{ "record_id": "CW-2022-0009", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0192", "alias_merged_ids": [ "CWC-1466" ], "display_title": "Chikodi Man vs The State of Karnataka & Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "Chikodi Man vs The State of Karnataka & Ors.", "state": "Karnataka", "district": "Belagavi", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Chikodi", "police_station_or_unit": "Ankali Police Station", "court": "Karnataka High Court", "court_as_verified": "Karnataka High Court", "bench": "Dharwad", "case_title": "Chikodi Man vs The State of Karnataka & Ors.", "case_number": "Writ Petition No. 115362 of 2019 (GM-Police)", "citation": "2022 SCC OnLine Kar 1121", "judges": [ "Suraj Govindaraj" ], "judgment_date": "2022-06-10", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2022, "incident_date": "2019-04-10", "incident_year": 2019, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "brutality", "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": [ "Constitution Art. 21", "Constitution Art. 226", "CrPC s.46", "CrPC s.49" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Police Sub-Inspector", "unit": "Ankali Police Station", "role": "named_only", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no", "key2_openrouter:unclear" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": "no", "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "unclear", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Police Sub-Inspector, Ankali Police Station" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Police Sub-Inspector", "unit": "Chikodi Police Station", "role": "named_only", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no", "key2_openrouter:unclear" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": "no", "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": "unclear", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "Police Sub-Inspector, Chikodi Police Station" } ], "officer_count": 2, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": 30, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Chikodi man, age 30" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 200000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/144592799/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.livelaw.in/news-updates/karnataka-high-court-body-cameras-handcuffing-guidelines-accused-201502", "https://www.scconline.com/blog/post/2022/07/06/karnataka-high-court-grants-compensation-to-a-law-student-who-was-arrested-and-handcuffed/", "https://www.barandbench.com/news/litigation/arrested-accused-undertrial-prisoner-can-be-handcuffed-only-in-extreme-circumstances-after-recording-reasons-karnataka-high-court", "https://www.livelaw.in/amp/news-updates/karnataka-high-court-handcuffing-accused-extreme-circumstance-guidelines-compensation-202583" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Karnataka High Court records the following account. The petitioner, a 30-year-old law student, was arrested pursuant to a non-bailable warrant in a cheque bounce case, handcuffed without justification, paraded in Ankali market place, and transported in a public KSRTC bus in handcuffs. The Dharwad Bench of the Karnataka High Court held that routine handcuffing without recorded reasons violates Article 21 and Supreme Court precedents in Prem Shankar Shukla and Sunil Batra. The High Court awarded Rs 2,00,000 compensation to the petitioner with liberty to the State to recover it from the delinquent officers, and issued statewide mandatory directions on handcuffing, video conferencing, and body-worn cameras for arresting officers. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The petitioner, a 30-year-old law student, was arrested pursuant to a non-bailable warrant in a cheque bounce case, handcuffed without justification, paraded in Ankali market place, and transported in a public KSRTC bus in handcuffs. The Dharwad Bench of the Karnataka High Court held that routine handcuffing without recorded reasons violates Article 21 and Supreme Court precedents in Prem Shankar Shukla and Sunil Batra. The High Court awarded Rs 2,00,000 compensation to the petitioner with liberty to the State to recover it from the delinquent officers, and issued statewide mandatory directions on handcuffing, video conferencing, and body-worn cameras for arresting officers.", "court_quote": "In the present case, there being no justification which has been provided by the respondents for handcuffing the petitioner since neither any objections are filed nor is any affidavit filed by the Arresting Officer.", "court_quote_para": "13.5", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Karnataka HC held illegal handcuffing and public parading of accused violated Art 21, awarded Rs 2 lakh compensation, and directed recovery from delinquent officers.", "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": "2022-06-10", "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 200,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "2022 SCC OnLine Kar 1121", "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/144592799/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/news-updates/karnataka-high-court-body-cameras-handcuffing-guidelines-accused-201502", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.scconline.com/blog/post/2022/07/06/karnataka-high-court-grants-compensation-to-a-law-student-who-was-arrested-and-handcuffed/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.barandbench.com/news/litigation/arrested-accused-undertrial-prisoner-can-be-handcuffed-only-in-extreme-circumstances-after-recording-reasons-karnataka-high-court", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/amp/news-updates/karnataka-high-court-handcuffing-accused-extreme-circumstance-guidelines-compensation-202583", "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-32", "chunk-40" ], "merged_case_id": "SWDISPRO-008", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }