CW-2006-0009Ahmedabad, GujaratJudgment 1 September 2006

Ahmedabad Police Police Sub-Inspector vs State of Gujarat

The Gujarat High Court maintained the corruption conviction of PSI of Odhav police station, caught in an ACB decoy trap on the night of 18/19 October 1985 extorting truck drivers on highways around Ahmedabad city. The Court rejected defences of false trap, panch contradictions and defective sanction, holding the Rs 20 bribe-taking proved by ultraviolet-lamp anthracene marks. While maintaining conviction under Section 161 IPC and Sections 5(1)(d)/5(2) of the 1947 PC Act, it cut the sentence from one year's RI to 10 days' RI given the petty amount and two decades' lapse, retaining the Rs 100 fine with surrender by 1 November 2006. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

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Report card

By judgment dated 1 September 2006 in Criminal Appeal (Special Case No. 28 of 1986, Special Judge, Ahmedabad), the Gujarat High Court (Coram: J. R. Vora, J.) affirmed the conviction of the Police Sub-Inspector, Odhav Police Station, Ahmedabad.

Register number
GJ 01 CW 0009
Case reference
Criminal Appeal (Special Case No. 28 of 1986, Special Judge, Ahmedabad) / 2007 CriLJ 728
Court and date
Gujarat High Court (Coram: J. R. Vora, J.), 1 September 2006
Officer(s) at the material time
Police Sub-Inspector, Odhav Police Station, Ahmedabad
Present service status
Not ascertained from the cited sources.
Provisions invoked
Section 161 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 5(1)(d) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1947; Section 5(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1947
Finding of the Court (extract)
“While maintaining the conviction awarded by the Trial Court to the appellant for the offences punishable under Section 161 of the Indian Penal Code and for the offence under Section 5(1)(d) to read with Section 5(2) of the Prevention of …” (at para 27)
Verdict, sentence and quantum
Conviction upheld. Sentence: imprisonment and fine; maximum substantive term of 0.03 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.

The Gujarat High Court judgment dated 1 September 2006 is the concluded position shown in the cited sources.

Recorded allegations

1
OtherPrimary
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.

What the court found

Holding not recorded separately.

“While maintaining the conviction awarded by the Trial Court to the appellant for the offences punishable under Section 161 of the Indian Penal Code and for the offence under Section 5(1)(d) to read with Section 5(2) of the Prevention of …” (para 27)

Institutional response

2
Date not established

Conviction

Concluded
Trial court (as recorded in the Gujarat High Court judgment) External · Binding

The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Gujarat High Court judgment.

Conviction · Supports allegation.
Source: 2007 CriLJ 728
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1 Sep 2006

Order issued

Concluded
Gujarat High Court External · Binding

The Gujarat High Court dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.

Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card).
Source: 2007 CriLJ 728
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Follow-up history

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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.

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