# Noida Woman vs Union of India and 4 Others

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## Report card

By judgment dated Date not stated in Habeas Corpus Writ Petition No. 960 of 2026, the Allahabad High Court (Coram: Atul Sreedharan, Achal Sachdev, JJ.) returned findings adverse to the SHO, Police Station, Gautam Buddha Nagar, and directed payment of compensation of Rs 5 lakh (Rs 5,00,000).

- Register number: UP 16 CW 0001
- Case reference: Habeas Corpus Writ Petition No. 960 of 2026 / 2026 LiveLaw (AB) 645
- Court and date: Allahabad High Court (Coram: Atul Sreedharan, Achal Sachdev, JJ.), Date not stated
- Officer(s) at the material time: SHO, Police Station, Gautam Buddha Nagar
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Section 191(1), 191(2), 115(2), 121(1), 125(a), 351(3), 352 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023; Section 7 of the Criminal Law (Amendment) Act, 1932; Section (detention order quashed) of the National Security Act, 1980; Section 130 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023; Article 21 of the Constitution of India
- Finding of the Court (extract): “this Court considers it sufficient to grant ₹5 lakhs as compensation to the petitioner. This Court also directs that the said amount must be recovered from the salary of the District Magistrate Gautam Buddha Nagar, who has passed this order …” (at para 33)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum: Adverse finding + compensation. Sentence: compensation only. Compensation: Rs 5 lakh (Rs 5,00,000).
- Present status of the proceedings: Supreme Court of India, 13 September 2026: appeal pending.
- Source orders: [Judgment / order (primary source)](https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/2026/09/07/akriti-chaudhary-vs-union-of-india-and-4-others-2026-livelaw-ab-645-allahabad-high-court-698671.pdf); [Supreme Court of India order](https://www.earlytimes.in/newsdet.aspx?q=406136); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2026-0057)

**Record:** CW-2026-0057 (compiler id CWC-0944); case GAP2-4-003; aliases: CWC-1451
**Title:** Noida Woman vs Union of India and 4 Others
**Court:** Allahabad High Court; judges: Atul Sreedharan; Achal Sachdev
**Case number / citation:** Habeas Corpus Writ Petition No. 960 of 2026 / 2026 LiveLaw (AB) 645
**Judgment:** Date not stated (2026, day precision)
**Incident date:** 2026-04-11 (2026)
**Place:** Gautam Buddha Nagar, Uttar Pradesh; city town: Noida; police station or unit: U.P. Police, Gautam Buddha Nagar Commissionerate (Sector-39 / Sector-142 / Sector-14A Police Stations, Noida); force: state_police
**Category:** Violence & unlawful detention
**Sub-category:** illegal detention false imprisonment
**Outcome:** Adverse finding + compensation (adverse_finding_compensation)
**Sections:** BNS ss.191(1), 191(2), 115(2), 121(1), 125(a), 351(3), 352; Criminal Law (Amendment) Act 1932 s.7; NSA 1980 (detention order quashed); BNSS s.130; Constitution Art.21
**Officers (gated display forms):** SHO, Police Station, Gautam Buddha Nagar (2 in record)
**Victims:** Noida woman, age 24 (1 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** compensation only; Rs 5 lakh (Rs 5,00,000)
**Sentence type:** compensation only (compensation_only)

Replace closing boilerplate with the recorded State case (paras 15-21, 32) and add the limit: NSA detention quashed but petitioner remains in judicial custody as undertrial in other cases pending bail (paras 33-34).

> this Court considers it sufficient to grant ₹5 lakhs as compensation to the petitioner. This Court also directs that the said amount must be recovered from the salary of the District Magistrate Gautam Buddha Nagar, who has passed this order of detention without application of mind and from all such other officers who may have been responsible, right down to the SHO of the Police Station, who had prepared the initial report warranting the detention of the petitioner under the provisions of the NSA.

**Sources (3):** [livelaw.in](https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/2026/09/07/akriti-chaudhary-vs-union-of-india-and-4-others-2026-livelaw-ab-645-allahabad-high-court-698671.pdf); [livelaw.in](https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/allahabad-high-court/allahabad-high-court-nsa-detention-akriti-chaudhary-orwellian-dystopia-548946); [barandbench.com](https://www.barandbench.com/news/noida-workers-protest-allahabad-high-court-quashes-nsa-detention-of-du-grad-akriti-chaudhary)
**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:** 33
**display title redacted:** Noida Woman vs Union of India and 4 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': 'wrong_facts', 'corrections_applied': \['court_quote_para', 'summary'\]}
**followup status:** checked
**institutional response:** {'date': '2026-09-02', 'action_type': 'Order issued', 'status': 'Concluded', 'authority': 'Allahabad High Court', 'independence': 'External', 'legal_effect': 'Binding', 'description': 'The Allahabad High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 500,000.', 'disposition': 'Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)', 'source': '2026 LiveLaw (AB) 645', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}; {'date': '2026-09-13', 'action_type': 'Appeal pending', 'status': 'Pending', 'authority': 'Supreme Court of India', 'independence': 'External', 'legal_effect': 'Binding', 'description': "As of 13 September 2026, an appeal arising from this judgment was pending before the Supreme Court of India (officers: ); the judgment's findings had not been set aside on that date.", 'disposition': 'Later proceeding · Appeal pending', 'source': 'https://www.earlytimes.in/newsdet.aspx?q=406136', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**later proceedings:** {'court': 'Supreme Court of India', 'date': '2026-09-13', 'url': 'https://www.earlytimes.in/newsdet.aspx?q=406136', 'outcome': 'pending_appeal'}
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/2026/09/07/akriti-chaudhary-vs-union-of-india-and-4-others-2026-livelaw-ab-645-allahabad-high-court-698671.pdf', 'link_checked': None}; {'url': 'https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/allahabad-high-court/allahabad-high-court-nsa-detention-akriti-chaudhary-orwellian-dystopia-548946', 'link_checked': None}; {'url': 'https://www.barandbench.com/news/noida-workers-protest-allahabad-high-court-quashes-nsa-detention-of-du-grad-akriti-chaudhary', '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:** HC quashed NSA detention as violative of Art. 21; Rs.5 lakh compensation recoverable from DM down to SHO.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Adverse finding + compensation.

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