# Lesliganj Man vs The State of Jharkhand

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## Report card

By judgment dated 26 April 2023 in W.P.(Cr.) No. 50 of 2017, the Jharkhand High Court (Coram: Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) returned findings adverse to 4 police personnel, namely: Officer-in-Charge, Lesliganj Police Station, Palamu; Constable, Lesliganj Police Station, Palamu; Constable, Lesliganj Police Station, Palamu; Constable, Lesliganj Police Station, Palamu, and directed payment of compensation of Rs 5 lakh (Rs 5,00,000).

- Register number: JH 03 CW 0007
- Case reference: W.P.(Cr.) No. 50 of 2017
- Court and date: Jharkhand High Court (Coram: Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.), 26 April 2023
- Officer(s) at the material time: Officer-in-Charge, Lesliganj Police Station, Palamu; Constable, Lesliganj Police Station, Palamu; Constable, Lesliganj Police Station, Palamu; Constable, Lesliganj Police Station, Palamu
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Not stated in the cited sources
- Finding of the Court (extract): “The death has occurred due to torture and highhandedness of the police and concocted story of suicide has been made out by the police.” (at para 6)
- 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/109523448/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2023-0012)

**Record:** CW-2023-0012 (compiler id CWC-0182); case JHARKH-012
**Title:** Lesliganj Man vs The State of Jharkhand
**Court:** Jharkhand High Court; judges: Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi
**Case number / citation:** W.P.(Cr.) No. 50 of 2017
**Judgment:** 2023-04-26 (2023, day precision)
**Incident date:** 2014-09-09 (2014)
**Place:** Palamu, Jharkhand; city town: Lesliganj; police station or unit: Lesliganj Police Station, Palamu; force: state_police
**Category:** Violence & unlawful detention
**Sub-category:** custodial death
**Outcome:** Adverse finding + compensation (adverse_finding_compensation)
**Officers (gated display forms):** Officer-in-Charge, Lesliganj Police Station, Palamu; Constable, Lesliganj Police Station, Palamu; Constable, Lesliganj Police Station, Palamu; Constable, Lesliganj Police Station, Palamu (4 in record)
**Victims:** Lesliganj man (1 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** compensation only; Rs 5 lakh (Rs 5,00,000)
**Sentence type:** compensation only (compensation_only)

The Jharkhand High Court (Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) held a Lesliganj man was a victim of custodial violence who died in police custody. The OIC-led party had seized him from his home at Lukuwa on 9 September 2014 when his son was absent; photographs and the post-mortem showed multiple injuries, fortifying that death was due to police torture and highhandedness with a concocted suicide story in a perfunctory final form. The Court held Article 21 violated, awarded Rs. 5,00,000 compensation within four weeks recoverable from the erring officers (without precluding civil/criminal remedies), and directed the DGP Jharkhand to reopen and reinvestigate the case against the erring officials. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> The death has occurred due to torture and highhandedness of the police and concocted story of suicide has been made out by the police.

**Sources (2):** [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/109523448/); [the-laws.com](https://www.the-laws.com/encyclopedia/browse/Case?caseId=903202898000&title=urmila-devi-vs-state-of-jharkhand)
**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:** Lesliganj Man vs The 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': \['court_quote_para'\]}
**followup status:** checked
**institutional response:** {'date': '2023-04-26', '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 500,000.', 'disposition': 'Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)', 'source': 'W.P.(Cr.) No. 50 of 2017', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/109523448/', 'link_checked': None}; {'url': 'https://www.the-laws.com/encyclopedia/browse/Case?caseId=903202898000&title=urmila-devi-vs-state-of-jharkhand', '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:** Primary judgment verified: custodial death by torture found; Rs 5 lakh + DGP reinvestigation ordered.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Adverse finding + compensation.

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