# Delhi Man and Others vs Commissioner of Police and Others

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## Report card

By judgment dated 22 April 1992, the Delhi High Court (Coram: Anil Dev Singh, J.) returned findings adverse to 2 police personnel, namely: Constable, Police Station Lahori Gate, Delhi Police; Police personnel, Police Station Lahori Gate, Delhi Police, and directed payment of compensation of Rs 1 lakh (Rs 1,00,000).

- Register number: DL 06 CW 0005
- Case reference: 1993 ACJ 393; 48 (1992) DLT 714
- Court and date: Delhi High Court (Coram: Anil Dev Singh, J.), 22 April 1992
- Officer(s) at the material time: Constable, Police Station Lahori Gate, Delhi Police; Police personnel, Police Station Lahori Gate, Delhi Police
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Section 304 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 330 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 348 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 34 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860
- Finding of the Court (extract): “According to the inquest report the deceased before his death was given severe beating in the police station.” (at para 3)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum: Adverse finding + compensation. Sentence: compensation only. Compensation: Rs 1 lakh (Rs 1,00,000).
- Present status of the proceedings: No further proceedings are recorded in the cited sources; the judgment is the concluded position shown.
- Source orders: [Judgment / order (primary source)](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/579717/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-1992-0005)

**Record:** CW-1992-0005 (compiler id CWC-0122); case DELHI-031
**Title:** Delhi Man and Others vs Commissioner of Police and Others
**Court:** Delhi High Court; judges: Anil Dev Singh
**Case number / citation:** 1993 ACJ 393; 48 (1992) DLT 714
**Judgment:** 1992-04-22 (1992, day precision)
**Incident date:** 1991-05-02 (1991)
**Place:** Central Delhi, Delhi; city town: Delhi; police station or unit: Police Station Lahori Gate, Delhi Police; force: state_police
**Category:** Violence & unlawful detention
**Sub-category:** custodial death
**Outcome:** Adverse finding + compensation (adverse_finding_compensation)
**Sections:** IPC 304; IPC 330; IPC 348; IPC 34
**Officers (gated display forms):** Constable, Police Station Lahori Gate, Delhi Police; Police personnel, Police Station Lahori Gate, Delhi Police (2 in record)
**Victims:** Delhi man (1 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** compensation only; Rs 1 lakh (Rs 1,00,000)
**Sentence type:** compensation only (compensation_only)

The Delhi High Court awarded Rs 1 lakh plus a job to the family of a Delhi man, beaten to death at PS Lahori Gate. Picked up hale and hearty by Constable on mere suspicion in the wee hours of 2 May 1991, he reached St. Stephen Hospital unconscious the same day with 16 ante-mortem injuries and died of cerebral damage on 10 May; the SDM inquest found severe beating in the police station and FIR 430/1991 was lodged against the constable. The Court held the family must be given adequate compensation for the custodial killing, recoverable from the erring officers after trial, while clarifying its observations would not prejudice the criminal proceedings. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> According to the inquest report the deceased before his death was given severe beating in the police station.

**Sources (2):** [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/579717/); [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/43971311/)
**Verification:** V2 · Externally reported
**Review:** Solo Staff combined review (one combined attestation) — not yet recorded
**admin category:** brutality
**admin subcategory:** custodial_death
**allegations:** {'category': 'Custodial death', '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'}
**anonymised:** False
**court quote para:** 3
**display title redacted:** Delhi Man and Others vs Commissioner of Police and Others
**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': \['court_quote_para'\]}
**followup status:** checked
**institutional response:** {'date': '1992-04-22', 'action_type': 'Order issued', 'status': 'Concluded', 'authority': 'Delhi High Court', 'independence': 'External', 'legal_effect': 'Binding', 'description': 'The Delhi High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 100,000.', 'disposition': 'Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)', 'source': '1993 ACJ 393; 48 (1992) DLT 714', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/579717/', 'link_checked': None}; {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/43971311/', 'link_checked': None}
**retracted:** {"is_retracted": false}
**service:** police
**source assessment:** {"established": null, "basis": null}
**status:** current
**subcategory display:** custodial death
**tier:** Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded
**tier badge:** Externally reported
**tier history:** Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded
**verdict:** accept
**verdict note:** Suspicion-pickup beaten to death; Rs 1L plus widow's job, recoverable from erring officers.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Adverse finding + compensation.

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