JUDGMENT

JAYACHANDRA REDDY, J.— This appeal has been filed by the State of Maharashtra against an order of the High Court of Bombay directing Shri Prakash Chavan, Inspector of Police, Faujdar Chavadi Police Station, Sholapur, respondent 4 before the High Court, to pay an amount of Rs 10,000 by way of compensation to the respondent herein, an undertrial prisoner, on the ground that the said police officer was guilty of violation of fundamental right of an undertrial prisoner under Article 21 of the Constitution of India. It further directed that an entry should be made in his service record. The facts that give rise to this appeal are as follows.

2. One Ganesh Kolekar was murdered on August 2, 1989. During the investigation, the police suspected that the respondent herein was a party to the said murder. He was arrested in Karnataka State and was brought to Sholapur in the early hours of August 17, 1989. A local paper called Tarun Bharat published from Sholapur, carried in its issue of August 17, 1989 a news item which stated that the respondent, an undertrial prisoner, would be taken in a procession or a parade from Faujdar Chavadi Police Station through the main squares of the city