# Uttarpara Woman vs The State of West Bengal and Others

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## Report card

By judgment dated 17 July 2015 in W.P. No. 8925 (W) of 2009, the Calcutta High Court (Coram: Tapabrata Chakraborty, J.) returned findings adverse to the Constable (C-1172), Uttarpara Police Station, Hooghly, and directed payment of compensation of Rs 3 lakh (Rs 3,00,000).

- Register number: WB 15 CW 0002
- Case reference: W.P. No. 8925 (W) of 2009
- Court and date: Calcutta High Court (Coram: Tapabrata Chakraborty, J.), 17 July 2015
- Officer(s) at the material time: Constable (C-1172), Uttarpara Police Station, Hooghly
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Article 226 of the Constitution of India; Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860
- Finding of the Court (extract): “In the instant case, the infringement of fundamental right stands established inasmuch as the petitioner’s son has been murdered by a police personnel and the same stands proved through the verdict given by the competent criminal forum and furthermore in …” (at para n/a)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum: Adverse finding + compensation. Sentence: compensation only. Compensation: Rs 3 lakh (Rs 3,00,000).
- 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/86219018/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2015-0008)

**Record:** CW-2015-0008 (compiler id CWC-0422); case WESTBE-003
**Title:** Uttarpara Woman vs The State of West Bengal and Others
**Court:** Calcutta High Court; judges: Tapabrata Chakraborty
**Case number / citation:** W.P. No. 8925 (W) of 2009
**Judgment:** 2015-07-17 (2015, day precision)
**Incident date:** 2003-09-04 (2003)
**Place:** Hooghly, West Bengal; city town: Uttarpara; police station or unit: Uttarpara Police Station; force: state_police
**Category:** Violence & unlawful detention
**Sub-category:** disproportionate force
**Outcome:** Adverse finding + compensation (adverse_finding_compensation)
**Sections:** Constitution Art. 226; IPC 302
**Officers (gated display forms):** Constable (C-1172), Uttarpara Police Station, Hooghly (1 in record)
**Victims:** Uttarpara man, age 35 (1 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** compensation only; Rs 3 lakh (Rs 3,00,000)
**Sentence type:** compensation only (compensation_only)

The judgment of the Calcutta High Court records the following account. On 4 September 2003 a Uttarpara man (35) was riding home on G.T. Road when he failed to stop at a night check; police constable shot him dead with his service revolver and then fabricated a firearm injury on himself to plead private defence. A Sessions Court convicted \[name withheld\] of murder with life imprisonment in April 2008, and a departmental enquiry held the firing intentional, excessive and unjustified; the State still rejected the mother's compensation claim. The Calcutta High Court held the infringement of the fundamental right established through the criminal verdict, rejected the State's limitation and scheme objections, and directed the State to pay a lump sum of Rs 3 lakh within eight weeks. On the mother's intra-court appeal a Division Bench in December 2022 upheld the findings and enhanced compensation by a further Rs 5 lakh (total Rs 8 lakh).

> In the instant case, the infringement of fundamental right stands established inasmuch as the petitioner’s son has been murdered by a police personnel and the same stands proved through the verdict given by the competent criminal forum and furthermore in the instant case the sufferings of the petitioner has assumed more gruesome dimension since the perpetrator of the crime is a "man in uniform".

**Sources (3):** [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/86219018/); [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/127584471/); [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/84566491/)
**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:** n/a
**display title redacted:** Uttarpara Woman vs The State of West Bengal and Others
**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': \['court_quote'\]}
**followup status:** checked
**institutional response:** {'date': '2015-07-17', 'action_type': 'Order issued', 'status': 'Concluded', 'authority': 'Calcutta High Court', 'independence': 'External', 'legal_effect': 'Binding', 'description': 'The Calcutta High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 300,000.', 'disposition': 'Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)', 'source': 'W.P. No. 8925 (W) of 2009', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/86219018/', 'link_checked': None}; {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/127584471/', 'link_checked': None}; {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/84566491/', '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:** Rs 3 lakh compensation for unjustified police shooting; Article 21 violation held established.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Adverse finding + compensation.

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