# Cuttack Man vs State Of Odisha & Others

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## Report card

By judgment dated 23 July 2026 in CRLMP No.790 of 2026, the Orissa High Court (Coram: R.K. Pattanaik, J.) returned findings adverse to the accused police personnel, and directed payment of compensation of Rs 30,000.

- Register number: OD 05 CW 0008
- Case reference: CRLMP No.790 of 2026 / 2026 LiveLaw (Ori) 87
- Court and date: Orissa High Court (Coram: R.K. Pattanaik, J.), 23 July 2026
- Officer(s) at the material time: Not identified in the cited sources (Lalbag Police Station)
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Not stated in the cited sources
- Finding of the Court (extract): “Depending on the outcome of the enquiry to be held by the learned court below and also opposite party No.2, this Court is inclined to award a compensation of Rs.30,000/- (Rupees thirty thousand) payable to the petitioner in view of …” (at para 8)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum: Adverse finding + compensation. Sentence: compensation only. Compensation: Rs 30,000.
- 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://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/2026/07/31/bikram-mohapatra-v-state-of-odisha-690711.pdf); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2026-0031)

**Record:** CW-2026-0031 (compiler id CWC-0291); case ODISHA-015; aliases: CWC-1447
**Title:** Cuttack Man vs State Of Odisha & Others
**Court:** Orissa High Court; judges: R.K. Pattanaik
**Case number / citation:** CRLMP No.790 of 2026 / 2026 LiveLaw (Ori) 87
**Judgment:** 2026-07-23 (2026, day precision)
**Incident date:** 2026-05-12 (2026)
**Place:** Cuttack, Odisha; city town: Cuttack; police station or unit: Lalbag Police Station; force: state_police
**Category:** Violence & unlawful detention
**Sub-category:** illegal detention false imprisonment
**Outcome:** Adverse finding + compensation (adverse_finding_compensation)
**Officers (gated display forms):** None named (1 in record)
**Victims:** Cuttack man, age 63 (1 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** compensation only; Rs 30,000
**Sentence type:** compensation only (compensation_only)

The judgment of the Orissa High Court records the following account. A Cuttack man, a 63-year-old furniture shop owner, was arrested from his shop near Cuttack Chandi Mandir Chowk on 12 May 2026 by Lalbag Police Station on a purported non-bailable warrant in a 2001 criminal case. Subsequent judicial inquiries by the SDJM Bhubaneswar confirmed that the warrant was a counterfeit forgery bearing a fake court seal, and that Mohapatra had no connection whatsoever to the case. The Orissa High Court found the arrest and detention prima facie illegal in violation of Article 21. The Court awarded Rs. 30,000 interim compensation to the petitioner, recoverable from the police or court officials found responsible upon conclusion of inquiries by the SDJM and DCP Cuttack. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> Depending on the outcome of the enquiry to be held by the learned court below and also opposite party No.2, this Court is inclined to award a compensation of Rs.30,000/- (Rupees thirty thousand) payable to the petitioner in view of the illegal arrest and detention prima facie proved considering the materials on record, recovery of which, shall be from the police officials/staff whosoever responsible either of the P.S. concerned or the court below shall be subject to the result of enquiry held and concluded.

**Sources (3):** [livelaw.in](https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/2026/07/31/bikram-mohapatra-v-state-of-odisha-690711.pdf); [livelaw.in](https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/orissa-high-court/orissa-high-court-orders-enquiry-compensation-illegal-detention-forged-nbw-543745); [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/53194397/)
**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:** 8
**display title redacted:** Cuttack Man vs State Of Odisha & 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': '2026-07-23', 'action_type': 'Order issued', 'status': 'Concluded', 'authority': 'Orissa High Court', 'independence': 'External', 'legal_effect': 'Binding', 'description': 'The Orissa High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 30,000.', 'disposition': 'Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)', 'source': '2026 LiveLaw (Ori) 87', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/2026/07/31/bikram-mohapatra-v-state-of-odisha-690711.pdf', 'link_checked': None}; {'url': 'https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/orissa-high-court/orissa-high-court-orders-enquiry-compensation-illegal-detention-forged-nbw-543745', 'link_checked': None}; {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/53194397/', '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:** Orissa HC held arrest on forged NBW prima facie illegal detention violating Article 21, awarding Rs. 30,000 compensation recoverable from police/court personnel responsible.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Adverse finding + compensation.

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