Date not established
Conviction
ConcludedThe trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Supreme Court of India judgment.
Conviction · Supports allegation.
Source: 1954 AIR 436; 1955 SCR 588
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CW-1954-0002Warangal, TelanganaJudgment 6 May 1954
Aftab Ahmad Khan v. The State of Hyderabad
The Supreme Court maintained the convictions of Reserve Inspector Aftab Ahmad Khan, who with a police party seized two villagers at Rajole on 13 September 1948, shot dead one person and injured others at Korivi, confined the two villagers overnight, and released them on 14 September only after extorting Rs 200. The Special Judge, Warangal, had sentenced him to death for murder, life for attempt to murder, and two years each for confinement and extortion, affirmed by the Hyderabad High Court via third-judge reference after a split. The Supreme Court upheld the joint trial under Section 235 CrPC as one transaction and, by convention where High Court judges had divided, commuted only the death sentence to transportation for life with all sentences concurrent. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.
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By judgment dated 6 May 1954, the Supreme Court of India (Coram: Ghulam Hasan, B.K. Mukherjea, Vivian Bose, JJ.) affirmed the conviction of the Aftab Ahmad Khan (Reserve Inspector of Police).
- Register number
- TG 03 CW 0001
- Case reference
- 1954 AIR 436; 1955 SCR 588
- Court and date
- Supreme Court of India (Coram: Ghulam Hasan, B.K. Mukherjea, Vivian Bose, JJ.), 6 May 1954
- Officer(s) at the material time
- Aftab Ahmad Khan (Reserve Inspector of Police)
- Present service status
- Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked
- Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 307 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 347 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 384 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860
- Finding of the Court (extract)
- “He released P. W. 3 and P. W. 4 on the intercession of certain persons but kept P. W. 5 and P. W. 9 in wrongful confinement and released them only next morning after extorting Rs. 200 from P. W. …” (at para n/a)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum
- Conviction upheld. Sentence: imprisonment.
- Present status of the proceedings
- No further proceedings are recorded in the cited sources; the judgment is the concluded position shown.
Compiled from the judgment and the cited sources. Findings are those of the court; this card adds none of its own.
Current position
The Supreme Court of India judgment dated 6 May 1954 is the concluded position shown in the cited sources.
Evidence position
Recorded allegations
OtherPrimary
Material fact supported
Reliable material supports a specifically documented fact relevant to that allegation, not necessarily the full allegation, causation, intent, unlawfulness, or responsibility.
Official finding: supports allegation.
Attributed to the court
What the court found
Holding not recorded separately.
“He released P. W. 3 and P. W. 4 on the intercession of certain persons but kept P. W. 5 and P. W. 9 in wrongful confinement and released them only next morning after extorting Rs. 200 from P. W. …” (para n/a)
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Institutional response
6 May 1954
Order issued
ConcludedThe Supreme Court of India dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.
Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card).
Source: 1954 AIR 436; 1955 SCR 588
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Follow-up history
19 Sep 2026
(Round-8 full re-verification: published record re-checked against the judgment text (outcome, officers, quote, key facts) plus methodology-compliance pass; skills-guided adversarial re-verification of the published record against the judgment text (reverify/t1-*/adversarial-8.jsonl))
Corrections (0): No corrections recorded.
Review: Solo Staff combined review (one combined attestation) — not yet recorded.