# Jehanabad Woman vs The State of Bihar & Ors

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## Report card

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).

- Register number: BR 25 CW 0002
- Case reference: Criminal Writ Jurisdiction Case No. 989 of 2025 / 2025(4) PLJR 230; 2025 (6) BLJ 52
- Court and date: Patna High Court (Coram: Rajeev Ranjan Prasad, Sourendra Pandey, JJ.), 1 September 2025
- Officer(s) at the material time: Station House Officer, Makhdumpur PS, Jehanabad; Station House Officer, Town PS, Jehanabad; Investigating Officer, Jehanabad Town PS Case No. 337 of 2025
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Article 226 of the Constitution of India; Section 35 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023; Section 48 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023; Section 187(1) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023
- Finding of the Court (extract): “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” (at para 31)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum: Adverse finding + compensation. Sentence: compensation only. Compensation: Rs 2 lakh (Rs 2,00,000).
- Present status of the proceedings: The judgment is recent and may be subject to appeal; the pendency of an appeal is not a finding.
- Source orders: [Judgment / order (primary source)](https://patnahighcourt.gov.in/ILR/viewpdf.aspx?T=EN&ID=MzQ5MQ%3d%3d-5ya4Hpd9X8E%3d); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2025-0017)

**Record:** CW-2025-0017 (compiler id CWC-0044); case EAST---NORTHEAST-001
**Title:** Jehanabad Woman vs The State of Bihar & Ors
**Court:** Patna High Court; judges: Rajeev Ranjan Prasad; Sourendra Pandey
**Case number / citation:** Criminal Writ Jurisdiction Case No. 989 of 2025 / 2025(4) PLJR 230; 2025 (6) BLJ 52
**Judgment:** 2025-09-01 (2025, day precision)
**Incident date:** 2025-04-29 (2025)
**Place:** Jehanabad, Bihar; city town: Jehanabad; police station or unit: Makhdumpur Police Station and Town Police Station, Jehanabad; force: state_police
**Category:** Violence & unlawful detention
**Sub-category:** illegal detention false imprisonment
**Outcome:** Adverse finding + compensation (adverse_finding_compensation)
**Sections:** Constitution Art. 226; BNSS s.35; BNSS s.48; BNSS s.187(1)
**Officers (gated display forms):** Station House Officer, Makhdumpur PS, Jehanabad; Station House Officer, Town PS, Jehanabad; Investigating Officer, Jehanabad Town PS Case No. 337 of 2025 (3 in record)
**Victims:** Jehanabad woman; Jehanabad man (2 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** compensation only; Rs 2 lakh (Rs 2,00,000)
**Sentence type:** compensation only (compensation_only)

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.

> 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

**Sources (2):** [patnahighcourt.gov.in](https://patnahighcourt.gov.in/ILR/viewpdf.aspx?T=EN&ID=MzQ5MQ%3d%3d-5ya4Hpd9X8E%3d); [samvidalaw.com](https://www.samvidalaw.com/illegal-police-detention-and-compensation-ordered-patna-high-court-2025/)
**Verification:** V2 · Externally reported
**Review:** Solo Staff combined review (one combined attestation) — not yet recorded
**admin category:** misconduct
**admin subcategory:** illegal_detention_false_imprisonment
**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:** 31
**display title redacted:** Jehanabad Woman vs The State of Bihar & 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': \['court_quote_para', 'sections'\]}
**followup status:** checked
**institutional response:** {'date': '2025-09-01', 'action_type': 'Order issued', 'status': 'Concluded', 'authority': 'Patna High Court', 'independence': 'External', 'legal_effect': 'Binding', 'description': 'The Patna High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 200,000.', 'disposition': 'Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)', 'source': '2025(4) PLJR 230; 2025 (6) BLJ 52', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://patnahighcourt.gov.in/ILR/viewpdf.aspx?T=EN&ID=MzQ5MQ%3d%3d-5ya4Hpd9X8E%3d', 'link_checked': None}; {'url': 'https://www.samvidalaw.com/illegal-police-detention-and-compensation-ordered-patna-high-court-2025/', 'link_checked': None}
**retracted:** {"is_retracted": false}
**service:** police
**source assessment:** {"established": null, "basis": null}
**status:** current
**subcategory display:** illegal detention false imprisonment
**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:** Illegal detention of two; Rs 1L each verified via citations + secondary (PDF fetch failed).
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Adverse finding + compensation.

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