# I. S. vs State Of U.P. & 7 Others

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## Report card

By judgment dated 20 January 2017 in Criminal Misc. Writ Petition No. 11422 of 2013, the Allahabad High Court (Coram: Ramesh Sinha, Rekha Dikshit, JJ.) returned findings adverse to 5 police personnel, namely: Circle Officer (C.O. Sadar), PS Kotwali Mughalsarai; Constable, PS Kotwali Mughalsarai; Constable, PS Kotwali Mughalsarai; Constable, PS Kotwali Mughalsarai; Constable, PS Kotwali Mughalsarai, and directed payment of compensation of Rs 2 lakh (Rs 2,00,000).

- Register number: UP 67 CW 0001
- Case reference: Criminal Misc. Writ Petition No. 11422 of 2013 / (2017) 99 ACrC 115
- Court and date: Allahabad High Court (Coram: Ramesh Sinha, Rekha Dikshit, JJ.), 20 January 2017
- Officer(s) at the material time: Circle Officer (C.O. Sadar), PS Kotwali Mughalsarai; Constable, PS Kotwali Mughalsarai; Constable, PS Kotwali Mughalsarai; Constable, PS Kotwali Mughalsarai; Constable, PS Kotwali Mughalsarai
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Not stated in the cited sources
- Finding of the Court (extract): “The illegal confinement, handcuffing and torture of the petitioner in police lock-up by respondent nos. 4 to 8 shows the highhandedness of the police personnel, hence the said act and conduct of said respondents is not appreciable as by the …” (at para 17)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum: Adverse finding + compensation. Sentence: compensation only. Compensation: Rs 2 lakh (Rs 2,00,000).
- 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://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/355585/inderpreet-singh-appellant-hash-state-of-up-respondent/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2017-0002)

**Record:** CW-2017-0002 (compiler id CWC-0853); case UTTARP-003; aliases: CWC-0400
**Title:** I. S. vs State Of U.P. & 7 Others
**Court:** Allahabad High Court; judges: Ramesh Sinha; Rekha Dikshit
**Case number / citation:** Criminal Misc. Writ Petition No. 11422 of 2013 / (2017) 99 ACrC 115
**Judgment:** 2017-01-20 (2017, day precision)
**Incident date:** 2012-12-27 (2012)
**Place:** Chandauli, Uttar Pradesh; city town: Mughalsarai; police station or unit: PS Kotwali Mughalsarai; force: state_police
**Category:** Violence & unlawful detention
**Sub-category:** custodial torture
**Outcome:** Adverse finding + compensation (adverse_finding_compensation)
**Officers (gated display forms):** Circle Officer (C.O. Sadar), PS Kotwali Mughalsarai; Constable, PS Kotwali Mughalsarai; Constable, PS Kotwali Mughalsarai; Constable, PS Kotwali Mughalsarai; Constable, PS Kotwali Mughalsarai (5 in record)
**Victims:** Mughalsarai man (1 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** compensation only; Rs 2 lakh (Rs 2,00,000)
**Sentence type:** compensation only (compensation_only)

The Allahabad High Court held that Class-XII student a man was forcibly picked up from his family hotel-cum-photostat shop at Mughalsarai on 27 December 2012 by four constables acting at the behest of respondent \[name withheld\], illegally confined in the Kotwali lock-up till 29 December, handcuffed, tortured and severely beaten, then falsely implicated in Case Crime No. 412 of 2012. The Court rejected the police version and an ADJ inquiry that minimised the injuries, holding the confinement, handcuffing and torture showed police high-handedness against a school-going boy. It held the State had failed in its duty to protect innocents from police atrocities. It partly allowed the petition and awarded Rs 2 lakh exemplary compensation payable by the State within one month. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> The illegal confinement, handcuffing and torture of the petitioner in police lock-up by respondent nos. 4 to 8 shows the highhandedness of the police personnel, hence the said act and conduct of said respondents is not appreciable as by the said act, they have malign the reputation of the petitioner, who was a school going boy of tender age as is also evident from his photograph in handcuffing position with other accused of case crime no. 412 of 2012 annexed with the petition as annexure-7 at page-51, in the society by implicating him in a false case the proceedings of which has been challenged by the petitioner before this Court by filing application under section 482 Cr.P.C. in which proceedings have been stayed by this Court and the matter is pending before this Court, hence we deemed it proper in the interest of justice that petitioner, who is a student of class-XII is entitled for an exemplary compensation.

**Sources (3):** [courtkutchehry.com](https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/355585/inderpreet-singh-appellant-hash-state-of-up-respondent/); [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/47936008/); [livelaw.in](https://www.livelaw.in/allahabad-hc-orders-state-pay-compensation-custodial-torture)
**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:** True
**court quote para:** 17
**display title redacted:** I. S. vs State Of U.P. & 7 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': \['sections'\]}
**followup status:** checked
**institutional response:** {'date': '2017-01-20', '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 200,000.', 'disposition': 'Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)', 'source': '(2017) 99 ACrC 115', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/355585/inderpreet-singh-appellant-hash-state-of-up-respondent/', 'link_checked': None}; {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/47936008/', 'link_checked': None}; {'url': 'https://www.livelaw.in/allahabad-hc-orders-state-pay-compensation-custodial-torture', '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:** Student illegally confined, handcuffed and tortured 27-29 Dec 2012; Rs 2 lakh exemplary compensation.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**victims redacted:** {'age': None, 'gender': 'male', 'descriptor': 'a man'}
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Adverse finding + compensation.

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