11 Sep 1991
Order issued
ConcludedThe Supreme Court of India entered convictions against police personnel in this judgment.
Conviction · Supports allegation.
Source: (1991) 4 SCC 406; AIR 1991 SC 2176
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CW-1991-0002Kheda, GujaratJudgment 11 September 1991
Nadiad Police Police Inspector vs State of Gujarat and Ors.
The Supreme Court held five Gujarat police personnel guilty of criminal contempt for the night of 25/26 September 1989 attack on Nadiad Chief Judicial Magistrate a Nadiad man, who was lured to the police station, forced to consume liquor, beaten, handcuffed and tied with a thick rope, paraded to hospital and photographed, then falsely booked under the prohibition law. The Court accepted its Commissioner Justice R. M. Sahai's finding that the police version was cooked up, calling the episode an onslaught on the judiciary itself. It sentenced Inspector to six months' simple imprisonment, Sub-Inspector to five months, the head constable and constable to two months each, and DSP to one month, with fines, and directed the State to pursue disciplinary proceedings. The Court also laid down guidelines for the arrest of judicial officers. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.
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By judgment dated 11 September 1991 in Writ Petition (Crl.) No. 517 of 1989, the Supreme Court of India (Coram: K. N. Singh, Kuldip Singh, N. M. Kasliwal, JJ.) recorded the conviction of 5 police personnel, namely: Police Inspector, Nadiad Police Station, Kheda; Sub-Inspector, Nadiad Police Station, Kheda; Head Constable, Nadiad Police Station, Kheda; Constable, Nadiad Police Station, Kheda; District Superintendent of Police, Kheda.
- Register number
- GJ 07 CW 0001
- Case reference
- Writ Petition (Crl.) No. 517 of 1989 / (1991) 4 SCC 406; AIR 1991 SC 2176
- Court and date
- Supreme Court of India (Coram: K. N. Singh, Kuldip Singh, N. M. Kasliwal, JJ.), 11 September 1991
- Officer(s) at the material time
- Police Inspector, Nadiad Police Station, Kheda; Sub-Inspector, Nadiad Police Station, Kheda; Head Constable, Nadiad Police Station, Kheda; Constable, Nadiad Police Station, Kheda; District Superintendent of Police, Kheda
- Present service status
- Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked
- the Contempt of Courts Act, 1971; Article 129 of the Constitution of India
- Finding of the Court (extract)
- “Sharma, Police Inspector who was the main actor in the entire incident and who had planned the entire episode with a view to humiliate the CJM in the public eye is the main culprit, therefore, he deserves maximum punishment.” (at para 52-53)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum
- Conviction entered by Supreme Court. Sentence: imprisonment and fine; maximum substantive term of 0.5 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 11 September 1991 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.
“Sharma, Police Inspector who was the main actor in the entire incident and who had planned the entire episode with a view to humiliate the CJM in the public eye is the main culprit, therefore, he deserves maximum punishment.” (para 52-53)
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Institutional response
Continuing record
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.