{ "record_id": "CW-2025-0067", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-1355", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Gaya Man @ [name withheld] vs State of Bihar through Principal Secretary (Home)", "display_title_redacted": "Gaya Man @ [name withheld] vs State of Bihar through Principal Secretary (Home)", "state": "Bihar", "district": "Gaya", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": null, "police_station_or_unit": "Central Jail, Gaya; Sarbahda Police Station", "court": "Patna High Court", "court_as_verified": "Patna High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Gaya Man @ [name withheld] vs State of Bihar through Principal Secretary (Home)", "case_number": "CR. WJC No. 2761 of 2025", "citation": null, "judges": [ "Rajeev Ranjan Prasad", "Sourendra Pandey" ], "judgment_date": "2025-11-13", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2025, "incident_date": "2025-09-29", "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": [ "Article 21 Constitution of India" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "Jail Superintendent", "role": "held_liable", "unit": "Central Jail, Gaya", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "name_public": null, "display": "Jail Superintendent, Central Jail, Gaya" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Deputy Jailor", "role": "named_in_finding", "unit": "Central Jail, Gaya", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "name_public": null, "display": "Deputy Jailor, Central Jail, Gaya" }, { "name": null, "rank": "Senior Superintendent of Police", "role": "named_in_finding", "unit": "Gaya", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "name_public": null, "display": "Senior Superintendent of Police, Gaya" } ], "officer_count": 3, "victims": [ { "name": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Gaya 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/189081861/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.sabrangindia.in/six-days-behind-bars-after-bail-patna-high-court-orders-%E2%82%B92-lakh-relief-flags-state-wide-pattern-of-illegal-detention" ], "summary": "The Patna High Court awarded Rs 2 lakh compensation to [name withheld] for illegal detention of 5-18 days after his bail release on 29 September 2025. The Jail Superintendent kept him confined without any authorized detention order after a production warrant had expired. The IG Prisons admitted 'illegal detention for at least five days'. The Court held the detention violated Article 21, directed recovery of compensation from the erring official, and ordered the IG Prisons to issue state-wide guidelines to all Jail Superintendents within two weeks.", "summary_verified": "The Patna High Court awarded Rs 2 lakh compensation to [name withheld] for illegal detention of 5-18 days after his bail release on 29 September 2025. The Jail Superintendent kept him confined without any authorized detention order after a production warrant had expired. The IG Prisons admitted 'illegal detention for at least five days'. The Court held the detention violated Article 21, directed recovery of compensation from the erring official, and ordered the IG Prisons to issue state-wide guidelines to all Jail Superintendents within two weeks.", "court_quote": "This Court has no iota of doubt that in this case, the life and liberty of the petitioner has been curtailed to a great extent by keeping him in confinement for 18 days without any authorized detention order from a competent court of law. This Court is further disturbed from the fact that perhaps the same thing is happening as a matter of practice in the State of Bihar.", "court_quote_para": "Paragraph 5", "confidence": "medium", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "Verified against the cited judgment.", "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": "2025-11-13", "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.", "disposition": "adverse finding compensation", "source": "CR. WJC No. 2761 of 2025", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." } ], "later_proceedings": [], "final_outcome_url": null, "followup_history": [ { "date": "2026-09-24", "scope": "Swarm scout and independent verification pass (Muse Spark)." } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-24", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/189081861/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.sabrangindia.in/six-days-behind-bars-after-bail-patna-high-court-orders-%E2%82%B92-lakh-relief-flags-state-wide-pattern-of-illegal-detention", "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": [ "swarm-verify-cop-br-hc" ], "merged_case_id": "cop-br-hc-3", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }