# CBI v. Kerala Police Superintendent of Police at time of offence (Additional Director General of Police at conviction)

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Trial-court conviction (Chief Judicial Magistrate, Ernakulam (C.C. No.513 of 1995; CBI case); Magistrate's Court). Convicted January 2009. Appeal status: No appeal known.

## Summary

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.

## Report card

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.
- Source orders: [Judgment / order (primary source)](http://web.archive.org/web/20090115000000/http://cbi.nic.in/pressreleases/pressrelease.php); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/trial-court/t2w4-22-002)

## At a glance

- Category: Violence & unlawful detention
- Sub-category: custodial torture
- Location: Ernakulam, Kerala
- Officers: Superintendent of Police at time of offence (Additional Director General of Police at conviction), Kerala Police (SP, Kannur at the time of offence)
- Sentence: 6 months imprisonment (per contemporaneous news report of the verdict; exact section-wise break-up not confirmed)
- Verification: V2 · Trial court