State v. Madhya Pradesh Police Constable
The trial court convicted Police Constable of Sarafa Chowki, Jaora, under IPC section 377 and sentenced him to 2 years' rigorous imprisonment with a Rs 200 fine for picking up 16-year-old [name withheld] from Jaora railway station around midnight on 11 October 1976 on the pretext that he was a suspect pickpocket, taking him to his chowki-campus quarter and committing sodomy on him, corroborated by medical evidence and the Chemical Examiner's semen finding. The Additional Sessions Judge acquitted him on appeal, but on 19 January 1989 the MP High Court (V.D. Gyani, J., Criminal Appeal No. 79 of 1985) accepted the [name withheld]'s appeal, set aside the acquittal and restored the trial court's conviction and sentence. CAVEAT: exact trial court name and conviction date not stated in the HC judgment (pre-1985).
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 in 1985, the Judicial Magistrate, Jaora (exact court and conviction date unstated in High Court judgment; s.377 trial with appeal to Additional Sessions Judge) convicted the Constable, Sarafa Chowki, Jaora, District Ratlam, Madhya Pradesh Police.
- Register number
- MP 43 CW 0001
- Case reference
- Criminal Appeal No. 79 of 1985 (Madhya Pradesh High Court; trial court case number not stated); reported in the judgment of the Judicial Magistrate, Jaora (trial court not named in High Court judgment)
- Court and date
- The Judicial Magistrate, Jaora (exact court and conviction date unstated in High Court judgment; s.377 trial with appeal to Additional Sessions Judge), 1985
- Officer(s) at the material time
- Constable, Sarafa Chowki, Jaora, District Ratlam, Madhya Pradesh Police
- Present service status
- Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked
- Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860
- Finding of the Court (extract)
- “The accused-respondent has been acquitted of a charge under section 377, IPC by the lower appellant Court.”
- Verdict, sentence and quantum
- Conviction recorded by the trial court. Sentence: 2 years rigorous imprisonment + Rs 200 fine
- Present status of the proceedings
- The conviction was affirmed in appeal.
Compiled from the judgment and the cited sources. Findings are those of the court; this card adds none of its own.
Judicial Magistrate, Jaora (exact court and conviction date unstated in High Court judgment; s.377 trial with appeal to Additional Sessions Judge) convicted the accused police personnel on 1985. The conviction was upheld on appeal. Appeal text.
Sentence & charges
Sentence: 2 years rigorous imprisonment + Rs 200 fine
Sections: IPC 377
Appeal status
Upheld on appeal. Appeal text