# Agartala Woman vs The State of Tripura and Others

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## Report card

By judgment dated 21 September 2022 in WP(C) (PIL) No. 25 of 2021, the Tripura High Court (Coram: Indrajit Mahanty, S.G. Chattopadhyay, JJ.) returned findings adverse to the accused police personnel, and directed payment of compensation of Rs 2.5 lakh (Rs 2,50,000).

- Register number: TR 01 CW 0004
- Case reference: WP(C) (PIL) No. 25 of 2021 / 2022 SCC OnLine Tri 635
- Court and date: Tripura High Court (Coram: Indrajit Mahanty, S.G. Chattopadhyay, JJ.), 21 September 2022
- Officer(s) at the material time: Not identified in the cited sources (GB TOP, Agartala)
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Article 21 of the Constitution of India
- Finding of the Court (extract): “But, apparently, she was deprived of those safeguards and she was tortured and maltreated in police custody.” (at para 20)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum: Adverse finding + compensation. Sentence: compensation only. Compensation: Rs 2.5 lakh (Rs 2,50,000).
- 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://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/court-on-its-own-motion-v-the-state-of-tripura-and-others-wpc-pil-no25-of-2021-436532.pdf); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2022-0020)

**Record:** CW-2022-0020 (compiler id CWC-0274); case SWILLEGA-063; aliases: CWC-0572
**Title:** Agartala Woman vs The State of Tripura and Others
**Court:** Tripura High Court; judges: Indrajit Mahanty; S.G. Chattopadhyay
**Case number / citation:** WP(C) (PIL) No. 25 of 2021 / 2022 SCC OnLine Tri 635
**Judgment:** 2022-09-21 (2022, day precision)
**Incident date:** 2021-10-26 (2021)
**Place:** West Tripura, Tripura; city town: Agartala; police station or unit: GB TOP, Agartala; force: state_police
**Category:** Violence & unlawful detention
**Sub-category:** custodial torture
**Outcome:** Adverse finding + compensation (adverse_finding_compensation)
**Sections:** Constitution Art. 21
**Officers (gated display forms):** None named (0 in record)
**Victims:** Agartala woman, age 28 (1 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** compensation only; Rs 2.5 lakh (Rs 2,50,000)
**Sentence type:** compensation only (compensation_only)

The judgment of the Tripura High Court records the following account. A Division Bench took suo motu PIL on a newspaper report that a 28-year-old woman called for interrogation in an unverified theft complaint was beaten in the GB TOP lockup on 26 October 2021 without any arrest or case. Rejecting the State's denial, the court held on medical evidence of abrasions on both buttocks and hospital admission that she was detained for a considerable period for interrogation, deprived of D.K. Basu safeguards, and tortured and maltreated in police custody. It directed the State to pay Rs 2.5 lakh compensation through the Court Registry within one month and directed the DGP to ensure D.K. Basu compliance. The court clarified its observations would not affect any prosecution. No individual officer is named in the judgment. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> But, apparently, she was deprived of those safeguards and she was tortured and maltreated in police custody.

**Sources (3):** [livelaw.in](https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/court-on-its-own-motion-v-the-state-of-tripura-and-others-wpc-pil-no25-of-2021-436532.pdf); [livelaw.in](https://www.livelaw.in/news-updates/tripura-high-court-grants-25lakh-compensation-28yrold-woman-tortured-maltreated-police-custody-210213); [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/32209059/)
**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:** 20
**display title redacted:** Agartala Woman vs The State of Tripura 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': '2022-09-21', 'action_type': 'Order issued', 'status': 'Concluded', 'authority': 'Tripura High Court', 'independence': 'External', 'legal_effect': 'Binding', 'description': 'The Tripura High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 250,000.', 'disposition': 'Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)', 'source': '2022 SCC OnLine Tri 635', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/court-on-its-own-motion-v-the-state-of-tripura-and-others-wpc-pil-no25-of-2021-436532.pdf', 'link_checked': None}; {'url': 'https://www.livelaw.in/news-updates/tripura-high-court-grants-25lakh-compensation-28yrold-woman-tortured-maltreated-police-custody-210213', 'link_checked': None}; {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/32209059/', '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:** Rs 2.5 lakh for custodial torture of woman; D.K. Basu compliance directed.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Adverse finding + compensation.

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