Supreme Court of India
Dr. Mehmood Nayyar Azam v. State of Chattisgarh and Ors.
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Constitution of India, 1950 - Article 21 - Right to life - Custodial torture - Compensation for - Appellant-doctor arrested in respect of alleged criminal offences and sent to police custody - Self-humiliating words were written on a placard and the appellant was asked to hold it and photographs were taken - The photographs were circulated in general public and were also filed by one of the respondents in a revenue proceeding - Appellant sought public law remedy for grant·of compensation - High Court arrived at the finding that appellant was indeed subjected to custodial torture and
Authorities it was built on
- 1993 Smt. Nilabati Behera Alias Laut Behera (through the Supreme Court Legal Aid Committee) v. State of Orissa and Ors.
- 1981 Francis Coralie Mullin v. The Administrator, Union Territory of Delhi & Ors.
- 2007 Smt. Selvi & Ors. v. State of Karnataka
- 1991 Delhi Judicial Service Association Tis Hazari Court, Delhi Etc. Etc. v. State of Gujarat and Ors. Etc. Etc.
- 2012 Vishwanath S/o Sitaram Agrawal v. Sau. Sarla Vishwanath Agrawal
- 1982 Board of Trustees of the Port of Bombay v. Dilipkumar Raghavendranath Nadkarni and Others
- 1962 Kharak Singh v. The State of U. P. & Others
- 1978 Nandini Satpathy v. Dani (p.l.) and Anr.
- 2006 Sube Singh v. State of Haryana and Ors.
- 1989 Kiran Bedi & Ors. v. Committee of Inquiry & Anr.
- 1990 Sunil Gupta and Ors. v. State of Madhya Pradesh and Ors.
- 1994 Arvinder Singh v. State of U.P. and Ors.
Where later benches applied it
- 2016 Dr. Rini Johar & Anr. v. State of M.P. & Ors.
- 2014 Sanjay Gupta & Ors. v. State of Uttar Pradesh & Ors.
- 2014 Om Prakash Chautala v. Kanwar Bhan and Others
- 2024 Sukanya Shantha v. Union of India & Ors.
- 2017 Justice K S Puttaswamy (retd.), and Anr. v. Union of India and Ors.
- 2017 Ms. Z v. The State of Bihar and Others
- 2016 Subramanian Swamy v. Union of India, Ministry of Law & Ors.
Of those, 3 relied on · 4 referred to
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