CW-2023-0013Ghaziabad, Uttar PradeshJudgment 1 May 2023

State of U.P. v. Mukesh Kumar

The judgment of the Allahabad High Court records the following account. Head Constable Mukesh Kumar of Maharajpur Outpost under Link Road Police Station in Ghaziabad demanded monthly extortion bribes of Rs 500 from each three-wheeler tempo owner operating between Maharajpur and Sahibabad Mandi under threat of stopping their vehicles. Complainant [name withheld] approached the Vigilance Department at Meerut, and following an inquiry, an anti-corruption trap was executed on 7 September 2000. The respondent was caught red-handed inside his room at the outpost accepting Rs 7,000 in tainted currency collected from fourteen vehicle owners along with a written list, and chemical tests on his hands and pocket yielded positive results. Although the Special Judge (Anti-Corruption), Meerut, acquitted the respondent in May 2003 on unfounded allegations of enmity, the Allahabad High Court reversed the acquittal, found the demand, acceptance, and recovery conclusively established, and convicted him under Sections 7 and 13(1)(d) read with 13(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988, sentencing him to one year of rigorous imprisonment and a fine of Rs 3,000. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

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By judgment dated 1 May 2023 in Government Appeal No. 4585 of 2003, the Allahabad High Court (Coram: Dinesh Kumar Singh, J.) recorded the conviction of the Mukesh Kumar (Head Constable).

Register number
UP 14 CW 0003
Case reference
Government Appeal No. 4585 of 2003
Court and date
Allahabad High Court (Coram: Dinesh Kumar Singh, J.), 1 May 2023
Officer(s) at the material time
Mukesh Kumar (Head Constable)
Present service status
Not ascertained from the cited sources.
Provisions invoked
Section 7 of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988; Section 13(1)(d) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988; Section 13(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988
Finding of the Court (extract)
“Considering the testimony of the witnesses including the complainant, independent witnesses and the Inspectors, I am of the view the the accused-respondent was guilty for offence under Sections 7, 13(1)(d) read with 13(2) of Prevention of Corruption Act. Therefore, the …” (at para 14)
Verdict, sentence and quantum
Conviction entered by High Court. Sentence: imprisonment and fine; maximum substantive term of 1.0 years.
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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“Considering the testimony of the witnesses including the complainant, independent witnesses and the Inspectors, I am of the view the the accused-respondent was guilty for offence under Sections 7, 13(1)(d) read with 13(2) of Prevention of Corruption Act. Therefore, the …” (para 14)

Institutional response

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1 May 2023

Order issued

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Allahabad High Court External · Binding

The Allahabad High Court entered convictions against police personnel in this judgment.

Conviction · Supports allegation.
Source: Government Appeal No. 4585 of 2003
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Follow-up history

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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.

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