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Professor a Serampore man was convicted by the Serampore trial court in July 2024 in Women PS Case No. 12 of 2022 and spent over four years in custody. The Calcutta High Court held the investigation by S.[name withheld] was perfunctory and biased: a vaginal swab was never sent for forensic examination, neutral…
Read the court recordThe Calcutta High Court (Justice Suvra Ghosh) ordered the State to pay Rs 50,000 within seven days to a Suti man @ a Suti man for 30 days of admittedly illegal detention. It was the admitted position that the petitioner, who had no nexus whatsoever with Suti PS Case No.404/2025 dated 15 April 2025 (though accused in…
Read the court recordConstable of Calcutta Police was booked for Central Bank guard duty with firearms on 23 July 2000, left without informing any authority and without depositing his firearm, and remained absent until 8 August 2000, during which he was arrested on 31 July 2000 in an English Bazar impersonation case and held in custody…
Read the court recordCalcutta Police constable was dismissed from service following Departmental Proceeding No. 110 of 1999 for unauthorized absence from duty, failing to report his implication in a criminal case, and involvement in the murder of a Ratua man under Ratua Police Station in Malda on 9 February 1994. Although Roy was…
Read the court recordThe Calcutta High Court held that the arrest and detention of a Titagarh man by Titagarh police on March 9, 2022 demonstrated abuse of power and procedural irregularities. Shukla was picked up in plainclothes without notice following municipal elections, allegedly assaulted, and later booked under Section 21(c) of the…
Read the court recordThe Calcutta High Court, hearing a PIL alongside a suo motu writ petition, adjudicated the unnatural death of a 15-year-old boy in the custody of Mallarpur Police Station, Birbhum in October 2020. Finding that the minor had been kept in police lockup in direct violation of the Juvenile and the West Bengal Juvenile…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Calcutta High Court records the following account. At midnight on 3 September 2003, 35-year-old scrap dealer a G.T. Road between Shrirampur and Belur man was shot dead by Constable on G.T. Road for riding past a vehicle check; the constable was separately convicted of murder and sentenced to life…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Supreme Court of India records the following account. Constable of the CISF Unit at Kolkata Port Trust was on armed C-shift guard at the Alif Nagar Scrap Yard, Garden Reach, on the night of 7/8 November 2007, when about 800 kg of copper wire was stolen from the yard and intercepted by local police…
Read the court recordA Raninagar man (18) died in police custody on 15 February 2014, taken into custody in the afternoon and found dead the same evening, with the State claiming he hanged himself in the male-lockup latrine and opposing compensation citing a pending criminal proceeding. His widow [name withheld] limited her writ claim to…
Read the court record[name withheld], a BSF non-commissioned officer in charge of the Kote (armoury) of 57 Battalion at Patiram, was dismissed in July 2007 after an enquiry found Rs.53,440 concealed in an old register inside the Kote under his control. The court found he had been given a fair hearing with a defence assistant and that…
Read the court recordState Armed Police constable, posted at Raiganj, was accused in Raiganj PS Case 383/2007 (Sections 419/420/120-B IPC) over impersonation to procure constable employment, and was dismissed in January 2012 after a departmental enquiry for tarnishing the police image. Though honourably acquitted in the criminal trial…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Calcutta High Court records the following account. On 4 September 2003 a Uttarpara man (35) was riding home on G.T. Road when he failed to stop at a night check; police constable shot him dead with his service revolver and then fabricated a firearm injury on himself to plead private defence. A…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Calcutta High Court records the following account. Jadavpur University professor a Kolkata man and his neighbour a Kolkata man were manhandled by a mob and then arrested by Purba Jadavpur police on the night of 12 April 2012 for circulating an email cartoon featuring the Chief Minister, spending…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Calcutta High Court records the following account. Around 0.30 a.m. on 4 September 2003 constable, on routine two-wheeler checking duty at Ballykhal on G.T. Road, Uttarpara, blocked the road to stop a yellow Hero Honda motorcycle that had sped past the first picket and fired a shot from his service…
Read the court recordKolkata Police constable pleaded guilty to unauthorised absence from 15 December 2000, with 16 prior punishments and 164 days of extraordinary leave on record, and was dismissed with effect from 6 April 2001. His legal representatives later sought rescission citing a December 2011 criminal acquittal, but the West…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Calcutta High Court records the following account. Kolkata Police traffic constable absented himself from 4 May 2005 after medical rest only until 6 May 2005, sending no intimation and evading examination by the Kolkata Police doctor while producing a private angina certificate from a consulting…
Read the court recordSepoy (2nd Battalion KAP, on deputation to Kolkata Traffic Police) was arrested on 26 November 2003 for complicity in a dacoity (Khardah PS Case 383, Sections 392/395/412 IPC and Arms Act), suspended and dismissed after a departmental enquiry found gross misconduct. Though acquitted by the Sessions Court, Barrackpore…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Madhya Pradesh High Court records the following account. BSF Constable was charge-sheeted for slapping Assistant Commandant a West Bengal man, his Company Commandant, on the left cheek and threatening to shoot and kill him without provocation on 29 June 1999 at about 19:45 hours. A Summary Security…
Read the court recordCalcutta Police constable had at least 31 punishments, mostly for habitual unauthorised absence, before a disciplinary proceeding found him guilty and recommended dismissal. His departmental appeal was dismissed as time-barred with no explanation for delay, and the West Bengal Administrative Tribunal held the…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Calcutta High Court records the following account. On 19 July 1999 NCB officers intercepted a Kolkata man and Debashish Dutta at Central Restaurant, B.B. Ganguly Street, Calcutta; 570 grams of heroin was recovered from Dutta and nothing from a Kolkata man, though the arrest memo falsely showed…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Calcutta High Court records the following account. On 14 March 2007, West Bengal Police opened prolonged, indiscriminate gunfire on villagers protesting land acquisition in Nandigram, killing 14 persons, injuring 162, and sexually assaulting several women. Acting on writ petitions and suo motu…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Calcutta High Court records the following account. The appellant's son, a railway employee in his twenties, was arrested on 26 February 1980 and beaten to death at Golabari police station, Howrah; police refused to register the family's complaint, forcing the father to approach the SDJM. The…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Calcutta High Court records the following account. At about 1 a.m. on the night of 4-5 July 2002, a 15-20 member police party dragged Central Excise Inspector from his Dum Dum home and returned him only at 11 a.m.; he later died by suicide, which his widow linked to the arrest and interrogation.…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Calcutta High Court records the following account. Around 2 a.m. on 23 September 1992, Special Constable of Phool Bagan Police Station, in plain clothes, twice came to pavement-dweller the complainant's jhupri on CIT Road, then forcibly took her in a police vehicle to the station, confined her in a…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Calcutta High Court records the following account. While Chief Law Instructor at the Police Training College, Barrackpore, DySP [name withheld] demanded Rs. 6,000 from Cadet SI on 9 October 1980 on the false plea of placating the DIG (Training) and accepted it on 13 October 1980, besides attempting…
Read the court recordThe Supreme Court enhanced compensation for the custodial death of a West Bengal man in West Bengal from Rs. 20,000 to Rs. 70,000. The Court, hearing only the quantum question on limited notice, accepted the Calcutta High Court's custodial-death findings and held Rs. 20,000 too meagre for the widow's sustenance. It…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Calcutta High Court records the following account. A Panskura man, arrested with four others on 8 October 1994, was kept in the Panskura police lock-up without production before a Magistrate, mercilessly tortured, and died on 17 October 1994; police claimed he jumped from a running jeep. On a…
Read the court recordConstable of DAP Cooch Behar was charge-sheeted on 22 April 1980 for contracting a second marriage during his first wife's lifetime, and dismissed from service on 30 April 1981. In his written defence he stated he had remarried with his first wife's written consent, which the court treated as an admission of the…
Read the court recordThe Calcutta High Court allowed the State appeal and complainant revision against the 1985 acquittals and convicted an Inspector, Sub-Inspector and Constable of Golabari PS for beating railway employee a Howrah man to death in custody on 26 February 1980. The Court held the assault was made to extort a confession…
Read the court recordSub-Inspector, District Enforcement Officer of 24 Parganas, refused to comply with a December 1959 transfer order to Nadia, was convicted under section 29 of the Police Act by the Alipore Magistrate on 25 November 1961 (fine Rs 100), and his appeal and revision failed. The SP 24 Parganas recommended dismissal…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Calcutta High Court records the following account. Constable was charged with wrongfully detaining a bullion merchant's guard on 2 March 1962, seizing a 234-tola gold bar without authority and without reporting it, and misappropriating 134 tolas of it. The departmental enquiry found the…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Calcutta High Court records the following account. On 25 April 1954 constable, on duty on Ranaghat station platform, accused traveller a Ranaghat man of blackmarketing two mats, marched him toward the GRP station, demanded money and took his purse containing Rs. 5. A Ranaghat man immediately…
Read the court recordSub-Inspector, officer-in-charge of Shalimar GRPS from December 1948, faced seven charges of misappropriation in malkhana goods sales during 1948-1950 following anonymous complaints, CID investigation and a DSP enquiry, and was dismissed on 21 August 1952. The court held that departmental findings honestly and…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Calcutta High Court records the following account. Police arrested several persons on suspicion of murdering Mussamut Dhuri; two constables openly used violence on the prisoners and illegally detained them beyond the lawful period to obtain confessions which proved false, while Head Constable, in…
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