Purighat Police Station

High Court and Supreme Court findings 2

• Pravat Chandra Mohanty vs The State Of Odisha (with Pratap Kumar Choudhury vs State Of Odisha) High Court / Supreme Court · 11 February 2021 · Rs 10 lakh (Rs 10,00,000) ordered
  The judgment of the Supreme Court of India records the following account. On the night of 04/05-05-1985 a Cuttack man was called to Purighat PS, Cuttack, and beaten through the night with lathi/batten by Inspector and SI, dying in hospital; police fabricated a…
• Cuttack Police Inspector v. State of Orissa; [name withheld] v. State of Orissa High Court / Supreme Court · 9 November 2020 · Rs 3 lakh (Rs 3,00,000) ordered
  The High Court partly allowed the appeals of an Inspector and a Sub-Inspector of Purighat station in the 1985 custodial-death case of a Cuttack man: it set aside the Section 304-II/34 and 342/34 convictions for want of proof but upheld the Section 323/34 and 4…

Trial-court convictions 1

• State v. Cuttack Police Inspector (former) Trial-court conviction · 29 August 1988
  The Assistant Sessions Judge-cum-ACJM (Special), Cuttack convicted Inspector and Senior Sub-Inspector for the 1985 custodial death following illegal confinement at Purighat police station, sentencing them to 5 and 8 years rigorous imprisonment for culpable hom…