Date not established
Conviction
ConcludedThe trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Punjab and Haryana High Court judgment.
Conviction · Supports allegation.
Source: Crl. Appeal No.558-SB of 1999
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CW-2010-0016Barnala, PunjabJudgment 10 August 2010
Mehal Kalan Police Sub-Inspector (SHO) vs State of Punjab
The judgment of the Punjab and Haryana High Court records the following account. Vegetable seller a Mehal Kalan man, wanted in a murder FIR, was arrested on 31 July 1995 by SHO and lodged in the Mehal Kalan lock-up at 6:30 p.m.; police claimed he suffered fits at 7 p.m. and died en route to hospital, but the post-mortem showed 15 injuries including testicle injuries and electric-shock marks, and the body was cremated the same night. The trial court convicted the SHO under Section 304 Part-II IPC (1 year RI, Rs.10,000 fine) and acquitted three co-accused. The High Court held a Mehal Kalan man died an unnatural death within about 30 minutes of detention due to torture, dismissed the appeal, and refused probation, observing release would instigate police torture of innocents. Date per judgment's internal header 10.8.2010 (Kanoon title says 10 Sept 2010). Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.
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Report card
By judgment dated 10 August 2010 in Crl. Appeal No.558-SB of 1999, the Punjab and Haryana High Court (Coram: Jora Singh, J.) affirmed the conviction of the Sub-Inspector (SHO), Police Station Mehal Kalan.
- Register number
- PB 19 CW 0003
- Case reference
- Crl. Appeal No.558-SB of 1999
- Court and date
- Punjab and Haryana High Court (Coram: Jora Singh, J.), 10 August 2010
- Officer(s) at the material time
- Sub-Inspector (SHO), Police Station Mehal Kalan
- 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)
- “Police officials are the custodial of law. They are to maintain law and order and are not to violate the same.”
- Verdict, sentence and quantum
- Conviction upheld. Sentence: imprisonment; maximum substantive term of 1 year.
- 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 Punjab and Haryana High Court judgment dated 10 August 2010 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.
“Police officials are the custodial of law. They are to maintain law and order and are not to violate the same.”
Separate from verification
Institutional response
10 Aug 2010
Order issued
ConcludedThe Punjab and Haryana High Court dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.
Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card).
Source: Crl. Appeal No.558-SB of 1999
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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.