# Rehla Man vs State of Jharkhand

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## Report card

By judgment dated 24 April 2023 in W.P.(Cr.) No. 31 of 2013, the Jharkhand High Court (Coram: Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) returned findings adverse to the Police personnel, Rehla Police Station, Palamu, and directed payment of compensation of Rs 2.5 lakh (Rs 2,50,000).

- Register number: JH 03 CW 0006
- Case reference: W.P.(Cr.) No. 31 of 2013
- Court and date: Jharkhand High Court (Coram: Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.), 24 April 2023
- Officer(s) at the material time: Police personnel, Rehla Police Station, Palamu
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Article 21 of the Constitution of India; the Arms Act, 1959
- Finding of the Court (extract): “In view of the above it transpires that Article-21 of the Constitution of India has been violated at the instance of concerned officer of the respondent-State and the deceased was wrongfully deprived of the right of personal liberty by the …” (at para 6)
- 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://indiankanoon.org/doc/75956446/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2023-0010)

**Record:** CW-2023-0010 (compiler id CWC-0176); case JHARKH-006
**Title:** Rehla Man vs State of Jharkhand
**Court:** Jharkhand High Court; judges: Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi
**Case number / citation:** W.P.(Cr.) No. 31 of 2013
**Judgment:** 2023-04-24 (2023, day precision)
**Incident date:** 2006-09-10 (2006)
**Place:** Palamu, Jharkhand; city town: Rehla; police station or unit: Rehla Police Station, Palamu; force: state_police
**Category:** Violence & unlawful detention
**Sub-category:** custodial death
**Outcome:** Adverse finding + compensation (adverse_finding_compensation)
**Sections:** Constitution Art. 21; Arms Act
**Officers (gated display forms):** Police personnel, Rehla Police Station, Palamu (1 in record)
**Victims:** Rehla man (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 Jharkhand High Court records the following account. The petitioner's husband was arrested on 10 September 2006 by Rehla police and falsely implicated in an Arms Act case, and subsequently died unnaturally while in custody. Although jail authorities claimed death due to illness, the forensic science laboratory report detected pesticide (monocrotophos) in the viscera, and administrative inquiries confirmed the death occurred in custody. The Jharkhand High Court held that Article 21 was violated at the instance of concerned State officers and that the deceased was wrongfully deprived of his liberty, directing the State of Jharkhand to pay Rs. 2,50,000 compensation to the widow, recoverable from the erring officers. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> In view of the above it transpires that Article-21 of the Constitution of India has been violated at the instance of concerned officer of the respondent-State and the deceased was wrongfully deprived of the right of personal liberty by the police authority.

**Sources (1):** [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/75956446/)
**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:** 6
**display title redacted:** Rehla 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': 'holds', 'corrections_applied': \[\]}
**followup status:** checked
**institutional response:** {'date': '2023-04-24', '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 250,000.', 'disposition': 'Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)', 'source': 'W.P.(Cr.) No. 31 of 2013', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/75956446/', '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:** High Court awarded Rs 2.5 lakh compensation for custodial death of petitioner's husband falsely implicated under Arms Act by Rehla police.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Adverse finding + compensation.

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