State of Maharashtra v. Nagpur Police Sub-Inspector of Police
Per the Supreme Court judgment of 18-01-1990, Sub-Inspector raped a 19-20-year-old newly married woman on 22-08-1981 after detaining her husband at a lodge near Nagpur on a s.110/117 CrPC pretext. The Additional Sessions Judge, Nagpur convicted him u/s 376 IPC (5 years RI + Rs.1,000 fine, acquitting u/s 342); the Bombay High Court (Nagpur Bench) set the conviction aside, and the Supreme Court allowed the [name withheld] appeal, restoring the trial-court conviction and sentence.
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 18 January 1990, the Additional Sessions Judge, Nagpur convicted the Sub-Inspector of Police, Nagpur Police (local police station with jurisdiction over the lodge; exact PS not stated in SC judgment).
- Register number
- MH 31 CW 0002
- Case reference
- Crl.A.No.220/1986; reported in the judgment of the Supreme Court of India
- Court and date
- The Additional Sessions Judge, Nagpur, 18 January 1990
- Officer(s) at the material time
- Sub-Inspector of Police, Nagpur Police (local police station with jurisdiction over the lodge; exact PS not stated in SC judgment)
- Present service status
- Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked
- Section 376 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860
- Finding of the Court (extract)
- “The respondent, a Sub-Inspector of police, was convicted under section 376 of I.P.C. for having committed rape on a young newly married girl of 19 or 20 years of age, by the Additional Sessions Judge, Nagpur.”
- Verdict, sentence and quantum
- Conviction recorded by the trial court. Sentence: 5 years RI
- 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, Nagpur convicted the accused police personnel on 18 January 1990. The conviction was upheld on appeal. Appeal text.
Sentence & charges
Sentence: 5 years RI
Sections: IPC 376
Appeal status
Upheld on appeal. Appeal text