Treating a wife's letter as a suo motu PIL, the Jharkhand High Court examined the pre-dawn pickup and alleged custodial torture of an Ichagarh man at Ichagarh police station on 19-11-2025. The court described the alleged police conduct as unprecedented, noted CCTV cameras were never installed despite the Supreme Court's mandate, and treated the SP's suspension order as prima facie acknowledgment of lapses by the officers-in-charge of Ichagarh, Tiruldih and Nimdih police stations. Relying on Nilabati Behera, D.K. Basu and Sube Singh, it directed Rs 1,50,000 interim compensation within one week, recoverable from the erring officials, and kept the PIL pending for further orders.
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How verification works →By judgment dated 11 December 2025 in W.P.(PIL) No. 7197 of 2025, the Jharkhand High Court (Coram: Tarlok Singh Chauhan, Rajesh Shankar, JJ.) returned findings adverse to 3 police personnel, namely: Police Sub-Inspector (Officer-in-Charge), Ichagarh Police Station; Officer-in-Charge, Tiruldih Police Station; Officer-in-Charge, Nimdih Police Station, and directed payment of compensation of Rs 1.5 lakh (Rs 1,50,000).
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Judgment dated 11 December 2025. This judgment may still be subject to appeal; initiation or pendency of an appeal is not a finding.
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“This is probably a most unprecedented demonizing behavior on the part of the police perhaps one of the worst crime in a civilized society governed by the rule of law.” (para 29)
The Jharkhand High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 150,000.
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