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: AIR 1976 SC 202; (1976) 1 SCC 389
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CW-1975-0001Sonipat, HaryanaJudgment 9 December 1975
Haryana Police CID Police Constable vs The State of Haryana
The Supreme Court dismissed the appeal of CID constable, who offered Rs 1,000 to Head Constable to substitute seized stolen gold coins recovered from Rameshwar Dass at Murthal bus stand on 25 April 1968 and sabotage the Section 411 IPC case. [name withheld] reported to the DSP, and a raiding party caught [name withheld] at Dogra Hotel with substitute coins and the bribe money. The Court held a 'hostile' witness's testimony can sustain conviction if corroborated, upholding one year's RI under Section 165-A IPC. (Headnote loosely calls the appellant a Head Constable; the judgment body states he is a CID police constable.). Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.
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Report card
By judgment dated 9 December 1975 in Criminal Appeal No. 201 of 1971, the Supreme Court of India (Coram: P. K. Goswami, P. N. Bhagwati, N. L. Untwalia, JJ.) affirmed the conviction of the CID Police Constable, Haryana Police (CID).
- Register number
- HR 10 CW 0001
- Case reference
- Criminal Appeal No. 201 of 1971 / AIR 1976 SC 202; (1976) 1 SCC 389
- Court and date
- Supreme Court of India (Coram: P. K. Goswami, P. N. Bhagwati, N. L. Untwalia, JJ.), 9 December 1975
- Officer(s) at the material time
- CID Police Constable, Haryana Police (CID)
- Present service status
- Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked
- Section 165-A of the Indian Penal Code, 1860
- Finding of the Court (extract)
- “There is, therefore, clear abetment by the appellant of the offence under section 161 I.P.C. and the ingredients of section 165A I.P.C. are established against him.” (at para n/a)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum
- Conviction upheld. Sentence: imprisonment; maximum substantive term of 1 year.
- 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 9 December 1975 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.
“There is, therefore, clear abetment by the appellant of the offence under section 161 I.P.C. and the ingredients of section 165A I.P.C. are established against him.” (para n/a)
Separate from verification
Institutional response
9 Dec 1975
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: AIR 1976 SC 202; (1976) 1 SCC 389
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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.