# Ranchi Woman vs State of Jharkhand & Ors.

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## Report card

By judgment dated 18 July 2012 in W.P.(C) No. 538 of 2007, the Jharkhand High Court (Coram: Aparesh Kumar Singh, J.) returned findings adverse to the Police personnel, Jagannathpur Police Station, Ranchi, and directed payment of compensation of Rs 10 lakh (Rs 10,00,000).

- Register number: JH 01 CW 0006
- Case reference: W.P.(C) No. 538 of 2007
- Court and date: Jharkhand High Court (Coram: Aparesh Kumar Singh, J.), 18 July 2012
- Officer(s) at the material time: Police personnel, Jagannathpur Police Station, Ranchi
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Article 21 of the Constitution of India; Section 304 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 34 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860
- Finding of the Court (extract): “The facts of the present case are more stark and repulsive as the Trial court has convicted the police officials accused of causing death of the petitioner's son \[name withheld\] and two others and sentenced them to undergo R.I. for …” (at para n/a (order p.7, para beginning 'The facts of the present case are more stark...'))
- Verdict, sentence and quantum: Adverse finding + compensation. Sentence: compensation only. Compensation: Rs 10 lakh (Rs 10,00,000).
- 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/122009310/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2012-0011)

**Record:** CW-2012-0011 (compiler id CWC-0172); case JHARKH-002
**Title:** Ranchi Woman vs State of Jharkhand & Ors.
**Court:** Jharkhand High Court; judges: Aparesh Kumar Singh
**Case number / citation:** W.P.(C) No. 538 of 2007
**Judgment:** 2012-07-18 (2012, day precision)
**Incident date:** 1990-07-27 (1990)
**Place:** Ranchi, Jharkhand; city town: Ranchi; police station or unit: Jagannathpur Police Station, Ranchi; force: state_police
**Category:** Violence & unlawful detention
**Sub-category:** custodial death
**Outcome:** Adverse finding + compensation (adverse_finding_compensation)
**Sections:** Constitution Art. 21; IPC 304; IPC 34
**Officers (gated display forms):** Police personnel, Jagannathpur Police Station, Ranchi (1 in record)
**Victims:** Ranchi man, age 24 (1 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** compensation only; Rs 10 lakh (Rs 10,00,000)
**Sentence type:** compensation only (compensation_only)

The judgment of the Jharkhand High Court records the following account. The petitioner sought compensation for the custodial death of her 24-year-old son, a Ranchi man @ a Ranchi man, who died after being subjected to brutal physical assault by Jagannathpur police personnel on 27 July 1990. The trial court in Sessions Trial No. 551 of 1993 had previously convicted the accused police officers under Section 304/34 IPC and sentenced them to 10 years rigorous imprisonment. Relying on the coordinate bench decision in Bahlen Balmuchu, the Jharkhand High Court held that the custodial killing was a stark violation of Article 21 and directed the State of Jharkhand to pay Rs. 10,00,000 in compensation to the mother, granting liberty to recover the amount from the guilty police personnel. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> The facts of the present case are more stark and repulsive as the Trial court has convicted the police officials accused of causing death of the petitioner's son \[name withheld\] and two others and sentenced them to undergo R.I. for a period of 10 years and also to pay a fine of Rs. 20,000/-, in default of payment of fine to undergo S.I. for two years vide judgment dated 27th March, 1996 and order of sentence dated 29th March, 1996.

**Sources (1):** [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/122009310/)
**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:** n/a (order p.7, para beginning 'The facts of the present case are more stark...')
**display title redacted:** Ranchi Woman vs State of Jharkhand & 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': 'holds', 'corrections_applied': \['court_quote_para'\]}
**followup status:** checked
**institutional response:** {'date': '2012-07-18', 'action_type': 'Order issued', 'status': 'Concluded', 'authority': 'Jharkhand High Court', 'independence': 'External', 'legal_effect': 'Binding', 'description': 'The Jharkhand High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 1,000,000.', 'disposition': 'Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)', 'source': 'W.P.(C) No. 538 of 2007', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/122009310/', '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:** High Court awarded Rs 10 lakh compensation to mother of a Ranchi man for custodial death caused by brutal assault by Jagannathpur police.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Adverse finding + compensation.

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