The Gauhati High Court allowed the first appeal of Ranubala Sutradhar and set aside the trial court's dismissal of her damages suit. The court recorded that her 18-year-old son [name withheld], arrested for theft on the night of 25.04.1976, was found dead in the Kotwali (Agartala) lock-up on the morning of 26.04.1976. It held the death in custody was attributable to the gross negligence of the Kotwali police officials and that Kasturilal's sovereign-immunity defence could not defeat a damages claim for an Article 21 violation. The suit was decreed for Rs 1 lakh with costs throughout, payable within two months, with 15% p.a. interest on default. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.
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How verification works →By judgment dated 10 January 1992 in F.A. No. 5 of 1983 (from Money Suit No. 6 of 1978), the Gauhati High Court (Coram: S.K. Homchaudhuri, N.G. Das, JJ.) returned findings adverse to the Police personnel, Kotwali Police Station, Agartala, and directed payment of compensation of Rs 1 lakh (Rs 1,00,000).
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“In the instant case the claim for damages has arisen due to deprivation of life of the son of the plaintiff in the police custody due to gross negligence of the State machinery and the deceased has been deprived of …” (para 8)
The Gauhati High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 100,000.
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