# State vs Uttar Pradesh Police Sub-Inspector

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Trial-court conviction (Fast-Track Court, Sonbhadra (Judge Avinash Dwivedi); Sessions Court). Convicted 4 January 2010. Appeal status: No appeal known.

## Summary

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 '\[name withheld\]'.

## Report card

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.
- Source orders: [Judgment / order (primary source)](https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/lucknow/five-policemen-get-life-term-fined-in-fake-encounter-case/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/trial-court/t2w3-18-007)

## At a glance

- Category: Violence & unlawful detention
- Sub-category: fake encounter extrajudicial killing
- Location: Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
- Officers: Sub-Inspector, Uttar Pradesh Police; Constable, Uttar Pradesh Police; Constable, Uttar Pradesh Police; Constable, Uttar Pradesh Police; Constable, Uttar Pradesh Police
- Sentence: Life imprisonment for all five (pronounced Monday 04-01-2010); nine other accused to be sentenced later (outcome untraced)
- Verification: V2 · Trial court