A 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 months later. The petitioner also alleged the officer-in-charge demanded illegal gratification for release, which the court did not need to decide. The Patna High Court (Chandramauli Kumar Prasad, J.) rejected the State's sovereign-immunity defence, held the theft occurred on account of the failure, negligence and dereliction of duty of police-station staff, and directed the State to pay Rs 75,000 plus Rs 5,500 costs within eight weeks, with liberty to recover from the erring person. The court observed that withholding two increments for such dereliction was grossly inadequate, while declining to fix individual responsibility. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.
This page documents a court-adjudicated case from the judgment and cited sources below. Findings are attributed to the court; this record does not add findings of its own.
How verification works →By judgment dated 17 September 2003 in C.W.J.C. No. 10329 of 2001, the Patna High Court (Coram: Chandramauli Kumar Prasad, J.) returned findings adverse to 2 police personnel, namely: Officer-in-charge, Sindhaul Police Station, Begusarai; Sub-Inspector, Sindhaul Police Station, Begusarai, and directed payment of compensation of Rs 75,000.
Compiled from the judgment and the cited sources. Findings are those of the court; this card adds none of its own.
The Patna High Court judgment dated 17 September 2003 is the concluded position shown in the cited sources.
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.
Holding not recorded separately.
“It is on account of the failure, negligence and dereliction of duty of the employees of the State posted in the police station that the theft had taken place.” (para 18)
The Patna High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 75,000.
(Round-8 full re-verification: published record re-checked against the judgment text (outcome, officers, quote, key facts) plus methodology-compliance pass; skills-guided adversarial re-verification of the published record against the judgment text (reverify/t1-*/adversarial-8.jsonl))
Corrections (0): No corrections recorded.
Review: Solo Staff combined review (one combined attestation) — not yet recorded.
These records are listed together because they share a state or a topic. That does not mean they are connected.
