Date not established
Conviction
ConcludedThe trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Allahabad High Court judgment.
Conviction · Supports allegation.
Source: 1981 Cri LJ 1489
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CW-1981-0001Agra, Uttar PradeshJudgment 4 September 1981
Vishnu Prasad v. State of Uttar Pradesh
The judgment of the Allahabad High Court records the following account. Head Constable Vishnu Prasad, in charge of police outpost Runkata under Achhnera Police Station in Agra, forcibly took complainant, a Runkata woman, from her home to a culvert outside her village and demanded a bribe of Rs 500 (settled at Rs 125) to stop harassing her family and release her. The complainant reported the matter to the Anti-Corruption CID, Agra, and a trap was laid on 5 May 1977 near Sudhir Petrol Pump, where initialled currency notes were handed to the officer. When the trap party moved in, the appellant threw the notes under a cot, resisted custody, and fled from police custody. The Special Judge, Agra, convicted him under Sections 161 and 224 IPC and Section 5(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1947. On appeal, the High Court set aside the Section 161 IPC conviction (holding the extortionate act was an abuse of office rather than an official function), affirmed the convictions under Section 5(2) of the PC Act and Section 224 IPC, reduced the PC Act sentence to one year rigorous imprisonment, and directed that he be taken into custody.
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Report card
By judgment dated 4 September 1981, the Allahabad High Court (Coram: P.N. Goel, J.) affirmed the conviction of the Vishnu Prasad (Head Constable).
- Register number
- UP 80 CW 0002
- Case reference
- 1981 Cri LJ 1489
- Court and date
- Allahabad High Court (Coram: P.N. Goel, J.), 4 September 1981
- Officer(s) at the material time
- Vishnu Prasad (Head Constable)
- Present service status
- Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked
- Section 5(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1947; Section 5(1)(d) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1947; Section 224 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860
- Finding of the Court (extract)
- “Conviction of the appellant under Section 5 (2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1947 is affirmed but the sentence of two years R. I. awarded by the special Judge is reduced to R. I. for one year. Conviction and …” (at para 29)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum
- Conviction upheld. Sentence: imprisonment; maximum substantive term of 1.0 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 Allahabad High Court judgment dated 4 September 1981 is the concluded position shown in the cited sources.
Evidence position
Recorded allegations
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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.
“Conviction of the appellant under Section 5 (2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1947 is affirmed but the sentence of two years R. I. awarded by the special Judge is reduced to R. I. for one year. Conviction and …” (para 29)
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Institutional response
4 Sep 1981
Order issued
ConcludedThe Allahabad High Court dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.
Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card).
Source: 1981 Cri LJ 1489
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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.