{ "record_id": "CW-2024-0031", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0884", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Bajitpur Man and Anr. vs The State of Bihar and Ors.", "display_title_redacted": "Bajitpur Man and Anr. vs The State of Bihar and Ors.", "state": "Bihar", "district": "Nalanda", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Bajitpur", "police_station_or_unit": "Chiksaura Police Station", "court": "Patna High Court", "court_as_verified": "Patna High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Bajitpur Man and Anr. vs The State of Bihar and Ors.", "case_number": "Criminal Writ Jurisdiction Case No. 455 of 2017", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Bibek Chaudhuri" ], "judgment_date": "2024-02-12", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2024, "incident_date": "2017-02-07", "incident_year": 2017, "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 s.41", "CrPC s.41A", "Constitution Art. 21" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Investigating Officer", "unit": "Chiksaura Police Station, Nalanda", "role": "held_liable", "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": "Investigating Officer, Chiksaura Police Station, Nalanda" } ], "officer_count": 1, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Bajitpur man" } ], "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/133235252/", "secondary_sources": [], "summary": "The Patna High Court held that the investigating officer of Chiksaura police station illegally rearrested a Bajitpur man after Section 41-A CrPC protection, without recalling the bail bond through a magisterial order and without filing the Section 41 checklist or recording arrest grounds. The court held this violated the petitioner's fundamental right under Article 21, while merely cautioning the magistrate who had passed the remand order in haste. It directed the State to pay Rs 2,00,000 compensation within 60 days, recoverable from the salary (or pension) of the erring officer. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Patna High Court held that the investigating officer of Chiksaura police station illegally rearrested a Bajitpur man after Section 41-A CrPC protection, without recalling the bail bond through a magisterial order and without filing the Section 41 checklist or recording arrest grounds. The court held this violated the petitioner's fundamental right under Article 21, while merely cautioning the magistrate who had passed the remand order in haste. It directed the State to pay Rs 2,00,000 compensation within 60 days, recoverable from the salary (or pension) of the erring officer.", "court_quote": "At the same time, this Court is of the view that the Investigating Officer committed a substantial error by arresting the petitioner no.1 after he was released on bail bond without recalling the bond through a Magestrial order. For such wrong, petitioner's valuable fundamental right was violated.", "court_quote_para": "24", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC held rearrest after s.41-A protection without checklist violated Art.21; Rs 2L compensation recoverable from IO's salary.", "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": "2024-02-12", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Patna High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Patna High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 200,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "Criminal Writ Jurisdiction Case No. 455 of 2017", "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/133235252/", "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-73" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP2-48-007", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }