9 May 1995
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ConcludedThe Supreme Court of India entered convictions against police personnel in this judgment.
Conviction · Supports allegation.
Source: (1995) 4 SCC 262
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CW-1995-0001Neemuch, Madhya PradeshJudgment 9 May 1995
State of Madhya Pradesh vs Shyamsunder Trivedi and Ors.
The judgment of the Supreme Court of India records the following account. A Rampura man was brought to Rampura Police Station for interrogation on October 13, 1981, where he was subjected to brutal custodial torture and died of multiple traumatic injuries. The police attempted to screen the offence by creating false roznamcha entries and attempting to cremate the corpse as an unclaimed body until local bar members and villagers intervened. Setting aside the trial court acquittals and partial High Court acquittal, the Supreme Court convicted Sub-Inspector Shyamsunder Trivedi and three other police officers under Sections 304 Part II read with 34, 201, and 342 of the IPC. The Court held that when custodial death occurs, a presumption arises against the police custodians, sentencing Trivedi to two years RI plus Rs. 50,000 fine and the other three officers to one year RI plus Rs. 20,000 fine each, with all fines directed to be paid as compensation to the victim's heirs. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.
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Report card
By judgment dated 9 May 1995 in Crl.A. No. 217 of 1993, the Supreme Court of India (Coram: A.S. Anand, M.K. Mukherjee, JJ.) recorded the conviction of 4 police personnel, namely: Shyamsunder Trivedi (Sub-Inspector); Ram Naresh Shukla (Head Constable); Rajaram Mishra (Head Constable); Ganniuddin (Constable), and directed payment of compensation of Rs 1.1 lakh (Rs 1,10,000).
- Register number
- MP 44 CW 0001
- Case reference
- Crl.A. No. 217 of 1993 / (1995) 4 SCC 262
- Court and date
- Supreme Court of India (Coram: A.S. Anand, M.K. Mukherjee, JJ.), 9 May 1995
- Officer(s) at the material time
- Shyamsunder Trivedi (Sub-Inspector); Ram Naresh Shukla (Head Constable); Rajaram Mishra (Head Constable); Ganniuddin (Constable)
- Present service status
- Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked
- Section 304 Part II of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 34 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 201 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 342 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860
- Finding of the Court (extract)
- “Generally speaking, it would be police officials alone who can only explain the circumstances in which a person in their custody had died.” (at para n/a)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum
- Conviction entered by Supreme Court. Sentence: imprisonment and fine; maximum substantive term of 2 years. Compensation: Rs 1.1 lakh (Rs 1,10,000).
- 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 9 May 1995 is the concluded position shown in the cited sources.
Evidence position
Recorded allegations
Custodial deathPrimary
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.
“Generally speaking, it would be police officials alone who can only explain the circumstances in which a person in their custody had died.” (para n/a)
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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.