# Satgawan Man vs State of Jharkhand

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## Report card

By judgment dated 24 March 2022 in W.P.(Cr.) No. 287 of 2017, the Jharkhand High Court (Coram: Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) returned findings adverse to the Police personnel, Satgawan Police Station, Koderma, and directed payment of compensation of Rs 50,000.

- Register number: JH 12 CW 0002
- Case reference: W.P.(Cr.) No. 287 of 2017
- Court and date: Jharkhand High Court (Coram: Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.), 24 March 2022
- Officer(s) at the material time: Police personnel, Satgawan Police Station, Koderma
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Not stated in the cited sources
- Finding of the Court (extract): “the deceased was wrongfully deprived of the right of personal liberty by the police authority of the respondent-State for around 16 hours” (at para 6)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum: Adverse finding + compensation. Sentence: compensation only. Compensation: Rs 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/9497780/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2022-0003)

**Record:** CW-2022-0003 (compiler id CWC-0181); case EAST---NORTHEAST-003
**Title:** Satgawan Man vs State of Jharkhand
**Court:** Jharkhand High Court; judges: Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi
**Case number / citation:** W.P.(Cr.) No. 287 of 2017
**Judgment:** 2022-03-24 (2022, day precision)
**Incident date:** 2017-03-13 (2017)
**Place:** Koderma, Jharkhand; city town: Satgawan; police station or unit: Satgawan Police Station, Koderma; force: state_police
**Category:** Violence & unlawful detention
**Sub-category:** illegal detention false imprisonment
**Outcome:** Adverse finding + compensation (adverse_finding_compensation)
**Officers (gated display forms):** Police personnel, Satgawan Police Station, Koderma (1 in record)
**Victims:** Satgawan man (1 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** compensation only; Rs 50,000
**Sentence type:** compensation only (compensation_only)

The Jharkhand High Court held that a Satgawan man was wrongfully confined by Satgawan police for around 16 hours on 13-14 March 2017. The petitioner alleged he was also beaten after abir/gulal was put on a chowkidar during Holi festivities, but the court held the torture/death question not proved ('How the death has occurred, that has not been proved') and compensated only the Article 21 deprivation of personal liberty: Rs 50,000 within four weeks, recoverable from the erring officers, with civil and criminal remedies for the wrongful confinement expressly preserved. The State's version (UD case, death in hospital, one officer departmentally punished) is on record at para 4. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> the deceased was wrongfully deprived of the right of personal liberty by the police authority of the respondent-State for around 16 hours

**Sources (2):** [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/9497780/); [sabrangindia.in](https://sabrangindia.in/jharkhand-hc-awards-compensation-illegal-detention-not-custodial-death/)
**Verification:** V2 · Externally reported
**Review:** Solo Staff combined review (one combined attestation) — not yet recorded
**admin category:** brutality
**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:** 6
**display title redacted:** Satgawan Man vs State of Jharkhand
**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': 'wrong_facts', 'corrections_applied': \['court_quote_para', 'summary'\]}
**followup status:** checked
**institutional response:** {'date': '2022-03-24', 'action_type': 'Order issued', 'status': 'Concluded', 'authority': 'Jharkhand High Court', 'independence': 'External', 'legal_effect': 'Binding', 'description': 'The Jharkhand High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 50,000.', 'disposition': 'Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)', 'source': 'W.P.(Cr.) No. 287 of 2017', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/9497780/', 'link_checked': None}; {'url': 'https://sabrangindia.in/jharkhand-hc-awards-compensation-illegal-detention-not-custodial-death/', '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:** Jharkhand HC held ~16-hour wrongful confinement by Satgawan police violated Art.21; Rs 50,000 compensation.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Adverse finding + compensation.

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