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: Criminal Appeal No. 97 of 1961
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CW-1962-0001Lakhimpur Kheri, Uttar PradeshJudgment 13 November 1962
Maulud Ahmad v. State of Uttar Pradesh
The judgment of the Supreme Court of India records the following account. After a railway-party shoot killed a Mailani man and a Mailani man on the night of 14/15 December 1956, Head Constable Maulud Ahmad of PS Mailani entered a false antedated report in the General Diary showing Railway Guard Chauhan had deposited his gun the previous evening, creating alibi evidence to save Chauhan from prosecution. All co-accused were acquitted but the appellant alone was convicted under section 218 IPC and sentenced to two years' rigorous imprisonment, affirmed by the Allahabad High Court (Lucknow Bench). The Supreme Court held that the guard's acquittal did not exonerate the appellant since intent at the time of the false entry governed, and that section 42 of the Police Act barred only Police Act prosecutions. It dismissed the appeal, warning that manipulated police records would end honest investigation. Subcategory corrected to dereliction/evidence-tampering: the fabrication shielded an accused rather than implicating innocents. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.
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Report card
By judgment dated 13 November 1962 in Criminal Appeal No. 97 of 1961, the Supreme Court of India (Coram: K. Subba Rao, J.) affirmed the conviction of the Maulud Ahmad (Head Constable).
- Register number
- UP 31 CW 0001
- Case reference
- Criminal Appeal No. 97 of 1961
- Court and date
- Supreme Court of India (Coram: K. Subba Rao, J.), 13 November 1962
- Officer(s) at the material time
- Maulud Ahmad (Head Constable)
- Present service status
- Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked
- Section 218 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860
- Finding of the Court (extract)
- “In the view of the learned judge it was not established conclusively that Chauhan abetted the appellant in manipulating the record but that could not exonerate the appellant for it had been held on the evidence that the false entries …” (at para n/a)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum
- Conviction upheld. Sentence: imprisonment; maximum substantive term of 2 years.
- 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 13 November 1962 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.
“In the view of the learned judge it was not established conclusively that Chauhan abetted the appellant in manipulating the record but that could not exonerate the appellant for it had been held on the evidence that the false entries …” (para n/a)
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Institutional response
13 Nov 1962
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: Criminal Appeal No. 97 of 1961
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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.