{ "record_id": "CW-2007-0006", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0199", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Bengaluru Man vs State by K. G. Nagar Police Station & Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "Bengaluru Man vs State by K. G. Nagar Police Station & Ors.", "state": "Karnataka", "district": "Bengaluru Urban", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Bengaluru", "police_station_or_unit": "K. G. Nagar Police Station", "court": "Karnataka High Court", "court_as_verified": "Karnataka High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Bengaluru Man vs State by K. G. Nagar Police Station & Ors.", "case_number": null, "citation": "2007 (4) Kar LJ 627; AIR 2007 (NOC) 1641 (Kar); 2007 Cri LJ (NOC) 751", "judges": [ "R. Gururajan", "Anand Byrareddy" ], "judgment_date": "2007-04-19", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2007, "incident_date": "2007-01-07", "incident_year": 2007, "category": "Custodial torture", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "custodial_torture", "subcategory": "custodial_torture", "subcategory_display": "custodial torture", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation", "sections": [ "Constitution Art 21", "Constitution Art 226" ], "officers": [], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Bengaluru man" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "female", "descriptor": "Bengaluru woman" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 2, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 50000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/714229/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The judgment of the Karnataka High Court records the following account. A Bengaluru man and his sister [name withheld], who had filed a private complaint against a religious seer, were assaulted by K. G. Nagar police on the night of 7 January 2007, illegally detained at the station till the evening of 8 January 2007 and treated inhumanly. On a habeas corpus petition the High Court first secured their release and then ordered a Registrar (Vigilance) enquiry, which proved the assault, illegal detention and inhuman treatment on 7-8 January 2007 while rejecting claims for the earlier dates. A Division Bench accepted the report, awarded Rs 50,000 compensation plus Rs 5,000 litigation costs payable by the State, and directed the Director General of Police to conduct an independent enquiry and proceed against the erring officials. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "A Bengaluru man and his sister [name withheld], who had filed a private complaint against a religious seer, were assaulted by K. G. Nagar police on the night of 7 January 2007, illegally detained at the station till the evening of 8 January 2007 and treated inhumanly. On a habeas corpus petition the High Court first secured their release and then ordered a Registrar (Vigilance) enquiry, which proved the assault, illegal detention and inhuman treatment on 7-8 January 2007 while rejecting claims for the earlier dates. A Division Bench accepted the report, awarded Rs 50,000 compensation plus Rs 5,000 litigation costs payable by the State, and directed the Director General of Police to conduct an independent enquiry and proceed against the erring officials.", "court_quote": "The only other finding against the police is that the police ill-treated a Bengaluru man and Smt. A Bengaluru woman on 7-1-2007. The said report is accepted by us in the light of the detailed findings given by the Registrar.", "court_quote_para": "6", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Karnataka HC Division Bench accepted Registrar (Vigilance) finding of assault, illegal detention and inhuman treatment by K.G. Nagar police, awarded Rs 50,000 compensation plus costs, and ordered DGP enquiry.", "verification_status": "V2", "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported", "tier_badge": "Externally reported", "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded", "tier_history": [ "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded" ], "allegations": [ { "category": "Custodial torture", "primary": true, "position": "Material fact supported", "position_explainer": "Reliable material supports a specifically documented fact relevant to that allegation, not necessarily the full allegation, causation, intent, unlawfulness, or responsibility.", "official_finding_relation": "supports allegation" } ], "institutional_response": [ { "date": "2007-04-19", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Karnataka High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Karnataka High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 50,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "2007 (4) Kar LJ 627; AIR 2007 (NOC) 1641 (Kar); 2007 Cri LJ (NOC) 751", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." } ], "later_proceedings": [], "final_outcome_url": null, "followup_history": [ { "date": "2026-09-19", "scope": "Round-8 full re-verification: published record re-checked against the judgment text (outcome, officers, quote, key facts) plus methodology-compliance pass", "method": "skills-guided adversarial re-verification of the published record against the judgment text (reverify/t1-*/adversarial-8.jsonl)", "result": "holds", "corrections_applied": [] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/714229/", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": true, "verified_by": [ "chunk-06", "chunk-r04" ], "merged_case_id": "KARNAT-014", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }