# Taranagar Man vs State of Rajasthan

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## Report card

By judgment dated 11 July 2025 in S.B. Criminal Revision Petition No. 839/2025, the Rajasthan High Court (Coram: Manoj Kumar Garg, J.) returned findings adverse to 2 police personnel, namely: SHO, Taranagar Police Station, Churu; Investigating Officer, Taranagar Police Station, Churu, and directed payment of compensation of Rs 2 lakh (Rs 2,00,000).

- Register number: RJ 10 CW 0005
- Case reference: S.B. Criminal Revision Petition No. 839/2025 / 2025:RJ-JD:30277
- Court and date: Rajasthan High Court (Coram: Manoj Kumar Garg, J.), 11 July 2025
- Officer(s) at the material time: SHO, Taranagar Police Station, Churu; Investigating Officer, Taranagar Police Station, Churu
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Section 115(2) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023; Section 140(3) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023; Section 189(2) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023; Section 110 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023; Section 117(2) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023; Section 127(2) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023; Section 126(2) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023; Section 140(4) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023; Section 191(3) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023; Section 191(2) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023; Section 190 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023; Section 189 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023
- Finding of the Court (extract): “The Station House Officer and the Investigating Officer cannot be absolved of responsibility for their role in falsely implicating the petitioner, ostensibly to shield the actual perpetrators.” (at para n/a)
- 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://indiankanoon.org/doc/38132813/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2025-0043)

**Record:** CW-2025-0043 (compiler id CWC-0903); case GAP2-56-001
**Title:** Taranagar Man vs State of Rajasthan
**Court:** Rajasthan High Court; bench: Jodhpur; judges: Manoj Kumar Garg
**Case number / citation:** S.B. Criminal Revision Petition No. 839/2025 / 2025:RJ-JD:30277
**Judgment:** 2025-07-11 (2025, day precision)
**Incident date:** 2025-03-14 (2025)
**Place:** Churu, Rajasthan; city town: Taranagar; police station or unit: Taranagar Police Station; force: state_police
**Category:** Other misconduct
**Sub-category:** false implication fabrication
**Outcome:** Adverse finding + compensation (adverse_finding_compensation)
**Sections:** BNS 115(2); BNS 140(3); BNS 189(2); BNS 110; BNS 117(2); BNS 127(2); BNS 126(2); BNS 140(4); BNS 191(3); BNS 191(2); BNS 190; BNSS 189
**Officers (gated display forms):** SHO, Taranagar Police Station, Churu; Investigating Officer, Taranagar Police Station, Churu (2 in record)
**Victims:** Taranagar man, age 29 (1 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** compensation only; Rs 2 lakh (Rs 2,00,000)
**Sentence type:** compensation only (compensation_only)

The judgment of the Rajasthan High Court records the following account. A Taranagar man, a resident of Bheemsana (Churu) who the court notes appears to be a visually impaired person, was chargesheeted in FIR 63/2025 at Taranagar for abduction and assault though the written report named Ramniwas, Sonu, Pratap etc., and was lodged in Central Jail Churu. On his brother's plea the SP Churu assigned re-investigation to a trainee IPS officer, who found him falsely implicated, but the Sessions Court rejected the IO's Section 189 BNSS release application on technical grounds. The Rajasthan High Court (Jodhpur) set aside that order and directed his release on a Rs 10,000 bond. The court recorded that law-enforcement officials had deliberately and maliciously implicated an innocent person to shield the actual perpetrators, directed a departmental inquiry against the erring SHO and IO, and ordered Rs 2,00,000 compensation conditional on medical confirmation of the visual impairment. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> The Station House Officer and the Investigating Officer cannot be absolved of responsibility for their role in falsely implicating the petitioner, ostensibly to shield the actual perpetrators.

**Sources (2):** [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/38132813/); [bhaskarenglish.in](https://www.bhaskarenglish.in/local/rajasthan/jodhpur/news/rajasthan-high-court-frees-blind-man-framed-in-false-kidnapping-case-orders-compensation-and-probe-against-police-officials-135436325.html)
**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:** n/a
**display title redacted:** Taranagar Man vs State of Rajasthan
**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': \['summary'\]}
**followup status:** checked
**institutional response:** {'date': '2025-07-11', 'action_type': 'Order issued', 'status': 'Concluded', 'authority': 'Rajasthan High Court', 'independence': 'External', 'legal_effect': 'Binding', 'description': 'The Rajasthan 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:RJ-JD:30277', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/38132813/', 'link_checked': None}; {'url': 'https://www.bhaskarenglish.in/local/rajasthan/jodhpur/news/rajasthan-high-court-frees-blind-man-framed-in-false-kidnapping-case-orders-compensation-and-probe-against-police-officials-135436325.html', '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:** HC judgment verified on Indian Kanoon; deliberate false implication found, release plus conditional compensation ordered.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Adverse finding + compensation.

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