State vs J&K Police Special Police Officer (SPO) and others
Judicial Magistrate 1st Class, Gool convicted SPO [name withheld] of District Ramban (with co-accused) in FIR No.58/2013 under RPC ss.336, 147 and 427 vide judgment dated 06.06.2018, extending the benefit of probation to all convicts. Following the conviction he was disengaged from the SPO rolls; the High Court of J&K and Ladakh (Justice Sanjay Dhar, 2022) upheld the disengagement, holding a person convicted of a criminal charge is not fit to serve in police even as an SPO. No criminal appeal against the conviction is stated.
This page documents a trial-court conviction from the cited sources below. It is not a High Court or Supreme Court finding; the conviction may have been appealed. Findings are attributed to the convicting court; this record does not add findings of its own.
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By judgment dated 6 June 2018, the Judicial Magistrate 1st Class, Gool convicted the Special Police Officer (SPO), J&K Police, District Ramban.
- Register number
- JK 19 CW 0001
- Case reference
- FIR No. 58/2013; reported in the judgment of the Judicial Magistrate First Class, Gool
- Court and date
- The Judicial Magistrate 1st Class, Gool, 6 June 2018
- Officer(s) at the material time
- Special Police Officer (SPO), J&K Police, District Ramban
- Present service status
- Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked
- Section 336 of the Ranbir Penal Code; Section 147 of the Ranbir Penal Code; Section 427 of the Ranbir Penal Code
- Finding of the Court (extract)
- “A person, who has been convicted of a criminal charge is definitely not fit to serve as police official/officer not even as an SPO.”
- Verdict, sentence and quantum
- Conviction recorded by the trial court. Sentence: Convicted; released on probation (benefit of probation extended by the Magistrate; no custodial term)
- Present status of the proceedings
- No appeal is known from the cited sources.
Compiled from the judgment and the cited sources. Findings are those of the court; this card adds none of its own.
Judicial Magistrate 1st Class, Gool convicted the accused police personnel on 6 June 2018. No appeal is known from the cited sources.
Sentence & charges
Sentence: Convicted; released on probation (benefit of probation extended by the Magistrate; no custodial term)
Sections: RPC 336; RPC 147; RPC 427
Appeal status
No appeal known.