Date not established
Conviction
ConcludedThe trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Allahabad High Court judgment.
Conviction · Supports allegation.
Source: (1988) 09 AHC CK 0047
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CW-1988-0001Baghpat, Uttar PradeshJudgment 23 September 1988
Sheo Kumar Gupta, S.I. & Ors. v. State of U.P. (M. T. case)
The Allahabad High Court upheld every conviction of the ten PS Baghpat policemen who, avenging an assault on a fellow Sub-Inspector, shot dead the complainant's husband and two others and stripped, assaulted and detained the complainant in June 1980. The Court held all appellants were members of an unlawful assembly guilty of the offences found by the trial court, including Section 354/149 with two years RI. It reduced the six death sentences to life imprisonment, upheld the four existing life terms and set aside the fines. The appellants on bail were ordered to be taken into custody forthwith. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.
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Report card
By judgment dated 23 September 1988 in Criminal Appeal Nos. 183 of 1988 and 168 of 1988, the Allahabad High Court (Coram: B.N. Katju, G.K. Mathur, JJ.) affirmed the conviction of 10 police personnel, namely: Sheo Kumar Gupta (Sub-Inspector); Jamadar Singh (Sub-Inspector); Ram Giri (Sub-Inspector); Kashi Ram (Head Constable); Rakesh s/o Ranjit Singh (Constable); Rakesh s/o Viladhar Sharma (Constable); Anand Giri (Constable); Pratap Singh (Constable); Sant Singh (Constable); Subhash (Constable).
- Register number
- UP 17 CW 0001
- Case reference
- Criminal Appeal Nos. 183 of 1988 and 168 of 1988 / (1988) 09 AHC CK 0047
- Court and date
- Allahabad High Court (Coram: B.N. Katju, G.K. Mathur, JJ.), 23 September 1988
- Officer(s) at the material time
- Sheo Kumar Gupta (Sub-Inspector); Jamadar Singh (Sub-Inspector); Ram Giri (Sub-Inspector); Kashi Ram (Head Constable); Rakesh s/o Ranjit Singh (Constable); Rakesh s/o Viladhar Sharma (Constable); Anand Giri (Constable); Pratap Singh (Constable); Sant Singh (Constable); Subhash (Constable)
- Present service status
- Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked
- Section 302/149 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 201 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 218 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 120B of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 323/149 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 354/149 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 148 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 147 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860
- Finding of the Court (extract)
- “The fact that Smt. [the complainant] was made naked and assaulted and taken to P. S. Baghpat from the place of occurrence indicates that she was the root cause of the incident. All the appellants were, therefore, members of an …” (at para 43)
- 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 Allahabad High Court judgment dated 23 September 1988 is the concluded position shown in the cited sources.
Evidence position
Recorded allegations
Custodial torturePrimary
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 fact that Smt. [the complainant] was made naked and assaulted and taken to P. S. Baghpat from the place of occurrence indicates that she was the root cause of the incident. All the appellants were, therefore, members of an …” (para 43)
Separate from verification
Institutional response
23 Sep 1988
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: (1988) 09 AHC CK 0047
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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.