{ "record_id": "CW-2015-0009", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0398", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Doharighat Man & Anr. vs State of U.P. & Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "Doharighat Man & Anr. vs State of U.P. & Ors.", "state": "Uttar Pradesh", "district": "Mau", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Doharighat", "police_station_or_unit": "Doharighat Police Station, Mau", "court": "Allahabad High Court", "court_as_verified": "Allahabad High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Doharighat Man & Anr. vs State of U.P. & Ors.", "case_number": "Criminal Misc. Writ Petition No. 11158 of 2015", "citation": null, "judges": [ "V.K. Shukla", "Arvind Kumar Mishra" ], "judgment_date": "2015-09-21", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2015, "incident_date": "2015-04-09", "incident_year": 2015, "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" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": null, "unit": "Police Station Doharighat, District Mau", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Police personnel, Police Station Doharighat, District Mau" } ], "officer_count": 7, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Doharighat man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 500000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/102741423/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.livelaw.in/allahabad-hc-awards-5-lakh-compensation-to-a-youth-who-complained-of-brutal-police-torture", "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/5811a4ade691cb26fc4d96fe" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Allahabad High Court records the following account. A Doharighat man, a young ITBP constable aspirant who had cleared his physical test, was taken to Doharighat police station on 9 April 2015 for interrogation and detained there until 16 April 2015, during which he was subjected to brutal third-degree torture including electric shocks, severe beatings and insertion of aluminium wire through his mouth. The Court accepted medical evidence including an X-ray showing the wire and photographs of his injuries, rejecting the State's denial. It held the petitioner had suffered custodial violence at the hands of the police, awarded Rs 5 lakh compensation payable by the State within two months for his ruined career and immense suffering, and directed the SP, Mau to register an FIR against the erring incumbents with investigation by an officer not below Circle Officer rank under his supervision. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "A Doharighat man, a young ITBP constable aspirant who had cleared his physical test, was taken to Doharighat police station on 9 April 2015 for interrogation and detained there until 16 April 2015, during which he was subjected to brutal third-degree torture including electric shocks, severe beatings and insertion of aluminium wire through his mouth. The Court accepted medical evidence including an X-ray showing the wire and photographs of his injuries, rejecting the State's denial. It held the petitioner had suffered custodial violence at the hands of the police, awarded Rs 5 lakh compensation payable by the State within two months for his ruined career and immense suffering, and directed the SP, Mau to register an FIR against the erring incumbents with investigation by an officer not below Circle Officer rank under his supervision.", "court_quote": "Awarding of compensation is demand of the situation, looking to the agony that a young man has to undergo, and the fact that his career to join I.T.B.P. has been withered away. Treatment meted to petitioner is purely inhuman, that has inflicted immense mental pain leading to sense of insecurity and helplessness in him. In this background, we proceed to award compensation of Rs.5 lacs to petitioner no.1 to be paid by the State Government within two months from the date of receipt of certified copy of this order.", "court_quote_para": "n/a", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Allahabad HC awarded Rs 5 lakh compensation for 7-day illegal detention and brutal custodial torture, directing FIR against erring personnel.", "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": "2015-09-21", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Allahabad High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Allahabad High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 500,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "Criminal Misc. Writ Petition No. 11158 of 2015", "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/102741423/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/allahabad-hc-awards-5-lakh-compensation-to-a-youth-who-complained-of-brutal-police-torture", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/5811a4ade691cb26fc4d96fe", "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-13", "chunk-r08" ], "merged_case_id": "UTTARP-001", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }