# Bhopal Woman and Anr. vs State of M.P. and Ors.

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## Report card

By judgment dated 3 June 2016 in Writ Petition (Crl.) No. 30 of 2015, the Supreme Court of India (Coram: Dipak Misra, Shiva Kirti Singh, JJ.) returned findings adverse to 4 police personnel, namely: Deputy Superintendent of Police, Cyber Cell, Bhopal; Head Constable, Cyber Cell, Bhopal; Police personnel, Cyber Cell, Bhopal; Police personnel, Cyber Cell, Bhopal, and directed payment of compensation of Rs 10 lakh (Rs 10,00,000).

- Register number: MP 01 CW 0003
- Case reference: Writ Petition (Crl.) No. 30 of 2015 / (2016) 11 SCC 703
- Court and date: Supreme Court of India (Coram: Dipak Misra, Shiva Kirti Singh, JJ.), 3 June 2016
- Officer(s) at the material time: Deputy Superintendent of Police, Cyber Cell, Bhopal; Head Constable, Cyber Cell, Bhopal; Police personnel, Cyber Cell, Bhopal; Police personnel, Cyber Cell, Bhopal
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Section 420 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 34 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 66-D of the IT Act
- Finding of the Court (extract): “the dignity of the petitioners, a doctor and a practicing Advocate has been seriously jeopardized” (at para 23)
- 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/103942103/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2016-0003)

**Record:** CW-2016-0003 (compiler id CWC-0227); case MADHYA-012
**Title:** Bhopal Woman and Anr. vs State of M.P. and Ors.
**Court:** Supreme Court of India; judges: Dipak Misra; Shiva Kirti Singh
**Case number / citation:** Writ Petition (Crl.) No. 30 of 2015 / (2016) 11 SCC 703
**Judgment:** 2016-06-03 (2016, day precision)
**Incident date:** 2012-11-27 (2012)
**Place:** Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh; city town: Bhopal; police station or unit: Cyber Cell / State Cyber Police, Bhopal; force: state_police
**Category:** Violence & unlawful detention
**Sub-category:** illegal detention false imprisonment
**Outcome:** Adverse finding + compensation (adverse_finding_compensation)
**Sections:** IPC 420; IPC 34; IT Act s.66-D
**Officers (gated display forms):** Deputy Superintendent of Police, Cyber Cell, Bhopal; Head Constable, Cyber Cell, Bhopal; Police personnel, Cyber Cell, Bhopal; Police personnel, Cyber Cell, Bhopal (4 in record)
**Victims:** Bhopal woman; Bhopal woman (2 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** compensation only; Rs 10 lakh (Rs 10,00,000)
**Sentence type:** compensation only (compensation_only)

The Supreme Court held the arrest and detention of Dr. A Bhopal woman, an NRI doctor, and her septuagenarian advocate mother illegal and awarded Rs 5 lakh each as public-law compensation. On a Jabalpur complainant's civil dispute over an imaging-machine purchase given criminal colour in FIR 24/2012, Cyber Cell Bhopal arrested the women at their Pune residence on 27 November 2012 without following Sections 41/41-A CrPC or the D.K. Basu norms, transported them to Bhopal in an unreserved train compartment without producing them before the local Magistrate, and kept them in custody for weeks. The Court held their dignity seriously jeopardized, quashed the prosecution, and left the State at liberty to proceed against the erring officials. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> the dignity of the petitioners, a doctor and a practicing Advocate has been seriously jeopardized

**Sources (2):** [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/103942103/); [scconline.com](https://www.scconline.com/blog/post/2016/06/15/state-of-m-p-to-pay-rs-10-lakh-compensation-for-illegally-arresting-two-women/)
**Verification:** V2 · Externally reported
**Review:** Solo Staff combined review (one combined attestation) — not yet recorded
**admin category:** misconduct
**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:** False
**court quote para:** 23
**display title redacted:** Bhopal Woman and Anr. vs State of M.P. and 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': '2016-06-03', 'action_type': 'Order issued', 'status': 'Concluded', 'authority': 'Supreme Court of India', 'independence': 'External', 'legal_effect': 'Binding', 'description': 'The Supreme Court of India recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 1,000,000.', 'disposition': 'Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)', 'source': '(2016) 11 SCC 703', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/103942103/', 'link_checked': None}; {'url': 'https://www.scconline.com/blog/post/2016/06/15/state-of-m-p-to-pay-rs-10-lakh-compensation-for-illegally-arresting-two-women/', '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:** SC judgment verified on Indian Kanoon; illegal arrest/detention of two women, Rs 5 lakh each.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Adverse finding + compensation.

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