State (ACB) v. Buldhana Police Police Head Constable
Per the Bombay High Court (Nagpur Bench) judgment of 09-10-2024, Head Constable of Lonar Police Station, entrusted with a bullock-cart axle theft report (25-08-2000), demanded Rs.2,000 to avoid seeking police custody remand/arrest and accepted tainted money in an ACB trap in mid-September 2000. The Additional Sessions Judge/Special Judge, Buldana convicted him on 10-08-2009 in Spl ACB Case No.1/2001, and the High Court dismissed the appeal (continued by his widow after his death), upholding 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 10 August 2009, the Additional Sessions Judge / Special Judge, Buldana convicted the Police Head Constable, Lonar Police Station, Buldhana district.
- Register number
- MH 28 CW 0002
- Case reference
- Special Anti Corruption Case No.1/2001; Criminal Appeal No.419/2009 (Bombay HC, Nagpur Bench)
- Court and date
- The Additional Sessions Judge / Special Judge, Buldana, 10 August 2009
- Officer(s) at the material time
- Police Head Constable, Lonar Police Station, Buldhana district
- Present service status
- Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked
- Section 7 of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988; Section 13(1)(d) read with Section 13(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988
- Finding of the Court (extract)
- “In the light of the above, the appeal is devoid of merits and liable to be dismissed and the same is dismissed.”
- Verdict, sentence and quantum
- Conviction recorded by the trial court. Sentence: 2 years SI + Rs.1,000 fine
- 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 / Special Judge, Buldana convicted the accused police personnel on 10 August 2009. The conviction was upheld on appeal. Appeal text.
Sentence & charges
Sentence: 2 years SI + Rs.1,000 fine
Sections: PC Act 1988 s.7; PC Act 1988 s.13(1)(d) r/w s.13(2)
Appeal status
Upheld on appeal. Appeal text