# Haldwani Woman vs State of Uttarakhand and Others

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## Report card

By judgment dated 24 July 2018 in Criminal Writ Petition No. 1050 of 2018, the Uttarakhand High Court (Coram: Lok Pal Singh, J.) returned findings adverse to 2 police personnel, namely: Sub-Inspector; Investigating Officer, and directed payment of compensation of Rs 5 lakh (Rs 5,00,000).

- Register number: UK 04 CW 0003
- Case reference: Criminal Writ Petition No. 1050 of 2018 / (2018) 07 UK CK 0124
- Court and date: Uttarakhand High Court (Coram: Lok Pal Singh, J.), 24 July 2018
- Officer(s) at the material time: Sub-Inspector; Investigating Officer
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 324 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 173 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973; Section 55A of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973; Article 21 of the Constitution of India
- Finding of the Court (extract): “The State Government shall pay compensation of Rs.5,00,000/- to the petitioner on account of custodial death of her husband namely, a Haldwani man within three months from today.” (at para 16)
- 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://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/965314/smt-kalawati-rawat-appellant-hash-state-of-uttarakhand-and-others-respondent/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2018-0025)

**Record:** CW-2018-0025 (compiler id CWC-1312); case GAP3-97-001
**Title:** Haldwani Woman vs State of Uttarakhand and Others
**Court:** Uttarakhand High Court; judges: Lok Pal Singh
**Case number / citation:** Criminal Writ Petition No. 1050 of 2018 / (2018) 07 UK CK 0124
**Judgment:** 2018-07-24 (2018, day precision)
**Incident date:** 2014-08-22 (2014)
**Place:** Nainital, Uttarakhand; city town: Haldwani; force: state_police
**Category:** Violence & unlawful detention
**Sub-category:** custodial death
**Outcome:** Adverse finding + compensation (adverse_finding_compensation)
**Sections:** IPC 302; IPC 324; CrPC 173; CrPC 55A; Constitution Art. 21
**Officers (gated display forms):** Sub-Inspector; Investigating Officer (2 in record)
**Victims:** Haldwani man, age 36 (1 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** compensation only; Rs 5 lakh (Rs 5,00,000)
**Sentence type:** compensation only (compensation_only)

A Haldwani man, aged 36, was lodged in Sub-jail Haldwani on 21 August 2014 and found dead the next day with several injuries on his body; the murder case (Case Crime No. 460 of 2014) twice ended in closure reports calling the death natural. The court found the post-mortem injuries unexplained, held the Investigating Officer had made a false statement before the court and filed final reports without fair investigation, and found the ADM's shielding report false. Holding that fair investigation is part of fair trial under Article 21, it directed the SSP CBI Dehradun to register and investigate the case, the DGP to start a departmental inquiry against SI, and the State to pay Rs 5 lakh compensation to the widow within three months. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> The State Government shall pay compensation of Rs.5,00,000/- to the petitioner on account of custodial death of her husband namely, a Haldwani man within three months from today.

**Sources (2):** [courtkutchehry.com](https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/965314/smt-kalawati-rawat-appellant-hash-state-of-uttarakhand-and-others-respondent/); [cdnbbsr.s3waas.gov.in](https://cdnbbsr.s3waas.gov.in/s3bc7f621451b4f5df308a8e098112185d/uploads/2024/11/20241130609778589.pdf)
**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:** 16
**display title redacted:** Haldwani Woman vs State of Uttarakhand 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': '2018-07-24', 'action_type': 'Order issued', 'status': 'Concluded', 'authority': 'Uttarakhand High Court', 'independence': 'External', 'legal_effect': 'Binding', 'description': 'The Uttarakhand High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 500,000.', 'disposition': 'Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)', 'source': '(2018) 07 UK CK 0124', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://www.courtkutchehry.com/judgements/965314/smt-kalawati-rawat-appellant-hash-state-of-uttarakhand-and-others-respondent/', 'link_checked': None}; {'url': 'https://cdnbbsr.s3waas.gov.in/s3bc7f621451b4f5df308a8e098112185d/uploads/2024/11/20241130609778589.pdf', '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:** Custodial death with post-mortem injuries; Rs 5 lakh compensation plus CBI probe and dept inquiry against SI.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Adverse finding + compensation.

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