5 Mar 2008
Order issued
ConcludedThe Delhi High Court entered convictions against police personnel in this judgment.
Conviction · Supports allegation.
Source: 153 (2008) DLT 693
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CW-2008-0018East Delhi, DelhiJudgment 5 March 2008
State vs Delhi Police SHO (later Assistant Commissioner of Police) and others
The judgment of the Delhi High Court records the following account. After Constable of PS Vivek Vihar was stabbed on 16.8.1987, police detained family members and neighbours, and on 24.8.1987 a Delhi man and [name withheld] were brought to the station where SHO and others at his instance severely beat them; a Delhi man died the next day at LNJP Hospital and an SDM inquest indicted the officers. The trial court (SC No. 01/2006, ASJ Karkardooma, December 2006) convicted [name withheld] under Sections 302/342/120-B IPC and sentenced him to death. The High Court declined the death reference, holding murderous intent not proved but sustaining culpability for the homicidal custodial death, and convicted him under Section 304 Part II IPC with 8 years rigorous imprisonment and Rs 2,00,000 fine payable to the deceased's mother [name withheld]. The Supreme Court dismissed his appeal on 12.11.2009 (Crl.A. Nos. 1440-1441/2008). Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.
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By judgment dated 5 March 2008 in Death Sentence Reference with connected Criminal Appeal (numbers unverified), the Delhi High Court recorded the conviction of the SHO (later Assistant Commissioner of Police), PS Vivek Vihar, Delhi Police, and directed payment of compensation of Rs 2 lakh (Rs 2,00,000).
- Register number
- DL 07 CW 0003
- Case reference
- Death Sentence Reference with connected Criminal Appeal (numbers unverified) / 153 (2008) DLT 693
- Court and date
- Delhi High Court, 5 March 2008
- Officer(s) at the material time
- SHO (later Assistant Commissioner of Police), PS Vivek Vihar, Delhi Police
- Present service status
- Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked
- Section 304 Part II of the Indian Penal Code, 1860
- Finding of the Court (extract)
- “RE-SOURCE: current quote matches SC judgment para 1 recital, not the cited HC judgment; replace with a verbatim passage from the HC 05.03.2008 text once opened” (at para null (must be set from HC text))
- Verdict, sentence and quantum
- Conviction entered by High Court. Sentence: imprisonment and fine; maximum substantive term of 8 years. Compensation: Rs 2 lakh (Rs 2,00,000).
- 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 Delhi High Court judgment dated 5 March 2008 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.
“RE-SOURCE: current quote matches SC judgment para 1 recital, not the cited HC judgment; replace with a verbatim passage from the HC 05.03.2008 text once opened” (para null (must be set from HC text))
Separate from verification
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.