Chandania v. State of U.P. and Others - 2001 Supreme(Online)(All) 7

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2001 Supreme(Online)(All) 7

ALLAHABAD HIGH COURT
Unnamed Judge, J
Chandania v. State of U.P. and Others

Advocates:
For the Appellants/Petitioners: Sri Siddhartha Srivastava
For the Respondents: Sri K. S. Kushwaha

Table of Content
1. custodial violence leads to fundamental rights violations. (Para 1 , 2)
2. state counters claims of custodial death and compensation. (Para 3 , 4)
3. legal precedent supports claims for compensation. (Para 5 , 6)
4. compensation is determined based on family dependency and injustices. (Para 7 , 8 , 10 , 11)
5. court orders compensation and actions against police personnel. (Para 9 , 12)

1. The petitioner has come up with a prayer to command the respondents to pay a sum of Rs. 5 Laks as compensation on account of her husband's custodial death.

2. A portrayal of relevant facts are in a narrow campus. On 12th April, 1994 Duli Chandra, aged about 42 years and the sole earning member of his family, and a scheduled caste having his wife the petitioner and four sons Kamlesh, Lal Babu, Shyam Babu and Gyan Chandra, went to Police Station Girwan, Banda to lodge an Information against his co - villager Budhwa in regard to some land dispute which had taken on that very day. Far from registering the First Information he was severely beaten by Ram Vraksh Singh Yadav, the Station House Officer of Police Station Girwan and Subedar Pal, the Head Constable respectively as a result of wh