Date not established
Conviction
ConcludedThe trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Orissa High Court judgment.
Conviction · Supports allegation.
Source: (1982) Cri LJ 942
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CW-1982-0001Nayagarh, OdishaJudgment 5 January 1982
State of Orissa And Etc. vs Trinath Dash And Ors.
The judgment of the Orissa High Court records the following account. Nine Nuagaon police personnel were tried for confining theft suspects a Nuagaon man and a Nuagaon man in the lock-up without arrest from 27-07-1975, torturing them, and, after a Nuagaon man died, hanging his body from a tree to fake suicide. The trial court acquitted them of murder (302), grievous hurt (331) and hurt (323) but convicted all under Section 201 IPC, the OIC and ASI under Section 203, and OIC Trinath Dash under Section 342 IPC. The Orissa High Court dismissed the Government appeal against the acquittals and set aside all Section 201/203 convictions, holding murder/culpable homicide unproved and mere shifting of the body no disappearance of evidence. It upheld only OIC Trinath Dash's conviction for wrongful confinement under Section 342 IPC (fine Rs 500, default 3 months RI), the sentence being not severe. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.
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By judgment dated 5 January 1982 in Government Appeal No. 101 of 1977 with Criminal Appeals Nos. 105, 106 and 112 of 1977, the Orissa High Court (Coram: B.K. Behera, P.K. Mohanti, JJ.) affirmed the conviction of 9 police personnel, namely: Trinath Dash (Officer-in-Charge); Assistant Sub-Inspector, Nuagaon Police Station; Writer Constable, Nuagaon Police Station; Constable, Nuagaon Police Station; Constable, Nuagaon Police Station; Constable, Nuagaon Police Station; Constable, Nuagaon Police Station; Constable, Nuagaon Police Station; Constable, Nuagaon Police Station.
- Register number
- OD 25 CW 0001
- Case reference
- Government Appeal No. 101 of 1977 with Criminal Appeals Nos. 105, 106 and 112 of 1977 / (1982) Cri LJ 942
- Court and date
- Orissa High Court (Coram: B.K. Behera, P.K. Mohanti, JJ.), 5 January 1982
- Officer(s) at the material time
- Trinath Dash (Officer-in-Charge); Assistant Sub-Inspector, Nuagaon Police Station; Writer Constable, Nuagaon Police Station; Constable, Nuagaon Police Station; Constable, Nuagaon Police Station; Constable, Nuagaon Police Station; Constable, Nuagaon Police Station; Constable, Nuagaon Police Station; Constable, Nuagaon Police Station
- Present service status
- Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked
- Section 342 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860
- Finding of the Court (extract)
- “The sentence passed against the accused [name withheld] who was no other person than the Officer-in-Charge of the police station, for his conviction under this section, cannot, in the circumstances of the case, be said to be severe.” (at para 16)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum
- Conviction upheld. Sentence: fine.
- Present status of the proceedings
- No further proceedings are recorded in the cited sources; the judgment is the concluded position shown.
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Current position
The Orissa High Court judgment dated 5 January 1982 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.
“The sentence passed against the accused [name withheld] who was no other person than the Officer-in-Charge of the police station, for his conviction under this section, cannot, in the circumstances of the case, be said to be severe.” (para 16)
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Institutional response
5 Jan 1982
Order issued
ConcludedThe Orissa High Court dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.
Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card).
Source: (1982) Cri LJ 942
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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.
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