# Delhi Man vs State of Delhi and Ors.

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## Report card

By judgment dated 17 November 2000, the Delhi High Court (Coram: R.S. Sodhi, J.) returned findings adverse to the accused police personnel, and directed payment of compensation of Rs 3.5 lakh (Rs 3,50,000).

- Register number: DL 00 CW 0008
- Case reference: 2001 ACJ 2033
- Court and date: Delhi High Court (Coram: R.S. Sodhi, J.), 17 November 2000
- Officer(s) at the material time: Not identified in the cited sources (Police Station Seelampur)
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Section 176 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973
- Finding of the Court (extract): “Therefore, from material on record it is clear that the death of the husband of the petitioner, a Delhi man, can be termed as 'custodial death' and even if the deceased was suffering from heart problem, the brutality inflicted upon …” (at para 6)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum: Adverse finding + compensation. Sentence: compensation only. Compensation: Rs 3.5 lakh (Rs 3,50,000).
- 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/938973/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2000-0016)

**Record:** CW-2000-0016 (compiler id CWC-1166); case GAP3-38-004
**Title:** Delhi Man vs State of Delhi and Ors.
**Court:** Delhi High Court; judges: R.S. Sodhi
**Case number / citation:** 2001 ACJ 2033
**Judgment:** 2000-11-17 (2000, day precision)
**Incident date:** 1994-08-27 (1994)
**Place:** Delhi; city town: Delhi; police station or unit: Police Station Seelampur; force: state_police
**Category:** Violence & unlawful detention
**Sub-category:** custodial death
**Outcome:** Adverse finding + compensation (adverse_finding_compensation)
**Sections:** CrPC 176
**Officers (gated display forms):** None named (1 in record)
**Victims:** Delhi man, age 68 (1 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** compensation only; Rs 3.5 lakh (Rs 3,50,000)
**Sentence type:** compensation only (compensation_only)

The Delhi High Court (R.S. Sodhi, J.) on 17 November 2000 allowed the writ petition of Iqubal Begam and directed the State to pay Rs 3,50,000 as compensation for the custodial death of her 68-year-old husband \[name withheld\] at Police Station Seelampur on 27/28 August 1994. The court held on the Section 176 CrPC magisterial-inquiry record, DD entries, MLC and post-mortem evidence of seven ante-mortem blunt-force abrasions that the deceased remained in continuous police custody from 7.50 p.m. until declared dead at 00.40 hrs, and that inflicted brutality had precipitated his fatal cardiac condition. It held the State and its functionaries had caused the death in custody in a manner the law has repeatedly deprecated, and found the Rs 50,000 earlier paid under NHRC orders grossly inadequate but deductible. The State's appeal was dismissed by a Division Bench on 22 May 2004, leaving the award intact.

> Therefore, from material on record it is clear that the death of the husband of the petitioner, a Delhi man, can be termed as 'custodial death' and even if the deceased was suffering from heart problem, the brutality inflicted upon him only precipitated the condition which proved fatal.

**Sources (2):** [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/938973/); [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/610196/)
**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:** 6
**display title redacted:** Delhi Man vs State of Delhi and Ors.
**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': \['officers'\]}
**followup status:** checked
**institutional response:** {'date': '2000-11-17', '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 350,000.', 'disposition': 'Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)', 'source': '2001 ACJ 2033', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/938973/', 'link_checked': None}; {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/610196/', '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:** HC held death in Seelampur custody proved, ordered Rs 3.5 lakh compensation; appeal dismissed.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Adverse finding + compensation.

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