Gauhati High Court Awards ₹5 Lakh Compensation For Death During Illegal Police Custody, holding that a 2012 arrest in Assam did not comply with the statutory safeguards under the Code of Criminal Procedure. Guwahati: The Gauhati High Court has directed the State of Assam to pay ₹5 lakh as compensation to the family of a […]
A Division Bench of the Allahabad High Court has set aside the arrest of Raghvendra Dubey in a sand-mining dispute, holding that Chitrakoot police manipulated the time of his arrest and deliberately shut off or deleted three station CCTV feeds, that the grounds of arrest were inadequate, and that police prima facie acted as recovery agents for the complainant, awarding Rs 10,000 compensation and issuing CCTV directions.
The Allahabad High Court has held that police cannot detain an innocent family member to pressure an accused into surrendering, awarding Rs 40,000 compensation to Arvind Kumar Yadav for four days of unlawful custody at Police Station George Town, Prayagraj, to be recovered from the salaries of the personnel responsible.
A Division Bench of the Allahabad High Court has awarded Rs 20,000 each to three petitioners held for ten days, and Rs 5,000 to a fourth held for two days, at Gauri Bazar police station in Deoria, holding SHO Dr. Mahendra Kumar responsible, drawing an adverse inference from missing CCTV footage, and directing recovery from the salary of those responsible and a note in his service book.
The Supreme Court has termed the Uttar Pradesh police affidavit “utterly uninspiring” and directed Khurja Circle Officer Shobhit Kumar to appear in person, to explain why FIR No. 195/2026 was registered against an unknown motorcycle rider when he was apprehended on the spot and why his name was left blank and added later.
The Kerala High Court has granted the State four weeks to fill the post of Chief Investigating Officer in the State Police Complaints Authority, an independent body constituted under the Kerala Police Act to examine complaints against police officers. The direction came in a PIL over the Authority’s effective functioning and the long-pending non-appointment of an independent investigator, despite earlier directions to do so within 60 days back in 2022.
The Bombay High Court held that an ongoing police investigation cannot justify violating a citizen’s constitutional rights, reaffirming the protection of privacy under Article 21. The Court directed the Maharashtra Government to pay Rs.10,000 compensation to the woman, permitting recovery of the amount from the erring police officers.
