# Sri Bengaluru Man vs Official Liquidator of M/s India Holiday (Pvt.) Ltd. (in liquidation)

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## Report card

By judgment dated 7 July 2022 in Company Application No. 96 of 2022 in Company Petition No. 26 of 2008, the Karnataka High Court (Coram: Suraj Govindaraj, J.) returned findings adverse to the Police Officer, and directed payment of compensation of Rs 5 lakh (Rs 5,00,000).

- Register number: KA 01 CW 0026
- Case reference: Company Application No. 96 of 2022 in Company Petition No. 26 of 2008 / 2022 SCC OnLine Kar 1162
- Court and date: Karnataka High Court (Coram: Suraj Govindaraj, J.), 7 July 2022
- Officer(s) at the material time: Police Officer
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Article 21 of the Constitution of India; Rule 6 of the Companies (Court) Rules, 1959; Rule 9 of the Companies (Court) Rules, 1959
- Finding of the Court (extract): “It is rather shocking that a person has been arrested without ascertaining whether he was the person who was required to be arrested and that the warrant had been issued against him. Though the arrestee had disputed that he was …” (at para 2)
- 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://indiankanoon.org/doc/55329810/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2022-0013)

**Record:** CW-2022-0013 (compiler id CWC-0193); case SWILLEGA-018
**Title:** Sri Bengaluru Man vs Official Liquidator of M/s India Holiday (Pvt.) Ltd. (in liquidation)
**Court:** Karnataka High Court; judges: Suraj Govindaraj
**Case number / citation:** Company Application No. 96 of 2022 in Company Petition No. 26 of 2008 / 2022 SCC OnLine Kar 1162
**Judgment:** 2022-07-07 (2022, day precision)
**Incident date:** Not stated (2022)
**Place:** Bengaluru Urban, Karnataka; city town: Bengaluru; force: state_police
**Category:** Violence & unlawful detention
**Sub-category:** illegal detention false imprisonment
**Outcome:** Adverse finding + compensation (adverse_finding_compensation)
**Sections:** Constitution Art. 21; Companies (Court) Rules 1959 r.6; Companies (Court) Rules 1959 r.9
**Officers (gated display forms):** Police Officer (1 in record)
**Victims:** Bengaluru man, age 56 (1 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** compensation only; Rs 5 lakh (Rs 5,00,000)
**Sentence type:** compensation only (compensation_only)

The Karnataka High Court awarded Rs 5,00,000 compensation to a 56-year-old man who was wrongfully arrested by police under a company court warrant issued against an ex-director of a company in liquidation, solely because the applicant shared a similar father's name. Despite the applicant's explicit protests that he was not the person named in the warrant, the police failed to verify his identity. The court held that arresting an innocent person without identity verification violates Article 21, directed the State to pay compensation with liberty to recover from the arresting officers, and ordered the DGP Karnataka to frame SOP guidelines and train arresting officers on identity verification. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> It is rather shocking that a person has been arrested without ascertaining whether he was the person who was required to be arrested and that the warrant had been issued against him. Though the arrestee had disputed that he was the person named in the warrant and the applicability of the warrant to him, his identification was not cross-checked and verified resulting an innocent person being arrested.

**Sources (2):** [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/55329810/); [livelaw.in](https://www.livelaw.in/news-updates/karnataka-high-court-5-lakh-compensation-innocent-person-arrested-warrant-sop-dgp-203507)
**Verification:** V2 · Externally reported
**Review:** Solo Staff combined review (one combined attestation) — not yet recorded
**admin category:** misconduct
**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:** 2
**display title redacted:** Sri Bengaluru Man vs Official Liquidator of M/s India Holiday (Pvt.) Ltd. (in liquidation)
**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': '2022-07-07', 'action_type': 'Order issued', 'status': 'Concluded', 'authority': 'Karnataka High Court', 'independence': 'External', 'legal_effect': 'Binding', 'description': 'The Karnataka High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 500,000.', 'disposition': 'Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)', 'source': '2022 SCC OnLine Kar 1162', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/55329810/', 'link_checked': None}; {'url': 'https://www.livelaw.in/news-updates/karnataka-high-court-5-lakh-compensation-innocent-person-arrested-warrant-sop-dgp-203507', '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:** Karnataka HC awarded Rs 5 lakh compensation for illegal arrest of wrong person on warrant without identity verification, with liberty to recover from arresting police officers.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Adverse finding + compensation.

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