Bhagalpur, Bihar

Police stations named in these records

• Kotwali 4
• Amarpur 2
• Sabour 2

High Court and Supreme Court findings 7

• Bhagalpur Police Inspector vs The State of Jharkhand and Others High Court / Supreme Court · 12 June 2024
  The appellant, Inspector-in-Charge of Kotwali police station at the time, was convicted of criminal contempt with eight other policemen for the November 1997 Bhagalpur court-premises disruption, a conviction affirmed by the Supreme Court, and was dismissed fro…
• Railway Police Constable vs The State of Bihar and Others High Court / Supreme Court · 1 March 2016
  [name withheld], a Katihar Rail Police constable posted at Kharik station, was dismissed in May 2001 for complicity in the January 2000 armed attack on his own police post in which personnel were injured and arms looted. The court held the co-accused Section 1…
• The Matter Of State (Through SPE/CBI/Patna) vs [name withheld] And Ors High Court / Supreme Court · 2 May 2011
  In the infamous Bhagalpur blindings case, the Patna High Court allowed the CBI's appeal against the judgment of acquittal passed by the 14th Additional Sessions Judge, Patna, and restored the conviction and sentence against police Officer-in-[name withheld] an…
• Bhagalpur Man and Others vs B.K. Pandey High Court / Supreme Court · 13 April 2004
  The Supreme Court dismissed the appeals of nine Bihar police personnel convicted of criminal contempt for a pre-planned attack on the 1st Additional District and Sessions Judge, Bhagalpur, in his courtroom and chambers on 18 November 1997. The Court held the a…
• Bihar Police Constable v. The State of Bihar and Others High Court / Supreme Court · 23 September 2003
  The Patna High Court Division Bench dismissed the Letters Patent Appeal of police constable, upholding his dismissal from service. The Court recorded that on 26 February 1991 he was caught on the spot with 10-12 armed associates during a forcible house invasio…
• B.K. Pandey, Vth Additional District & Sessions Judge vs A. Natrajan, Superintendent of Police and Others High Court / Supreme Court · 10 February 1998
  The judgment of the Patna High Court records the following account. On 18 November 1997, aggrieved by the arrest of a fellow Sub-Inspector, a group of Bhagalpur policemen attacked the 1st Additional District Judge inside his courtroom and chambers. The Patna H…
• Jagdishpur Man vs State Of Bihar And Ors. High Court / Supreme Court · 20 May 1997 · Rs 1.6 lakh (Rs 1,55,000) ordered
  The Patna High Court allowed a criminal writ petition filed by Dulari Devi for the custodial death of her 27-year-old husband, a Jagdishpur man, who died in Central Jail Bhagalpur on July 28, 1994, following severe beatings in police custody. On July 24, 1994,…

Trial-court convictions 4

• Special Case No. 18 of 1989 arising out of Vigilance P.S. Case No. 60/77 — State vs [name withheld] (Cr. Appeal (SJ) No. 295 of 1993) Trial-court conviction · 4 September 1993
  The Special Judge (Vigilance), South Bihar, Patna convicted ASI on 4 September 1993 for accepting Rs 500 gratification on 9 December 1977 to refrain from arresting the complainant, holding the charges under IPC Sec 161 and PC Act 1947 Sec 5(2) r/w 5(1)(d) prov…
• Trial No. 2 of 1987 arising out of RC 12 and 13 of 1981 (CBI/SPE Patna; Sabour P.S. Case No. 11(7)80) — State (CBI) vs Md. Wasimuddin and others; Govt. Appeal (SJ) No. 65 of 1990 Trial-court conviction · 31 August 1987
  The Special Magistrate, CBI, Patna convicted OIC Md. Wasimuddin and SI Binda Prasad of Sabour PS on 31 August 1987 (Trial No. 2 of 1987, RC 12-13/1981) for the 1980 Bhagalpur blinding of two undertrial prisoners (PWs 1-2), whose eyes were pierced and acid pour…
• CBI blinding case arising from Amarpur P.S. Case No. 15(6)80 (blinding of Bhagalpur Man) — State (CBI) vs Shiv Shankar Prasad Gupta (Cr. Rev. No. 851/1990) Trial-court conviction · 1987
  The trial court (CBI blinding case from Amarpur PS) convicted Officer-in-Charge Shiv Shankar Prasad Gupta for the custodial blinding of a Bhagalpur man (PW-1), arrested 20 June 1980 and blinded with acid at Amarpur Police Station on the morning of 21 June 1980…
• CBI blinding case arising from Amarpur P.S. Case No. 15(6)80 (blinding of Bhagalpur Man) — State (CBI) vs Bihar Police Assistant Sub-Inspector ('Jamadar Verma') Trial-court conviction · 1987
  The trial court (CBI blinding case from Amarpur PS) convicted ASI ('[name withheld]', standing beside the OIC when acid was poured) for the custodial blinding of a Bhagalpur man on 21 June 1980, sentencing him to 2 years RI (120B) + 1 year RI (326/34) with fin…