17 Dec 2024
Order issued
ConcludedThe Jharkhand High Court entered convictions against police personnel in this judgment.
Conviction · Supports allegation.
Source: Cont. Case (Civil) No. 387 of 2024
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CW-2024-0023Ranchi, JharkhandJudgment 17 December 2024
Ranchi Police Officer In-Charge and Another v. State of Jharkhand and Others
The judgment of the Jharkhand High Court records the following account. Instakart/Flipkart officials a Ranchi man and a Ranchi man were arrested on 29-02-2024 in FIR 88/2024 for sub-seven-year offences without any Section 41-A CrPC notice or preliminary inquiry, and kept in custody till bail on 16-03-2024. The Division Bench held the officers in brazen, wilful disobedience of the Supreme Court's Arnesh Kumar and Satender Kumar Antil directions. Both officers were held guilty of contempt and sentenced to one month's simple imprisonment with Rs. 2,000 fine each, the sentence suspended four weeks to approach the Supreme Court. Disciplinary action was ordered within six months of release, costs of Rs. 50,000 each were awarded to the petitioners, and a separate compensation claim was left open.
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By judgment dated 17 December 2024 in Cont. Case (Civil) No. 387 of 2024, the Jharkhand High Court (Coram: M.S. Ramachandra Rao, Deepak Roshan, JJ.) recorded the conviction of 2 police personnel, namely: Officer In-Charge, Jagarnathpur Police Station, Ranchi; Additional Sub-Inspector, Jagarnathpur Police Station, Ranchi, and directed payment of compensation of Rs 1 lakh (Rs 1,00,000).
- Register number
- JH 01 CW 0016
- Case reference
- Cont. Case (Civil) No. 387 of 2024
- Court and date
- Jharkhand High Court (Coram: M.S. Ramachandra Rao, Deepak Roshan, JJ.), 17 December 2024
- Officer(s) at the material time
- Officer In-Charge, Jagarnathpur Police Station, Ranchi; Additional Sub-Inspector, Jagarnathpur Police Station, Ranchi
- Present service status
- Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked
- Section 419 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 420 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 469 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 34 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 41 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973; Section 41A of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973
- Finding of the Court (extract)
- “The Opposite Party Nos.2 and 3 are held guilty of contempt of court for willfully disobeying the directions contained in the above decisions and both of them are sentenced to suffer simple imprisonment of one month with fine of Rs.2000/- …” (at para 71)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum
- Conviction entered by High Court. Sentence: imprisonment and fine; maximum substantive term of 0.083 years. Compensation: Rs 1 lakh (Rs 1,00,000).
- Present status of the proceedings
- Supreme Court of India: appeal pending. Supreme Court of India, 26 September 2025: appeal pending.
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Current position
The Jharkhand High Court judgment dated 17 December 2024 is the concluded position shown in the cited sources.
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Material fact supported
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Official finding: supports allegation.
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What the court found
Holding not recorded separately.
“The Opposite Party Nos.2 and 3 are held guilty of contempt of court for willfully disobeying the directions contained in the above decisions and both of them are sentenced to suffer simple imprisonment of one month with fine of Rs.2000/- …” (para 71)
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Appeal pending
PendingAn appeal arising from this judgment was pending before the Supreme Court of India (officers: [name withheld], [name withheld], listing date not recorded); the judgment's findings had not been set aside.
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26 Sep 2025
Appeal pending
PendingAs of 26 September 2025, an appeal arising from this judgment was pending before the Supreme Court of India (officers: [name withheld], [name withheld]); the judgment's findings had not been set aside on that date.
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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.