Date not established
Conviction
ConcludedThe trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Punjab and Haryana High Court judgment.
Conviction · Supports allegation.
Source: CRR No. 2295 of 2016 (O&M)
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CW-2017-0036Sangrur, PunjabJudgment 21 November 2017
Hanumangarh Police Head Constable and others vs State of Punjab
On 6 July 2011 custody of undertrial Harnam Singh was handed to three Sangrur Head Constables for production before the Special Court at Hanumangarh, Rajasthan, and he escaped from their custody on 7 July 2011. The Judicial Magistrate First Class, Sangrur convicted all three under Section 223 IPC (one year simple imprisonment plus Rs 1,000 fine), and the Additional Sessions Judge affirmed on 3 June 2016. The High Court found no illegality in the concurrent findings, upheld jurisdiction at Sangrur and held no sanction was needed, noting the circumstances within the accused special knowledge went unexplained. Maintaining the conviction, the court set aside the substantive sentence and released the three on probation for one year on Rs 25,000 bonds, with Section 12 protection so the conviction is no disqualification. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.
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Report card
By judgment dated 21 November 2017 in CRR No. 2295 of 2016 (O&M), the Punjab and Haryana High Court (Coram: Kuldip Singh, J.) affirmed the conviction of 3 police personnel, namely: Head Constable, Sangrur police (escort party); Head Constable, Sangrur police (escort party); Head Constable, Sangrur police (escort party).
- Register number
- PB 13 CW 0003
- Case reference
- CRR No. 2295 of 2016 (O&M)
- Court and date
- Punjab and Haryana High Court (Coram: Kuldip Singh, J.), 21 November 2017
- Officer(s) at the material time
- Head Constable, Sangrur police (escort party); Head Constable, Sangrur police (escort party); Head Constable, Sangrur police (escort party)
- Present service status
- Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked
- Section 223 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860
- Finding of the Court (extract)
- “while maintaining the conviction of present revisionists under Section 223 IPC, the sentence passed upon them is hereby set aside and they are ordered to be released on probation under Section 5 (1) of the Probation of Offenders Act, 1958” (at para n/a)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum
- Conviction upheld.
- 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 Punjab and Haryana High Court judgment dated 21 November 2017 is the concluded position shown in the cited sources.
Evidence position
Recorded allegations
OtherPrimary
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.
“while maintaining the conviction of present revisionists under Section 223 IPC, the sentence passed upon them is hereby set aside and they are ordered to be released on probation under Section 5 (1) of the Probation of Offenders Act, 1958” (para n/a)
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Institutional response
21 Nov 2017
Order issued
ConcludedThe Punjab and Haryana High Court dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.
Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card).
Source: CRR No. 2295 of 2016 (O&M)
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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.