# P. S. T. v. State of Maharashtra

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## Report card

By judgment dated 10 January 2006, the Bombay High Court (Coram: J.N. Patel, R.C. Chavan, JJ.) returned findings adverse to 2 police personnel, namely: Police Station Officer, Arjuni (Mor) Police Station, Gondia; Police Officer, Chichgarh, Deori, Gondia, and directed payment of compensation of Rs 5 lakh (Rs 5,00,000).

- Register number: MH 35 CW 0002
- Case reference: 2006 CriLJ 2202
- Court and date: Bombay High Court (Coram: J.N. Patel, R.C. Chavan, JJ.), 10 January 2006
- Officer(s) at the material time: Police Station Officer, Arjuni (Mor) Police Station, Gondia; Police Officer, Chichgarh, Deori, Gondia
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Article 21 of the Constitution of India; Article 22 of the Constitution of India; Article 226 of the Constitution of India; the Juvenile Justice Act, 1986; the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2000; Section 3(2) of the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989
- Finding of the Court (extract): “In our considered opinion, the contentions of the petitioner that she was arrested, illegally detained and tortured and thereafter falsely implicated in these three cases stand well corroborated and there is no reason to disbelieve her on this count.” (at para 18)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum: Adverse finding + compensation. Sentence: compensation only. Compensation: Rs 5 lakh (Rs 5,00,000).
- 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/1095603/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2006-0014)

**Record:** CW-2006-0014 (compiler id CWC-0735); case SWILLEGA-094
**Title:** P. S. T. v. State of Maharashtra
**Court:** Bombay High Court; bench: Nagpur; judges: J.N. Patel; R.C. Chavan
**Case number / citation:** 2006 CriLJ 2202
**Judgment:** 2006-01-10 (2006, day precision)
**Incident date:** 1990-01-01 (1990)
**Place:** Gondia, Maharashtra; city town: Arjuni Morgaon; police station or unit: Arjuni (Mor) Police Station, Gondia; force: state_police
**Category:** Violence & unlawful detention
**Sub-category:** illegal detention false imprisonment
**Outcome:** Adverse finding + compensation (adverse_finding_compensation)
**Sections:** Constitution Art. 21; Constitution Art. 22; Constitution Art. 226; Juvenile Justice Act 1986; Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act 2000; SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act 1989 s.3(2)
**Officers (gated display forms):** Police Station Officer, Arjuni (Mor) Police Station, Gondia; Police Officer, Chichgarh, Deori, Gondia (2 in record)
**Victims:** Arjuni Morgaon girl, age 13 (1 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** compensation only; Rs 5 lakh (Rs 5,00,000)
**Sentence type:** compensation only (compensation_only)

a 13-year-old girl, a 13-year-old Gond tribal girl, was seized from her home at midnight in 1990, hanged from a tree in the Keshori forest and beaten unconscious, then illegally detained for years with her arrest recorded only in 1993 and falsely implicated in three serious cases including under TADA, all ending in acquittal by the Juvenile Court for want of evidence. The Court rejected the State's cover-up, holding the detention, torture and false prosecution corroborated and monitored with senior officers' tacit consent. It ordered the State to pay Rs 5 lakh compensation plus Rs 10,000 costs within four weeks. It further directed a DIG-led Special Investigation Team of the State CID, including a lady SP, to fix responsibility, prosecute the guilty officers and recover the compensation, with an action-taken report in six months. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> In our considered opinion, the contentions of the petitioner that she was arrested, illegally detained and tortured and thereafter falsely implicated in these three cases stand well corroborated and there is no reason to disbelieve her on this count.

**Sources (1):** [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1095603/)
**Verification:** V2 · Externally reported
**Review:** Solo Staff combined review (one combined attestation) — not yet recorded
**admin category:** brutality
**admin subcategory:** illegal_detention_false_imprisonment
**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:** True
**court quote para:** 18
**display title redacted:** P. S. T. v. State of Maharashtra
**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': '2006-01-10', 'action_type': 'Order issued', 'status': 'Concluded', 'authority': 'Bombay High Court', 'independence': 'External', 'legal_effect': 'Binding', 'description': 'The Bombay High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 500,000.', 'disposition': 'Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)', 'source': '2006 CriLJ 2202', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1095603/', 'link_checked': None}
**retracted:** {"is_retracted": false}
**service:** police
**source assessment:** {"established": null, "basis": null}
**status:** current
**subcategory display:** illegal detention false imprisonment
**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 illegal detention/torture/false implication proved, awarded Rs 5 lakh + SIT probe; matches outcome.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**victims redacted:** {'age': 13, 'gender': 'female', 'descriptor': 'a 13-year-old girl'}
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Adverse finding + compensation.

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