CBI v. New Delhi Police Constable
The CBI press release states that the Additional Sessions Judge, Patiala House Courts, New Delhi convicted CISF Constable of murder and sentenced him to life imprisonment with Rs.30,000 total fine, after a seven-year trial in judicial custody. The release states Rana, posted on security duty at the Indian Embassy in Kathmandu, opened fire on colleagues in the barracks in the wee hours of 18.01.2005 after an altercation the previous night, killing two CISF personnel and injuring three; CBI chargesheeted him in the CMM Delhi court on 08.04.2005 with Central Government sanction u/s 188 CrPC since the crime occurred abroad. (Note: the cbi.gov.in archive index dates this PR 27/02/2014, but the PR body is dated 27.02.2013; conviction year taken as 2013.)
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 27 February 2013, the Additional Sessions Judge, Patiala House Courts, New Delhi convicted the Constable, Central Industrial Security Force (embassy security duty, Kathmandu, Nepal).
- Register number
- DL 02 CW 0007
- Case reference
- CBI v. New Delhi Police Constable
- Court and date
- The Additional Sessions Judge, Patiala House Courts, New Delhi, 27 February 2013
- Officer(s) at the material time
- Constable, Central Industrial Security Force (embassy security duty, Kathmandu, Nepal)
- Present service status
- Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked
- Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 307 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 27 of the Arms Act, 1959
- Finding of the Court (extract)
- “Additional Session Judge, Patiala House Courts, New Delhi has convicted Shri [name withheld], then Constable of Central Industrial Security Force and sentenced him to undergo Life Imprisonment with total fine of Rs.30,000/- in a shoot out case at Indian Embassy …”
- Verdict, sentence and quantum
- Conviction recorded by the trial court. Sentence: Life Imprisonment
- 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.
Additional Sessions Judge, Patiala House Courts, New Delhi convicted the accused police personnel on 27 February 2013. The conviction was upheld on appeal. Appeal text.
Sentence & charges
Sentence: Life Imprisonment
Sections: IPC 302; IPC 307; Arms Act 1959 s.27
Appeal status
Upheld on appeal. Appeal text