{ "record_id": "CW-2022-0020", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0274", "alias_merged_ids": [ "CWC-0572" ], "display_title": "Agartala Woman vs The State of Tripura and Others", "display_title_redacted": "Agartala Woman vs The State of Tripura and Others", "state": "Tripura", "district": "West Tripura", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Agartala", "police_station_or_unit": "GB TOP, Agartala", "court": "Tripura High Court", "court_as_verified": "Tripura High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Agartala Woman vs The State of Tripura and Others", "case_number": "WP(C) (PIL) No. 25 of 2021", "citation": "2022 SCC OnLine Tri 635", "judges": [ "Indrajit Mahanty", "S.G. Chattopadhyay" ], "judgment_date": "2022-09-21", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2022, "incident_date": "2021-10-26", "incident_year": 2021, "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": [], "officer_count": 0, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": 28, "gender": "female", "descriptor": "Agartala woman, age 28" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 1, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 250000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/court-on-its-own-motion-v-the-state-of-tripura-and-others-wpc-pil-no25-of-2021-436532.pdf", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.livelaw.in/news-updates/tripura-high-court-grants-25lakh-compensation-28yrold-woman-tortured-maltreated-police-custody-210213", "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/32209059/" ], "summary": "The judgment of the Tripura High Court records the following account. A Division Bench took suo motu PIL on a newspaper report that a 28-year-old woman called for interrogation in an unverified theft complaint was beaten in the GB TOP lockup on 26 October 2021 without any arrest or case. Rejecting the State's denial, the court held on medical evidence of abrasions on both buttocks and hospital admission that she was detained for a considerable period for interrogation, deprived of D.K. Basu safeguards, and tortured and maltreated in police custody. It directed the State to pay Rs 2.5 lakh compensation through the Court Registry within one month and directed the DGP to ensure D.K. Basu compliance. The court clarified its observations would not affect any prosecution. No individual officer is named in the judgment. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "A Division Bench took suo motu PIL on a newspaper report that a 28-year-old woman called for interrogation in an unverified theft complaint was beaten in the GB TOP lockup on 26 October 2021 without any arrest or case. Rejecting the State's denial, the court held on medical evidence of abrasions on both buttocks and hospital admission that she was detained for a considerable period for interrogation, deprived of D.K. Basu safeguards, and tortured and maltreated in police custody. It directed the State to pay Rs 2.5 lakh compensation through the Court Registry within one month and directed the DGP to ensure D.K. Basu compliance. The court clarified its observations would not affect any prosecution. No individual officer is named in the judgment.", "court_quote": "But, apparently, she was deprived of those safeguards and she was tortured and maltreated in police custody.", "court_quote_para": "20", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Rs 2.5 lakh for custodial torture of woman; D.K. Basu compliance directed.", "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": "2022-09-21", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Tripura High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Tripura High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 250,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "2022 SCC OnLine Tri 635", "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://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/court-on-its-own-motion-v-the-state-of-tripura-and-others-wpc-pil-no25-of-2021-436532.pdf", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/news-updates/tripura-high-court-grants-25lakh-compensation-28yrold-woman-tortured-maltreated-police-custody-210213", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/32209059/", "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-29", "chunk-31" ], "merged_case_id": "SWILLEGA-063", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }