'link_checked': None}
**retracted:** {"is_retracted": false}
**service:** police
**source assessment:** {"established": null, "basis": null}
**status:** current
**subcategory display:** bribery pc act
**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 judgment verified; police-post official bribery conviction and 4-year sentence confirmed.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Conviction upheld.

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