{ "record_id": "CW-2021-0010", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0744", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Rohania Man and Another vs State of U.P. and 3 Others", "display_title_redacted": "Rohania Man and Another vs State of U.P. and 3 Others", "state": "Uttar Pradesh", "district": "Varanasi", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Rohania", "police_station_or_unit": "Police Station Rohania, Varanasi", "court": "Allahabad High Court", "court_as_verified": "Allahabad High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Rohania Man and Another vs State of U.P. and 3 Others", "case_number": "Criminal Misc. Writ Petition No. 16386 of 2020", "citation": "AIRONLINE 2021 ALL 1297", "judges": [ "Surya Prakash Kesarwani", "Shamim Ahmed" ], "judgment_date": "2021-06-11", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2021, "incident_date": "2020-10-08", "incident_year": 2020, "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": [ "CrPC 151", "CrPC 107", "CrPC 116" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Sub-Inspector", "unit": "Police Station Rohania, Varanasi", "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": "Sub-Inspector, Police Station Rohania, Varanasi" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "age": null, "gender": "male", "name": null, "descriptor": "Rohania man" }, { "age": null, "gender": "male", "name": null, "descriptor": "Rohania man" } ], "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/174699131/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.livelaw.in/news-updates/allahabad-high-courtup-govt-arbitrary-illegal-submission-of-challan-reports-under-sections-107116-crpc-169680" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Allahabad High Court records the following account. Police arrested the two petitioners under Section 151 Cr.P.C. on 8 October 2020 over an ancestral land dispute, and a Sub-Inspector of Rohania police station sent a printed-form challani report under Sections 151/107/116 Cr.P.C. with only names and the words 'land dispute' filled in. The SDM registered the case without recording satisfaction or issuing a show-cause order and kept the petitioners detained from 12 to 21 October 2020 even after they submitted personal bonds. The Division Bench held the police authorities were arbitrarily and illegally submitting such challani reports and that the SDM acted in clear breach of Sections 107, 111 and 116 Cr.P.C. and Article 21. It recorded payment of Rs. 25,000 compensation to each petitioner under the State policy of 23 March 2021 and issued statewide compliance directions. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "Police arrested the two petitioners under Section 151 Cr.P.C. on 8 October 2020 over an ancestral land dispute, and a Sub-Inspector of Rohania police station sent a printed-form challani report under Sections 151/107/116 Cr.P.C. with only names and the words 'land dispute' filled in. The SDM registered the case without recording satisfaction or issuing a show-cause order and kept the petitioners detained from 12 to 21 October 2020 even after they submitted personal bonds. The Division Bench held the police authorities were arbitrarily and illegally submitting such challani reports and that the SDM acted in clear breach of Sections 107, 111 and 116 Cr.P.C. and Article 21. It recorded payment of Rs. 25,000 compensation to each petitioner under the State policy of 23 March 2021 and issued statewide compliance directions.", "court_quote": "Non release of the petitioners by the respondent no.3 even after submission of personal bond/bail bond and other papers, is a clear breach of Article 21 of the Constitution of India.", "court_quote_para": "14", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC judgment verified; police challan practice held arbitrary and illegal, Rs. 25,000 paid to each of 2 detenus.", "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": "2021-06-11", "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 50,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "AIRONLINE 2021 ALL 1297", "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": "wrong_facts", "corrections_applied": [ "court_quote_para" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/174699131/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/news-updates/allahabad-high-courtup-govt-arbitrary-illegal-submission-of-challan-reports-under-sections-107116-crpc-169680", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": false, "verified_by": [ "chunk-49" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP3-002", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }