CBI v. Kerala Police Superintendent of Police at time of offence (Additional Director General of Police at conviction)
The CBI's official press-release index for January 2009 records that an 'Addl. DGP, Kerala and three other police officials' were 'sentenced [to] six months imprisonment in a CBI case' (release dated 13 January 2009). Per the Kerala High Court's 2007 order in the same prosecution (C.C. No.513/1995 before the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Ernakulam, arising from CBI RC 28/92), the lead accused is [name withheld], then SP Kannur and by trial ADGP, facing charges including IPC ss.323, 342, 357, 465 and 201 r/w 120-B for the 1988 custodial torture of an Ernakulam resident, editor/printer/publisher of the Kannur evening daily Sudinam, who had published reports against the police. A contemporaneous news report records that CJM Ernakulam (P.D. Soman) convicted the officers on Monday 12 January 2009 with six months jail and Rs.25,000 fine; the names of the three other convicted officials were not stated in the sources accessed, and no appeal outcome is known.
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 in January 2009, the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Ernakulam (C.C. No.513 of 1995; CBI case) convicted the Superintendent of Police at time of offence (Additional Director General of Police at conviction), Kerala Police (SP, Kannur at the time of offence).
- Register number
- KL 07 CW 0004
- Case reference
- C.C. No.513/1995 (RC 28/92, CBI/SPE Cochin)
- Court and date
- The Chief Judicial Magistrate, Ernakulam (C.C. No.513 of 1995; CBI case), 2009-01
- Officer(s) at the material time
- Superintendent of Police at time of offence (Additional Director General of Police at conviction), Kerala Police (SP, Kannur at the time of offence)
- Present service status
- Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked
- Section 323 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 342 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 357 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 465 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 201 read with Section 120B of the Indian Penal Code, 1860
- Finding of the Court (extract)
- “Addl. DGP, Kerala and three other police officials sentenced six month's imprisonment in a CBI case”
- Verdict, sentence and quantum
- Conviction recorded by the trial court. Sentence: 6 months imprisonment (per contemporaneous news report of the verdict; exact section-wise break-up not confirmed)
- Present status of the proceedings
- No appeal is known from the cited sources.
Compiled from the judgment and the cited sources. Findings are those of the court; this card adds none of its own.
Chief Judicial Magistrate, Ernakulam (C.C. No.513 of 1995; CBI case) convicted the accused police personnel on January 2009. No appeal is known from the cited sources.
Sentence & charges
Sentence: 6 months imprisonment (per contemporaneous news report of the verdict; exact section-wise break-up not confirmed)
Sections: IPC 323; IPC 342; IPC 357; IPC 465; IPC 201 r/w IPC 120B
Appeal status
No appeal known.