CW-2025-0045Kupwara, Jammu and KashmirJudgment 30 August 2025

State of J&K vs Sogam Police Station House Officer (then) and Others

The High Court of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh at Srinagar (Sanjay Parihar, J.; Sanjeev Kumar, J. concurring) partly allowed the State's acquittal appeal against the 2011 Sessions Judge Kupwara judgment in FIR No. 83/2003. Then-SHO [name withheld]. [name withheld] had ferried Pakistani Jaish-e-Mohammad fidayeen Mohd. Ibrahim in the official police vehicle from Sogam to Kupwara on 12 May 2003, misrepresenting him as an SOG operative; the militant, wearing a stolen constable's uniform, attacked a police/CRPF convoy near SBI Kupwara, killing two CRPF jawans of 113 Bn and injuring six personnel before being neutralised. Holding the trial court's acquittal perverse in ignoring clinching evidence, the High Court convicted Wani of murder by conspiracy and sentenced him to imprisonment for life, directing surrender to the trial court; the co-accused [name withheld]'s acquittal was upheld. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

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By judgment dated 30 August 2025 in CRAA No. 12/2011, the Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court (Coram: Sanjeev Kumar, Sanjay Parihar, JJ.) recorded the conviction of the Station House Officer (then), Police Station Sogam, Kupwara.

Register number
JK 09 CW 0003
Case reference
CRAA No. 12/2011 / 2025:JKLHC-SGR:242
Court and date
Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court (Coram: Sanjeev Kumar, Sanjay Parihar, JJ.), 30 August 2025
Officer(s) at the material time
Station House Officer (then), Police Station Sogam, Kupwara
Present service status
Not ascertained from the cited sources.
Provisions invoked
Section 120B of the Ranbir Penal Code; Section 302 of the Ranbir Penal Code; Section 109 of the Ranbir Penal Code
Finding of the Court (extract)
“Having regard to the facts and circumstance of the case, we deem it appropriate to hold him guilty for having committed offence of murder in conspiracy with respondent No. 1 (now deceased) and sentence him to imprisonment for life prescribed …” (at para 38)
Verdict, sentence and quantum
Conviction entered by High Court. Sentence: imprisonment.
Present status of the proceedings
The judgment is recent and may be subject to appeal; the pendency of an appeal is not a finding.

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Judgment dated 30 August 2025. This judgment may still be subject to appeal; initiation or pendency of an appeal is not a finding.

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What the court found

Holding not recorded separately.

“Having regard to the facts and circumstance of the case, we deem it appropriate to hold him guilty for having committed offence of murder in conspiracy with respondent No. 1 (now deceased) and sentence him to imprisonment for life prescribed …” (para 38)

Institutional response

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30 Aug 2025

Order issued

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Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court External · Binding

The Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court entered convictions against police personnel in this judgment.

Conviction · Supports allegation.
Source: 2025:JKLHC-SGR:242
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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.

Review: Solo Staff combined review (one combined attestation) — not yet recorded.

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