# In re: Suo Motu Action by the High Court (Senari police excesses)

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## Report card

By judgment dated 10 May 2002, the Patna High Court (Coram: Ravi S. Dhavan, Aftab Alam, JJ.) returned findings adverse to the Police personnel, Police raiding party at Senari village, Jehanabad, and directed payment of compensation of Rs 2.6 lakh (Rs 2,65,000).

- Register number: BR 25 CW 0001
- Case reference: 2003 CriLJ 1067
- Court and date: Patna High Court (Coram: Ravi S. Dhavan, Aftab Alam, JJ.), 10 May 2002
- Officer(s) at the material time: Police personnel, Police raiding party at Senari village, Jehanabad
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Not stated in the cited sources
- Finding of the Court (extract): “It was violence at the hands of the police wherein the women were beaten.” (at para 10)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum: Adverse finding + compensation. Sentence: compensation only. Compensation: Rs 2.6 lakh (Rs 2,65,000).
- 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/1456228/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2002-0022)

**Record:** CW-2002-0022 (compiler id CWC-0972); case GAP3-101-002
**Title:** In re: Suo Motu Action by the High Court (Senari police excesses)
**Court:** Patna High Court; judges: Ravi S. Dhavan; Aftab Alam
**Case number / citation:** 2003 CriLJ 1067
**Judgment:** 2002-05-10 (2002, day precision)
**Incident date:** 2000-07-28 (2000)
**Place:** Jehanabad, Bihar; city town: Senari village; police station or unit: Police raiding party, Jehanabad (Mianpur carnage search operation); force: state_police
**Category:** Violence & unlawful detention
**Sub-category:** disproportionate force
**Outcome:** Adverse finding + compensation (adverse_finding_compensation)
**Officers (gated display forms):** Police personnel, Police raiding party at Senari village, Jehanabad
**Victims:** Senari village woman; Senari village woman; Senari village woman; Senari village woman; Senari village woman; Senari village woman; Senari village woman; Senari village woman; Senari village woman; Senari village woman; Senari village woman; Senari village woman; Senari village woman; Senari village woman; Senari village woman; Senari village woman; Senari village woman; Senari village woman; Senari village woman; Senari village woman; Senari village woman; Senari village woman; Senari village woman; Senari village woman; Senari village man; Senari village woman; Senari village resident; Senari village woman; Senari village woman; Senari village woman; Senari village woman; Senari village woman; Senari village woman; Senari village woman; Senari village woman; Senari village man; Senari village man; Senari village man; Senari village woman; Senari village woman; Senari village woman; Senari village woman (42 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** compensation only; Rs 2.6 lakh (Rs 2,65,000)
**Sentence type:** compensation only (compensation_only)

The Patna High Court took suo-motu notice of a Dainik Jagran report that a police party searching for Mianpur-carnage accused had beaten villagers at Senari, Jehanabad, on 28 July 2000. On the District Judge's two inquiry reports, State doctors' injury reports and sealed photographs, the court held it established that police had indiscriminately beaten women with rifles, batons and lathis, rejecting the self-defence claim as a clear human-rights violation. It ordered Rs 10,000 each to the 11 victims with grievous hurt and Rs 5,000 each to the 31 with simple injuries (Rs 2,65,000 total), payable via the District Magistrate after verification by a DM-District Judge board. The court sent the entire record to the Human Rights Commission. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> It was violence at the hands of the police wherein the women were beaten.

**Sources (1):** [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1456228/)
**Verification:** V2 · Externally reported
**Review:** Solo Staff combined review (one combined attestation) — not yet recorded
**admin category:** brutality
**admin subcategory:** disproportionate_force
**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'}
**anonymised:** False
**court quote para:** 10
**display title redacted:** In re: Suo Motu Action by the High Court (Senari police excesses)
**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': \[\]}
**followup status:** checked
**institutional response:** {'date': '2002-05-10', '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 and ordered Rs 265,000.', 'disposition': 'Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)', 'source': '2003 CriLJ 1067', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1456228/', 'link_checked': None}
**retracted:** {"is_retracted": false}
**service:** police
**source assessment:** {"established": null, "basis": null}
**status:** current
**subcategory display:** disproportionate force
**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:** Suo-motu writ; graded compensation to 42 villagers for established police beating of women during search.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Adverse finding + compensation.

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