# Doharighat Man & Anr. vs State of U.P. & Ors.

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## Report card

By judgment dated 21 September 2015 in Criminal Misc. Writ Petition No. 11158 of 2015, the Allahabad High Court (Coram: V.K. Shukla, Arvind Kumar Mishra, JJ.) returned findings adverse to the Police personnel, Police Station Doharighat, District Mau, and directed payment of compensation of Rs 5 lakh (Rs 5,00,000).

- Register number: UP 54 CW 0001
- Case reference: Criminal Misc. Writ Petition No. 11158 of 2015
- Court and date: Allahabad High Court (Coram: V.K. Shukla, Arvind Kumar Mishra, JJ.), 21 September 2015
- Officer(s) at the material time: Police personnel, Police Station Doharighat, District Mau
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Article 21 of the Constitution of India
- Finding of the Court (extract): “Awarding of compensation is demand of the situation, looking to the agony that a young man has to undergo, and the fact that his career to join I.T.B.P. has been withered away. Treatment meted to petitioner is purely inhuman, that …” (at para n/a)
- 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/102741423/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2015-0009)

**Record:** CW-2015-0009 (compiler id CWC-0398); case UTTARP-001
**Title:** Doharighat Man & Anr. vs State of U.P. & Ors.
**Court:** Allahabad High Court; judges: V.K. Shukla; Arvind Kumar Mishra
**Case number / citation:** Criminal Misc. Writ Petition No. 11158 of 2015
**Judgment:** 2015-09-21 (2015, day precision)
**Incident date:** 2015-04-09 (2015)
**Place:** Mau, Uttar Pradesh; city town: Doharighat; police station or unit: Doharighat Police Station, Mau; force: state_police
**Category:** Violence & unlawful detention
**Sub-category:** custodial torture
**Outcome:** Adverse finding + compensation (adverse_finding_compensation)
**Sections:** Constitution Art. 21
**Officers (gated display forms):** Police personnel, Police Station Doharighat, District Mau (7 in record)
**Victims:** Doharighat man (1 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** compensation only; Rs 5 lakh (Rs 5,00,000)
**Sentence type:** compensation only (compensation_only)

The judgment of the Allahabad High Court records the following account. A Doharighat man, a young ITBP constable aspirant who had cleared his physical test, was taken to Doharighat police station on 9 April 2015 for interrogation and detained there until 16 April 2015, during which he was subjected to brutal third-degree torture including electric shocks, severe beatings and insertion of aluminium wire through his mouth. The Court accepted medical evidence including an X-ray showing the wire and photographs of his injuries, rejecting the State's denial. It held the petitioner had suffered custodial violence at the hands of the police, awarded Rs 5 lakh compensation payable by the State within two months for his ruined career and immense suffering, and directed the SP, Mau to register an FIR against the erring incumbents with investigation by an officer not below Circle Officer rank under his supervision. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> Awarding of compensation is demand of the situation, looking to the agony that a young man has to undergo, and the fact that his career to join I.T.B.P. has been withered away. Treatment meted to petitioner is purely inhuman, that has inflicted immense mental pain leading to sense of insecurity and helplessness in him. In this background, we proceed to award compensation of Rs.5 lacs to petitioner no.1 to be paid by the State Government within two months from the date of receipt of certified copy of this order.

**Sources (3):** [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/102741423/); [livelaw.in](https://www.livelaw.in/allahabad-hc-awards-5-lakh-compensation-to-a-youth-who-complained-of-brutal-police-torture); [casemine.com](https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/5811a4ade691cb26fc4d96fe)
**Verification:** V2 · Externally reported
**Review:** Solo Staff combined review (one combined attestation) — not yet recorded
**admin category:** brutality
**admin subcategory:** custodial_torture
**allegations:** {'category': 'Custodial torture', '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:** Doharighat Man & Anr. vs State of U.P. & 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': \[\]}
**followup status:** checked
**institutional response:** {'date': '2015-09-21', 'action_type': 'Order issued', 'status': 'Concluded', 'authority': 'Allahabad High Court', 'independence': 'External', 'legal_effect': 'Binding', 'description': 'The Allahabad High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 500,000.', 'disposition': 'Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)', 'source': 'Criminal Misc. Writ Petition No. 11158 of 2015', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/102741423/', 'link_checked': None}; {'url': 'https://www.livelaw.in/allahabad-hc-awards-5-lakh-compensation-to-a-youth-who-complained-of-brutal-police-torture', 'link_checked': None}; {'url': 'https://www.casemine.com/judgement/in/5811a4ade691cb26fc4d96fe', 'link_checked': None}
**retracted:** {"is_retracted": false}
**service:** police
**source assessment:** {"established": null, "basis": null}
**status:** current
**subcategory display:** custodial torture
**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:** Allahabad HC awarded Rs 5 lakh compensation for 7-day illegal detention and brutal custodial torture, directing FIR against erring personnel.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Adverse finding + compensation.

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