30 Aug 2025
Order issued
ConcludedThe Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court entered convictions against police personnel in this judgment.
Conviction · Supports allegation.
Source: 2025:JKLHC-SGR:242
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CW-2025-0016Kupwara, Jammu and KashmirJudgment 30 August 2025
State of J&K v. Kupwara Police Station House Officer and others
The judgment of the Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court records the following account. On 12 May 2003, a Jaish-e-Mohammed fidayeen attacked police and CRPF personnel near the SBI branch in Kupwara town, killing two CRPF men and injuring six. Investigation showed that then-SHO [name withheld] [name withheld] had ferried the attacker from Sogam to Kupwara in an official Tata 407 police vehicle and planted him at the attack site. The Sessions Judge, Kupwara, acquitted Wani in January 2011. The High Court held the acquittal perverse, found the SHO proved as a conspirator in the murder, sentenced him to life imprisonment under Sections 302 read with 120-B RPC, and directed surrender before the trial court, while confirming the co-accused's acquittal. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.
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Report card
By judgment dated 30 August 2025 in CRAA No. 12 of 2011, the Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court (Coram: Sanjeev Kumar, Sanjay Parihar, JJ.) recorded the conviction of the Station House Officer, Sogam Police Station, Kupwara.
- Register number
- JK 09 CW 0002
- Case reference
- CRAA No. 12 of 2011 / 2025:JKLHC-SGR:242
- Court and date
- Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court (Coram: Sanjeev Kumar, Sanjay Parihar, JJ.), 30 August 2025
- Officer(s) at the material time
- Station House Officer, Sogam Police Station, Kupwara
- Present service status
- Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked
- Section 302 of the Ranbir Penal Code; Section 120-B of the Ranbir Penal Code
- Finding of the Court (extract)
- “Having regard to the facts and circumstance of the case, we deem it appropriate to hold him guilty for having committed offence of murder in conspiracy with respondent No. 1 (now deceased) and sentence him to imprisonment for life prescribed …” (at para 38)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum
- Conviction entered by High Court. Sentence: imprisonment.
- Present status of the proceedings
- The judgment is recent and may be subject to appeal; the pendency of an appeal is not a finding.
Compiled from the judgment and the cited sources. Findings are those of the court; this card adds none of its own.
Current position
Judgment dated 30 August 2025. This judgment may still be subject to appeal; initiation or pendency of an appeal is not a finding.
Evidence position
Recorded allegations
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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.
“Having regard to the facts and circumstance of the case, we deem it appropriate to hold him guilty for having committed offence of murder in conspiracy with respondent No. 1 (now deceased) and sentence him to imprisonment for life prescribed …” (para 38)
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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.