After being given temporary protection and two weeks to surrender, the Supreme Court has ordered police officials in Maharashtra to pay a lady for her wrongful incarceration.
The lady, who was an accused party in a criminal case, received temporary protection on November 17, 2021, according to a bench of Justices S.K. Kaul and A. Amanullah, and the supreme court had given her two weeks to surrender and submit a normal bail application.
The court had granted the petitioner temporary protection, but despite that, she was brought into jail, the bench expressed displeasure with the woman’s illegitimate incarceration.
While she was later released on bond but spent a day in detention, the petitioner claimed in court that she had also given the court’s order to the police.
The top court mandated that the two police officers who illegally detained the petitioner for one day each pay the petitioner Rs 15,000 as compensation. The money must be done within two weeks.
The judge took notice of the fact that two police officers submitted an affidavit in an effort to provide a sincere apology. The bench, however, remarked that the officers’ actions went against the court’s directive and advised the police to exercise prudence going forward.
In response to a complaint of contempt the lady made against two police officers, the highest court issued the ruling. The court had taken notice of the petitioner’s counsel claims that, notwithstanding the November 2021 ruling, the lady was arrested from a hospital where she was employed as a nurse within two days, according to an earlier judgement issued in January of this year.
The court took notice of the police officers’ willingness to pay the lady back out of their own pockets in this situation.
The lady filed a petition with the Supreme Court in 2021 to overturn a Bombay High Court ruling from August 2021 that had rejected her request for anticipatory release in the case.
