The Patna High Court directed registration of FIR against the former SHO of Murar Police Station for brutally assaulting [name withheld] and breaking both his legs on 4 July 2024. The Court held that a brutal assault by a police officer on a citizen is not part of official duty, so no prior sanction under Section 197…
Read the court recordThe Patna High Court (Division Bench) allowed a habeas corpus writ for minor a 15-year-old boy, arrested on October 23, 2025 by IO of Puraini Police Station in Puraini PS Case No. 128 of 2025 even though the boy had been shown as not-chargesheeted in Chargesheet No. 235 dated September 1, 2025. Acting solely on a DIG…
Read the court recordThe Patna High Court awarded Rs 2 lakh compensation to [name withheld] for illegal detention of 5-18 days after his bail release on 29 September 2025. The Jail Superintendent kept him confined without any authorized detention order after a production warrant had expired. The IG Prisons admitted 'illegal detention for…
Read the court recordThe Patna High Court held that Jehanabad police illegally detained a Jehanabad woman, picked up from her home on 29 April 2025 and lodged in a shelter home for about five days, and a Jehanabad man, picked up as a suspect on 1 May 2025, without arrest memos, family intimation or production before a Magistrate. The…
Read the court recordThe appellant, Inspector-in-Charge of Kotwali police station at the time, was convicted of criminal contempt with eight other policemen for the November 1997 Bhagalpur court-premises disruption, a conviction affirmed by the Supreme Court, and was dismissed from service by Jharkhand in 2004 after bifurcation. His…
Read the court recordThe Patna High Court held the Officer-in-Charge, lock-up in-charge and all personnel on duty at Siwan Muffasil Police Station lock-up on 4 July 2017 responsible for explaining how a Siwan man was assaulted with lathis in custody, failing which they are liable to be prosecuted. A Siwan man had been arrested on 4 July…
Read the court recordThe Patna High Court held that the investigating officer of Chiksaura police station illegally rearrested a Bajitpur man after Section 41-A CrPC protection, without recalling the bail bond through a magisterial order and without filing the Section 41 checklist or recording arrest grounds. The court held this violated…
Read the court recordThe Patna High Court dismissed the writ petition of Railway Police constable, a member of the Jamalpur-Howrah Super Express escort party who allegedly extorted passengers and then shot dead two persons during an altercation in 2000. The court held the Superintendent of Police (Rail), Jamalpur had recorded cogent…
Read the court recordThe Patna High Court awarded Rs 10,00,000 compensation to the father of 18-year-old a Munger man, an unarmed bystander killed in police firing on a Durga idol immersion procession at Munger on 26-10-2020. The court held the State strictly liable for safeguarding life, noting the petitioner's son was uninvolved in any…
Read the court recordThe Patna High Court held that milk-van driver [name withheld] and his vehicle were illegally detained by Saran district police from April 29 to May 15, 2020 without registration of an FIR, which was lodged only after a habeas corpus petition was filed. The Court rejected the police's concocted explanation regarding…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Patna High Court records the following account. On 28 December 2000, a Patna man was shot dead near Kumhar police post while on his way to Sandalpur Hostel, during an exchange of fire between police and criminals; official reports admitted an innocent passerby died in the shootout. His father moved…
Read the court recordThe Patna High Court dismissed a writ petition by constable seeking reconsideration of his 1999 dismissal in light of his 2019 criminal acquittal. The court noted he had been dismissed after Departmental Proceeding No. 62 of 1998 proved he abandoned his post and arms during the 17-09-1998 Naxalite attack on the…
Read the court recordConstable, appointed in Kaimur in 1999 and transferred to Bhojpur in 2004, absented himself from duty from March 2004 to March 2005 and was dismissed on 13.10.2007 after a departmental inquiry. His appeal, memorial and writ petition (CWJC No. 12182 of 2012, dismissed 06.09.2018 by Nilu Agrawal J.) all failed. The…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Patna High Court records the following account. Constable, appointed on compassionate ground in July 1998, absconded from duty without information on several occasions, including during training at BMP-5 Patna from January 2008. After an enquiry proved the charges and a second show-cause notice…
Read the court recordConstable, appointed on compassionate ground in Buxar, was dismissed on 16.01.2007 (with effect from 12.01.2007) for repeated prolonged unauthorised absence, about 128 days during basic training and 82 days on Durga Puja duty in 2006; his appeal was rejected in 2009. He pleaded violation of natural justice and…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Patna High Court records the following account. [name withheld], a Munger District Police constable, was detailed on escort command 547412 dated 06.06.2011 to escort undertrial Amit Mandal from Munger Jail to PMCH Patna with four constables and a Hawaldar. He reported 35 hours late, lodged the…
Read the court recordDelete 'already affirmed in appeal, revision and memorial'; judgment records only writ (CWJC 3390/2009) and LPA 1502/2013.
Read the court recordA Division Bench of the Patna High Court upheld the dismissal of Patna constable, arrested on 2 October 2009 in Manjhaul PS Case No. 160/2009 under Sections 307/34 IPC and the Arms Act, later converted to murder under Section 302 IPC. The SSP Patna dismissed him without enquiry under Article 311(2)(b), recording that…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Patna High Court records the following account. [name withheld] was selected as a Bihar Police constable on 16.05.1999 under Advertisement 1/1998, where height was the sole criterion, after declaring 186 cm height in his application. A later verification ordered by the High Court found his height…
Read the court recordThe Patna High Court (Prabhat Kumar Jha J.) dismissed a CRPF constable's writ challenging his removal from service dated 21 March 2014. The court found three 2013 unauthorized-absence charges proved against a nine-year record of 17 absences that had previously drawn only minor confinement punishments. It held that…
Read the court record[name withheld], a constable in the 205 COBRA Battalion of the CRPF at Barachatti, Gaya, was dismissed on 18.01.2012 after a departmental proceeding found he had remained unauthorizedly absent from 13.03.2010 to 22.09.2010 (194 days) and had fled from PMCH Patna while under treatment. His appeal before the DIG…
Read the court record[name withheld], an Assistant Sub-Inspector posted at Daudnagar Police Station, Aurangabad, left for court work to Aurangabad on 24.01.1994 and absconded for about 630 days, reappearing only on 16.10.1995 at Police Centre Aurangabad. The DIG Magadh Range dismissed him on 14.02.2002 after a departmental proceeding in…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Patna High Court records the following account. [name withheld] was appointed as a CRPF constable in 147 Battalion at Kashipur, Silchar on his declaration of Scheduled Tribe status. Verification by the Sub-Divisional Magistrate, Jagdishpur found the caste certificate forged and fake and the…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Patna High Court records the following account. [name withheld], a constable in Bihar Military Police-18 at Bodh Gaya, took four days leave from 07.05.2000, ignored recall notices dated 24.06.2000 and 12.09.2000, and rejoined only on 16.04.2001 with a sciatica certificate. The Commandant dismissed…
Read the court recordThe Patna High Court held that police officers at Alipur Police Station, Gaya illegally detained accused [name withheld] in police lockup from June 8 to June 13, 2016 without producing him before a magistrate within 24 hours. A departmental inquiry ordered by the High Court and completed by the SSP Gaya confirmed the…
Read the court recordA Division Bench of the Patna High Court restored the dismissal of CID Dog Squad constable [name withheld], caught red-handed with Rs 40,000 blackmail money by a raiding party on 8 August 1988. Though convicted in the criminal case in 1994 and acquitted on appeal in 1996, he was dismissed after a departmental enquiry…
Read the court record[name withheld], a BSF constable of 113 Battalion enrolled in 1990, was dismissed in May 2007 after pleading guilty before the Security Force Court to a 33-day overstay of leave. The court recorded that he was a habitual offender with 11 summary trials and 21 overstays in about 17 years including a 2006 conviction…
Read the court recordThe Jharkhand High Court Division Bench allowed the Union of India appeal and restored the dismissal of CISF Constable, setting aside the Single Bench order of 8 March 2013. The court held that his admitted abandonment of the Shatabdi Bhawan strong-room post during the 1999 Lok Sabha elections, leaving a 7.62mm rifle…
Read the court recordThe Patna High Court Division Bench dismissed the letters patent appeal of BMP Constable against his dismissal dated 22 November 2006 for 340 days of unauthorised absence. The court held that adequate opportunity had been afforded at every stage, with notices served through his father, post and special messenger, and…
Read the court record[name withheld], a Government Railway Police constable attached to Railway Police Station Chapra, was dismissed in November 2005 after an enquiry found he had boarded a running train in uniform and extorted money from passengers. A Single Bench upheld the guilt finding but set aside the dismissal on hardship grounds…
Read the court record[name withheld], a Katihar Rail Police constable posted at Kharik station, was dismissed in May 2001 for complicity in the January 2000 armed attack on his own police post in which personnel were injured and arms looted. The court held the co-accused Section 164 statement was relevant departmental evidence, the…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Patna High Court records the following account. [name withheld], a 1999-recruited Bihar Police constable posted at Motihari, sought review of the dismissal of his appeal against the termination of his service for complicity in the February 2002 kidnapping of a Raxaul resident for ransom. The court…
Read the court recordThe Patna High Court allowed a writ petition filed by Sunaina Devi seeking compensation for the custodial death of her husband, a Sono man, who died on April 11, 2010 after being arrested by Sono police and lodged in Jamui District Jail. The inquiry records and medical evidence revealed that the deceased was brought…
Read the court recordThe Patna High Court sustained the dismissal of RPF Constable, imposed on account of his conviction for kidnapping and raping a minor girl and Arms Act offences for which he served ten years imprisonment. The court held that though the order dispensing with an enquiry lacked foundation, a remand would be a useless…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Patna High Court records the following account. [name withheld], appointed as a constable in Purnea in September 1981, challenged his May 2012 dismissal by the Superintendent of Police, Madhubani, for securing the job with a forged school certificate. The court found he had produced an Arwal school…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Patna High Court records the following account. ASI, investigating a theft case at Bausi police station, demanded Rs. 200 from the accused to file a final report in his favour, and was caught in a vigilance trap with the marked notes. The Special Judge (Vigilance) convicted him under section 161…
Read the court recordThe Patna High Court upheld the dismissal of Bihar Police constable, posted at Narhan Bazar in Samastipur for law-and-order duty, who quarrelled with vegetable vendor a Narhan Bazar, Bibhutipur woman over 25 paise on March 6, 1989, assaulted her and her husband, then returned with his service rifle and an associate…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Patna High Court records the following account. Constable of the Motihari District Police was departmentally proceeded for complicity in Raxaul P.S. Case No. 20 of 2002, the abduction of a Raxaul resident for ransom, in which his home telephone was used for ransom demands and the victim was…
Read the court recordThe Patna High Court held that the arrest of petitioner [name withheld] on July 19, 2005 by Magadh Medical Police in Gaya constituted illegal detention because the High Court had specifically ordered on June 24, 2005 that no coercive steps be taken against him. The interim stay order had already been communicated by…
Read the court recordIn the infamous Bhagalpur blindings case, the Patna High Court allowed the CBI's appeal against the judgment of acquittal passed by the 14th Additional Sessions Judge, Patna, and restored the conviction and sentence against police Officer-in-[name withheld] and police personnel [name withheld]. The accused policemen…
Read the court recordThe appellant, appointed as a constable, absconded from the Commandant Training Centre, BMP-1, Ranchi while under suspension and remained unauthorisedly absent for 105 days; after a departmental inquiry the Superintendent of Police, Palamu ended his service by order dated 14 September 1977, and his departmental appeal…
Read the court recordThe Patna High Court dismissed a writ petition filed by dismissed constable, upholding the order of dismissal passed by the Superintendent of Police, Saharsa with effect from November 1, 1987. A departmental inquiry established that on the night of July 31, 1986, the petitioner brought alcohol into Jadia Police…
Read the court recordA Division Bench of the Patna High Court upheld the dismissal of Bihar Police constable of the Rail Police Centre, Patna, caught by the DSP (Rail) on 30 July 1996 checking tickets from passengers on platform No. 1 at Patna Junction in plain clothes and extorting money, then fleeing across the tracks. Found guilty…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Patna High Court records the following account. Police constable proceeded on 40 days' earned leave expiring 8 January 1983, had his extension request rejected, and reported for duty only on 9 April 1983, after which a departmental proceeding for 90 days' unauthorised absence ended in dismissal on…
Read the court recordThe Patna High Court upheld the departmental dismissal of Bihar Police constable, confirming orders passed by the Superintendent of Police, Aurangabad and the DIG Magadh Range. The departmental inquiry established all five charges against him, including being drunk on duty on February 4, 1997, assaulting a homeguard…
Read the court recordThe Patna High Court held the State liable for the homicidal custodial death of a Danapur man, whose injured dead body came out of police custody in June 1998 after he was kept overnight at Danapur and then remanded to jail. The Court found the post-mortem showed injuries that would cause homicidal death, and that the…
Read the court recordBihar police constable was dismissed after a departmental proceeding found charges of repeated unauthorised absence, dating from his training period, proved; his appeal and memorial were rejected. He alleged denial of natural justice, claiming witnesses were examined behind his back. The Patna High Court (Narayan Roy…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Patna High Court records the following account. On 21 December 1996 the Superintendent of Railway Police, Patna, with a police force caught railway policeman at Bakhtiarpur Railway Station collecting money from Patna-Mokama train passengers. After a departmental inquiry found the charges proved he…
Read the court recordThe Supreme Court dismissed the appeals of nine Bihar police personnel convicted of criminal contempt for a pre-planned attack on the 1st Additional District and Sessions Judge, Bhagalpur, in his courtroom and chambers on 18 November 1997. The Court held the assault, triggered by contempt proceedings against an IO who…
Read the court recordThe Supreme Court maintained the murder conviction of Bihar Police constable for shooting dead three colleagues at the Narhi police camp in Bhojpur on 9 April 1996, after seizing a Hawaldar's sten-gun. The Court found that the killing of Hawaldar a Chakardah village man, who had reprimanded him, was driven by anger…
Read the court recordThe Patna High Court Division Bench dismissed the Letters Patent Appeal of police constable, upholding his dismissal from service. The Court recorded that on 26 February 1991 he was caught on the spot with 10-12 armed associates during a forcible house invasion and assault on the survivor at Bhagalpur (Kotwali P.S.…
Read the court recordA tractor (BR-08-0855) with thrasher seized by the District Transport Officer was handed to Sindhaul Police Station, Begusarai, for safe custody on 29 March 2001; after the owner deposited tax and fine and obtained a release order, the tractor was found stolen from the station on 8 April 2001, with the FIR lodged only…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Patna High Court records the following account. Delete tore-the-uniform-of-a Sasaram man clause. Correct final sentence to: Twelve other officers were exonerated (para 34) along with the SP (paras 16-19). Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Patna High Court records the following account. Justice R.S. Garg held that Officer-in-[name withheld] of Govindpur police station wrongly arrested a Govindpur man on 27 October 2000 in execution of a non-bailable warrant issued in Excise Case 24/99 against Rajo Choudhary (the nickname of his…
Read the court recordThe Patna High Court took suo-motu notice of a Dainik Jagran report that a police party searching for Mianpur-carnage accused had beaten villagers at Senari, Jehanabad, on 28 July 2000. On the District Judge's two inquiry reports, State doctors' injury reports and sealed photographs, the court held it established that…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Patna High Court records the following account. On 4 July 1992 at about 11.30 p.m. at Patna Junction, constable with other constables allegedly kidnapped and raped a woman, leading to G.R. No. 8231/92 under Sections 363, 366, 376 and 376/34 IPC; he was acquitted in Sessions Trial No. 95/92 on 15…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Patna High Court records the following account. On 30 July 1996 a Rail Police constable shown as sick was caught by the Dy.S.P. (Rail) checking passengers' tickets in plain clothes on Patna Junction platform, in violation of standing orders, and fled across the tracks. An ex parte inquiry held him…
Read the court recordThe Supreme Court of India upheld the convictions under Section 302 read with Section 34 IPC of five police personnel attached to Barachatti Police Station in Gaya district for the staged encounter murder of three persons on December 5, 1993. The police party had chased and fired upon a Maruti van on the Grand Trunk…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Patna High Court records the following account. On 18 November 1997, aggrieved by the arrest of a fellow Sub-Inspector, a group of Bhagalpur policemen attacked the 1st Additional District Judge inside his courtroom and chambers. The Patna High Court held that nine identified police officials, led…
Read the court recordThe Patna High Court allowed a criminal writ petition filed by Dulari Devi for the custodial death of her 27-year-old husband, a Jagdishpur man, who died in Central Jail Bhagalpur on July 28, 1994, following severe beatings in police custody. On July 24, 1994, a police party led by DSP tied up and assaulted a…
Read the court recordThe Patna High Court allowed the widow's writ after undertrial a Sasaram man, aged 23, was shot dead by assailants while handcuffed in a police escort at the Sasaram court premises on 14 October 1996. The court held the State and its instrumentalities responsible for the negligent failure to protect a prisoner in…
Read the court recordThe Supreme Court directed Bihar to pay Rs 20,000 for every death and Rs 5,000 for every injured person from the 19 April 1986 Arwal police firing, adjusting sums already paid, in a petition alleging the SP-led force surrounded 600-700 peaceful peasants at Gandhi Library and opened fire without warning, killing at…
Read the court recordThe 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…
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