The High Court recorded that a Joint Director General of Foreign Trade at Rajkot, arrested by the CBI in a bribery trap on 24.03.2023, was kept in his office overnight while the post-trap panchnama continued, and died on the morning of 25.03.2023 after, as a CBI constable reported, jumping from a window. Rajkot's…
Read the court recordThe Gujarat High Court dismissed the writ petition of Police Constable, upholding his dismissal from service on 19 July 2019 following his conviction on 30 April 2019 by the Additional (Ad-hoc) Sessions Judge, Tapi at Vyara in ACB Case CR No.I-4/2010 under Sections 7, 12 and 13 of the Prevention of Corruption Act…
Read the court recordPolice constable Mahendrasinh Balusinh Raol was found intoxicated while on point duty at Pirana Toll Naka, Ahmedabad, on 14 December 2003, with blood alcohol of 0.0945% w/v against the 0.05% limit. A Metropolitan Magistrate convicted him under Section 66(1)(b) of the Bombay Prohibition Act, 1949 (three months' simple…
Read the court recordThe Gujarat High Court dismissed the appeal of deceased PSI of Savarkundla Town police station, continued by his legal heirs, upholding his conviction for the custodial death on 27.10.1989 of 22-year-old a Savarkundla man @ Bhoplo Waghri, picked up for interrogation in a theft complaint and beaten with sticks, kicks…
Read the court recordThe Gujarat High Court upheld the removal from service of nine Gujarat Railway Police constables for abandoning escort duty on the Sabarmati Express on 26-27 February 2002. The Court found they made a false entry at Dahod that they were departing by that train but instead boarded the Shanti Express, leaving the…
Read the court recordThe Supreme Court held Police Inspector of Vesu police station, Surat, guilty of contempt for arresting Tusharbhai Shah on 11.12.2023 and obtaining his police-custody remand in defiance of the Court's subsisting interim anticipatory bail order dated 08.12.2023. By the guilt judgment dated 07.08.2024 the inspector and…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Gujarat High Court records the following account. consider replacing victim name with role noun per R43. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.
Read the court recordThe Gujarat High Court held four Kheda police personnel guilty of contempt for tying five detained men to a pole at Undhela village chowk on 4 October 2022 and publicly flogging them, in violation of the D. K. Basu guidelines. The Court found the men had been kept overnight at the SOG police station, beaten in public…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Gujarat High Court records the following account. replace 'complainant [name withheld] and his uncle' with 'the complainant and his uncle'. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.
Read the court recordOn 26 April 2022 the Gujarat High Court Division Bench dismissed the appeal of a State Reserve Police Force constable and confirmed his dismissal from service. The court recorded that on 7 December 2005 the appellant had scuffled with a colleague, who sustained a head injury from the appellant rifle, and that a full…
Read the court recordOn 14 March 2022 the Gujarat High Court dismissed the writ petition of a Vadodara City police constable and left his dismissal from service undisturbed. The court recorded that the petitioner, suspended in March 1990 and charge-sheeted in 1994 for stealing motorcycles with duplicate keys and reselling them with…
Read the court recordOn 6 January 2022 the Gujarat High Court Division Bench dismissed the appeal of an Armed Police Constable (SRP Group-12, Gandhinagar) against his dismissal from service ordered on 28 April 1998. The court recorded that the appellant, appointed in February 1983, had been charge-sheeted for producing a false school…
Read the court recordUnarmed Police Constable remained absent from duty from 26 April 2002 to 5 December 2002 (224 days) and was dismissed on 10 May 2004 after an ex-parte departmental inquiry, a penalty confirmed in appeal and revision. He challenged the dismissal under Article 226, contending illness and violation of natural justice.…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Gujarat High Court records the following account. replace 'the survivor' with 'a woman' / 'the complainant'. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.
Read the court recordOn 26 August 2021 the Gujarat High Court dismissed the writ petition of an Unarmed Police Constable and left his removal from service undisturbed. The court recorded that on 5 September 2001 the petitioner was found intoxicated in public at 11:30 pm, quarrelling and talking nonsense, that the inquiry officer held the…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Gujarat High Court records the following account. Unarmed Police Constable B.[name withheld] of Halvad Police Station went on casual leave from 30 June to 2 July 2000 and never reported back on 3 July 2000, remaining absent despite arrest in October 2001 in a case under Section 145(2) of the Bombay…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Gujarat High Court records the following account. Armed Police Constable of Navsari was removed from service on 18 April 2001 for contracting a second marriage with Kanizaben on 13 January 1994 while his first spouse lived, without divorce or State permission, and for falsely denying the second…
Read the court recordThe Supreme Court on 10 July 2017 dismissed the appeals of four Gujarat policemen including IPS officer R.[name withheld] and two government doctors, upholding the Bombay High Court convictions under Sections 201 and 218 IPC for sabotaging the a woman gang-rape and murder probe. The Court observed they had been…
Read the court recordOn the CBI appeal against acquittal in the a woman gang-rape and murder trial, the Bombay High Court set aside the acquittal of five policemen (A13, A14, A15, A16, A18) and two doctors and convicted them under Sections 201 and 218 IPC. The Court held they suppressed facts, botched the inquest and post-mortem, and…
Read the court recordThe Gujarat High Court Division Bench (Harsha Devani and Biren Vaishnav JJ., 23 December 2016) allowed the habeas corpus petition of Hamirbhai Gabu on behalf of detenue a Surat man The court recorded that the PASA detention order of 27 May 2016 was revoked by the State Government on 6 June 2016, yet the detenue was…
Read the court recordA Morbi man was taken into custody by Morbi City police on the night of 18 February 2006 for an alleged Prohibition Act offence, kept in illegal detention, produced before court only on 20 February 2006, and died on 22 February 2006. The post-mortem revealed multiple ante-mortem injuries all over his body. The…
Read the court recordThe Gujarat High Court (J.B. Pardiwala J., 7 June 2016) rejected the Article 226 writ of former Police Constable, confirming his removal from service. The court recorded that on 8 September 1994 he assaulted on-duty unarmed constable at the Vav Treasury, consumed liquor and misbehaved with the Treasury Officer, and…
Read the court recordOn 10 March 2014 the Gujarat High Court allowed the State appeal against acquittal and convicted a Gambhoi police-station writer for taking a bribe to weaken a criminal case against the complainant party. The court held that the Special Judge had wrongly doubted demand, finding that the accused unexplained presence at…
Read the court recordOn 5 February 2014 the Gujarat High Court Division Bench dismissed appeals by two Gondal lady head constables and upheld their dismissal from service. The court found that a woman accused entrusted to their overnight custody on 6-7 October 1993 had escaped through their negligence, for which both stood finally…
Read the court recordThe petitioner was detained under the Gujarat PASA Act by the District Magistrate, Amreli on 16-12-2007 on police-sponsored material and held for about 45 days. The High Court found the detention order illegal, passed on vague and arbitrary grounds with an ulterior motive to harass: the complainant denied the…
Read the court recordOn a suo motu PIL based on photographs and a CD, the Gujarat High Court held Rajkot police guilty of an indiscriminate brutal lathi charge on innocent Dalit residents of Ambedkarnagar Colony, Thorala Ward, on 25 June 2012, a day after a Dalit leader murder. The Court found police beat targeted individuals including…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Gujarat High Court records the following account. Armed Constable remained absent without leave from 26 March to 1 April 2002, immediately after the Godhra riots when police bandobast was in force, adding to repeated absences since September 2000 and prior fines. He filed no reply to the October…
Read the court recordThe Gujarat High Court confirmed the conviction of policeman, caught in an ACB trap on the Dwarka-Okha road on 9 May 1996 demanding and accepting a Rs 10 entry fee from lignite-truck drivers. The Court held the panch-witness evidence proved demand and acceptance beyond reasonable doubt despite the punter turning…
Read the court recordThe Gujarat High Court confirmed the ACB trap convictions of Langnaj police station PSI and Constable, who demanded Rs 2,000 from complainant [name withheld] to spare his father arrest and holiday detention in a Section 498-A case and were trapped on 18.06.1991 accepting the balance, anthracene stains being found on…
Read the court recordThe Gujarat High Court dismissed the appeal of RPF man Ajaysing Yadav and confirmed his Section 331 IPC conviction for custodial torture leading to the death of an Ahmedabad man The Court found an Ahmedabad man was picked up from his Girdharnagar house on 4 April 1990 for a cement-theft inquiry and beaten by RPF…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Gujarat High Court records the following account. Armed Constable remained absent without sanctioned leave or intimation for 354 days from September 2003 to September 2004, after more than 25 earlier instances of absenteeism. A departmental inquiry with full opportunity proved the charge and he was…
Read the court recordUnarmed Constable was found drunk on a public road near Pathikashram, Nadiad, at about 2:30 am on 26 May 1995 and prosecuted under the Bombay Prohibition Act and Bombay Police Act. The criminal court acquitted him on benefit of doubt, but departmental proceedings held the misconduct proved and he was dismissed, with…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Gujarat High Court records the following account. Unarmed Constable, in service since 1978, was acquitted (benefit of doubt) in a 1987 murder trial, then chargesheeted (16 May 1988) for absence from duty (proved) and extra-marital relations (partly proved). The DSP imposed stoppage of one increment…
Read the court recordThe Gujarat High Court held Hansot police grossly negligent in the lock-up death of Rameshbhai Parmar, arrested on 6 May 1995 in largely non-cognizable offences and kept overnight instead of being produced before the nearby magistrate. The Court found that after he complained of stomach pain around 1:30 a.m., he was…
Read the court recordThe Delhi High Court (Justices Badar Durrez Ahmed and Ajit Bharihoke) awarded Rs 2,70,000 from the State of Gujarat to Tasleema and her 13-year-old son, a 13-year-old boy. The Court found that on 25 May 2008 SI (SOG, Ahmedabad Crime Branch) with three constables took the boy from Seelampur, Delhi to an Ahmedabad…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Gujarat High Court records the following account. Armed Constable, married with five children, was charged in 1984 with marrying and cohabiting with two other women, one of village Rajpura, Taluka Padra, while his first marriage subsisted. The inquiry proved the charges on witness statements and he…
Read the court recordThe Gujarat High Court (M.D. Shah, J.) on 30 September 2008 partly allowed Criminal Appeal No. 775 of 1993, upholding the corruption conviction of two Naroda Police Station constables by the Special Judge, Ahmedabad (29 June 1993). The court held proved beyond doubt that they demanded and accepted Rs. 1,000 illegal…
Read the court recordThe Gujarat High Court (M.D. Shah, J.) on 23 July 2008 partly allowed Criminal Appeal No. 1055 of 1993, upholding the corruption conviction of traffic policeman by the Special Judge, Ahmedabad city (26 July 1993). The court held proved beyond doubt that, while attached to Traffic Court (Court No. 13) Gheekanta, he…
Read the court recordThe Supreme Court maintained the conviction of Police Sub-Inspector, who had stopped a marriage-party luxury bus at Aasarana Chokdi, retained its permit and papers, and demanded Rs.250 as entry fee from the travels mehtaji. The Court found sufficient evidence of demand and acceptance of the bribe. Given the prolonged…
Read the court recordThe Gujarat High Court (Anant S. Dave, J.) on 8 February 2008 rejected the Article 226 petition of Armed Police Constable (SRPF Cadre 10, Ukai) and upheld his dismissal dated 8 April 1993. A departmental enquiry with three witnesses had proved that on 14 September 1990, during communally surcharged conditions in…
Read the court recordThe Gujarat High Court held that theft suspect [name withheld], taken on seven days' police remand on 10 January 1989, died a homicidal custodial death with 34 ante-mortem lathi injuries while in the custody of PSI of the Naranpura Surveillance Squad. The Court rejected [name withheld]'s defence that the deceased fell…
Read the court recordRemove 'leaving arms and ammunition unguarded' — that sentence occurs only inside a quoted Supreme Court paragraph about a different appellant (Railway Protection Special Force constable posted at Tarantaran, Punjab), not in the findings about [name withheld]. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Gujarat High Court records the following account. PSI of Khuntvada Police Station stopped luxury bus GTS-9919 carrying a marriage party at Aasarana Chokadi on 12 December 1990, seized its permit papers and demanded Rs.250 (later Rs.225) as 'entry fee'. The bus owner refused to pay and approached…
Read the court recordThe Gujarat High Court confirmed the bribe-trap conviction of Police Head Constable, Jamadar (Investigation) of Kadi police station, who demanded Rs 500 from advocate Jashvantkumar Patel for a favourable report in a Section 202 CrPC court inquiry and was caught accepting the balance Rs 300 in an ACB trap on 13.10.1984…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Gujarat High Court records the following account. Constable and Head Constable of Naroda Police Station visited timber trader [name withheld]'s premises in December 1986 after a sales-tax complaint, a bailable matter, and agreed to accept Rs.3,000 for not seeking remand after arrest. The ACB trap…
Read the court recordThe Gujarat High Court held it established that a Vadodara man, 42, died following illegal detention and ill-treatment at Makarpura police station, Vadodara. The Court found he was picked up on 16 September 1994 without any complaint against him, detained under Section 151 CrPC in a small room with many others…
Read the court recordA Division Bench of the Gujarat High Court confirmed the conviction of Senior PSI of Petlad Rural police station for the custodial death of Bhupendrabhai Patel, arrested on 04.02.1988, handed to the PSI on 24-hour remand on 05.02.1988 and found dead with severe injuries at 2:30 a.m. on 06.02.1988. The Court held the…
Read the court recordThe Gujarat High Court (C.K. Buch, J.) on 29 March 2007 partly allowed Criminal Appeal No. 959 of 1992, confirming the corruption conviction of Police Constable by the Special Judge, Ahmedabad (Rural) (1 September 1992). The court found no perversity in the finding that, after a field-quarrel complaint on 1 December…
Read the court recordThe Gujarat High Court held there was no doubt about violation of the human rights of a woman and her 13-year-old daughter, a 13-year-old girl, by Savarkundla police on the night of 29/30 June 1997. The Court found officers came drunk to the widow house at about 1 a.m. looking for her absconding son, dragged the girl…
Read the court recordThe 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…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Gujarat High Court records the following account. Writer Constable of Bhadaran Police Station was deployed to keep a crowd away from a spilled inflammable naphtha tanker on 6-7-1993; the prosecution proved he threw a burning matchstick, igniting the spill and killing three bystanders while injuring…
Read the court recordThe Gujarat High Court (Anant S. Dave, J.) on 9 December 2004 rejected the Article 226 petition and confirmed the dismissal from service of subordinate police officer ordered on 31 May 1989 by the District Superintendent of Police. A departmental inquiry (conducted by the Deputy Superintendent of Police, Tharad…
Read the court recordThe Gujarat High Court upheld the removal from service of Police Constable, lock-up guard at Baroda City police station, who on 21.06.1988 single-handedly took detainee Nazirkhan Pathan to the toilet without informing the station officer, left the door unbolted and unguarded, and let the accused escape. The Court…
Read the court recordThe Gujarat High Court (R.M. Doshit, J.) on 5 August 2004 dismissed with costs the writ petition of retired Head Constable and upheld the State Government order deducting Rs. 589.50 per month from his pension for ten years. Disciplinary proceedings begun in 1993 over 1988 misconduct amounting to lack of integrity in…
Read the court recordThe Gujarat High Court (Sharad D. Dave, J.) on 15 January 2002 rejected the writ petition of CRPF Constable and confirmed his dismissal from service ordered on 20 April 1988. He had pleaded guilty before the Assistant Commandant-cum-Judicial Magistrate to absence without leave in April 1988 and refusal to accept a…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Gujarat High Court records the following account. On 24 July 1985 at about 6 p.m., PSI shot dead an Ahmedabad man, a 38-year-old tax practitioner, near Nava Darwaja, Ahmedabad. The family sued the State and the PSI for Rs.5 lakh, alleging unauthorised, negligent firing; the City Civil Court decreed…
Read the court recordThe Gujarat High Court dismissed former PSI H. N. Rao challenge to his dismissal from service following his 5 May 1998 conviction by the Additional Sessions Judge, Nadiad, in Special Case 7 of 1994 under Section 161 IPC (1 year RI plus Rs 1,000 fine) and the Prevention of Corruption Act 1988 (2 years RI plus Rs 2,000…
Read the court recordThe Gujarat High Court dismissed the State's appeal and upheld Rs 1,98,000 with 6% interest awarded to contractor [name withheld], whose right leg was amputated above the knee after on-duty Raigadh Outpost constable shot him in the thigh with his service rifle on 22 April 1976 for protesting the manhandling of his…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Gujarat High Court records the following account. Unarmed Police Constable of the Ahmedabad Traffic Branch was dismissed after a departmental inquiry proved the second charge of conduct unbecoming a government servant in keeping a mistress, following an earlier penalty of withheld increments for…
Read the court recordOn a PIL by Lok Adhikar Sangh, a Division Bench of the Gujarat High Court held the night arrest, handcuffing, parading and delayed production of Dadva Sarpanch the survivor, then pregnant, and her husband [name withheld] unjustified and violative of Article 21 and the Supreme Court arrest and handcuffing directives.…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Gujarat High Court records the following account. On 8-1-1992, Jamnagar police picked up petty trader [name withheld] with a Jamnagar resident and a Jamnagar resident for interrogation, and DSP called all three into his chamber at about 9 p.m. and beat them with a big stick, a Jamnagar man severely…
Read the court recordThe Gujarat High Court held it prima facie established that a Vadodara man, a Hubli businessman and known heart patient arrested in the Alembic Chemicals cheating case, was tortured in police custody at Gorva, Vadodara, and that his death on 5 December 1996 was traceable to police acts and omissions. The Court relied…
Read the court recordThe Single Judge held that a Lunavada man, a 29-year-old Assistant Intelligence Officer summoned around 1 am on 1-11-1995 by LCB Godhra staff, kept overnight at the Lunavada guest house and humiliated by senior officers before being found dead the next morning, was subjected to mental and psychological torture. Even…
Read the court recordThe Gujarat High Court partly allowed the State acquittal appeal against the 31 March 1984 judgment of the Additional Sessions Judge, Baroda, and convicted PSI for the custodial death of cycle repairer a Vadodara man The Court found a Vadodara man was handed by PSI to [name withheld], in charge of the Cycle Squad at…
Read the court recordThe petitioner, an Unarmed Head Constable, was convicted with three others in Sessions Case No. 187 of 1980 under Section 331 read with Section 34 IPC for custodial torture inflicted to extract a clue to stolen property, and sentenced to 3 years rigorous imprisonment and a fine. The court recorded that the conviction…
Read the court recordThe Supreme Court held five Gujarat police personnel guilty of criminal contempt for the night of 25/26 September 1989 attack on Nadiad Chief Judicial Magistrate a Nadiad man, who was lured to the police station, forced to consume liquor, beaten, handcuffed and tied with a thick rope, paraded to hospital and…
Read the court recordThe Supreme Court dismissed Head Constable's appeal, upholding his conviction by the Gujarat High Court under Section 161 IPC and Section 5(2) read with Section 5(1)(d) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1947, after the trial court had acquitted both accused. The Court accepted that a Zinzuwada man, produced at the…
Read the court recordPSI and his writer constable of Navrangpura Police Station were convicted by the Special Judge, Ahmedabad in a February 1963 anti-corruption trap case for demanding and accepting a bribe, and sentenced to 2.5 years rigorous imprisonment and Rs.1,000 fine each. The High Court rejected their pleas on sanction, Bombay…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Gujarat High Court records the following account. Police Constable, aggrieved over medical-leave and reimbursement claims after kidney operations in 1959, carried on propaganda in the force and squatted in a day-long hunger strike at the Sachivalaya entrance to pressure the authorities. A…
Read the court recordThe Bombay High Court on 10 September 1955 dismissed the appeal of [name withheld], Police Prosecutor at Anand, upholding his trial-court conviction and sentence under s.161 IPC for accepting a Rs. 250 bribe. The Supreme Court affirmed on 21 April 1959 (AIR 1960 SC 961), holding the courts below proceeded on no wrong…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Bombay High Court records the following account. Sub-Inspector of Karjan was found at a drinking party in Atali village on 31 January 1950, suspended, charge-sheeted for serious misconduct violating the prohibition-obedience circular, and removed from the force by Government resolution dated 5…
Read the court recordThe Supreme Court dismissed the special-leave appeal of Police [name withheld] of the Local Investigation Branch, Mandvi, upholding his conviction under Section 384 IPC. While checking passports at Rampur village on 16 April 1950, the Jamadar collected a Rampur man's passport and demanded Rs 800 for its return, which…
Read the court recordThe Bombay High Court confirmed the conviction of Sub-Inspector by the Sessions Judge, Surat, for framing an incorrect record (Section 218 IPC), fabricating false evidence (Section 193), using fabricated evidence (Section 196) and forgery (Section 465), dismissing his appeal on 7 April 1926. On a Government Pleader…
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