# Suti Man v. State of West Bengal and Others

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## Report card

By judgment dated 14 November 2025 in WPA 24157 of 2025, the Calcutta High Court (Coram: Suvra Ghosh, J.) returned findings adverse to the Unknown, Suti Police Station, Murshidabad, and directed payment of compensation of Rs 50,000.

- Register number: WB 57 CW 0002
- Case reference: WPA 24157 of 2025
- Court and date: Calcutta High Court (Coram: Suvra Ghosh, J.), 14 November 2025
- Officer(s) at the material time: Unknown, Suti Police Station, Murshidabad
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Not stated in the cited sources
- Finding of the Court (extract): “It is not acceptable that a person is detained in custody for as many as 30 days without any fault on his part merely on the ground of some clerical mistake or unintentional error.” (at para n/a)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum: Adverse finding + compensation. Sentence: compensation only. Compensation: Rs 50,000.
- 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://indiankanoon.org/doc/12905607/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2025-0034)

**Record:** CW-2025-0034 (compiler id CWC-0749); case SWILLEGA-076
**Title:** Suti Man v. State of West Bengal and Others
**Court:** Calcutta High Court; judges: Suvra Ghosh
**Case number / citation:** WPA 24157 of 2025
**Judgment:** 2025-11-14 (2025, day precision)
**Incident date:** 2025-04-15 (2025)
**Place:** Murshidabad, West Bengal; city town: Suti; police station or unit: Suti Police Station, Murshidabad; force: state_police
**Category:** Violence & unlawful detention
**Sub-category:** illegal detention false imprisonment
**Outcome:** Adverse finding + compensation (adverse_finding_compensation)
**Officers (gated display forms):** Unknown, Suti Police Station, Murshidabad (1 in record)
**Victims:** Suti man (1 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** compensation only; Rs 50,000
**Sentence type:** compensation only (compensation_only)

The Calcutta High Court (Justice Suvra Ghosh) ordered the State to pay Rs 50,000 within seven days to a Suti man @ a Suti man for 30 days of admittedly illegal detention. It was the admitted position that the petitioner, who had no nexus whatsoever with Suti PS Case No.404/2025 dated 15 April 2025 (though accused in other cases), was kept in custody in that case, with the State attributing it to inadvertent clerical mistake and unintentional error. The Court held such faultless 30-day custody unacceptable, granted compensation citing D.G. & I.G. of Police v. Prem Sagar (1999) 5 SCC 700, and made the order peremptory and mandatory. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> It is not acceptable that a person is detained in custody for as many as 30 days without any fault on his part merely on the ground of some clerical mistake or unintentional error.

**Sources (1):** [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/12905607/)
**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:** n/a
**display title redacted:** Suti Man v. State of West Bengal and Others
**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': '2025-11-14', 'action_type': 'Order issued', 'status': 'Concluded', 'authority': 'Calcutta High Court', 'independence': 'External', 'legal_effect': 'Binding', 'description': 'The Calcutta High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 50,000.', 'disposition': 'Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)', 'source': 'WPA 24157 of 2025', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/12905607/', '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:** Calcutta HC short order verified verbatim on Indian Kanoon; admitted 30-day detention, Rs 50,000 in 7 days matches.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Adverse finding + compensation.

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