# Delhi Police Constable v. State of Delhi; \[name withheld\] v. State; \[name withheld\] v. State; \[name withheld\] v. State

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## Report card

By judgment dated 19 October 2015 in Crl.A. Nos. 112/2000, 135/2000, 148/2000 & 202/2000, the Delhi High Court (Coram: Sanjiv Khanna, R. K. Gauba, JJ.) affirmed the conviction of 4 police personnel, namely: Constable, AATS, North-East District; Constable, AATS, North-East District; Head Constable, AATS, North-East District; Constable, AATS, North-East District.

- Register number: DL 05 CW 0017
- Case reference: Crl.A. Nos. 112/2000, 135/2000, 148/2000 & 202/2000
- Court and date: Delhi High Court (Coram: Sanjiv Khanna, R. K. Gauba, JJ.), 19 October 2015
- Officer(s) at the material time: Constable, AATS, North-East District; Constable, AATS, North-East District; Head Constable, AATS, North-East District; Constable, AATS, North-East District
- 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 342 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860
- Finding of the Court (extract): “The conviction and sentences passed for the offences under section 302 read with section 34 IPC and section 342 read with section 34 IPC are upheld against each of the four appellants.” (at para 82)
- 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/27016926/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2015-0031)

**Record:** CW-2015-0031 (compiler id CWC-0923); case DELHI-004
**Title:** Delhi Police Constable v. State of Delhi; \[name withheld\] v. State; \[name withheld\] v. State; \[name withheld\] v. State
**Court:** Delhi High Court; judges: Sanjiv Khanna; R. K. Gauba
**Case number / citation:** Crl.A. Nos. 112/2000, 135/2000, 148/2000 & 202/2000
**Judgment:** 2015-10-19 (2015, day precision)
**Incident date:** 1992-03-17 (1992)
**Place:** North East Delhi, Delhi; city town: Delhi; police station or unit: AATS, North-East District; force: state_police
**Category:** Violence & unlawful detention
**Sub-category:** custodial death
**Outcome:** Conviction upheld (conviction_upheld)
**Sections:** IPC 302; IPC 34; IPC 342
**Officers (gated display forms):** Constable, AATS, North-East District; Constable, AATS, North-East District; Head Constable, AATS, North-East District; Constable, AATS, North-East District (4 in record)
**Victims:** Delhi man (1 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** imprisonment
**Sentence type:** imprisonment (imprisonment)

The Division Bench upheld murder and wrongful-confinement convictions of four AATS (North-East) policemen for torturing a Delhi man to death. Picked up from his New Seelampur home in the early hours of 11 March 1992, he was kept in wholly unauthorised captivity, beaten over six days, and dumped critically injured at a private nursing home on 16 March 1992; he died on 17 March 1992. The court held the chain of circumstances complete and drew the custodial-death burden against the policemen, upholding Sections 302/34 and 342/34 while setting aside only the Section 330/34 count for want of extortion purpose. The convicts were directed to surrender within 15 days, and compensation to the next of kin under Section 357-A CrPC was recommended to DSLSA. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> The conviction and sentences passed for the offences under section 302 read with section 34 IPC and section 342 read with section 34 IPC are upheld against each of the four appellants.

**Sources (1):** [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/27016926/)
**Verification:** V2 · Externally reported
**Review:** Solo Staff combined review (one combined attestation) — not yet recorded
**admin category:** brutality
**admin subcategory:** custodial_death
**allegations:** {'category': 'Custodial death', '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:** 82
**display title redacted:** Delhi Police Constable v. State of Delhi; \[name withheld\] v. State; \[name withheld\] v. State; \[name withheld\] v. State
**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': \['court_quote_para'\]}
**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': 'Crl.A. Nos. 112/2000, 135/2000, 148/2000 & 202/2000', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}; {'date': '2015-10-19', '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': 'Crl.A. Nos. 112/2000, 135/2000, 148/2000 & 202/2000', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/27016926/', 'link_checked': None}
**retracted:** {"is_retracted": false}
**service:** police
**source assessment:** {"established": null, "basis": null}
**status:** current
**subcategory display:** custodial death
**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 upheld murder + wrongful-confinement convictions of 4 AATS policemen.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Conviction upheld.

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