State vs Uttar Pradesh Police Sub-Inspector
Per the Indian Express Lucknow report, the Sonbhadra fast-track court (Judge Avinash Dwivedi) sentenced SI and constables, [name withheld], [name withheld] and [name withheld] to life with fines for killing a Sonbhadra man and a Sonbhadra man — Jharkhand residents picked up from Jharokhas railway station — in a staged encounter in Rungtola forest on 02-09-2003. The CB-CID FIR (21-02-2006, PS Pipri) followed a magisterial inquiry; sixteen were chargesheeted. The 2007 Allahabad HC bail order in the same case confirms the sections, CB-CID probe and victims; note it styles one applicant '[name withheld] (Constable. 753)' against the IE's '[name withheld]'.
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 dated 4 January 2010, the Fast-Track Court, Sonbhadra (Judge Avinash Dwivedi) convicted 5 police personnel, namely: Sub-Inspector, Uttar Pradesh Police; Constable, Uttar Pradesh Police; Constable, Uttar Pradesh Police; Constable, Uttar Pradesh Police; Constable, Uttar Pradesh Police.
- Register number
- UP 64 CW 0001
- Case reference
- Case Crime No. 63 of 2006, PS Pipri
- Court and date
- The Fast-Track Court, Sonbhadra (Judge Avinash Dwivedi), 4 January 2010
- Officer(s) at the material time
- Sub-Inspector, Uttar Pradesh Police; Constable, Uttar Pradesh Police; Constable, Uttar Pradesh Police; Constable, Uttar Pradesh Police; Constable, Uttar Pradesh Police
- Present service status
- Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked
- Section 147 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 148 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 149 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 201 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 218 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 342 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 34 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860
- Finding of the Court (extract)
- “The court described the crime as a shameful act and observed people lose faith in the police due to such acts.”
- Verdict, sentence and quantum
- Conviction recorded by the trial court. Sentence: Life imprisonment for all five (pronounced Monday 04-01-2010); nine other accused to be sentenced later (outcome untraced)
- Present status of the proceedings
- No appeal is 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.
Fast-Track Court, Sonbhadra (Judge Avinash Dwivedi) convicted the accused police personnel on 4 January 2010. No appeal is known from the cited sources.
Sentence & charges
Sentence: Life imprisonment for all five (pronounced Monday 04-01-2010); nine other accused to be sentenced later (outcome untraced)
Sections: IPC 147; IPC 148; IPC 149; IPC 302; IPC 201; IPC 218; IPC 342; IPC 34
Appeal status
No appeal known.