The Orissa High Court awarded Rs 10,000 to a Cuttack man, aged about 18, who was handcuffed and put in chains while hospitalised in the surgery ward of SCB Medical College Hospital, Cuttack, on a Havildar's orders. The Court rejected the justification of unknown anti-social visitors as ipse dixit, holding the chaining uncalled for, ordered by an incompetent rank since only a Deputy Superintendent may order irons under section 56 of the Prisons Act. It held the Orissa Police Manual stood unamended despite Sunil Batra and found a clear violation of Article 21. The State was left free to proceed against the Havildar under law. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.
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How verification works →By judgment dated 11 January 1993 in O.J.C. No. 8304 of 1992, the Orissa High Court (Coram: B. L. Hansaria, S. K. Mohanty, JJ.) returned findings adverse to the Havildar, Nayagarh, and directed payment of compensation of Rs 10,000.
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“The facts of the case leave nothing to doubt that the present is a case of violation of the fundamental right of a Cuttack man under Art. 21 of the Constitution, and keeping in view the Supreme Court decision in …” (para 8)
The Orissa High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 10,000.
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