# Katauna Resident and Anr. vs The State of Bihar and Ors.

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## Report card

By judgment dated Date not stated in Criminal Writ Jurisdiction Case No. 3363 of 2025, the Patna High Court (Coram: Rajeev Ranjan Prasad, Sunil Dutta Mishra, JJ.) returned findings adverse to 3 police personnel, namely: Superintendent of Police, Nalanda; Sub-Divisional Police Officer, Rajgir, Nalanda; Station House Officer, Giriyak Police Station, Nalanda, and directed payment of compensation of Rs 2 lakh (Rs 2,00,000).

- Register number: BR 21 CW 0001
- Case reference: Criminal Writ Jurisdiction Case No. 3363 of 2025
- Court and date: Patna High Court (Coram: Rajeev Ranjan Prasad, Sunil Dutta Mishra, JJ.), Date not stated
- Officer(s) at the material time: Superintendent of Police, Nalanda; Sub-Divisional Police Officer, Rajgir, Nalanda; Station House Officer, Giriyak Police Station, Nalanda
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Section 3(3) of the Bihar Crime Control Act, 2024
- Finding of the Court (extract): “We are constrained to observe that even the SP, Nalanda, the SDPO, Nalanda and the SHO, Giriyak Police Station, all have acted in haste without verification of the allegations made in the Sanha and they, being police officers, have shown …” (at para 39)
- 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/162543170/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2026-0058)

**Record:** CW-2026-0058 (compiler id CWC-0882); case GAP2-48-005
**Title:** Katauna Resident and Anr. vs The State of Bihar and Ors.
**Court:** Patna High Court; judges: Rajeev Ranjan Prasad; Sunil Dutta Mishra
**Case number / citation:** Criminal Writ Jurisdiction Case No. 3363 of 2025
**Judgment:** Date not stated (2026, day precision)
**Incident date:** 2025-10-10 (2025)
**Place:** Nalanda, Bihar; city town: Katauna; police station or unit: Giriyak Police Station; force: state_police
**Category:** Violence & unlawful detention
**Sub-category:** illegal detention false imprisonment
**Outcome:** Adverse finding + compensation (adverse_finding_compensation)
**Sections:** Bihar Crime Control Act 2024 s.3(3)
**Officers (gated display forms):** Superintendent of Police, Nalanda; Sub-Divisional Police Officer, Rajgir, Nalanda; Station House Officer, Giriyak Police Station, Nalanda (3 in record)
**Victims:** Katauna resident; Katauna resident (2 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** compensation only; Rs 2 lakh (Rs 2,00,000)
**Sentence type:** compensation only (compensation_only)

The Patna High Court quashed District Magistrate orders imposing Section 3(3) Bihar Crime Control Act, 2024 restrictions on two Nalanda men, which required thrice-weekly attendance at Silao police station 40 km from home. The court held the orders were passed without subjective satisfaction or verification beyond an unverified police sanha, and that the SP Nalanda, the SDPO and the SHO police station had acted in haste in ignorance of the law, apparently to keep the petitioners out of the Assembly Election. It directed the State to pay each petitioner 1,00,000 compensation plus Rs 10,000 litigation costs within one month, recoverable from the erring officials after hearing. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> We are constrained to observe that even the SP, Nalanda, the SDPO, Nalanda and the SHO, Giriyak Police Station, all have acted in haste without verification of the allegations made in the Sanha and they, being police officers, have shown complete ignorance of the law on the subject.

**Sources (2):** [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/162543170/); [thebarbulletin.com](https://thebarbulletin.com/patna-hc-quashes-bihar-crime-control-act-orders-compensation/)
**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:** 39
**display title redacted:** Katauna Resident and Anr. vs The State of Bihar and 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': \[\]}
**followup status:** checked
**institutional response:** {'date': '2026-09-11', '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': 'Criminal Writ Jurisdiction Case No. 3363 of 2025', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/162543170/', 'link_checked': None}; {'url': 'https://thebarbulletin.com/patna-hc-quashes-bihar-crime-control-act-orders-compensation/', '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 unverified BCC Act restrictions, held SP/SDPO/SHO acted in haste, awarded Rs 1L plus costs to each petitioner.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**watch:** babuwatch

Status: Adverse finding + compensation.

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