{ "record_id": "CW-2019-0026", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0904", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "D. vs State of Rajasthan", "display_title_redacted": "D. vs State of Rajasthan", "state": "Rajasthan", "district": "Pratapgarh", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Suhagpura", "police_station_or_unit": "Suhagpura Police Station", "court": "Rajasthan High Court", "court_as_verified": "Rajasthan High Court", "bench": "Jodhpur", "case_title": "D. vs State of Rajasthan", "case_number": "D.B. Criminal Appeal No. 27/2019", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Sandeep Mehta", "Vinit Kumar Mathur" ], "judgment_date": "2019-04-15", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2019, "incident_date": "2016-05-16", "incident_year": 2016, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "misconduct", "admin_subcategory": "illegal_detention_false_imprisonment", "subcategory": "illegal_detention_false_imprisonment", "subcategory_display": "illegal detention false imprisonment", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation", "sections": [ "IPC 302", "JJ Act 2015 s.10", "JJ Act 2015 s.15", "JJ Act 2015 s.19(3)", "JJ Act 2015 s.49", "JJ Act 2015 s.107(2)", "JJ Model Rules 2016 r.86(5)", "Constitution Art. 21" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "SHO", "role": "named_only", "unit": "Police Station Suhagpura, Pratapgarh", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "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": null, "name_public": null, "display": "SHO, Police Station Suhagpura, Pratapgarh" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "age": 17, "gender": "female", "descriptor": "Suhagpura girl, age 17", "name": null } ], "victims_redacted": [ { "age": 17, "gender": "female", "descriptor": "a 17-year-old girl" } ], "anonymised": true, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 200000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/52890859/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/5de53e9246571b2fd68a361e" ], "summary": "a 17-year-old girl, aged about 17, was arrested in FIR 51/2016 at Suhagpura (Pratapgarh) for killing her husband, transferred by the Juvenile for trial as an adult, convicted under Section 302 IPC by the Sessions Judge, and lodged in adult prison for nearly three years. The entire investigation was conducted by SHO with no Special Juvenile Police Unit officer and no woman police personnel associated, contrary to the JJ Act mandate. The Rajasthan High Court Division Bench held the Section 15 transfer, the investigation, and the incarceration in adult jail patently illegal and acquitted her. The court held the irregular investigation and unwarranted imprisonment grossly violated her fundamental rights and directed the State to pay Rs 2,00,000 compensation. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "Durga, aged about 17, was arrested in FIR 51/2016 at Suhagpura (Pratapgarh) for killing her husband, transferred by the Juvenile for trial as an adult, convicted under Section 302 IPC by the Sessions Judge, and lodged in adult prison for nearly three years. The entire investigation was conducted by SHO with no Special Juvenile Police Unit officer and no woman police personnel associated, contrary to the JJ Act mandate. The Rajasthan High Court Division Bench held the Section 15 transfer, the investigation, and the incarceration in adult jail patently illegal and acquitted her. The court held the irregular investigation and unwarranted imprisonment grossly violated her fundamental rights and directed the State to pay Rs 2,00,000 compensation.", "court_quote": "As per Rule 86(5) of the Model Rules, it is a mandate of law that for dealing with the girl child, woman police personnel shall be engaged. However, on a perusal of the entire record, it is clear that neither was the case handled by the Special Juvenile Police Units nor any woman police personnel was ever associated for dealing with the case of the child appellant.", "court_quote_para": "n/a", "confidence": "medium", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC judgment verified on Indian Kanoon; police investigation held patently irregular, acquittal plus compensation ordered.", "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": "Other", "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": "2019-04-15", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Rajasthan High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Rajasthan High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 200,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "D.B. Criminal Appeal No. 27/2019", "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/52890859/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/5de53e9246571b2fd68a361e", "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-76" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP2-56-002", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }