# Garu Man vs State of Jharkhand and Ors.

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## Report card

By judgment dated 22 June 2024 in W.P.(Cr.) No. 509 of 2022, the Jharkhand High Court (Coram: Ananda Sen, J.) returned findings adverse to the Sub-Inspector, Garu Police Station, Latehar, and directed payment of compensation of Rs 5 lakh (Rs 5,00,000).

- Register number: JH 19 CW 0005
- Case reference: W.P.(Cr.) No. 509 of 2022 / 2024 LiveLaw (Jha) 105
- Court and date: Jharkhand High Court (Coram: Ananda Sen, J.), 22 June 2024
- Officer(s) at the material time: Sub-Inspector, Garu Police Station, Latehar
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Not stated in the cited sources
- Finding of the Court (extract): “The police officials in most arbitrary manner had taken law in their hands and had tortured a poor citizen of this Country without there being any material against him.” (at para 5)
- 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://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/1719927546984-547559.pdf); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2024-0010)

**Record:** CW-2024-0010 (compiler id CWC-0762); case SWCUSTOD-002; aliases: CWC-0179; CWC-1463
**Title:** Garu Man vs State of Jharkhand and Ors.
**Court:** Jharkhand High Court; judges: Ananda Sen
**Case number / citation:** W.P.(Cr.) No. 509 of 2022 / 2024 LiveLaw (Jha) 105
**Judgment:** 2024-06-22 (2024, day precision)
**Incident date:** 2022-01-01 (2022)
**Place:** Latehar, Jharkhand; city town: Garu; police station or unit: Garu Police Station, Latehar; force: state_police
**Category:** Violence & unlawful detention
**Sub-category:** custodial torture
**Outcome:** Adverse finding + compensation (adverse_finding_compensation)
**Officers (gated display forms):** Sub-Inspector, Garu Police Station, Latehar (2 in record)
**Victims:** Garu man (1 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** compensation only; Rs 5 lakh (Rs 5,00,000)
**Sentence type:** compensation only (compensation_only)

A Garu man was forcibly taken from his home in 2022 by Garu police led by SI, confined at the police station for three days and mercilessly assaulted with lathis to coerce an admission of helping naxals, then released when police realised he was the wrong person — facts the Court recorded as admitted by the State. The police had submitted a chargesheet against the SI and other officials, and the State had sanctioned only Rs 50,000 as compensation. The High Court held that Rs 50,000 was inadequate for such arbitrary torture of a citizen against whom there was no material, enhanced compensation to Rs 5,00,000 payable by the State within two weeks, and directed recovery of the amount from the torturing officials within two months. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> The police officials in most arbitrary manner had taken law in their hands and had tortured a poor citizen of this Country without there being any material against him.

**Sources (3):** [livelaw.in](https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/1719927546984-547559.pdf); [livelaw.in](https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/jharkhand-high-court/jharkhand-high-court-orders-5-lakh-compensation-victim-police-brutality-wrongly-taken-custody-tortured-directs-recovery-from-accused-officer-262202); [lawtrend.in](https://lawtrend.in/jharkhand-high-court-directs-compensation-of-rs-5-lakh-to-police-brutality-victim-funds-to-be-recovered-from-officer/)
**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:** 5
**display title redacted:** Garu Man vs State of Jharkhand and Ors.
**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': '2024-06-22', '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': '2024 LiveLaw (Jha) 105', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/1719927546984-547559.pdf', 'link_checked': None}; {'url': 'https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/jharkhand-high-court/jharkhand-high-court-orders-5-lakh-compensation-victim-police-brutality-wrongly-taken-custody-tortured-directs-recovery-from-accused-officer-262202', 'link_checked': None}; {'url': 'https://lawtrend.in/jharkhand-high-court-directs-compensation-of-rs-5-lakh-to-police-brutality-victim-funds-to-be-recovered-from-officer/', '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:** High Court held the petitioner was illegally taken into custody and tortured for three days in a mistaken-identity case and enhanced compensation to Rs 5 lakh, recoverable from the torturing officials.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Adverse finding + compensation.

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