# State Delhi Woman & Anr.

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## Report card

By judgment dated 1 August 2023 in CRL.A. No. 229/2023, the Delhi High Court (Coram: Suresh Kumar Kait, Neena Bansal Krishna, JJ.) returned findings adverse to the accused police personnel, and directed payment of compensation of Rs 1 lakh (Rs 1,00,000).

- Register number: DL 05 CW 0021
- Case reference: CRL.A. No. 229/2023 / 2023:DHC:5910-DB; 2023 LiveLaw (Del) 725
- Court and date: Delhi High Court (Coram: Suresh Kumar Kait, Neena Bansal Krishna, JJ.), 1 August 2023
- Officer(s) at the material time: Not identified in the cited sources (Police Station Mansarovar Park (FIR 103/2014))
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 120B of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 23 of the JJ Act, 2000
- Finding of the Court (extract): “The present case is a classic example of terrible investigation at the hands of investigating agency of the prosecution, where despite lacking material substance against the respondents/accused, the prosecution floated the trial.” (at para 24)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum: Adverse finding + compensation. Sentence: compensation only. Compensation: Rs 1 lakh (Rs 1,00,000).
- 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://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/judgementphp-488050.pdf); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2023-0020)

**Record:** CW-2023-0020 (compiler id CWC-0578); case SWFALSEI-008
**Title:** State Delhi Woman & Anr.
**Court:** Delhi High Court; judges: Suresh Kumar Kait; Neena Bansal Krishna
**Case number / citation:** CRL.A. No. 229/2023 / 2023:DHC:5910-DB; 2023 LiveLaw (Del) 725
**Judgment:** 2023-08-01 (2023, day precision)
**Incident date:** 2014-02-19 (2014)
**Place:** Shahdara, Delhi; city town: Delhi; police station or unit: Police Station Mansarovar Park (FIR 103/2014); force: state_police
**Category:** Other misconduct
**Sub-category:** false implication fabrication
**Outcome:** Adverse finding + compensation (adverse_finding_compensation)
**Sections:** IPC 302; IPC 120B; JJ Act 2000 s.23
**Officers (gated display forms):** None named (0 in record)
**Victims:** Delhi woman; Delhi man (2 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** compensation only; Rs 1 lakh (Rs 1,00,000)
**Sentence type:** compensation only (compensation_only)

After a 2-year-old's death in February 2014, Delhi Police (FIR 103/2014, PS Mansarovar Park) charged the paternal grandmother a Delhi woman and father \[name withheld\] with murder and cruelty; the trial court acquitted them of murder but convicted them under s.23 of the JJ Act 2000 (6 months, already undergone), which they were too poor to appeal. The Delhi High Court disposed of the State's appeal against the murder acquittal, holding the investigation terrible and unfair: a fall was never excluded, the rod/stick recovery was not exclusive knowledge, the father was at work, and the child's 5 kg weight showed chronic neglect rather than the alleged starvation. It set aside the JJ Act conviction in the interest of justice, awarded Rs.50,000 each at the cost of the prosecution, and cautioned prosecution agencies against casual appeals.

> The present case is a classic example of terrible investigation at the hands of investigating agency of the prosecution, where despite lacking material substance against the respondents/accused, the prosecution floated the trial.

**Sources (3):** [livelaw.in](https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/judgementphp-488050.pdf); [livelaw.in](https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/delhi-high-court/delhi-high-court-delhi-police-investigation-unfair-compensate-murder-accused-infant-death-235845); [verdictum.in](https://www.verdictum.in/court-updates/high-courts/murder-case-of-two-year-old-grandmother-father-accused-delhi-hc-grants-compensation-1491127)
**Verification:** V2 · Externally reported
**Review:** Solo Staff combined review (one combined attestation) — not yet recorded
**admin category:** misconduct
**admin subcategory:** false_implication_fabrication
**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:** 24
**display title redacted:** State Delhi Woman & Anr.
**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': '2023-08-01', 'action_type': 'Order issued', 'status': 'Concluded', 'authority': 'Delhi High Court', 'independence': 'External', 'legal_effect': 'Binding', 'description': 'The Delhi High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 100,000.', 'disposition': 'Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)', 'source': '2023:DHC:5910-DB; 2023 LiveLaw (Del) 725', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/judgementphp-488050.pdf', 'link_checked': None}; {'url': 'https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/delhi-high-court/delhi-high-court-delhi-police-investigation-unfair-compensate-murder-accused-infant-death-235845', 'link_checked': None}; {'url': 'https://www.verdictum.in/court-updates/high-courts/murder-case-of-two-year-old-grandmother-father-accused-delhi-hc-grants-compensation-1491127', 'link_checked': None}
**retracted:** {"is_retracted": false}
**service:** police
**source assessment:** {"established": null, "basis": null}
**status:** current
**subcategory display:** false implication fabrication
**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:** Delhi HC held terrible/unfair police investigation, set aside JJ Act conviction, awarded Rs.50k each.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Adverse finding + compensation.

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