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The High Court recorded that a sand-mining businessman, accused in a cheating and breach-of-trust FIR arising from what the informant himself called a civil dispute, was brought into P.S. Sardhuwa, Chitrakoot at 9:00 a.m. on 13.07.2026, taken out at 10:19 a.m. in the informant's vehicle accompanied by the…
Read the court recordThe High Court held that the corpus was taken from his shop on 15.08.2026 and produced before the Magistrate only on 19.08.2026 without procedural backing. The High Court held that the detention from 15.08.2026 till production was illegal custody. The High Court ordered release unless wanted in another case and…
Read the court recordThe High Court held that the police had no power or jurisdiction to seize or confiscate the vehicle in the cow-slaughter case. The High Court held that no permit is required to transport cow and progeny within Uttar Pradesh. The High Court quashed the confiscation order dated 12.01.2026 and the appellate order dated…
Read the court recordThe High Court recorded that police of P.S. George Town, Prayagraj picked up a man from his house in Jaunpur on 23.06.2026 to question him in an attempted-murder case against his brother, who was then absconding, and released him only at about 7:00 p.m. on 26.06.2026. The Investigating Officer told the court he went…
Read the court recordThe High Court recorded that after a murder FIR at P.S. Gauri Bazar, Deoria, police took relatives of a named accused, who were not themselves accused, into custody: a man was held for two days, and two women and a two-and-a-half-year-old girl were held from 13.04.2026 to 23.04.2026 without arrest or production before…
Read the court recordThe High Court held that confinement of the two adult women in the parental home against their wishes was unlawful and without legal sanction. The High Court held that the State machinery failed to discharge its constitutional obligations to protect their liberty. The High Court declared both women free to live where…
Read the court recordChange closing sentence to record that the appellant's defence of denial and plea of unsoundness of mind were recorded and rejected (paras 17-18). Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.
Read the court recordAdd the SHO's counter-affidavit version (para 6) and State opposition (para 8); add caveat that operative para 17 dates the detention to March (22.3-25.3.2026) while paras 3-4 record February (22.2-25.2.2026), apparently a typographical slip in the judgment. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not…
Read the court recordReplace closing boilerplate with the recorded State version: AGA filed a counter affidavit (taken on record 27.4.2026); Commissioner's compliance affidavit averred no person was detained under BNSS 170/126/135 and stated persons refusing personal bonds are sent to judicial custody (para 11). Matters not addressed in…
Read the court recordThe Allahabad High Court held that an Itwa man was arrested on 4 April 2026 by the SHO and kept in jail till 29 April 2026 despite a coordinate Bench stay of arrest dated 1 April 2026 passed in the presence of the AGA, which counsel personally brought to the SHO notice. The Court found the SHO paid no heed even after…
Read the court recordRewrite: attribute inquiry-report criticism to the petitioner's pleadings (para 5), not to a Court holding; record Dubey's version (personal affidavit 03.12.2025: compromise letter per GD No.23 dated 27.11.2022, denied pressure) and the Court's rejection of it as tacit denial that is no denial (paras 11-12); attribute…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Allahabad High Court records the following account. An Asiwan man was arrested on 27 January 2026 in Case Crime 244/2024 though the arrest memo cited only the case number without specific grounds, and was remanded on 28 January 2026. The court found the arrest violated Article 22(1) under Mihir…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Allahabad High Court records the following account. An Aligarh resident, in jail since November 2025 in a car-theft case (Case Crime 1108/2025, PS Quarsi, Aligarh), would have been released on bail on 23 February 2026 but for the investigating officer's instructions wrongly showing 12 criminal…
Read the court recordThe Allahabad High Court (Division Bench, 20-1-2026) awarded Rs.1,00,000 compensation to a Lucknow man for his wrongful arrest on 17-4-2017 by Uttar Pradesh police in a Gorakhpur molestation case and 79 days in custody before bail. The court found the arresting officer had no credible information or reason to believe…
Read the court recordThe High Court held that the conversion FIR dated 13.09.2025 was a glaring example of authorities acting to score brownie points. The High Court held that despite the woman's statement that she had gone on her own accord and return of jewellery, the authorities failed to release the petitioner under Section 169…
Read the court recordThe Allahabad High Court, Lucknow Bench (Division Bench, 29-11-2024), convened at 6:30 p.m. on a habeas mentioning, found that investigating officer Sub-Inspector of Police Station Jagdishpura, Agra, took an eight-months-pregnant woman and her two-year-old child from home to Police Station Chinhat, Lucknow, at about…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Supreme Court of India records the following account. [name withheld] was appointed CRPF Constable (GD) on 17 November 2011 and denied any arrest or pending case in his verification roll, though FIR No. 76 of 2011 at Barnhal, Mainpuri, and two criminal cases were pending against him. The inquiry…
Read the court recordThe Allahabad High Court held that Sudarshan Yadav and another, challaned by the PS Ramkola Sub-Inspector under Sections 151, 107 and 116 CrPC over a land dispute and jailed by the Deputy District Magistrate Kaptanganj on 10 February 2024, stayed behind bars till 2 March 2024 in violation of the legal provisions, with…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Delhi High Court records the following account. On 1 September 2006 Noida police in civil dress took 26-year-old a Noida man @ a Noida man from his house without justification to Chowki Nithari in connection with a robbery case; he died in the PS Sector-20 lock-up and police claimed suicide by…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Allahabad High Court records the following account. Head Constable Mukesh Kumar of Maharajpur Outpost under Link Road Police Station in Ghaziabad demanded monthly extortion bribes of Rs 500 from each three-wheeler tempo owner operating between Maharajpur and Sahibabad Mandi under threat of stopping…
Read the court recordThe Allahabad High Court (Division Bench, 22 December 2022) partly allowed Criminal Appeal No. 4666 of 2014 but sustained the guilt of U.P. Police Constable of Police Station Chikasi, Hamirpur, who on 2 January 2008 abused and beat fellow constable with a rifle butt at the station gate and then fired his government…
Read the court recordInvestigating Officer, In-charge of Kanth Police Station (Shahjahanpur), served a Section 41-A CrPC notice in a case under Sections 353/504/506 IPC but wilfully recorded in the general diary that the accused declined its terms, arresting him in deliberate circumvention of the Arnesh Kumar mandate; the Magistrate…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Allahabad High Court records the following account. Police arrested the two petitioners under Section 151 Cr.P.C. on 8 October 2020 over an ancestral land dispute, and a Sub-Inspector of Rohania police station sent a printed-form challani report under Sections 151/107/116 Cr.P.C. with only names…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Allahabad High Court records the following account. A Barhapur man, a sewadar at Gurudwara Rakabganj in Delhi, was abducted from outside the gurudwara on 30 October 1992 by a U.P. police party led by SHO Dhirendra Singh Yadav and shot dead the next morning in Kanshiwala jungle, Bijnor, in what…
Read the court recordThe Delhi High Court (Justices S. Muralidhar and Talwant Singh) awarded Rs 50,000 each to newly-married a Loni man and a Loni woman for their illegal detention by UP police in July 2018. A Court-appointed Committee prima facie established that SI (PS Loni) took a Loni woman from JNU to her parents without her consent…
Read the court recordThe Delhi High Court reversed the 2015 Tis Hazari acquittals and convicted 16 UP Provincial Armed Constabulary personnel of murder and conspiracy for the Hashimpura massacre of 22 May 1987, sentencing each to life imprisonment. The Court found that about 42 Muslim men rounded up at Hashimpura, Meerut, during communal…
Read the court recordThe Delhi High Court reversed the Tis Hazari acquittal and convicted 16 UP PAC men for the Hashimpura massacre of 22 May 1987, when C-Company jawans rounded up 42-45 Muslim men of Meerut, shot about 38 in batches at Gang nahar and Hindon canal and dumped the bodies in the water. Charge-sheeted only in 1996 with trial…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Allahabad High Court records the following account. A Kunwargaon man was picked up from his field on 5 September 1994 by Station House Officer's party and detained in the Kunwargaon police lock-up for nearly a week without being challaned in any case, during which he was regularly beaten. On 12…
Read the court recordThe Allahabad High Court (Division Bench, 2 March 2017) dismissed the writ petition of U.P. Police Constable, posted at Saharanpur, who had been dismissed from service on 28 January 1994 after remaining unauthorisedly absent for 503 days from 8 May 1992 instead of joining a Refresher Course at the Police Training…
Read the court recordThe Allahabad High Court held that Class-XII student a man was forcibly picked up from his family hotel-cum-photostat shop at Mughalsarai on 27 December 2012 by four constables acting at the behest of respondent [name withheld], illegally confined in the Kotwali lock-up till 29 December, handcuffed, tortured and…
Read the court recordThe Allahabad High Court (Division Bench, 28 April 2016) dismissed the writ petition of dismissed Civil Police Constable of Police Station Refinery, Mathura, and sustained his dismissal dated 28 February 2000 for unauthorised absence from 30 December 1998 to 31 March 1999 while assigned summons-service duty. The Court…
Read the court recordThe Allahabad High Court (Division Bench led by the Chief Justice, 9 March 2016) dismissed Special Appeal No. 200 of 2016 and sustained the termination dated 7 May 2010 of a U.P. Police constable found in a state of intoxication while on security duty near bank premises on 23 July 2009. The Court noted the constable…
Read the court recordThe Allahabad High Court (Lucknow Bench) dismissed the writ petitions of two constables and a sub-inspector of Police Station Misrikh, Sitapur, upholding their dismissal from service under clause (a) of the second proviso to Article 311(2) read with Rule 8(2)(a) of the U.P. Police Subordinate Ranks (Punishment and…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Allahabad High Court records the following account. A Doharighat man, a young ITBP constable aspirant who had cleared his physical test, was taken to Doharighat police station on 9 April 2015 for interrogation and detained there until 16 April 2015, during which he was subjected to brutal…
Read the court recordThe Allahabad High Court (Division Bench, 21 July 2015) dismissed Special Appeal No. 1905 of 2010 and sustained the dismissal dated 7 September 2002 of police Constable under Rule 8(2)(a) of the 1991 Rules, imposed on the ground of conduct leading to his trial-court conviction for murder and life sentence. The Court…
Read the court recordThe Allahabad High Court (single Judge, 12 March 2015) dismissed the writ petition of Head Constable [name withheld] of the Civil Police and sustained his dismissal dated 16 October 2008 for contracting a second marriage in 1978 during the subsistence of his 1965 first marriage, without the permission required by Rule…
Read the court recordThe Supreme Court awarded a total of Rs.10 lakh to the widow and legal representatives of a Uttar Pradesh man, who died in PS Sojna custody on 8/9 March 1987 after a 2 a.m. altercation with drunken constables and a false Section 307 FIR against him. The order records that the guilty police officials stood convicted…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Allahabad High Court records the following account. On 20 June 2000, during panchayat polling at Chhaisa, Dadri, a police party led by Circle Officer lathi-charged and fired four rounds after villagers objected to being pressed to leave the queue; a Chhaisa man and a Chhaisa man, sitting on a cot…
Read the court recordThe appellant, a constable in the IV Battalion, Provincial Armed Constabulary, Allahabad, was unauthorisedly absent on 27 October 1991 and that evening forcibly grabbed a liquor bottle from a wine shop and threatened the staff; medical examination found he had consumed alcohol though he was not intoxicated. A…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Supreme Court of India records the following account. A Sojna man, a young medical practitioner of village Sojna, was arrested on 7 March 1987 under Section 307 IPC and brutally assaulted by Station Officer J.B. Katariya, sustaining 18 injuries across his body before succumbing to death in police…
Read the court recordThe Allahabad High Court upheld the dismissal of Constable Ashok Kumar, who was on court lock-up duty at Mathura on 13 June 2000 when hardened criminal Prakash, accused in about fifteen cases including murders, escaped from custody. The enquiry found the petitioner acted in complicity with co-constable [name withheld]…
Read the court recordThe Allahabad High Court (single Judge, 26-8-2002) dismissed the appeal of Police Constable of Police Station Fatehpur, Barabanki, and upheld his six-year rigorous imprisonment conviction under section 376 IPC imposed by the Sessions Judge on 11-3-1987. The court found that on 9-5-1985, inside police station premises…
Read the court recordThe Allahabad High Court (single Judge, 23-8-2002) dismissed the writ petition of Constable (Civil Police posted to Government Railway Police, Agra) challenging his dismissal dated 17-2-2001 under Rule 8(2)(b) of the U.P. Police Officers of Subordinate Ranks (Punishment and Appeal) Rules, 1991. The court found…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Allahabad High Court records the following account. A Golhaura man, aged 27, was arrested on 14 October 1998 in a kidnapping case and kept in the Golhaura police lock-up for three days, where the family alleged he was beaten to death. Police claimed he hanged himself, obtained a post-mortem report…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Allahabad High Court records the following account. Station Officer arrested a Sojna man on 7 March 1987 and, the Court found, gave him repeated lathi blows at Sojna Tigadda and inside the police station courtyard and lock-up; a Sojna man died in custody on 8 March 1987 with 18 ante-mortem lathi…
Read the court recordThe Allahabad High Court (Division Bench, 7-2-2001) held that the beating of a Girwan man, aged 42, by the Station House Officer and head constable of Police Station Girwan, Banda, on 12 April 1994, causing head injuries that led to his death on 14 April 1994, breached his fundamental right to life under Article 21.…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Supreme Court of India records the following account. Following an inter-religious or inter-caste marriage between a Bareilly woman and a Bareilly man, Bareilly police unlawfully detained the couple and relatives in July 1993 under the pretext that a Bareilly woman had been abducted and raped.…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Supreme Court of India records the following account. A Kurebhar man was arrested from his residence on 19 October 1971 and beaten inside PS Kure Bhar by Sub-Inspector Rafiuddin Khan, sustaining 28 injuries before dying of shock and haemorrhage on 20 October 1971, after which false General Diary…
Read the court recordThe Allahabad High Court upheld every conviction of the ten PS Baghpat policemen who, avenging an assault on a fellow Sub-Inspector, shot dead the complainant's husband and two others and stripped, assaulted and detained the complainant in June 1980. The Court held all appellants were members of an unlawful assembly…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Supreme Court of India records the following account. A Fatehpur man of village Haibatpur lodged a complaint with the Superintendent of Police, Fatehpur, against Constable for extorting a bribe in a cattle trespass dispute. In retaliation, Station House Officer Ram Sagar Yadav dispatched two…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Allahabad High Court records the following account. Head Constable Vishnu Prasad, in charge of police outpost Runkata under Achhnera Police Station in Agra, forcibly took complainant, a Runkata woman, from her home to a culvert outside her village and demanded a bribe of Rs 500 (settled at Rs 125)…
Read the court recordThe Supreme Court on 4 April 1977 allowed the State's appeal and dismissed former sub-inspector 's suit, leaving his 1954 corruption-based dismissal intact. The Court found that two cases under the Prevention of Corruption Act and the Penal Code had been registered against the confirmed Etah SI following an anonymous…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Allahabad High Court records the following account. The appellant, a constable at Police Station Shikarpur, Bulandshahr, was charged with other constables under section 7 of the Police Act for arresting a Shikarpur man on 10 April 1959, fracturing his legs, and concealing it with a false…
Read the court recordThe Allahabad High Court (single Judge, 16-10-1963) allowed the complainant appeal against acquittal and convicted Head Constable and Constables, [name withheld] and [name withheld] of Police Station Kairana under section 342/109 IPC. The court found that on 15-10-1961 the police party arrested homoeopath a Kairana…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Supreme Court of India records the following account. After a railway-party shoot killed a Mailani man and a Mailani man on the night of 14/15 December 1956, Head Constable Maulud Ahmad of PS Mailani entered a false antedated report in the General Diary showing Railway Guard Chauhan had deposited…
Read the court recordThe Supreme Court on 6 March 1961 dismissed with costs the appeal of [name withheld], a U.P. Police Inspector officiating as Deputy Superintendent in the Anti-Corruption Department, upholding his dismissal from service. The Court recorded that complaints of immorality, corruption and gross dereliction of duty led to…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Allahabad High Court records the following account. Head Constable Mahfooz Ali, attached to Idgah outpost in Agra city, threatened complainant [name withheld] with prosecution under Section 420 IPC over a dispute regarding a promissory note, demanding Rs 50 (settled at Rs 20) as illegal…
Read the court recordReplace closing boilerplate with the recorded State case (paras 15-21, 32) and add the limit: NSA detention quashed but petitioner remains in judicial custody as undertrial in other cases pending bail (paras 33-34).
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