Date not established
Conviction
ConcludedThe trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Allahabad High Court judgment.
Conviction · Supports allegation.
Source: 2002 CriLJ 2220
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CW-2002-0018Lalitpur, Uttar PradeshJudgment 14 February 2002
Sojna Police Station Officer vs State of U.P.
The judgment of the Allahabad High Court records the following account. Station Officer arrested a Sojna man on 7 March 1987 and, the Court found, gave him repeated lathi blows at Sojna Tigadda and inside the police station courtyard and lock-up; a Sojna man died in custody on 8 March 1987 with 18 ante-mortem lathi injuries, death due to shock and haemorrhage. The trial court had convicted [name withheld] under sections 302/342 IPC (life imprisonment) and two constables under sections 323/342 IPC. The Court held the custodial assault fully proved against [name withheld] by six consistent eyewitnesses corroborated by the post-mortem, but altered the conviction to section 304 Part II IPC with two years rigorous imprisonment and Rs 25,000 fine, Rs 15,000 to the next of kin. The Court acquitted both constables on benefit of doubt, set aside the section 342 conviction, dismissed the State appeal, and ordered [name withheld] taken into custody forthwith.
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Report card
By judgment dated 14 February 2002 in Criminal Appeal No. 2350 of 1997, the Allahabad High Court (Coram: J. Gupta, Imtiyaz Murtaza, JJ.) affirmed the conviction of the Station Officer, Police Station Sojna, Lalitpur, and directed payment of compensation of Rs 15,000.
- Register number
- UP 94 CW 0001
- Case reference
- Criminal Appeal No. 2350 of 1997 / 2002 CriLJ 2220
- Court and date
- Allahabad High Court (Coram: J. Gupta, Imtiyaz Murtaza, JJ.), 14 February 2002
- Officer(s) at the material time
- Station Officer, Police Station Sojna, Lalitpur
- Present service status
- Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked
- Section 304 Part II of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 342 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860
- Finding of the Court (extract)
- “From the evidence available on record both documentary and oral we are satisfied that [name withheld] had caused injuries to deceased [name withheld] while he was in police custody and even if it is not possible to say that he …” (at para 26)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum
- Conviction upheld. Sentence: imprisonment and fine; maximum substantive term of 2 years. Compensation: Rs 15,000.
- 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 Allahabad High Court judgment dated 14 February 2002 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.
“From the evidence available on record both documentary and oral we are satisfied that [name withheld] had caused injuries to deceased [name withheld] while he was in police custody and even if it is not possible to say that he …” (para 26)
Separate from verification
Institutional response
14 Feb 2002
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: 2002 CriLJ 2220
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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.