17 Nov 2000
Order issued
ConcludedThe Delhi High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 350,000.
Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only).
Source: 2001 ACJ 2033
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CW-2000-0016DelhiJudgment 17 November 2000
Delhi Man vs State of Delhi and Ors.
The Delhi High Court (R.S. Sodhi, J.) on 17 November 2000 allowed the writ petition of Iqubal Begam and directed the State to pay Rs 3,50,000 as compensation for the custodial death of her 68-year-old husband [name withheld] at Police Station Seelampur on 27/28 August 1994. The court held on the Section 176 CrPC magisterial-inquiry record, DD entries, MLC and post-mortem evidence of seven ante-mortem blunt-force abrasions that the deceased remained in continuous police custody from 7.50 p.m. until declared dead at 00.40 hrs, and that inflicted brutality had precipitated his fatal cardiac condition. It held the State and its functionaries had caused the death in custody in a manner the law has repeatedly deprecated, and found the Rs 50,000 earlier paid under NHRC orders grossly inadequate but deductible. The State's appeal was dismissed by a Division Bench on 22 May 2004, leaving the award intact.
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By judgment dated 17 November 2000, the Delhi High Court (Coram: R.S. Sodhi, J.) returned findings adverse to the accused police personnel, and directed payment of compensation of Rs 3.5 lakh (Rs 3,50,000).
- Register number
- DL 00 CW 0008
- Case reference
- 2001 ACJ 2033
- Court and date
- Delhi High Court (Coram: R.S. Sodhi, J.), 17 November 2000
- Officer(s) at the material time
- Not identified in the cited sources (Police Station Seelampur)
- Present service status
- Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked
- Section 176 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973
- Finding of the Court (extract)
- “Therefore, from material on record it is clear that the death of the husband of the petitioner, a Delhi man, can be termed as 'custodial death' and even if the deceased was suffering from heart problem, the brutality inflicted upon …” (at para 6)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum
- Adverse finding + compensation. Sentence: compensation only. Compensation: Rs 3.5 lakh (Rs 3,50,000).
- Present status of the proceedings
- No further proceedings are recorded in the cited sources; the judgment is the concluded position shown.
Compiled from the judgment and the cited sources. Findings are those of the court; this card adds none of its own.
Current position
The Delhi High Court judgment dated 17 November 2000 is the concluded position shown in the cited sources.
Evidence position
Recorded allegations
Custodial deathPrimary
Material fact supported
Reliable material supports a specifically documented fact relevant to that allegation, not necessarily the full allegation, causation, intent, unlawfulness, or responsibility.
Official finding: supports allegation.
Attributed to the court
What the court found
Holding not recorded separately.
“Therefore, from material on record it is clear that the death of the husband of the petitioner, a Delhi man, can be termed as 'custodial death' and even if the deceased was suffering from heart problem, the brutality inflicted upon …” (para 6)
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Follow-up history
19 Sep 2026
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Corrections (0): No corrections recorded.
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