# Rajendra Giri & Ors. v. Central Bureau of Investigation

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## Report card

By judgment dated 22 October 2020 in Criminal Appeal Nos. 1575, 1594 and 1345 of 2012, the Allahabad High Court (Coram: Sunita Agarwal, Dinesh Pathak, JJ.) affirmed the conviction of 17 police personnel, namely: Dhirendra Singh Yadav (Station House Officer); Rajendra Giri; Shambhu Datt Sharma; Shamim Khan; Jaipal Singh; Raj Kumar; Brij Bhusan Sharma; Kalwa Singh; Lajwant Singh; Dinesh Chandra; Balbir Singh; Ram Niwas; Amarjeet Singh; Kiranpal Singh; Jagat Singh; Rashi Pal Singh; Police personnel, PS Baradhpur, Bijnor.

- Register number: UP 20 CW 0002
- Case reference: Criminal Appeal Nos. 1575, 1594 and 1345 of 2012
- Court and date: Allahabad High Court (Coram: Sunita Agarwal, Dinesh Pathak, JJ.), 22 October 2020
- Officer(s) at the material time: Dhirendra Singh Yadav (Station House Officer); Rajendra Giri; Shambhu Datt Sharma; Shamim Khan; Jaipal Singh; Raj Kumar; Brij Bhusan Sharma; Kalwa Singh; Lajwant Singh; Dinesh Chandra; Balbir Singh; Ram Niwas; Amarjeet Singh; Kiranpal Singh; Jagat Singh; Rashi Pal Singh; Police personnel, PS Baradhpur, Bijnor
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Section 120B of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 364 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 218 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 34 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860
- Finding of the Court (extract): “The charges framed against them have been proved beyond all reasonable doubts. As the sentence awarded to the appellants is minimum, the same requires no interference. The appeals are, accordingly, dismissed.” (at para 67)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum: Conviction upheld. Sentence: imprisonment and fine.
- 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/157781726/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2020-0007)

**Record:** CW-2020-0007 (compiler id CWC-0396); case SWFAKEEN-018
**Title:** Rajendra Giri & Ors. v. Central Bureau of Investigation
**Court:** Allahabad High Court; judges: Sunita Agarwal; Dinesh Pathak
**Case number / citation:** Criminal Appeal Nos. 1575, 1594 and 1345 of 2012
**Judgment:** 2020-10-22 (2020, day precision)
**Incident date:** 1992-10-31 (1992)
**Place:** Bijnor, Uttar Pradesh; city town: Barhapur; police station or unit: PS Barhapur (Baradhpur), Bijnor; force: state_police
**Category:** Violence & unlawful detention
**Sub-category:** fake encounter extrajudicial killing
**Outcome:** Conviction upheld (conviction_upheld)
**Sections:** IPC 120B; IPC 364; IPC 302; IPC 218; IPC 34
**Officers (gated display forms):** Dhirendra Singh Yadav (Station House Officer); Rajendra Giri; Shambhu Datt Sharma; Shamim Khan; Jaipal Singh; Raj Kumar; Brij Bhusan Sharma; Kalwa Singh; Lajwant Singh; Dinesh Chandra; Balbir Singh; Ram Niwas; Amarjeet Singh; Kiranpal Singh; Jagat Singh; Rashi Pal Singh; Police personnel, PS Baradhpur, Bijnor (16 in record)
**Victims:** Barhapur man, age 25 (1 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** mixed
**Sentence type:** mixed (mixed)

The judgment of the Allahabad High Court records the following account. A Barhapur man, a sewadar at Gurudwara Rakabganj in Delhi, was abducted from outside the gurudwara on 30 October 1992 by a U.P. police party led by SHO Dhirendra Singh Yadav and shot dead the next morning in Kanshiwala jungle, Bijnor, in what police claimed was an encounter with a Sikh militant during combing operations. False cases were registered at PS Barhapur and an AK-56 rifle planted beside the body. On a relative's writ petition the Supreme Court entrusted investigation to the CBI, which charge-sheeted the police party, and the Special CBI Court at Ghaziabad convicted 17 policemen and sentenced them to life imprisonment in March 2012. The High Court dismissed all appeals, holding the extra-judicial killing, abduction and fabrication of records proved beyond reasonable doubt and the self-defence encounter claim palpably false, cancelling Jaipal Singh's bail and taking him into custody.

> The charges framed against them have been proved beyond all reasonable doubts. As the sentence awarded to the appellants is minimum, the same requires no interference. The appeals are, accordingly, dismissed.

**Sources (2):** [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/157781726/); [elegalix.allahabadhighcourt.in](https://elegalix.allahabadhighcourt.in/elegalix/WebDownloadOriginalHCJudgmentDocument.do?translatedJudgmentID=6663)
**Verification:** V2 · Externally reported
**Review:** Solo Staff combined review (one combined attestation) — not yet recorded
**admin category:** brutality
**admin subcategory:** fake_encounter_extrajudicial_killing
**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:** 67
**display title redacted:** Rajendra Giri & Ors. v. Central Bureau of Investigation
**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': 'wrong_facts', 'corrections_applied': \[\]}
**followup status:** checked
**institutional response:** {'date': None, 'action_type': 'Conviction', 'status': 'Concluded', 'authority': 'Trial court (as recorded in the Allahabad High Court judgment)', 'independence': 'External', 'legal_effect': 'Binding', 'description': 'The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Allahabad High Court judgment.', 'disposition': 'Conviction · Supports allegation', 'source': 'Criminal Appeal Nos. 1575, 1594 and 1345 of 2012', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}; {'date': '2020-10-22', 'action_type': 'Order issued', 'status': 'Concluded', 'authority': 'Allahabad High Court', 'independence': 'External', 'legal_effect': 'Binding', 'description': 'The Allahabad High Court dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.', 'disposition': 'Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)', 'source': 'Criminal Appeal Nos. 1575, 1594 and 1345 of 2012', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/157781726/', 'link_checked': None}; {'url': 'https://elegalix.allahabadhighcourt.in/elegalix/WebDownloadOriginalHCJudgmentDocument.do?translatedJudgmentID=6663', 'link_checked': None}
**retracted:** {"is_retracted": false}
**service:** police
**source assessment:** {"established": null, "basis": null}
**status:** current
**subcategory display:** fake encounter extrajudicial killing
**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:** Allahabad HC dismissed appeals of 17 policemen, upholding life sentences for abduction and fake-encounter killing of a Barhapur man
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Conviction upheld.

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