# Mahakalpada Man vs State Of Orissa And Others

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## Report card

By judgment dated 25 January 2018 in W.P.(CRL) No.385 of 2009, the Orissa High Court (Coram: B.R. Sarangi, J.) returned findings adverse to 2 police personnel, namely: Officer-in-Charge, Mahakalpada Police Station; Investigating Officer, Mahakalpada Police Station, and directed payment of compensation of Rs 2 lakh (Rs 2,00,000).

- Register number: OD 29 CW 0002
- Case reference: W.P.(CRL) No.385 of 2009
- Court and date: Orissa High Court (Coram: B.R. Sarangi, J.), 25 January 2018
- Officer(s) at the material time: Officer-in-Charge, Mahakalpada Police Station; Investigating Officer, Mahakalpada Police Station
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Article 21 of the Constitution of India; Article 226 of the Constitution of India; Article 227 of the Constitution of India
- Finding of the Court (extract): “Applying the law laid down by the apex Court to the present case, there is no iota of doubt that the petitioner had undergone mental torture at the hands of insensible police officer.” (at para 21)
- 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://indiankanoon.org/doc/165166297/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2018-0002)

**Record:** CW-2018-0002 (compiler id CWC-0284); case ODISHA-008
**Title:** Mahakalpada Man vs State Of Orissa And Others
**Court:** Orissa High Court; judges: Dr. B.R. Sarangi
**Case number / citation:** W.P.(CRL) No.385 of 2009
**Judgment:** 2018-01-25 (2018, day precision)
**Incident date:** 1998-12-16 (1998)
**Place:** Kendrapara, Odisha; city town: Mahakalpada; police station or unit: Mahakalpada Police Station; force: state_police
**Category:** Violence & unlawful detention
**Sub-category:** custodial torture
**Outcome:** Adverse finding + compensation (adverse_finding_compensation)
**Sections:** Article 21; Article 226; Article 227
**Officers (gated display forms):** Officer-in-Charge, Mahakalpada Police Station; Investigating Officer, Mahakalpada Police Station (2 in record)
**Victims:** Mahakalpada man (1 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** compensation only; Rs 2 lakh (Rs 2,00,000)
**Sentence type:** compensation only (compensation_only)

The judgment of the Orissa High Court records the following account. Petitioner a Mahakalpada man was repeatedly summoned, threatened, and arrested by the Officer-in-Charge of Mahakalpada Police Station in connection with a 1992 booth-snatching case, despite having no connection to the crime and not being named in the chargesheet. Although the SDJM Kendrapara discharged him upon verifying his identity documents, police continued to harass and threaten him to pose as absconding accused \[name withheld\]. The Orissa High Court held that the petitioner suffered mental agony, harassment, and custodial torture violating Article 21 of the Constitution. The Court awarded Rs. 2,00,000 compensation to be paid by the State within three months and recovered in equal proportion from the salaries of the erring police officers. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> Applying the law laid down by the apex Court to the present case, there is no iota of doubt that the petitioner had undergone mental torture at the hands of insensible police officer.

**Sources (1):** [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/165166297/)
**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:** 21
**display title redacted:** Mahakalpada Man vs State Of Orissa 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': \[\]}
**followup status:** checked
**institutional response:** {'date': '2018-01-25', 'action_type': 'Order issued', 'status': 'Concluded', 'authority': 'Orissa High Court', 'independence': 'External', 'legal_effect': 'Binding', 'description': 'The Orissa High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 200,000.', 'disposition': 'Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)', 'source': 'W.P.(CRL) No.385 of 2009', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/165166297/', '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:** Orissa HC awarded Rs. 2 lakh compensation to petitioner wrongfully arrested, detained, and subjected to custodial mental torture under mistaken identity as accused \[name withheld\], recoverable from erring officers salaries.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Adverse finding + compensation.

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