# Bareilly Woman v. State of U.P.

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## Report card

By judgment dated 6 October 1994, the Supreme Court of India (Coram: S. Mohan, S.B. Majmudar, JJ.) returned findings adverse to 4 police personnel, namely: J.C. Upadhyay (Station House Officer); Sukhpal Singh (Senior Sub-Inspector); Narendrapal Singh (Sub-Inspector); K.C. Tyagi (Investigating Officer), and directed payment of compensation of Rs 25,000.

- Register number: UP 25 CW 0001
- Case reference: (1994) 6 SCC 565; AIR 1995 SC 117
- Court and date: Supreme Court of India (Coram: S. Mohan, S.B. Majmudar, JJ.), 6 October 1994
- Officer(s) at the material time: J.C. Upadhyay (Station House Officer); Sukhpal Singh (Senior Sub-Inspector); Narendrapal Singh (Sub-Inspector); K.C. Tyagi (Investigating Officer)
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Article 32 of the Constitution of India
- Finding of the Court (extract): “This clearly brings out not only high-handedness of the police but also uncivilised behaviour on their part. It is difficult to understand why Sukhpal Singh SSI assaulted a Bareilly woman on her leg with danda and poked it in her …” (at para 4)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum: Adverse finding + compensation. Sentence: compensation only. Compensation: Rs 25,000.
- 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/1506852/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-1994-0003)

**Record:** CW-1994-0003 (compiler id CWC-0334); case NORTH-002
**Title:** Bareilly Woman v. State of U.P.
**Court:** Supreme Court of India; judges: S. Mohan; S.B. Majmudar
**Case number / citation:** (1994) 6 SCC 565; AIR 1995 SC 117
**Judgment:** 1994-10-06 (1994, day precision)
**Incident date:** 1993-07-23 (1993)
**Place:** Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh; city town: Bareilly; police station or unit: Chauki Chauraha outpost, Bareilly; force: state_police
**Category:** Violence & unlawful detention
**Sub-category:** custodial torture
**Outcome:** Adverse finding + compensation (adverse_finding_compensation)
**Sections:** Constitution of India Art. 32
**Officers (gated display forms):** J.C. Upadhyay (Station House Officer); Sukhpal Singh (Senior Sub-Inspector); Narendrapal Singh (Sub-Inspector); K.C. Tyagi (Investigating Officer) (4 in record)
**Victims:** Bareilly woman; Bareilly man; Bareilly man (3 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** compensation only; Rs 25,000
**Sentence type:** compensation only (compensation_only)

The judgment of the Supreme Court of India records the following account. Following an inter-religious or inter-caste marriage between a Bareilly woman and a Bareilly man, Bareilly police unlawfully detained the couple and relatives in July 1993 under the pretext that a Bareilly woman had been abducted and raped. Police officers physically assaulted a Bareilly man and his brother with dandas and subjected a Bareilly woman to severe physical and psychological torture, poking a danda into her stomach and keeping her awake to compel her to falsely implicate her husband. The Supreme Court accepted the inquiry report of the District Judge, Bareilly, which thoroughly indicted the police for illegal arrest, physical torture, and fabrication of Section 161 CrPC statements. Condemning the uncivilized conduct of the police, the Supreme Court ordered criminal prosecution of all involved officers and directed the State of Uttar Pradesh to pay compensation of Rs 10,000 each to a Bareilly woman and a Bareilly man and Rs 5,000 to each other illegally detained relative, recoverable personally from the officers. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> This clearly brings out not only high-handedness of the police but also uncivilised behaviour on their part. It is difficult to understand why Sukhpal Singh SSI assaulted a Bareilly woman on her leg with danda and poked it in her stomach.

**Sources (1):** [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1506852/)
**Verification:** V2 · Externally reported
**Review:** Solo Staff combined review (one combined attestation) — not yet recorded
**admin category:** brutality
**admin subcategory:** custodial_torture
**allegations:** {'category': 'Custodial torture', '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:** 4
**display title redacted:** Bareilly Woman v. State of U.P.
**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': 'wrong_facts', 'corrections_applied': \['court_quote_para'\]}
**followup status:** checked
**institutional response:** {'date': '1994-10-06', 'action_type': 'Order issued', 'status': 'Concluded', 'authority': 'Supreme Court of India', 'independence': 'External', 'legal_effect': 'Binding', 'description': 'The Supreme Court of India recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 25,000.', 'disposition': 'Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)', 'source': '(1994) 6 SCC 565; AIR 1995 SC 117', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1506852/', 'link_checked': None}
**retracted:** {"is_retracted": false}
**service:** police
**source assessment:** {"established": null, "basis": null}
**status:** current
**subcategory display:** custodial torture
**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:** Supreme Court accepted District Judge report indicting Bareilly police for torture and fabrication, awarded compensation recoverable from officers.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Adverse finding + compensation.

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