{ "record_id": "CW-2024-0045", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0940", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Lucknow Woman and Another v. State of U.P. and 4 Others", "display_title_redacted": "Lucknow Woman and Another v. State of U.P. and 4 Others", "state": "Uttar Pradesh", "district": "Lucknow", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Lucknow", "police_station_or_unit": "Police Station Chinhat, Lucknow", "court": "Allahabad High Court", "court_as_verified": "Allahabad High Court", "bench": "Lucknow", "case_title": "Lucknow Woman and Another v. State of U.P. and 4 Others", "case_number": "HABEAS CORPUS WRIT PETITION No. 365 of 2024", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Attau Rahman Masoodi", "Subhash Vidyarthi" ], "judgment_date": "2024-11-29", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2024, "incident_date": "2024-11-29", "incident_year": 2024, "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 363" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Sub-Inspector", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "Police Station Jagdishpura, Agra", "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 Jagdishpura, Agra" }, { "name": null, "rank": "SHO", "role": "named_only", "unit": "Police Station Chinhat, Lucknow", "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 Chinhat, Lucknow" } ], "officer_count": 2, "victims": [ { "age": null, "gender": "female", "descriptor": "Lucknow woman", "name": null }, { "age": 2, "gender": null, "descriptor": "Lucknow youngster, age 2", "name": null } ], "victims_redacted": [ { "age": null, "gender": "female", "descriptor": "a woman" }, { "age": 2, "gender": null, "descriptor": "a 2-year-old child" } ], "anonymised": true, "victim_count": 2, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 100000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://www.verdictum.in/pdf_upload/365-of-2024-1672184.pdf", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.verdictum.in/court-updates/high-courts/chandini-singh-v-state-of-up-allahabad-hc-slams-up-police-for-detaining-pregnant-woman-child-1560178", "https://www.barandbench.com/news/allahabad-high-court-slaps-1-lakh-fine-up-police-pregnant-woman-police-station" ], "summary": "The Allahabad High Court, Lucknow Bench (Division Bench, 29-11-2024), convened at 6:30 p.m. on a habeas mentioning, found that investigating officer Sub-Inspector of Police Station Jagdishpura, Agra, took an eight-months-pregnant woman and her two-year-old child from home to Police Station Chinhat, Lucknow, at about 12:15 p.m. merely to record a section 161 statement in a 2021 kidnapping FIR and kept them there until the court intervened. The court found the FIR disclosed no cognizable offence, the officer acted without case diary and without checking age or marital status, and called the detention torture and a clear abuse of authority. It awarded Rs.1,00,000 exemplary cost against the State as compensation payable within ten days, restored the victim to her residence, and directed the Director General of Police to draw proceedings against the investigating officer within three months and report back on 11-12-2024. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Allahabad High Court, Lucknow Bench (Division Bench, 29-11-2024), convened at 6:30 p.m. on a habeas mentioning, found that investigating officer Sub-Inspector of Police Station Jagdishpura, Agra, took an eight-months-pregnant woman and her two-year-old child from home to Police Station Chinhat, Lucknow, at about 12:15 p.m. merely to record a section 161 statement in a 2021 kidnapping FIR and kept them there until the court intervened. The court found the FIR disclosed no cognizable offence, the officer acted without case diary and without checking age or marital status, and called the detention torture and a clear abuse of authority. It awarded Rs.1,00,000 exemplary cost against the State as compensation payable within ten days, restored the victim to her residence, and directed the Director General of Police to draw proceedings against the investigating officer within three months and report back on 11-12-2024.", "court_quote": "The action on the part of the Investigating Officer is no less than torture of a victim whereas every officer is expected to act fairly in the discharge of his duties.", "court_quote_para": "para 8", "confidence": "medium", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC held 6-hour detention of pregnant woman and child torture; Rs.1 lakh compensation, DGP action 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": "2024-11-29", "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 100,000.", "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)", "source": "HABEAS CORPUS WRIT PETITION No. 365 of 2024", "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.verdictum.in/pdf_upload/365-of-2024-1672184.pdf", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.verdictum.in/court-updates/high-courts/chandini-singh-v-state-of-up-allahabad-hc-slams-up-police-for-detaining-pregnant-woman-child-1560178", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.barandbench.com/news/allahabad-high-court-slaps-1-lakh-fine-up-police-pregnant-woman-police-station", "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-55" ], "merged_case_id": "GAP2-4-002", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }