{ "record_id": "CW-2025-0017", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0044", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Jehanabad Woman vs The State of Bihar & Ors", "display_title_redacted": "Jehanabad Woman vs The State of Bihar & Ors", "state": "Bihar", "district": "Jehanabad", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Jehanabad", "police_station_or_unit": "Makhdumpur Police Station and Town Police Station, Jehanabad", "court": "Patna High Court", "court_as_verified": "Patna High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Jehanabad Woman vs The State of Bihar & Ors", "case_number": "Criminal Writ Jurisdiction Case No. 989 of 2025", "citation": "2025(4) PLJR 230; 2025 (6) BLJ 52", "judges": [ "Rajeev Ranjan Prasad", "Sourendra Pandey" ], "judgment_date": "2025-09-01", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2025, "incident_date": "2025-04-29", "incident_year": 2025, "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": [ "Constitution Art. 226", "BNSS s.35", "BNSS s.48", "BNSS s.187(1)" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Station House Officer", "unit": "Makhdumpur PS, Jehanabad", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:unclear", "key2_agy:no", "key2_gemapi:unclear", "key2_openrouter:unclear" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": "unclear", "key2_agy": "no", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": "unclear", "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": "Station House Officer, Makhdumpur PS, Jehanabad" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Station House Officer", "unit": "Town PS, Jehanabad", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:unclear", "key2_agy:no", "key2_gemapi:unclear", "key2_openrouter:unclear" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": "unclear", "key2_agy": "no", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": "unclear", "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": "Station House Officer, Town PS, Jehanabad" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Investigating Officer", "unit": "Jehanabad Town PS Case No. 337 of 2025", "role": "held_liable", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "key2_gemapi:unclear", "key2_openrouter:unclear" ], "ledger_role": "held_liable", "key2": "yes", "key2_agy": "yes", "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": "unclear", "key2_openrouter": "unclear", "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": 0.23, "jev_p_culpable": 0.73, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": "none_found", "name_public": null, "display": "Investigating Officer, Jehanabad Town PS Case No. 337 of 2025" } ], "officer_count": 3, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "female", "descriptor": "Jehanabad woman" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Jehanabad man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 2, "sentence_type": "compensation_only", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": 200000, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://patnahighcourt.gov.in/ILR/viewpdf.aspx?T=EN&ID=MzQ5MQ%3d%3d-5ya4Hpd9X8E%3d", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.samvidalaw.com/illegal-police-detention-and-compensation-ordered-patna-high-court-2025/" ], "summary": "The Patna High Court held that Jehanabad police illegally detained a Jehanabad woman, picked up from her home on 29 April 2025 and lodged in a shelter home for about five days, and a Jehanabad man, picked up as a suspect on 1 May 2025, without arrest memos, family intimation or production before a Magistrate. The Court found the detentions without any sanction of law and in violation of BNSS procedure and the D.K. Basu safeguards, with the State conceding it had no convincing defence. It awarded Rs 1,00,000 to each victim payable by the State within thirty days, recoverable from the salaries of the three erring officers, and directed the DGP to issue arrest and detention guidelines. A third detenue already in lawful judicial custody was excluded from relief. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Patna High Court held that Jehanabad police illegally detained a Jehanabad woman, picked up from her home on 29 April 2025 and lodged in a shelter home for about five days, and a Jehanabad man, picked up as a suspect on 1 May 2025, without arrest memos, family intimation or production before a Magistrate. The Court found the detentions without any sanction of law and in violation of BNSS procedure and the D.K. Basu safeguards, with the State conceding it had no convincing defence. It awarded Rs 1,00,000 to each victim payable by the State within thirty days, recoverable from the salaries of the three erring officers, and directed the DGP to issue arrest and detention guidelines. A third detenue already in lawful judicial custody was excluded from relief.", "court_quote": "Picking someone from his/her house in the name of interrogation without informing his/her family member/relatives/friend the reason and the place of detention and then keeping him/her in detention without obtaining an order from the Jurisdictional Magistrate is completely unlawful", "court_quote_para": "31", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Illegal detention of two; Rs 1L each verified via citations + secondary (PDF fetch failed).", "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": "2025-09-01", "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": "2025(4) PLJR 230; 2025 (6) BLJ 52", "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": [ "court_quote_para", "sections" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://patnahighcourt.gov.in/ILR/viewpdf.aspx?T=EN&ID=MzQ5MQ%3d%3d-5ya4Hpd9X8E%3d", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.samvidalaw.com/illegal-police-detention-and-compensation-ordered-patna-high-court-2025/", "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-27" ], "merged_case_id": "EAST---NORTHEAST-001", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }