Date not established
Conviction
ConcludedThe trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Delhi High Court judgment.
Conviction · Supports allegation.
Source: CRL.A. Nos. 1220, 1167, 1423 & 1066/2012
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CW-2015-0012West Delhi, DelhiJudgment 22 December 2015
Patel Nagar Police Sub-Inspector vs C.B.I.; [name withheld] vs C.B.I.; [name withheld] [name withheld] vs C.B.I.; Kewal Kishan Arora vs C.B.I.
The Delhi High Court upheld the CBI-court conviction of two Patel Nagar Sub-Inspectors for beating a Patel Nagar man to death in custody over an unmet illegal demand of Rs 10,000. On the intervening night of 22-23 August 1986 the officers picked up a Patel Nagar man from home, beat him and his intervening uncle a Patel Nagar man continuously en route and at the station, and a Patel Nagar man died with ten ante-mortem blunt injuries; the police then took him to hospitals to cover up the death. Relying on the nephew's complaint-FIR corroborated by medical evidence, the Court maintained 10 years RI under Section 304-I read with Section 34 plus one year under Section 342/34 and a Rs 25,000 fine from each convict payable as compensation to the widow (Rs 50,000 total), while acquitting a constable and the CFSL Scientific Officer co-accused and setting aside the Section 218/109 convictions. The appellants denied the charges and pleaded false implication. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.
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Report card
By judgment dated 22 December 2015 in CRL.A. Nos. 1220, 1167, 1423 & 1066/2012, the Delhi High Court (Coram: Indermeet Kaur, J.) affirmed the conviction of 2 police personnel, namely: Sub-Inspector, P.S. Patel Nagar; Sub-Inspector, P.S. Patel Nagar, and directed payment of compensation of Rs 50,000.
- Register number
- DL 04 CW 0021
- Case reference
- CRL.A. Nos. 1220, 1167, 1423 & 1066/2012
- Court and date
- Delhi High Court (Coram: Indermeet Kaur, J.), 22 December 2015
- Officer(s) at the material time
- Sub-Inspector, P.S. Patel Nagar; Sub-Inspector, P.S. Patel Nagar
- Present service status
- Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked
- Section 304 Part I of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 34 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 342 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860
- Finding of the Court (extract)
- “It appears that the perverted minds of the two Senior Divisional Officers was not satisfied till they had beaten Gopi to death which was only because the poor man could not meet their illegal demand of Rs.10,000/-” (at para 69)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum
- Conviction upheld. Sentence: imprisonment and fine; maximum substantive term of 10 years. Compensation: Rs 50,000.
- 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 Delhi High Court judgment dated 22 December 2015 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 appears that the perverted minds of the two Senior Divisional Officers was not satisfied till they had beaten Gopi to death which was only because the poor man could not meet their illegal demand of Rs.10,000/-” (para 69)
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Institutional response
22 Dec 2015
Order issued
ConcludedThe Delhi High Court dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.
Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card).
Source: CRL.A. Nos. 1220, 1167, 1423 & 1066/2012
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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.