State v. Kerala Police Senior Civil Police Officer
Kerala VACB records that the Kollam Vigilance Court convicted a Senior Civil Police Officer, formerly at Pathanamthitta police station and later at Malakkappara, for accepting Rs 10,000 to submit a final report favourable to a complainant accused in a 2014 case. The release describes a Rs 20,000 demand and acceptance of the first instalment in a vigilance trap. It reports seven years of rigorous imprisonment across counts and a Rs 20,000 fine. The count-wise terms, concurrency and effective maximum are not stated. The official release is dated 1 April 2026; the exact conviction date and later appeal outcome remain unverified.
This page documents a trial-court conviction from the cited sources below. It is not a High Court or Supreme Court finding; the conviction may have been appealed. Findings are attributed to the convicting court; this record does not add findings of its own.
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By judgment (date not stated in the sources; official release dated 1 April 2026; exact judgment date not stated), the Enquiry Commissioner and Special Judge (Vigilance), Kollam convicted the Senior Civil Police Officer, Pathanamthitta Police Station (later Malakkappara Police Station), Kerala Police.
- Register number
- KL 03 CW 0003
- Case reference
- State v. Kerala Police Senior Civil Police Officer
- Court and date
- The Enquiry Commissioner and Special Judge (Vigilance), Kollam
- Officer(s) at the material time
- Senior Civil Police Officer, Pathanamthitta Police Station (later Malakkappara Police Station), Kerala Police
- Present service status
- Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked
- Not stated in the cited sources
- Facts in brief
- Kerala VACB records that the Kollam Vigilance Court convicted a Senior Civil Police Officer, formerly at Pathanamthitta police station and later at Malakkappara, for accepting Rs 10,000 to submit a final report favourable to a complainant accused in a 2014 case. The release describes a Rs 20,000 demand and acceptance of the first instalment in a vigilance trap. It reports seven years of rigorous imprisonment across counts and a Rs 20,000 fine. The count-wise terms, concurrency and effective maximum are not stated. The official release is dated 1 April 2026; the exact conviction date and later appeal outcome remain unverified.
- Verdict, sentence and quantum
- Conviction recorded by the trial court. Sentence: Seven years of rigorous imprisonment across counts and Rs 20,000 fine, as reported by VACB; count-wise terms and effective maximum term not stated
- Present status of the proceedings
- Whether the conviction was appealed is not known from the cited sources.
Compiled from the judgment and the cited sources. Findings are those of the court; this card adds none of its own.
Enquiry Commissioner and Special Judge (Vigilance), Kollam convicted the accused police personnel on date not stated; official release dated 1 April 2026; exact judgment date not stated. Whether the conviction was appealed is not known from the cited sources; treat recent convictions as possibly appealable.
Sentence & charges
Sentence: Seven years of rigorous imprisonment across counts and Rs 20,000 fine, as reported by VACB; count-wise terms and effective maximum term not stated.
Sections: Not stated
Appeal status
Unknown.