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HP 21 CW 000129 July 2026 · Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh
The Himachal Pradesh High Court upheld the dismissal from service of two police constables criminally convicted under the NDPS Act: [name withheld], caught with 1003 grams of charas and sentenced by the Special Judge, Mandi to three years' imprisonment with fine, and [name withheld], convicted under Sections 21, 25…
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HP 14 CW 000131 October 2007 · Solan, Himachal Pradesh
The High Court of Himachal Pradesh allowed the compensation plea of Santosh Kumari, widow of a Kandaghat man (28), arrested on January 8, 2001 in excise FIR No. 4 of 2001 and found unconscious with head, shoulder, eye and genital injuries while being escorted by Police Post Sairy staff; he died at IGMC Shimla on…
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HP 05 CW 000130 August 2007 · Mandi, Himachal Pradesh
The Himachal Pradesh High Court upheld the conviction and sentence of the in-charge of PS Sadar Mandi, who summoned a village woman to the station on 30 August 1994, bolted the upper-storey room and raped her after threatening to implicate her family in a poisoning case he was investigating. The Court refused leniency…
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HP 34 CW 000118 March 1997 · Kullu, Himachal Pradesh
The High Court of Himachal Pradesh (Division Bench) allowed the writ petition of the family of a Manali man (22), arrested on June 5, 1993 by Manali police in FIR No. 110 of 1993 and never produced before a Magistrate; his decomposed body was recovered from Pandoh Dam on June 26, 1993. The family alleged he was beaten…
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HP 03 CW 00037 February 1995 · Shimla, Himachal Pradesh
The Supreme Court on 7 February 1995 dismissed on merit the appeals of ASI and Constable of Police Post Kasumpti, Shimla, upholding their convictions under Sections 217, 330 and 348 read with Section 34 IPC. The Court found that a Shimla man had been wrongfully confined at the police post from 30 August to 12…
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HP 16 CW 000110 January 1995 · Sirmaur, Himachal Pradesh
The judgment of the Supreme Court of India records the following account. Around midnight, [name withheld] (Investigating Head Constable) and [name withheld] (Constable) of Rajgarh Police Station forcibly took a 19-year-old woman and her husband from a house at Rajgarh to the police station on the false pretext of a…
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HP 03 CW 00021 March 1979 · Shimla, Himachal Pradesh
The High Court of Himachal Pradesh (Division Bench) allowed the State appeal against the acquittal of seven Rampur policemen by the Assistant Sessions Judge, Mahasu. On the night of June 20-21, 1969, a police party led by SHO detained a Rampur, village Gharat Nala man and a Rampur, village Gharat Nala man at a shop in…
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HP 03 CW 000129 November 1954 · Shimla, Himachal Pradesh
The Punjab High Court sustained the dismissal of Head Constable (officiating ASI) [name withheld] of Simla, who was dismissed on 25 January 1944 after a departmental enquiry found he had misused his wartime posting in the Censor Department to extract and keep private letters and attempt to blackmail the young woman…
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