Sessions Case No. 89/2008 & 85/2008 (FIR No. 1004/2006, PS Sector-20, Noida; State vs [name withheld] & Ors.; deceased [name withheld])
Per the Delhi High Court judgment of 26-06-2023, [name withheld] was among five UP Police officers convicted by the Sessions Judge, Delhi (Karkardooma; case transferred from Gautam Budh Nagar by the Supreme Court on 24-01-2011) for the custodial torture and death of 26-year-old a Gautam Buddha Nagar man @ a Gautam Buddha Nagar man, picked up in civil dress on 01-09-2006 and shown as a suicide at PS Sector-20, Noida. The trial court imposed 10 years RI (order on sentence 20-03-2019). The High Court upheld the conviction and sentence, rejecting the suicide theory and the complainant's plea to convert the charge to murder (IPC 302).
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 14 March 2019, the ASJ (FTC-04), Shahdara, Karkardooma Courts, Delhi (transferred from ASJ FTC-04, Gautam Budh Nagar, UP, vide SC order 24-01-2011) convicted the Sub-Inspector, UP Police, Noida (Gautam Budh Nagar).
- Register number
- UP 16 CW 0003
- Case reference
- Sessions Case Nos. 89/2008 and 85/2008
- Court and date
- The ASJ (FTC-04), Shahdara, Karkardooma Courts, Delhi (transferred from ASJ FTC-04, Gautam Budh Nagar, UP, vide SC order 24-01-2011), 14 March 2019
- Officer(s) at the material time
- Sub-Inspector, UP Police, Noida (Gautam Budh Nagar)
- Present service status
- Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked
- Section 304 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 365 read with Section 34 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 220 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 167 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860
- Finding of the Court (extract)
- “The Ld. Trial Court has rightly convicted the said accused for the offences and the appeals by the accused viz. CRL.A. 488/2019, CRL.A. 499/2019, CRL.A. 537/2019, CRL.A. 622/2019 and CRL.A. 624/2019 are, therefore, dismissed and the conviction and sentence awarded …”
- Verdict, sentence and quantum
- Conviction recorded by the trial court. Sentence: 10 years rigorous imprisonment (IPC 304/34), with additional concurrent terms; all sentences to run concurrently
- 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.
ASJ (FTC-04), Shahdara, Karkardooma Courts, Delhi (transferred from ASJ FTC-04, Gautam Budh Nagar, UP, vide SC order 24-01-2011) convicted the accused police personnel on 14 March 2019. The conviction was upheld on appeal. Appeal text.
Sentence & charges
Sentence: 10 years rigorous imprisonment (IPC 304/34), with additional concurrent terms; all sentences to run concurrently
Sections: IPC 304; IPC 365 r/w 34; IPC 220; IPC 167
Appeal status
Upheld on appeal. Appeal text