The Patna High Court held that Jehanabad police illegally detained a Jehanabad woman, picked up from her home on 29 April 2025 and lodged in a shelter home for about five days, and a Jehanabad man, picked up as a suspect on 1 May 2025, without arrest memos, family intimation or production before a Magistrate. The Court found the detentions without any sanction of law and in violation of BNSS procedure and the D.K. Basu safeguards, with the State conceding it had no convincing defence. It awarded Rs 1,00,000 to each victim payable by the State within thirty days, recoverable from the salaries of the three erring officers, and directed the DGP to issue arrest and detention guidelines. A third detenue already in lawful judicial custody was excluded from relief. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.
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How verification works →By judgment dated 1 September 2025 in Criminal Writ Jurisdiction Case No. 989 of 2025, the Patna High Court (Coram: Rajeev Ranjan Prasad, Sourendra Pandey, JJ.) returned findings adverse to 3 police personnel, namely: Station House Officer, Makhdumpur PS, Jehanabad; Station House Officer, Town PS, Jehanabad; Investigating Officer, Jehanabad Town PS Case No. 337 of 2025, and directed payment of compensation of Rs 2 lakh (Rs 2,00,000).
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Judgment dated 1 September 2025. This judgment may still be subject to appeal; initiation or pendency of an appeal is not a finding.
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“Picking someone from his/her house in the name of interrogation without informing his/her family member/relatives/friend the reason and the place of detention and then keeping him/her in detention without obtaining an order from the Jurisdictional Magistrate is completely unlawful” (para 31)
The Patna High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 200,000.
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Corrections (0): No corrections recorded.
Review: Solo Staff combined review (one combined attestation) — not yet recorded.
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