18 Jan 1993
Order issued
ConcludedThe Gujarat High Court upheld service punishment imposed on police personnel.
Disciplinary action · Procedural only.
Source: (1993)1 GLR 816
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CW-1993-0008Ahmedabad, GujaratJudgment 18 January 1993
Ahmedabad Police Unarmed Head Constable vs State of Gujarat and Anr.
The petitioner, an Unarmed Head Constable, was convicted with three others in Sessions Case No. 187 of 1980 under Section 331 read with Section 34 IPC for custodial torture inflicted to extract a clue to stolen property, and sentenced to 3 years rigorous imprisonment and a fine. The court recorded that the conviction was confirmed by the High Court and the Supreme Court, after which the District Superintendent of Police, Ahmedabad (Rural) dismissed him from service in 1984. The High Court held the DSP was the competent authority, the show-cause process was valid, and dismissal for such serious misconduct warranted no interference under Articles 226/227. The writ petition was dismissed and the dismissal from service stands. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.
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By judgment dated 18 January 1993, the Gujarat High Court (Coram: C. K. Thakker, J.) upheld the disciplinary action taken against the Unarmed Head Constable, Ahmedabad (Rural) police.
- Register number
- GJ 01 CW 0005
- Case reference
- (1993)1 GLR 816
- Court and date
- Gujarat High Court (Coram: C. K. Thakker, J.), 18 January 1993
- Officer(s) at the material time
- Unarmed Head Constable, Ahmedabad (Rural) police
- Present service status
- Recorded in the cited sources as dismissed from service.
- Provisions invoked
- Section 331 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 34 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860
- Finding of the Court (extract)
- “Looking to the facts on the record, it clearly appears that for extracting confession a person was brutally beaten by the petitioner and other officers of the Police force.” (at para 9)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum
- Disciplinary action upheld. Sentence: dismissal.
- 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 Gujarat High Court judgment dated 18 January 1993 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.
“Looking to the facts on the record, it clearly appears that for extracting confession a person was brutally beaten by the petitioner and other officers of the Police force.” (para 9)
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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.