# Morbi Man vs State of Gujarat and Another

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## Report card

By judgment dated 22 August 2016 in R/Special Criminal Application (Direction) No. 536 of 2010 with SCA No. 1140 of 2008, the Gujarat High Court (Coram: K. S. Jhaveri, J.) returned findings adverse to the accused police personnel, and directed payment of compensation of Rs 1.5 lakh (Rs 1,50,000).

- Register number: GJ 36 CW 0001
- Case reference: R/Special Criminal Application (Direction) No. 536 of 2010 with SCA No. 1140 of 2008
- Court and date: Gujarat High Court (Coram: K. S. Jhaveri, J.), 22 August 2016
- Officer(s) at the material time: Not identified in the cited sources (Morbi City Police Station)
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Not stated in the cited sources
- Finding of the Court (extract): “if an amount of Rs.1.50 Lacs is awarded as compensation to the petitioner, the same would meet the ends of justice.” (at para 7 (record has null))
- Verdict, sentence and quantum: Adverse finding + compensation. Sentence: compensation only. Compensation: Rs 1.5 lakh (Rs 1,50,000).
- 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/69686327/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2016-0011)

**Record:** CW-2016-0011 (compiler id CWC-0680); case GAP9-001
**Title:** Morbi Man vs State of Gujarat and Another
**Court:** Gujarat High Court; judges: K. S. Jhaveri
**Case number / citation:** R/Special Criminal Application (Direction) No. 536 of 2010 with SCA No. 1140 of 2008
**Judgment:** 2016-08-22 (2016, day precision)
**Incident date:** 2006-02-22 (2006)
**Place:** Morbi, Gujarat (district at time: Rajkot); city town: Morbi; police station or unit: Morbi City Police Station; force: state_police
**Category:** Violence & unlawful detention
**Sub-category:** custodial death
**Outcome:** Adverse finding + compensation (adverse_finding_compensation)
**Officers (gated display forms):** None named (0 in record)
**Victims:** Morbi man (1 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** compensation only; Rs 1.5 lakh (Rs 1,50,000)
**Sentence type:** compensation only (compensation_only)

A Morbi man was taken into custody by Morbi City police on the night of 18 February 2006 for an alleged Prohibition Act offence, kept in illegal detention, produced before court only on 20 February 2006, and died on 22 February 2006. The post-mortem revealed multiple ante-mortem injuries all over his body. The mother's private complaint led to Criminal Inquiry No.106/2006, but the accused officers' revision against rejection of the 'B' Summary was allowed in 2008. Recording the State's submission citing Nilabati Behera that suitable compensation may be awarded, the High Court directed the State to pay Rs.1.50 lakh lump-sum compensation to the mother within six months, clarifying the order was by direction of the Court and not to be treated as precedent. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> if an amount of Rs.1.50 Lacs is awarded as compensation to the petitioner, the same would meet the ends of justice.

**Sources (2):** [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/69686327/); [livelaw.in](https://www.livelaw.in/death-police-custody-gujarat-hc-orders-state-pay-compensation-kin)
**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:** 7 (record has null)
**display title redacted:** Morbi Man vs State of Gujarat and Another
**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': '2016-08-22', 'action_type': 'Order issued', 'status': 'Concluded', 'authority': 'Gujarat High Court', 'independence': 'External', 'legal_effect': 'Binding', 'description': 'The Gujarat High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 150,000.', 'disposition': 'Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)', 'source': 'R/Special Criminal Application (Direction) No. 536 of 2010 with SCA No. 1140 of 2008', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/69686327/', 'link_checked': None}; {'url': 'https://www.livelaw.in/death-police-custody-gujarat-hc-orders-state-pay-compensation-kin', '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:** HC directed Rs.1.5 lakh lump-sum compensation for custodial death with ante-mortem injuries.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Adverse finding + compensation.

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